BRET MICHAELS: 'Roses & Thorns' Book Cover Unveiled

People.com has unveiled the cover of POISON singer Bret Michaels' upcoming autobiography, "Roses & Thorns: The Reality of My Rock & Roll Fantasy", which is set to hit bookstores June 23.

According to a rep for Michaels, the book, which is being published by Simon & Schuster, will take readers through the rocker's humble upbringing in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (where he struggled with childhood diabetes),his wild ride with POISON, the car crashes that nearly took his life, and the 10-year journey to reinvent himself on VH1's top-rated show "Rock of Love".

"It will give people the untold story," Michaels recently told Billboard.com. "It gives you the sex, the drugs, the rock 'n' roll, but it also gives you the diabetes. It gives you every aspect of my life and what I'm going through. I think it's pretty frank. It's honest. It's at times self-deprecating. It's about what happens when you try to live out your dream and the reality of it all sets in and it's the hardest and the strangest thing you will ever do. I think when you read it you'll really get the understanding of what it's all about."

Michaels said that he wanted to separate "Roses & Thorns" from rock 'n' roll tell-alls such as MÖTLEY CRÜE's "The Dirt" and AEROSMITH's "Walk This Way". "Those books stood on their own. This one has its own identity," he said. But he does promise revelations about POISON, and particularly his well-known conflicts with guitarist C.C. DeVille.

"One of the most therapeutic things to write was (about) the constant battle between C.C. and myself and the reality of why it is constantly there and why it exists," Michaels said. "Getting into a fist fight wtih someone who is your friend is one of the harder things to live with, much less write about."