by Hannah Howard For a short time, when I was a teenager, I thought I might be a professional cellist. It turns out I didn’t have the requisite fierce dedication that propels someone to practice for long, long hours every day. It was maybe even … [Read more...]
Backstage with To Love A Stranger: Music and the Writing Life
“Sam couldn’t land a decent job. He knew he shouldn’t expect any different; he had picked the world’s least practical line of work, and he got what was coming to him. A young nobody-from-nowhere conductor with a Pennsylvania backwater twang in his … [Read more...]
Five Questions About Writing With Kris Faatz
Kris Faatz (rhymes with skates) is a pianist, writer, and teacher. Her first novel, To Love A Stranger, was a finalist for the 2016 Schaffner Press Music in Literature Award and was released May 2017 by Blue Moon Publishers (Toronto). Her short … [Read more...]