A week ago, I teased my Facebook correspondents with hints of a big book deal.

Actually, I’m working on two big book deals.

One of them I’m ready to announce.

Loser: The Real Seattle Music Story will be reissued next year by its original publisher, Feral House.

This fifteenth-anniversary updated version will contain all the text and images of the 1995 original, plus new chapters about more recent local rock/pop acts, “whatever-happened-to” listings, and an updated discography.

I’ll revamp the Loser section of this site as I revamp the entire site.

But for now, I ask all of you out in digi-land to name your favorite Seattle-area bands of the past 15 years. The top 100 (at least) will make it into the new edition. The new site will have comment threads, but for now you can email your picks to me.