Featured Book
Let It Bleed:
How to Write a Rockin’ Memoir
“In this book, Des Barres guides women through the process of writing their memoirs. She has developed exercises to help her "dolls" recall, remember, relive, and reveal their memories, transgressions, temptations, their sleepless nights and brilliant afternoons, loves and losses, fears and regrets, secrets, sins, and sorrows. The assignments in Femoir have proven incredibly cathartic for her students. Just as intimate as one of her in-person workshops, this book includes some of Des Barres's own stories, as well as those of the women she's taught.”
Nonfiction Works
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Order Miss Mercy’s Memoir
Permanent Damage: Memoirs of an outrageous girl
Written just prior to her death in 2020, Permanent Damage shows us the world of the 1960s and 1970s music scene through Mercy's eyes, as well as the fallout of that era—experiencing homelessness before sobering up and putting her life back together. Miss Mercy’s journey is a can’t miss for anyone who was there and can’t remember, or just wishes they’d been there.
ASSORTED PRAISE
“Rock’s groupie supreme . . . offers new insights into the particulars of the sexual engine that drives rock, this time from the wiser perspective of a mature Miss Pamela. Ms. Des Barres’s decision to tell her story is an act of liberation in today’s post-feminist terms. . . . There’s still much to learn from Ms. Des Barres about the rock world’s hidden history and its groundings in desire.”
“Pamela Des Barres’s writing crackles with joy and energy—it’s such a pleasure to be immersed in the vivid world of this legendary writer.”
“The authoritative tome on groupiedom, from the rock’n’roll past through the hairspray ’80s and into the modern era. . . . The juiciest book I’ve read all year, and I don’t foresee anything surpassing it.”
“Bursting with candor and bittersweet warmth. ”
“She charms me every time she refuses to regret. And she regrets nothing.”
“Should spur enough interest...that...her story can be made into the movie it needs to be.”
“If you enjoy tales of excess, of wild and sexy nights on the road, of famous names behaving badly … this is your book.”
“Sunny, uninhibited prose.”
“Taking back the female perspective on a scorned subculture.”
“Exuberant…scandalously entertaining.”
“Her prose is...glittery, raw and real.”
“A must-read for all lovers of great music and men.”