You'll LOVE this anthology! A Killing at the Copa: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of Barry Manilow is now up for pre-order here at White City Press. (Releases March 18). Bet you'll be humming along as you read the stories!
I'll be sharing details on some of the stories in the anthology in coming days to whet your reading appetite.
The Story Line-Up (with links to the songs):
Sweet Life - Karen Keeley
Rain as Cold as Ice (Inspired by Mandy) - Linda Kay Hardie
Mandy - Adam Gorgoni
I Write the Songs - Maya St. Clair
The Daybreak Killer (Inspired by Daybreak) - Matt McGee
A Connecticut Stalker (Inspired by Weekend in New England) - Laurie Stevens
Can't Smile Without You - Caleb Weinhardt
Ready to Take a Chance Again - Kurtis Rupe'
Since You've Been Gone (Inspired by Even Now) - Recita Clemons
Bermuda Triangle - J.M. Taylor
Lonely Together - John M. Floyd
When the Sun Rises (Inspired by Let's Take All Night (to Say Goodbye)) - T. Fox Dunham
Some Kind of Friend - Christine Verstraete
Getting Even Now (Inspired by Even Now) - Shari Held
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My story is "Some Kind of Friend," based on the song of the same name. (Cover: Discogs)
🎵 About the story:
Clarissa Simone was lucky to fulfill her dreams of dancing at the famed Copacabana nightclub. Those dreams soon tarnished, however, when she was blamed for the shooting death of fellow dancer and former friend Mina Ruiz's mobster boyfriend at another local club, The Bar by the Harbor. But was it Clarissa's fault?
🎵 My inspiration: I wanted to find a song that lent itself to telling the story of a dancer, without using Manilow's signature song, Copacabana, as I figured someone else would pick that. Surprisingly, no one did.
🎵 First lines, "Some Kind of Friend" - Christine Verstraete:
The young woman stood on the front stoop, patiently waiting for me to invite her in.
"Thanks for letting me come talk to you," she said, her smile bright. "I only need about twenty minutes, if you don't mind?"
Her name eluded me for a moment. Lisa, that’s what it
was; Lisa Lane, a reporter from the local newspaper.
She must’ve sensed my apprehension and repeated her
promise. “I won’t take up too much of your time. Honest.”
*** Read the rest in A Killing at the Copa: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of Barry Manilow -- up for pre-order here at White City Press.
Can't wait to read all the stories!!
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