by Mercy Brown
To Mom and Butch, who let two very grumpy, exhausted, stinky bands sleep at their house. Thank you for feeding us and taking care of me when I was sick on the road and not thinking I was crazy. Okay, that last part probably isn’t true, but thanks for loving and supporting me anyway. And thanks for unearthing that tour itinerary 20 years later so I could reconstruct it for this book!
Thanks to Dad and Bonnie for all of the encouragement and free childcare that allows me to continue writing and playing music, long past the point of it making any sense.
Thanks to my beautiful boys, Doot and Bing, for being my inspiration every day. A mom couldn’t ask for two brighter, more loving kids.
And thanks, finally, to Alex, who always drives but lets me do the navigating. Here’s to road ahead, babe.
Mercy Brown is a writer and musician from New Jersey. She spent long hours in her youth devouring romance novels and indie comics before she started fronting bands in the New Brunswick music scene, playing clubs, backyards, and basements from Boston to Alabama. In 2002, Mercy married her guitarist and effectively retired from sleeping on other people’s floors. She turned to fanfiction as a creative outlet in 2009 after her sons were born and soon after began writing books that resembled fic of the indie music scene. Loud is How I Love You was her first novel.
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