Q&A About When the Music Stops-Dance On
Q: What is the significance of the title, When the Music Stops-Dance On?
A: We all need second chances. When a dancer, like Marta has such specific needs to fulfill attain her career goal it requires specific skills that may or may not be regained through practice and hard work. I wanted Marta to strive to return to dancing if she could overcome her injury. And, if she couldn't, to find a way to be content with change in her life.
Q. Your latest book, When the Music Stops, is part two in Marta's story. How does it move the original storyline forward?
A: Marta returns home to focus on recovering from her ballet injury with the hope of regaining the ability to dance. Her personal life also demands decisions: is she ready for a committed relationship, marriage or does she want time alone to get to know herself. Which suitor will she turn to: Steve or Sam? Can she see a world beyond dance?
Q. Are the same lead characters, Marta, Steve and Lynne present in this novel?
A: Yes they are. Marta remains the principal character. Steve and Lynne continue as her supporters and take a secondary role. All of them stand at crossroads as they solidify their careers and move toward their twenties. We'll follow Lynne's journey in the third book, Letters to Follow: A Dancer's Adventure.
Q. What new characters appear in When the Music Stops?
A. Lindsay Holland, Marta's former dance instructor becomes a more important character along with her advanced ballet student Rosalia Marcus and her devious mother, Zandora Marcus. We also meet Lily Rose, a handful of women in her exercise class as well as Sam Faris.
We spend time with her Mom and her boyfriend Robert and add in a young flirtatious carpenter named Dennis and a group of women who attend Marta's exercise class and go on to provide unexpected support for her.
Q. What obstacles does Marta face on her road to recovery and deciding her future?
A: Marta is like the rest of us at age eighteen as we step from the shelter of home to grasp our independence. She must make life-focusing decisions. Each has ramifications to be weighed before she chooses her future path. As Marta rebuilds her life she must deal with new situations and obstacles nay of us never experience at a young age.
Strengthening her ankle to dance again is a long, slow process. Her exercise regimen demands daily work. Trying to be independent and earn her way cuts into that exercise time.
Her personal decisions keep coming in waves. Can teaching dance classes satisfy her longing to dance or should she leave dancing behind her as a memory? If she continues how does she fit into the dance studio? A big decision awaits Marta if she stays.
Marta is starting feel a desire for a romantic relationship. Which male companion offers Marta the support she wants and needs and, will he also fill her need to be loved?
To read the entire story, you will find it on Amazon and in fine bookstore everywhere.
A: We all need second chances. When a dancer, like Marta has such specific needs to fulfill attain her career goal it requires specific skills that may or may not be regained through practice and hard work. I wanted Marta to strive to return to dancing if she could overcome her injury. And, if she couldn't, to find a way to be content with change in her life.
Q. Your latest book, When the Music Stops, is part two in Marta's story. How does it move the original storyline forward?
A: Marta returns home to focus on recovering from her ballet injury with the hope of regaining the ability to dance. Her personal life also demands decisions: is she ready for a committed relationship, marriage or does she want time alone to get to know herself. Which suitor will she turn to: Steve or Sam? Can she see a world beyond dance?
Q. Are the same lead characters, Marta, Steve and Lynne present in this novel?
A: Yes they are. Marta remains the principal character. Steve and Lynne continue as her supporters and take a secondary role. All of them stand at crossroads as they solidify their careers and move toward their twenties. We'll follow Lynne's journey in the third book, Letters to Follow: A Dancer's Adventure.
Q. What new characters appear in When the Music Stops?
A. Lindsay Holland, Marta's former dance instructor becomes a more important character along with her advanced ballet student Rosalia Marcus and her devious mother, Zandora Marcus. We also meet Lily Rose, a handful of women in her exercise class as well as Sam Faris.
We spend time with her Mom and her boyfriend Robert and add in a young flirtatious carpenter named Dennis and a group of women who attend Marta's exercise class and go on to provide unexpected support for her.
Q. What obstacles does Marta face on her road to recovery and deciding her future?
A: Marta is like the rest of us at age eighteen as we step from the shelter of home to grasp our independence. She must make life-focusing decisions. Each has ramifications to be weighed before she chooses her future path. As Marta rebuilds her life she must deal with new situations and obstacles nay of us never experience at a young age.
Strengthening her ankle to dance again is a long, slow process. Her exercise regimen demands daily work. Trying to be independent and earn her way cuts into that exercise time.
Her personal decisions keep coming in waves. Can teaching dance classes satisfy her longing to dance or should she leave dancing behind her as a memory? If she continues how does she fit into the dance studio? A big decision awaits Marta if she stays.
Marta is starting feel a desire for a romantic relationship. Which male companion offers Marta the support she wants and needs and, will he also fill her need to be loved?
To read the entire story, you will find it on Amazon and in fine bookstore everywhere.
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