Travis Kennedy

We're thrilled to host Travis Kennedy to discuss his new book, The White Python World Tour. This satirical fictional memoir follows Rikki Thunder, twenty-two-year-old drummer for the scorching new ’80s metal band Whyte Python. He's about to have it all: absurd wealth, global fame, and a dream girlfriend. But an unwitting role as an international spy? That was definitely not part of the plan.

From Bill Recommends:

THE WHYTE PTHON WORLD TOUR by Travis Kennedy is, simply put, the most fun you'll have reading a book this summer! Based on a mythic 1980s urban legend (or is it?), this fabulous tale begins in 1984 Los Angeles as Rikki Thunder, a drummer for a flailing hard rock band gets his big chance to play with the great Whyte Python, a group very similar to Def Leopard. He gets the job, but what he doesn't know is that he has been recruited by the CIA to spread anti-communist pro-American messages to the Eastern Bloc countries under Soviet Regime! Soon, Rikki is playing to sold out theaters, dodging bullets, and trying to keep his unsuspecting band-members safe from spies and assassins! It's a fast-paced, very funny romp that has more twists and turns than a Megadeath guitar solo. I smiled the whole way through the book and loved every thrashing page. Sure to be an awesome TV series or film, as it is already so cinematic.

Travis will discuss his book, answer audience questions, and sign copies! Ticket options for this event include:

• General Admission + Book: $31.88, admits one guest. This ticket option comes with a copy of The Whyte Python World Tour which Travis will sign at the event.
• General Admission + Coupon: $5, admits one guest. This ticket option may be redeemed for $5 off Travis' book on the night of the event.

Tickets are required for this event. We hope to see you there!

ABOUT THE BOOK:
It’s Los Angeles, 1986, and metal rules the world. For aspiring drummer Rikki Thunder, life is beautiful, just like his hair—even if he is sleeping in a condemned paint store and playing with a band that’s going nowhere. But when Rikki gets a shot to join L.A.’s hottest up-and-coming club band, Whyte Python, his young life takes a mind-blowing turn. Soon he and his new band mates have a hit single rocketing up the charts, Whyte Python is selling out major clubs, and Rikki has a gorgeous girlfriend in the audience and in his life. He literally could not ask for anything more.

But good fortune can be deceiving. As the band gets a deeper taste of success in the US, the late-80’s Cold War is breathing its last gasps around the world. American music is blasting through the Iron Curtain and a youth revolution is taking hold—with a hair band unknowingly playing host to the final battle for the hearts and minds of young people everywhere. Rikki Thunder soon questions the forces that are helping to propel Whyte Python, and he realizes the stakes of his musical journey—to spread peace, love, and epic shredding across the globe—might be far more dangerous than he had ever imagined.

Crafted on the satirical knife-edge between high-suspense and head-banging hilarity, The Whyte Python World Tour is a raucous, uplifting, and refreshing debut. Travis Kennedy’s adrenaline-charged novel is delightfully steeped in ’80s music and cultural nostalgia, delivering one of the most entertaining reads of the year.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
TRAVIS KENNEDY's work has been featured in the Best New England Crime Stories and Best American Mystery Stories anthologies, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency. He is the Grand Prize Winner of ScreenCraft’s 2021 Cinematic Book Contest for “Sharks in the Valley,” to be published as Welcome to Redemption. He lives in Scarborough, Maine, with his wife and their two children. The Whyte Python World Tour is his debut novel.

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