MOON AUSTIN, SAN ANTONIO & THE HILL COUNTRY

Moon Handbooks give you the tools to make your own choices, with
• Can’t-miss sights, activities, restaurants, and accommodations, marked with
• Suggestions on how to plan a trip that’s perfect for you, including:
   Austin in a Long Weekend
   Austin’s Music Scene
   Hill Country Road Trip
   Texas Pride
   Family Fun

• 15 detailed and easy-to-use maps
• The firsthand experience and unique perspective of local author and musician Justin Marler

Moon Austin, San Antonio & the Hill Country
1st Edition
Justin Marler
ISBN 1-56691-889-8
$16.95
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Justin Marler began writing and traveling in the early 1990s in the San Francisco Bay Area. At 19, he joined a prominent alternative rock band, toured extensively, and landed his first publishing deal writing fiction. Before finishing his manuscript, he left conventional life and entered an Eastern Orthodox monastery in Northern California. As a monk he traveled the world over, wrote spiritual texts and travelogues for magazines, and worked in the publishing arm of the monastery.

The Washington Post caught wind of Marler’s life and writings and featured a second-page story on him, which sparked a flurry of mainstream press attention. The end result: He wrote his first full-length book, Youth of the Apocalypse. After seven years spent as a monk, Marler returned to “the world,” where he entered both the music and publishing professions. He fronted an alternative rock band by night and worked as an illustrator at a publishing house by day.

Marler’s first encounter with Austin, Texas was through music. While on a U.S. tour with his band, he made the necessary stop in Austin, performing at famed alternative rock venue Emo’s. Today, Justin lives with his wife and daughter in Austin, where he works as a freelance writer, graphic designer, illustrator, and musician in the band Black Veil Choir.