Book Info-
Title- Stealing Fire
By-Susan Sloate
Publication Date- late August 2013
“How do you recognize your soulmate?
In glittery 1980’s Los Angeles, Beau Kellogg is a brilliant Broadway lyricist now writing advertising jingles and yearning for one more hit to compensate for his miserable marriage and disappointing life.Amanda Harary, a young singer out of synch with her contemporaries, works at a small New York hotel, while she dreams of singing on Broadway.When they meet late at night over the hotel switchboard, what begins will bring them each unexpected success, untold joy, and piercing heartache ... until they learn that some connections, however improbable, are meant to last forever.STEALING FIRE is, at its heart, a story for romantics everywhere, who believe in the transformative power of love.”STEALING FIRE was a 2012 quarter-finalist in the amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest.
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Amazon Kindle- http://www.amazon.com/Stealing-Fire-ebook/dp/B00DQUKI0I/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=8-3&qid=1379800493
Amazon Paperback- http://www.amazon.com/Stealing-Fire-Susan-Sloate/dp/1935970127/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1379800493&sr=8-3
B&N paperback- http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/stealing-fire-susan-sloate/1116263708?ean=9781935970125
Susan Sloate is the author or co-author of more than 20 books, including Realizing You(with Ronald Doades), a recent self-help novel, and the 2003 #6 Amazon bestseller, Forward to Camelot (with Kevin Finn), which took honors in 3 literary competitions and was optioned by a Hollywood company for film production.
She has written young-adult fiction and non-fiction, including the children’s biography Ray Charles: Find Another Way!, which was honored in the 2007 Children’s Moonbeam Book Awards. Mysteries Unwrapped: The Secrets of Alcatraz led to her 2009 appearance on the TV series MysteryQuest on The History Channel. Amelia Earhart: Challenging the Skies is a perennial young-adult Amazon bestseller. She has also been a sportswriter and screenwriter, managed two recent political campaigns, and founded an author’s festival in her hometown outside Charleston, SC.
Stealing Fire was a Quarter-Finalist in the 2012 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest and combines autobiographical experience with her lifelong love of the musical theater. She is proud to be distantly related to Broadway legend Fred Ebb, the lyricist for Cabaret,Chicago, All That Jazz and New York, New York.
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Book Soundtrack:
It would be lots of old romantic songs (think movie soundtracks, like BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S) and plenty of Broadway show music!
Since the novel is set in the 1982-83, the soundtrack would only have music that was available at that time. (This would eliminate a lot of music that we associate with the ‘80s, like the soundtracks from TOP GUN and FLASHDANCE, which weren’t released till years later.) We might JUST be able to use Marian’s Theme from RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, since it came out in 1981. But I’m really finicky about historical details and not sticking anachronisms into my work, so if it wasn’t publicly available in 1982, I wouldn’t use it.
There’s one song, though, that I’d throw in just for sentimental reasons. STEALING FIRE is based on an incident from my life, and while it was occurring, I had just heard the song “Back on the Chain Gang” on the radio. I got it and played it again and again, and to this day, when I hear that song I think of that time in my life. Needless to say, I’ve always loved it.
Also, Andrew Lloyd Webber, the composer who wrote CATS and PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, among many other shows, is mentioned several times in the story, because his shows and their big production values made it almost impossible for Beau, my hero, to return to Broadway writing the kind of shows he used to. Consequently, Beau hates him, and so does my heroine, Amanda (not just because of Beau but because she doesn’t like glitzy productions either - she’s all about the music and lyrics). So though his music certainly fits into the era, we would have NO Andrew Lloyd Webber songs on this soundtrack!
Oh, God, it
was him, the bastard who had upset the switchboard operators and bellowed
through the lobby loudly enough to alert all five boroughs. At three o'clock in
the morning, asking for room service. Unbelievable.
Amanda leaned back in her chair. Her
stomach was tightening inexplicably. "I'm sorry," she said finally,
when she could control her voice. "Room Service closes at midnight."
There was a pause. "Oh. What time is
it now?"
She looked at her watch. "Ten after
three."
"Then whom am I speaking to?"
"I'm the night operator. This is the main switchboard."
"Well, main switchboard, you must all
sound alike down there. I could swear I talked to you earlier tonight."
Well, how about that. "You've got a
good ear, 704. I was on duty earlier."
"Good Lord. How long are the shifts
around here?"
"Eight hours for everybody else. I’m
working a double today."
“Why?"
"Maybe I just love it here."
"I guess you do. But I hope you're
well compensated."
Trust a man to think of money first.
"That’s not my major concern."
"Glad to hear it."
Okay, enough's enough. It's been a long day, made even longer by
him. No reason to shoot the breeze with this guy. "Excuse me, I have other
callers. Sorry I couldn’t help you."
"Well, better luck with them."
"Look, if you'd called earlier—"
"Absolutely. My fault entirely, for
falling asleep after a cross-country flight, a time change and a screw-up in
hotel administration. Forget I even mentioned it." The phone clicked in
her ear.
She sat for some moments before she
noticed she was trembling. This was the second time he'd undermined her—and it
bothered her.
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ReplyDeleteMy favorite musical is Cats. I have seen it many times with my sister, mom, daughter, cousins, friends, etc. :)))
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