April Kihlstrom's Book in a Week Workbook

by April Kihlstrom

Overview

Canadian superstar fiddler and dancer {|Natalie MacMaster|}'s tenth full-length recording doesn't deviate much from her usual formula, but considering the fact that her "usual formula" consists of filtering {|traditional|} {|Celtic|} music through the open-ended sieves of {|jazz|}, {|rock|}, {|country|} and {|Latin|}, the results are far from predictable. {|MacMaster|} is a peerless player, and here she starts things off with a fiery opener, the appropriately titled {|"Volcanic Jig,"|} which sets the tone for {|Yours Truly|}. Backed by a small army of {|instrumental|} masters, airs like {|"Farewell to Peter"|} and {|traditional|} sets such as {|"David's Jig: David's Jig/Valerie Pringles' Reel"|} are precise examples of {|contemporary Celtic|} music, but with the exception of a horrifying version of {|"Danny Boy"|} sung by {|Michael McDonald|} (seriously, you lose a whole star for that kind of thing), it's when {|MacMaster|} takes the genre out for a walk that things get really interesting. The jaunty {|"Flea as a Bird"|} throws a little {|country|} and {|ragtime|} into the mix, {|"Cape Classico"|} balances the rigidity of {|classical|} violin with the bright lilt of Irish fiddle, and the full-on {|Celtic rock|} of {|"Matt and Nat's"|} gives the collection some serious cajones. ~ James Christopher Monger

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148440598
Publisher:	April Kihlstrom
Publication date:	07/14/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	88
File size:	249 KB

About the Author

Although her background is in mathematics, (including a master’s degree in operations research), April Kihlstrom is the award winning author of over 30 published romance novels—many of them written using Book in a Week for the first draft.

Life has never been simple and out of self-defense she discovered ways to cope—and Book in a Week is one of those ways. Dragged into it kicking and screaming the first time, to her astonishment she discovered it can be one of the best gifts a writer can give him/herself. One of the first people to embrace the concept of Book in a Week, she has been teaching this method through workshops and online classes for years.

April believes that we write best when we write out of joy and faith in ourselves—and her coaching, her online writing classes and this workbook are designed to help writers do just that. These days she specializes in as needed—as opposed to on-going—coaching that very quickly uncovers a client's individual best writing strategy.