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