TWISTED SISTER singer Dee Snider signed copies of his first fictional novel, “Frats”, on Monday, June 26 at Looney Tunes in West Babylon, New York. Take a look at a video report from NewsdayTV’s Elisa DiStefano and photographs beneath.

A preview of “Frats” is obtainable on the favored e-book subscription platform Scribd. The e book was formally launched on June 2 by way of Purple Penguin Books.

Based mostly on true occasions, “Frats” is claimed to be “a ’70s interval piece and coming-of-age story” that is “all about poisonous masculinity and rising up in a really poisonous surroundings and the way it impacts folks.”

“Frats” synopsis: “When younger Bobby Kovax unexpectedly strikes together with his dad and mom to Baldwin, Lengthy Island, the highschool hallways of 1972 show to be suffering from boys of all sizes and shapes determined for one factor and one factor solely — to belong. As he ventures ever deeper into the jungle of battling brotherhoods, or self-proclaimed ‘frats’, hazing ceremonies, damaged guarantees, and his personal sense of self lead Bobby down the darkish path of becoming a member of forces with what he fears essentially the most as a way to go on. However how far will he go, and who’s he prepared to harm, as he fights to outlive?”

Three years in the past, Dee described the e book as “a interval piece/coming of age story set on Lengthy Island, NY in 1972/73 impressed by true occasion.” However he shortly clarified: “No it is not my story.”

In a latest interview with the Related Press, Dee stated: “I began to show myself tips on how to write. In 1984, everyone was out partying; I used to be within the dressing room or within the lodge engaged on writing. I am not a singer who determined to put in writing a e book — or had somebody write one for him. I have been laboring away, honing the craft.

“I am not Vince Neil,” Snider added, referencing the MOTLEY CRÜE singer. “I am the man you noticed in Washington (the place he testified earlier than the U.S. Senate defending heavy steel towards allegations it was violent and harmful for teenagers),a man who can put collectively a sentence, and specific himself.”

The 68-year-old musician, who lives in Southern California, beforehand wrote two different books: “Dee Snider’s Teenage Survival Information: Or How To Be A Legend In Your Personal Lunch Time”, which was initially printed in 1987 however was re-released in 2019, and Snider‘s official autobiography, “Shut Up And Give Me The Mic”, which was launched in 2012 by way of Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.

Snider wrote “Teenage Survival Information” greater than three many years in the past when he was approached by Doubleday to supply a sequel to a preferred e book from the ’50s referred to as “‘Twixt Twelve And Twenty” by American music icon Pat Boone. On the time, the editors at Doubleday noticed Dee as a modern-day pop determine whom youngsters would hearken to and assigned a rock journalist, Philip Bashe, to work with the singer.

In 2016, TWISTED SISTER launched into one ultimate trek, titled “Forty And Fuck It”, in celebration of its fortieth anniversary. These reveals featured the band’s “core lineup” of Snider, guitarists Jay Jay French and Eddie Ojeda and bassist Mark Mendoza, together with drummer Mike Portnoy. The band’s last-ever full live performance came about in November of that yr — 20 months after the passing of TWISTED‘s longtime drummer A.J. Pero.

TWISTED SISTER‘s authentic run ended within the late ’80s. After greater than a decade, the band publicly reunited in November 2001 to prime the invoice of New York Metal, a hard-rock profit live performance to lift cash for the New York Police And Hearth Widows’ And Kids’s Profit Fund.