WHEN PUSH COMES TO SHOVE by HOLLIE A. ROSE

I’m going to be a guest of Tales From the Golden Road on Sirius Radio!!!!

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PRESS RELEASE

How about a little old school promo —- Here’s a Press Release!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Deadhead Author Hollie Rose will be a guest on the popular call in talk show Tales From the Golden Road with David Gans and Gary Lambert on Sunday March 23, 2025 at 5pm Eastern time on Sirius Radio’s Channel 23 – The Grateful Dead Channel

Event Date: March 23, 2025 5:00 PM Eastern Time

Event Location: Sirius Radio Grateful Dead Channel – Channel 23

Contact information: Hollie@FlamingoHippie.com

DETAILS

Connecticut author, Hollie Rose, will celebrate the publication of her book –

When Push Comes to Shove; Real Life on Dead Tour; The Journals of Hollie A. Rose.

When Push Comes to Shove is a book shaped from actual journals written while Rose lived full-time on Grateful Dead Tour, following the band everywhere they went.

Though Rose’s first show was in 1983, and her 100th show was in 1987, this book covers the time period 1988 through 1992; Years that were musically outstanding, spiritually enlightening, and heartbreaking by turns. The characters in this book are those folks who must sell something to get from show to show. They are artists and entrepreneurs. If you ever wandered the lot at a long ago Dead Show, you probably purchased something from them. T-shirts? Ice cold beers? Tape covers? (Does anyone even know what tape covers are these days???)

Tune in to see what more can and will be said about this electrifying and free-spirited way of life.

To learn more about the author, read the full Prologue or the early reviews, to get information about ordering the book, see huge galleries of images of the people in this book, and find a detailed list of other books written by Dead fans, visit the author’s website – FlamingoHippie.com – or follow the QR code below.

Thanks for reading, hope to “see” you Sunday.

(Put it on your calendar before you forget – freakin’ Hippie!)

Be there or be square!

UPDATE: Listen now

My First Article!!!!

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What a great article found on GratefulWeb.com.
Check it out!

I met Gabe at Venture 1983. In the campgrounds. I think. This would have been my third show. After seeing a New Haven show that spring, and making a pilgrimage to Saratoga, NY in June, I headed directly to the west coast. True, I may have met Gabe inside while dancing, or smoking a joint, or perhaps somewhere else entirely, but the campground is where I first remember him. It was the middle of the night, we were sitting outside a bus – could it have been Terrapin Trailways? It could have been. We were watching a juggler juggling lighted orbs as we counted stars by candlelight – yes we actually had a candle planted in the sand in the center of a small circle of folk.

I’m talking here about Gabe because he’s the author of this article. And while it’s true that that we’ve known each other since 1983, he’s never been one to praise me where praise isn’t due.

He was an early reader of my book – took it with him on a trip to Spain – and he texted me “I love you more with each page I read.” Ha! I had no idea that was possible…

Anyway, I don’t think our history much colored his review of my book, but take a look and judge that for yourself.



Everything that could possibly go wrong has possibly gone wrong

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Self publishing is not for the faint of heart.

That, and the fact that I am typically white knuckling it into any deadline (I tell myself I work better that way,) makes for a hell of a combination the past couple days. 

I haven’t even yet made an official announcement about the release date because I’ve been too busy trying to get everything done in order to beat the deadline of a lock-in date five days before release date.

“Make Official release date announcements” was on tonight’s to do list after final uploads on all publishing platforms. (Which just means Amazon for individuals to buy from, and Ingram Spark for stores to buy from.) But in my haste to get this done before tonight’s early evening deadline, I hit SAVE just a bit too soon. And now I can’t undo that. That either means when the book comes out on Amazon on November 25 (Look at that! There’s an official announcement!) there might, possibly, be four or five completely unnecessary and badly placed blank pages. And it’s not even the fun kind of blanks you might suspect with a book like this.

Now my book slides into a 72 hour review process. There are two possibilities here.

One option is that they notice that the file has more pages than it says it has, and they come back to me and tell me I have to fix this right away. If they do that, I have the proper file ready to go right away.

The other option is that it goes to press and it’s “for sale” with blank pages in the middle randomly. Ha. 

I refuse to stress about this. I have already stressed enough about the squirrel who committed suicide in a transformer yesterday and took out my Internet and my power for four hours. I have already stressed about the fact that my Internet randomly went down today for no apparent reason (I mean, we’re not even in Mercury retrograde are we?) and when it came back it was too sketchy for uploads. That’s probably why I jumped the gun on that save button when it finally took an upload. 

The good news is that if you happen to be one of the lucky ones to buy it on the first day or two and you get the version of the book with useless blank pages, you may just end up with a collectible on your hands. 

As soon as possible I will upload the proper files and those extra pages will disappear.
(See! I have a plan!)

That’s why I said in the title, that everything that could possibly go wrong might have possibly gone wrong. 
Who can tell? 
And doesn’t that just sound like the whole world these days…

Keep breathing everybody.
Keep focusing on making your own little corner of the world the best it can be