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Paul Stanley - Photo By Ros O'Gorman

Paul Stanley Is A Best Selling Author

by Roger Wink, VVN Music on April 21, 2014

in News

Paul Stanley is a bonafide best selling author.

The KISS guitarist recently published his book, Face the Music, via HarperOne and, on the the newly released New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list, Stanley sits at number 2.

From the publisher:

Well known for his onstage persona, the “Starchild,” Paul Stanley has written a memoir with a gripping blend of personal revelations and gritty war stories about the highs and lows both inside and outside of KISS. Born with a condition called microtia (an ear deformity rendering him deaf on the right side), Stanley’s traumatic childhood experiences produced an inner drive to succeed in the most unlikely of places: music. Taking readers through the series of events that led to the founding of KISS, the personal relationships that helped shape his life, and the turbulent dynamics among his bandmates over the past forty years, this book leaves no one unscathed—including Stanley himself.

With never-before-seen photos and images throughout, Face the Music is a colorful portrait of a man and the band he helped create, define, and sustain—made larger than life in artfully told stories that are shocking, funny, inspirational, and honest.

“People say I was brave to write such a revealing book, but I wrote it because I needed to personally reflect on my own life. I know everyone will see themselves somewhere in this book, and where my story might take them is why I’m sharing it.” —Paul Stanley

Read more at VVNMusic

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