Rachel Pollock asked Alice Sherman Simpson:

Did you have a "Ballroom playlist" of songs you listened to while working on the novel? And, whether you did or not, would you recommend some which might comprise a night's musical fare at the Ballroom?

Alice Sherman Simpson It was the intensity and throb of my favorite tango CD, "Gotan Project," which inspired "Ballroom" I listened to it where and when ever I wrote, and even used it to set the tone while reading from the novel at Dixon Place, a performance space on the Bowery in NYC.

If you made your way down the stairs at the Ballroom on Union Square on a Sunday night, you'd likely here the DJ playing songs like:

RUMBA: "Besame Mucho" by Diana Krall
HUSTLE: "Stayin' Alive" by Bee Gees
FOX TROT: "More" by Nat King Cole
SWING:"In the Mood" by Glenn Miller
TANGO: "Por Una Cabeza"by Carlos Gardel
CHA CHA: "Let's Get Loud" by Jennifer Lopez
WALTZ: The Vienna Waltz by Strauss

That should get you going, Rachel! Which is your favorite?

I am going to Pass-It-Along and ask another author a question!

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