Kevin Chong

“I decided I would e-mail Scott McIntyre and tell him I wanted to write a book about Neil Young, and he would take me out to a nice place for lunch and tell me very nicely why he didn’t want to publish it,” says Chong, sipping coffee refills in a Vancouver diner. But the president of Douglas & McIntyre countered with a request for a formal pitch. “I painted myself into a corner,” says Chong. “In order not to look like a total chucklehead, I had to write a book proposal.”

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