Michael has been a college educator, an international touring musician, and a dynamite waiter. He is a swordsman, an avid world traveler, a visual artist, and a professional rock drummer. He has climbed the pyramids of Giza, fenced an Italian master, and has done battle with the infamous North Korean propaganda loudspeakers by aiming a massive PA across the DMZ and taking a drum solo. He is the author of the Award Winning Newirth Mythology: The Invasion of Heaven (2013), Leaves of Fire (2015), and The Shape of Rain (2018). His latest book, GIGMENTIA: A Drummer’s Love Song to Rock Shows, Fatherhood, Writing, and the Passing of a Beloved Mom, is out now.
Michael has been a college educator, an internationally touring musician, and a dynamite waiter. He is a swordsman, an avid world traveler, a visual artist, and a professional rock drummer. He has climbed the pyramids of Giza, fenced an Italian master, and has done battle with the infamous North Korean propaganda loudspeakers by aiming a massive PA across the DMZ and taking a drum solo. He is the author of the Award Winning Newirth Mythology: The Invasion of Heaven (2013), Leaves of Fire (2015), and The Shape of Rain (2018). His next book GIGMENTIA: A Drummer’s Love Song to Rock Shows, Fatherhood, Writing, and the Passing of a Beloved Mom releases in March 2023.
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GIGMENTIA is a reflection on the raw, challenging, and gritty vocation of a blue-collar musician living in the Pacific Northwest; and the varied adventures of a hard-working, day-in-day-out rock band.
Hardcover – March 7, 2023
The first part of Michael B. Koep’s The Newirth Mythology, The Invasion of Heaven is mystery, adventure, myth, betrayal, murder, and madness.
Psychologist Loche Newirth wonders if it was his fall: the fifty-foot drop from the rocky cliff to the icy water below. Is this why he has been hallucinating? Or is it because one of his clients is dead, or his mentor has gone mad, or that his wife is leaving him? He can’t bring himself to believe what h has been seeing. Insane things like a massive, searching eye. he sees it in the water below the cliff. he sees it in mirrors, on walls: a massive, crystal blue iris and fathomless pupil there in the center of his life, looking at him.
To slay or to heal?
In the spring of 1918, young William of Leaves knows only of remedies, herbs, and his mother’s kindness. When he is forced to watch as she is dragged to a witch’s pyre by a mob led by the Bishop of London, the mysterious immortal apothecary, Albion Ravistelle, promises the boy a chance at vengeance.
Michael B. Koep’s final installment in The Newirth Mythology Trilogy brings a psychologist face to face with his greatest fear: madness. On the other side of the world, a professor of mythology struggles to interpret a sudden shift in the historical timeline, the mysterious discovery of the ruins of an ancient city, and the anomalous nature of Loche’s writing.
From Will Dreamly Arts and Blackstone Publishing, GIGMENTIA: A Drummer’s Love Song to Rockshows, Fatherhood, Writing, and the Passing of a Beloved Mom AUDIO BOOK — read by the author Michael B. Koep, will be published and will be available on Audible, on July 2nd, 2024. DOWNLOAD YOUR COPY HERE
WILL DREAMLY ARTS is proud to announce the PRE ORDER release of Michael B. Koep’s latest book, GIGMENTIA: A Drummer’s Love Song to Rock Shows, Fatherhood, Writing, and the Passing of a Beloved Mom. OFFICIAL RELEASE DATE: March 7, 2023. GIG, a slang word coined in the 1920s by jazz musicians, short for engagement or […]
ORDER TODAY! THE SHAPE OF RAIN • PART THREE OF THE NEWIRTH MYTHOLOGY MASS MARKET EDITION, COMING SOON. Will Dreamly Arts is pleased to announce that the final installment of the NEWIRTH MYTHOLOGY: THE SHAPE OF RAIN mass market edition is set to release this Summer, 2022.
