MAGNIFICENT VIBRATION

Grammy award-winning musician, actor, and New York Times bestselling author Rick Springfield will publish his debut novel. It portrays a hero who has hit a dead end in his life, but who serendipitously receives a 1-800 phone connection to God via an inscription in a mysterious self-help book that may just give him a shot at saving the planet. Magnificent Vibration is a potent tour de force that is by turns hilarious, poignant, spiritual, over-the-top, and deeply meaningful.

Horatio Cotton, aka “Bob,” has been searching for the perfect combination of spiritual and carnal salvation his entire life. Everything changes when he steals a self-help book called Magnificent Vibration: Discover Your True Purpose, and dials the number scrawled inside... and realizes he has a direct line to God. He quickly learns, too, that God isn’t afraid to mess with him. Bob finds himself on a journey from America to Scotland, accompanied by Alice, a surprisingly sexy and hilarious woman— who is, incidentally, a nun. The pair search for the answers to everything, from why we’re here, to what constitutes love, to whether the Loch Ness monster really exists... and does God send text messages? Readers will be captured by this smart, savvy and hilarious story about the biggest questions that one man – or mankind – has ever asked. Writer, musician, and actor Rick Springfield is the best-selling author of the memoir Late, Late Night. Springfield has had a number one hit, won a Grammy, performed on Broadway, starred in many films and television series, and still plays more than one hundred shows a year around the world. He lives in Malibu, California with his wife, Barbara, and their two sons. This is his first novel.

“The only good grades I ever got in school before I was kicked out were for creative writing,” said Rick Springfield. “I thought that fiction might be in my future but then my career took a different path once the Beatles showed me what a blast being in a band could be. Writing my memoir Late, Late at Night reminded me how much I love the craft. So I decided to give fiction a shot again. Magnificent Vibration is the result. I’m still not quite sure where it came from, but once I got going, it practically wrote itself. I’ve heard writers I admire speak of that phenomenon, so maybe I’m on the right track.”
“I knew that Rick is a brilliant, natural-born writer from working with him on his memoir,” said Stacy Creamer. “He wrote it himself without the benefit of a ghost. But even that didn’t prepare me for this dazzling, daring, wholly unexpected, utterly amazing first novel of his.” Rick Springfield is best known for 17 Top 40 hits including the classic #1 song, “Jessie’s Girl,” and his role on ABC’s hit daytime drama “General Hospital” as Dr. Noah Drake. He has sold more than 25 million records to date. His 2010 memoir, Late Late at Night, also published by Touchstone, was a New York Times bestseller and was named one of the 25 best rock memoirs of all time by Rolling Stone. Recently, Springfield starred in Dave Grohl's 2013 “Sound City” documentary and on its soundtrack “Sound City: Real to Reel” with his hit single “The Man That Never Was.” Springfield also recently appeared on the third season of Showtimes’s “Californication” and in CBS’s “Hawaii Five-0” series. His official website, www.rickspringfield.com, is the online home for Springfield’s enthusiastic and active fan base.