BLUE SONGS IN AN OPEN KEY (story, reviews, how to purchase)

Blue Songs in An Open Key is comprised of a series of jazz-themed short stories that were commissioned by Jerry Jazz Musician, a premier online jazz zine, and its founder, Joe Maita, and launched with the publication of my short story, "So What," which won the 30th Jerry Jazz Musician Fiction Contest in 2012. Jerry Jazz Musician published more than 20 of my jazz-themed short stories between 2012 and 2018. Blue Songs in An Open Key features 13 of those stories. Like bebop, which inspired the collection, the stories in this collection are meant to jolt and invigorate readers while taking them on a journey outside the norm. 

Praise for my book:

"These are powerful stories, with appeal to more than jazz aficionados." - Booklist

"Her prose weaves many of the compelling characteristics of jazz--its spontaneous beauty, its poetic inspiration, its political essence, its cultural complexity --into an inventive fabric that so effectively envelops her reader in stories of love, loss, enlightenment and hope." - Joe Maita, founder and publisher of www.jerryjazz.com

"Jenkins has brilliantly crafted 13 stories that center on the theme of jazz, but at their hearts, these are stories about connection." - C. L. Bledsoe, author of Man of Clay and The Funny Thing About...

"Blue Songs in An Open Key" is a collection that I know that I'll keep re-reading, exploring, and referring to in the future. Check out this book yourself--these stories, like good jazz, are really cool." Cultural Weekly

"The 13 short stories in this poignant collection weave jazz and emotion in a blue key. The author captures loss and longing with a musician's dissonance, a painter's navy hues, a poet's despair, but hope as light through a cloud breaks through too...." Char Jones, Blogger

There are several places you can learn more about Blue Songs In An Open Key and purchase the book. 

On my publisher's website: https://www.fomitepress.com/blue-songs-in-an-open-key.html. 

You can purchase Blue Songs in An Open Key via a number of online stores such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kindle, Apple Books, and through Kobo.

For a signed copy, you can purchase Blue Songs in An Open Key through me. Please send $20 via PayPal to arya.jenkins@yahoo.com. The book is $15; the additional cost covers postage, shipping and handling.

Additional Reviews: By Eileen Murphy in Cultural Weekly, here: https://www.culturalweekly.com/review-blue-songs-open-key-jazzy-short-stories-arya-f-jenkins/

In Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39004008-blue-songs-in-an-open-key

Interviews: 

https://www.fictionalcafe.com/arya-f-jenkins-an-author-interview/

https://wysu.org/content/timfrancisco/arya-f-jenkins





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