Every Saturday, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places and events from his band’s 31-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith.
I recently changed the title of The Black Dot Museum Of Political Art to Holding Up The Falling Snake Sky and wrote a new query for it. A query is a very specific piece of work that you send a literary agent who then, ideally reads and loves the book, signs you up and tries to sell the book to a publisher. Publishers don’t typically want to hear from authors, so the agent is required. The agent contacts various editors who work for the publishers. The editor reads the book and reports back to the agent.
Four of the songs on the most recent Mecca Normal album, Empathy For The Evil (M’lady’s Records, 2014), are directly out of Holding Up The Falling Snake Sky.
“Odele’s Bath”: Martin’s mother grew up poor on a farm in New Brunswick.
“Maisy’s Death”: Odele’s mother’s life as a farmer’s wife and a painter.
“Art Was The Great Leveler”: how Nadine’s parents got together.
“Normal”: Nadine’s brother would have preferred that their family was normal.
“One More Safe” from Jarred Up (K, 1993) (download):
