Rob has written articles for Modern Drummer, Amp Magazine, Digital Tour Bus, and many music sites. His band, Blacklist Royals, has released two full-length albums and played in sixteen countries over the past five years. Rob Rufus is a musician and writer living in Nashville. Die Young With Me is a raw, honest account of a brave teen’s fight with cancer and the many ways music helped him cope through his recovery. But as Rob’s life diverges from his brother’s, he learns to find strength within himself and through his music.
While Rob suffers through nightmarish treatments and debilitating surgery, Nat continues on their band’s road to success alone. Not only are his dreams of punk rock stardom completely shredded, there is a very real threat that this is one battle that can’t be won. When the brothers start their own band, their lives begin to change: they meet friends, they attract girls, and they finally get invited to join a national tour and get out of their rat box little town. But their plans are cut short when Rob is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer that has already progressed to Stage Four. But what can you expect when you’re the only punks in town? To them, school (and pretty much everything else) sucks. In fact, it blares constantly from the basement of Rob and Nat Rufus-identical twin brothers with spiked hair, black leather jackets, and the most kick-ass record collection in Appalachia.
In the tradition of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl comes the incredibly moving true story of a teenager diagnosed with cancer and how music was the one thing that helped him get through his darkest days. Parnassus Books welcomes Rob Rufus as he discusses and signs Die Young With Me.
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