by jess | Apr 18, 2013 | Blogging from A to Z Challenge, Write to Live, Live to Write
PARDON the PREAMBLE, but PENGUIN has announced my PUBLICATION date! Louder than Love will drop, as we say in the music biz, on September 17th. Since my debut novel has music (and fans) at its core, it’s still in keeping with my A to Z theme of the Music-Fan...
by jess | Apr 17, 2013 | Blogging from A to Z Challenge
So many bloggers posted about “kissing” for K, inspiring me to tell my own odd tale of my first kiss. With this guy: It was that hazy time period between daguerreotypes and upwardly mobile megapixel Smartphone cameras… ah yes, the 80s. It was a huge...
by jess | Apr 16, 2013 | Blogging from A to Z Challenge
Today’s post in the A -Z Music Fan Connection is related to my post about kids and music festivals. I had a blogger, messymimi, make a great comment on my K post: “There’s times for adults only, and times when it makes sense to make room for Junior,...
by jess | Apr 15, 2013 | Blogging from A to Z Challenge, Ear Candy
Throwing a big ‘horns up’ today to Neda Draupadi Honarvar. While I don’t know Neda personally, nor have I visited her Tough Love Yoga Studio in Atlanta (yet), I *can* say know metal. And I know yoga. And I’ve been so excited to write about her...
by jess | Apr 13, 2013 | Blogging from A to Z Challenge, Write to Live, Live to Write
OK, maybe this post doesn’t fit perfectly in with my Music-Fan connection theme, but I was stumped for ‘L’ today. Louder than Love, my debut novel due out in September, got me thinking about the old adage ‘write what you know’. Musicians...
by jess | Apr 12, 2013 | Blogging from A to Z Challenge
I would be remiss if I didn’t speak about the future music fans of the world during my A to Z journey through the Music-Fan Connection. Silly parents, festies are for kids, too! The child-friendly options at music festivals increase each year, it seems. From...