Musings on ballet, classical music, the violin, and life
To celebrate 10 years of the Ballet Theatre Chronicles, enjoy FREE copies of ALL four books! (Scroll to the bottom for the four individual links.) The adventure started with this, my 2015 New Year’s resolution, in a blog of its own but paraphrased here with the choice bits: Do I want this blog to be … Read more
First things first… Today, January 25th, Book 4 of the Ballet Theatre Chronicles, Other Stages, has launched! Woo hoo! From the author of Outside the Limelight—named a Kirkus Best Book of 2017—comes a story about parenting, the performing arts, surviving high school and fighting back, in this gripping finale to the Ballet Theatre Chronicles. “An accomplished interweaving … Read more
Join my Readers’ Club to enjoy an exclusive excerpt (and new cover art!) from the forthcoming Book 4 of the Ballet Theatre Chronicles HERE! Or prefer a free e-copy of Book 1 of the Ballet Theatre Chronicles? Click HERE! This year I celebrate 10 years of blogging as The Classical Girl. It also marks 21 … Read more
For a long time, “ballet fiction” meant the books that catered to young girls, slim tomes with pink, appealing covers. Noel Streatfeild’s more substantial and highly popular Ballet Shoes comprised my ballet fiction-reading youth. I adored the book. I compensated for its lack of competition by reading it over and over, annually, through my youth … Read more