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If you've read IF ROCK AND ROLL WERE A MACHINE, one of Terry Davis's memorable novels, you already know the author has long been in love with classic cycles. He opened Clandestine Classic Cycles in Rapidan, Minnesota briefly in 2007 and the two worlds collided, with blissful results. Now he's back to writing new screenplays and stories of his own!

For more about Clandestine Classic Cycles, click HERE.

New from Stone Arch

Davis in 2007.

Edited by Jon Scieszka
May 2005 from Viking

NEWS BRIEFS

VISION QUEST remake to feature TWILIGHT star?
It's possible, according to reports from E! and other online sources. TWILIGHT star Taylor Lautner (Jacob) would play the new Louden Swain. Who might be his older woman? It's anyone's guess, but read more about the possibility HERE.

Time Machine and The Invisible Man
are classics, of course, written by H.G. Wells. But Terry Davis adapted the stories for outstanding graphic novels for Stone Arch publications. Read more about them HERE and HERE.

NEW VQ Article & Interview
Don't miss this great new interview with Davis on the popular NATSUKASHI: Where Movies and Memories Collide blog. Davis discusses VISION Quest, in this 2009 feature.

Classic Cycles
have long been a passion of Terry Davis's. Just read IF ROCK & ROLL WERE A MACHINE and that will be crystal clear. For a short time, he opened a cycle shop in Minnesota. Read all about it in this insightful article HERE.

Davis's IMDb page
forcuses on Vision Quest, but watch for it to expand in the near future. Davis has completed the screenplay for Chris Crutcher's award winning 2001 novel WHALE TALK -- and that screenplay is being seriously considered for production by several major Hollywood studios. STAYING FAT FOR SARAH BYRNES and DEADLINE are also on his desk for adaptation.

2009 Wrestling interviews
Davis was also feature on Wrestling Talk recently. Enjoy the transcript of that interview HERE. And if that's not enough, check out his Wresting 411 interview HERE.

Literary Road Trip
...also featured Davis in September of 2009. Check out that blog here.

Festival Supreme
Terry Davis was one of many writers featured at the Greater Rochester Teen Book Festival on April 29 in Fairport, New York. For a look at the festival website, click HERE. For a look at pictures from the event, click HERE.

Recommended Book
Davis took the time to blurb Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl by Barry Lyga. Check it out HERE.

GUYS WRITE FOR GUYS READ
Davis contributed a remarkable essay to Jon Scieszka's wonderful Viking anthology, GUYS WRITE FOR GUYS READ. Dozens of boy-centric authors -- including Chris Crutcher, Will Weaver, Chris Lynch, Walter Dean Myers, and many more -- left their marks, but none more tender than Davis's. Available this month.

If Rock and Roll Were a Movie
...Terry Davis's moving feature in VOYA is now available for perusing online. To read the text, click HERE.

The 2007 Edition of VISION QUEST
...is still available, but if you'd like a rare collector's edition of the EWU press version, several signed copies are still available, along with EWU editions of IF ROCK & ROLL WERE A MACHINE and MYSTERIOUS WAYS. If you'd like a copy, contact Davis's webperson Kelly at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it .

About Davis's story in RUSH HOUR -- "SIN"
"The most striking and potentially controversial story in the collection is 'The Silk Ball' by Terry Davis, which weaves Hmong folklore into a story about the United States' secret war in Laos during the Vietnam period. Graphic violence and sexuality punctuate a story filled with poetic vision, longing and loss. Adults may be hesitant to let their young ones read this material, never mind the fact that the characters in the story --- and the age of actual soldiers in military conflicts then and now --- are closer to the age of the intended readers than the adults who would want to shield impressionable young minds from such material." TeenReads.com

New cover

Newer cover

THIS...OR THIS?

Both were considered for the new anniversary edition of VISION QUEST but the one on the right won out in May of 2005 from Random House's Delacourt imprint.

VISION QUEST COVER ART

Have you seen the MANY faces of Vision Quest? You haven't until you've checked out this NEW feature on Davis's website. Just a few visual fun facts from the past, with an eye for the future. Click HERE for more VQ History.

Praise for VISION QUEST

"Davis is a wonderful storyteller...VISION QUEST is the truest novel about growing up since THE CATCHER IN THE RYE; and it's a better novel about wrestling, and wrestlers, than THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP."
~John Irving

"The book is still fresh and true to life...Eastern Washington University Press has done a service to a new generation of young readers."
~Jim Naughton , Washington Post, June 2, 2002

2003 Edition

ROCK & ROLL ...
...is here to STAY!

In print again, as of May 2003, thanks to EWU Press. Contact Davis's webperson This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it to order your copy. VOYA magazine named R&R its Mock-Retro-Printz Award winner for 1993 -- before the Printz awards had been instated by the ALA.

Rare signed collector's edition of the EWU edition of Vision Quest and Mysterious Ways are also available. Contact Kelly for more information.

Click here to read the full article from VOYA.

“The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy & Goth Girl has the weight and unequivocal intensity of great literature for any readership. Barry Lyga’s first novel transcends type by pushing deep and far with the characters at hand, particularly the too-smart-for-his-own-good, outcast narrator. From the very opening pages, sophisticated readers will recognize that they are in the hands of a very smart writer.” -–Terry Davis