"One Way or Another" is a song by American #newWave band #Blondie from their 1978 album #ParallelLines. Lyrically, the song was inspired by Blondie frontwoman #DeborahHarry's experience with a stalker in the early 1970s, an incident which forced her to move away from #NewJersey. The song's music was composed by bassist #NigelHarrison, who introduced the #Ventures-influenced track to keyboardist #JimmyDestri.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Anzk-T0KgWc

Happy anniversary to Blondie’s single, “Heart Of Glass”. Released this week in 1979. #blondie #blondieofficial #deborahharry #heartofglass #parallellines #onceihadalove #thediscosong #fadeawayandradiate

https://www.instagram.com/share/_zOx9RE78

Heard an interview this morning of Blondie’s Chris Stein on NPR’s Beta and now I’m gonna have to get his memoir; a chunk of the interview was about this tune and why he thinks it’s held up so well 46 years later. It definitely does.
#MusicOfMastodon
#70sPop
#ParallelLines
#UnderARock

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M6zdLTfH-As

🎉 ¡Hoy celebramos dos grandes discos que comparten fecha de estreno! 🥳

🔥 Kiss - Lick It Up (1983) 👉 https://acortar.link/S1vONO

✨ Blondie - Parallel Lines (1978) 👉 https://acortar.link/qBbCbt

Conmemora estos clásicos con nuestras reseñas dedicadas. 🎶 ¿Cuál es tu favorito?

#Kiss #Blondie #LickItUp #ParallelLines #Aniversario #Rockaxis

🐦🔗 https://farside.link/x.com/rockaxisoficial/status/1838346492152610851#m

"Heart of Glass" is a song by the American #newWave band #Blondie, written by singer #DebbieHarry and guitarist #ChrisStein. It was featured on the band's third studio album, #ParallelLines (1978), and was released as the album's third single in January 1979 and reached number one on the charts in several countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom. "Heart of Glass" ranked at number 66 in the UK's official list of biggest selling singles of all-time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-0xCANCL4Y

🗓️ WEEKLY SONGWRITING PROMPT! 🎉

This week, try using repeating forms to create lyrical structure in a song section.

Examples: “Hot N Cold” (Katy Perry), “Every Breath You Take” (The Police), “You Belong With Me” (Taylor Swift), “Mo Money, Mo Problems” (Notorious BIG) “Seven Nation Army” (White Stripes).

#parallellines #songwriting #prompt #songprompt #getitstraight #ketyperry #thepoliceband #taylorswift #notoriousbig #whitestripes #fawm #fiftyninety

Circles and wires in the mist!

I snapped these photos while in low cloud up in the Ōtautahi-Christchurch Port Hills this afternoon. I kinda like them. 😀

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mollivan_jon/53860592828/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mollivan_jon/53860592823/

#photography #pylons #electricity #circles #ParallelLines #nz

Parallel lines have so much in common… it’s a shame they’ll never meet. #MathHumor #ParallelLines

I gotta get some air drum practice (and dance moves - psych!) here on deck with the “Studio 54” version. And Jagger needs a laugh. 😄
#MusicOfMastodon
#70sPop
#ParallelLines
#NoImNotWasted
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pNeCMEESdn0

Happy 45th anniversary to Blondie's single, “One Way or Another”. Released this week in 1979. #blondieofficial #blondie #deborahharry #parallellines #onewayoranother

Listen: Holding Hour - "Parallel Lines" https://buff.ly/3xSMqZ7 #musicnews #holding hour #parallellines #indieartistz #imusicbuzz #susansmusicpage

Green Day’s ‘Dookie’ to be preserved as an audio treasure by the US Library of Congress, who've also added Blondie's ‘Parallel Lines’ to their National Recording Registry

https://www.punktuationmag.com/green-day-dookie-blondie-parallel-lines-library-of-congress

#music #punk #PunkRock #PopPunk #GreenDay #Dookie #Blondie #ParallelLines #Punktuation

"Heart of Glass" is a song by the American #newWave band #Blondie, written by singer #DebbieHarry and guitarist #ChrisStein. It was featured on the band's third studio album, #ParallelLines (1978), and was released as the album's third single in January 1979 and reached number one on the charts in several countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom. In December 2004.
https://youtu.be/WGU_4-5RaxU

Have you read #ParallelLines, my LGBTQ+ sci-fi romcom? Here's a family album of characters using portraits I made to capture the essence of each character as I wrote them. Can you tell who's who? How do these differ from the characters you pictured?

I'm so embarrassed. In reading #ParallelLines aloud for the #audiobook, I've come across at least a dozen typos in what I believed was a very well-edited manuscript. Some are small (like a doubled period at the end of a sentence). Some stun me (a character named Dean called Dale, at one point).

I'm correcting them and re-uploading the paperback and Kindle manuscripts, and know I can ask Amazon to make a corrected version available ... but I'm disappointed readers received this. #AmWriting

So, I've started production for the #audiobook version of #ParallelLines, the #LGBTQ #scifi #romcom that takes place in a near-future #Atlanta. It's "read by the author" (hoo-haa!), so if you'd get a kick out of hearing my personal pipes at work, please tune in to the preview of the first chapter here and let me know what you think!

https://youtu.be/UJfA3Mi9OA8

#WritersCoffeeClub 9 Feb. How do you describe character ethnicities?

I had to check this, so I went back to #ParallelLines to see how Davina, a strong Black female character, was represented. She comes in like this:

"A Black woman perhaps twenty years his senior pulled up a metal chair and sat down beside him. She smoothed her simple black dress with the palms of her hands, then adjusted her owlish glasses, peering over the frames and giving him a grin."

So: directly?

For the novel #ParallelLines, I have a ton of behind-the-scenes material: notes on why certain things were written certain ways, a "cutting room floor" of chapters that didn't make it, characters and scenes I deleted, and insights into the hidden references and Easter Eggs throughout the text. What's the best way to share these?

#WriterCommunity #ReadersCommunity #IndieAuthors

Hey! If you’re leading a #BookClub, #SFFBookClub, or discussion group, you might enjoy the free discussion guide for #ParallelLines, the world's only LGBTQ+ scifi romcom taking place in alternate world versions of Atlanta Georgia!

(It's also a fun way to do some deep thinking after you finish the book on your own!)

https://markmcelroy.com/parallel-lines-book-club-discussion-guide/

When I became one of those #indieauthors, I promised to share honest figures about the performance of #ParallelLines, my first #novel. Here goes:

From November 28 through January 31: 117 copies sold, 33,417 Kindle Unlimited Pages read, and revenue of $877.90. I’ve spent $389.36 on Facebook ads, for a profit of 448.50.

Meantime: the book’s gotten 34 Amazon ratings and reviews: 75% 5-star, 21% 4-star, and one 1-star … giving it a 4.6/5.

It debuted at #1 in LGBTQ SciFi; lingers in Top 100 since.