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Michael B. Koep

  • Author & Musician

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 B. Koep

  • Author & Musician

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

$25.99

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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 Invasion of Heaven: Part One of the Newirth Mythology

$16.99

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.

Leaves of Fire: Part Two of the Newirth Mythology

$16.99

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.

The Shape of Rain: Part Three of the Newirth Mythology

$16.99

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.

GIGMENTIA is a heart-felt view of life from behind the drum kit and the writer’s desk, a winning story of art, music, and, especially, life.

Jess Walter, Author of The Cold Millions and Beautiful Ruins

You will LOVE this book!

Roger Nichols
Cover To Cover Book Beat

I love this book! [GIGMENTIA] needs to be required reading for anyone who is willing to take on the life of a drummer.

Liberty DeVitto, Drummer, Billy Joel

Koep captivates with spellbinding, lyrical prose. GIGMENTIA is a moving exploration of artistic process, of friendship and family, of memory, of grief and loss―joyful, nuanced, and heartbreaking.

Nspire Magazine

Is sure to be on the shelves with Tolkien, Gaiman and others for a very long time.

Paper Safari Reviews

A spiral into madness. This author has a gift!

Books! Books! Books!

12 out of 10 stars! Invasion of Heaven

Netgalley Reviews

Trust me, you will want to get in on the ground floor of this series because people are going to be talking about it.

Reader’s Favorite Reviews

By turns wistful, instructive, funny, and unabashedly candid…always revealing…GIGMENTIA is a call to understanding the creative life, and ought to serve as an inspiration to anyone seeking to live fully and mindfully.

Stefan Rudnicki, Grammy Award Winning Audiobook Narrator, SKYBOAT Media

As an accomplished musician, poet, and novelist, Michael B. Koep is a modern-day renaissance man, whose writing echoes his musical vocation: he writes with lyrical intensity in the pulsing rhythm of a drumbeat. In his new memoir, GIGMENTIA, this literary gift flourishes. GIGMENTIA takes the reader on a riveting journey through band and musician life, fathering and marriage, caring for a mother who has acute dementia, and ultimately saying goodbye. I highly recommend this book.

Michael Gurian
New York Times Bestselling Author of The Wonder of Children and The Wonder of Aging

The level of creativity in these two novels is, out of everything I’ve ever read, second only to Stephen King’s Dark Tower series.

Netgalley Reviews

Koep brings a new concept when it comes to fiction.

Reading is Life BLOG-USA

Must read for the summer! It’s part adventure, part fantasy, a bit of mystery, and all fun.

Times Weekly

This is a thoroughly original and deeply engaging exploration of the sometimes bizarre, often touching, but always fascinating public and private experience of working musicians — and a moving depiction of friendship, parenthood, biological and created families, and the losses and gains that constitute life lived intentionally and well.

Michael B. Herzog
Author of This Passing World and Pilgrimage

I hope Mr. Koep donates his brain to science when the time arises because he definitely has something that a lot of us don’t.

Goodreads

Ambitious—Interesting—Suspense that will keep readers on their toes.

The Examiner.com

BOOK NEWS

GIGMENTIA Audio Book Pub Date Announced: JULY 2, 2024

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

Pre Order Michael B. Koep’s Latest Book : GIGMENTIA

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 […]

The Shape of Rain Mass Market

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.