From:  http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/news_columnists/article/0,1299,DRMN_86_4022242,00.html

Freddy Bosco finally moved on from his old neighborhood. He had been living on Writer's Block.

His novel, Forbidden Places: The Rock and Roll Novel, is now published by Publish America of Baltimore.

"It's a novella I've been working on for 26 years," he said.

Bosco said it's available through the publisher as well as Amazon.com, Tattered Cover and Barnes and Noble Web sites.

It's for "anybody with a pernicious love of the backstage life of rock stars, and anyone who's partied hard and lived to tell about it," he said.

He's not like that now.

"There are lots of rumors going around about things I was capable of and never did," he said. "I'm a pretty good guy now. I just bore myself to tears staring at the radio."

Bosco, 56, has been writing almost all his life.

His inspiration was a penalty project, back when he was in sixth grade at Wilmore Davis Elementary School in Wheat Ridge. He broke the law at school by taking a shortcut through a construction zone. He said he was punished - not because he could have been hurt - but because someone else had vandalized the site. So he had to write an essay about it.

"My punishment was to read it in the front of the class," he said. "They loved it so much, they made me read it in front of the whole school."

Bosco now lives in Denver. He is quick with the quips, a bunch of one- liners he can toss like beanbags.

To pay the rent, he writes ad copy and answers phones at an office.

On his time, he plays guitar - blues guitar, but acknowledges he's not very good at it. He writes music and poetry, which he is better at.

"I do it because I have to do it," he said. "It's a passion to do it. The times I did get money for things, it was a bonus."

Bosco was dubbed the poet laureate of Denver by former Mayor Federico Peña.

He has published 10 books of his poems through his Garlic Press publishing company.

"I've been published by the New Yorker, Harpers, Rolling Stone and Reader's Digest," he said.

He even freelanced as a rock critic for the Rocky Mountain News in the mid-'70s. Then he quit.

"I went to New York to make my fame and fortune," he said. "The punchline to that one is, I was brought up in Denver and brought down in New York."

Bosco credits Prem Rawat with teaching him meditation. He practices daily.

"It gives me a lot of peace and enables me to make it through the rest of the craziness of my life," he said.

For the most part, Bosco is content with his life.

"I'm doing pretty good for a recovering reprobate," he said.