Tony O’Neill’s X-Rated BookExpo Adventures

Want to get Slash to read your book? Here’s how Tony O’Neill, the author of the forthcoming Down and Out on Murder Mile, tipped the scales in his favor when he and his wife, Vanessa, ran into the Guns’n'Roses guitarist at the autographing tables of last month’s BookExpo America: He reported that the book has “a lot of dope and fucking in it.” (Slash’s reaction: “Cool!”)

O’Neill’s extensive BookExpo field report gets plenty more NSFW from there, graphically so when Ron Jeremy drags the couple away from the official HarperCollins party and takes them to a house in the Valley…

(I’m not kidding about the pictures; if you don’t have your own office, think very carefully before following the link.)

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