Rockoholic (39 page)
Authors: C. J. Skuse
My lovely mum, Auntie Maggie, and Uncle Roy for all the grist that keeps the mill going. Jamie, Angie, Alex, and Joshua for the loan of their house to home my wayward rock star. And to Josie, who named my baby Cree. My cousin Emily Snead (sorry, Em, I just had to use the puke experience). Owain Gillard for his all-seeing eye.
Matthew Snead, who wanted a line of his own in this one.
The usual suspects plus some new ones — Manic Street Preachers, Allie Moss, The Prodigy, The Killers, Paramore, Kings of Leon, Green Day, Foo Fighters, Antony and the Johnsons, 30 Seconds to Mars, Oasis, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Avril Lavigne, Metallica, Queen, Van Morrison, and the endlessly inspirational My Chemical Romance for being the constant soundtrack to my thoughts.
Holly Grainger, Adam Lambert, Seth Gabel, Lorraine Ashbourne, Dakota Fanning, Monica Potter, and Billy Connolly. Although you didn’t know it, these characters wouldn’t be who they are without you.
C.J. SKUSE loves graphic novels, ’80s sitcoms, Gummi Bears, My Chemical Romance, and malamutes. She hates omelettes, carnivals, and coughs.
BCCB
called her debut novel,
Pretty Bad Things
, “a fast-paced action adventure [that] provides a subtle sociological study of the effects of living in a hyper-mediated culture”! Or, as acclaimed YA author Kevin Brooks described it, “so good I’d even recommend it to people I don’t like.”
Rockoholic
is her second book. Friend her on Facebook and follow her on Twitter @CeejaytheAuthor.
Text copyright © 2012 by C.J. Skuse
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First published in the United Kingdom in 2011 by Chicken House, 2 Palmer Street, Frome, Somerset BA11 1DS. www.doublecluck.com
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Skuse, C. J. Rockoholic / C. J. Skuse. — 1st American ed.p. cm. Summary: Sixteen-year-old Jody Flook is known for doing stupid things, but when she accidentally kidnaps her idol, rock star Jackson Gatlin, at his only concert in the entire United Kingdom, and he does not want to leave her garage, she is in real trouble.
ISBN 978-0-545-42960-3 [1. Kidnapping — Fiction. 2. Fame — Fiction. 3. Musicians — Fiction. 4. Rock music — Fiction. 5. Best friends — Fiction. 6. Friendship — Fiction. 7. Wales — Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.S43748Roc 2012[Fic] — dc23
2011046582
First American edition, November 2012
e-ISBN 978-0-545-47004-9
The display type was set in Champion and Old Typewriter.
Cover design by Whitney Lyle
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