107 Years Old

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"I hope when you grow up, one day you'll see, your parents are people and that's all they can be."

BIOGRAPHY

I am a published short fiction writer and I recently began writing lyrics as a way to loosen up my mind from a bout of writer’s block. I discovered I really enjoy it and have written 30+songs. I would love to write songs all day long, but must work a day job. Songs are on a range of topics and in a range of styles. I can sing just well enough to communicate the melodies I hear in my head, but I don’t write music or play an instrument. A close friend is working with me on developing my melodies and writing music.

LEVEL

aspiring

GENRES

Singer/Songwriter, Pop, Alternative Country

INFLUENCES

Lucinda Williams, Mindy Smith, Loudon Wainwright III, Caryl Simon, The Donnas, Glen Hansard, Indigo Girls, James Brown, Janis Joplin, Jubilant Sykes, Kanes River, Led Zeppelin, Michael Jackson, Rolling Stones, the entire British invasion, and many more...

DAY JOB

Executive Marketing Director for Tor Books

I AM INTERESTED IN

in co writing online
in co writing in person
in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to artist
in getting a publishing deal

I WRITE:

For a living

I Also Write:
by myself

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody

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AWARDS & ACCOLADES

Nominated for the Pushcart Prizes series for my short story: Family Day

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Cadillac Sky

Cadillac Sky should be a lot more tired. It’s early Saturday afternoon at MerleFest and the band–Bryan Simpson, Matt Menefree, Andrew Moritz, Ross Holmes and newest addition David Mayfield–has already logged two performances on the day....

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Sessions: David Bazan

It was pretty slow. I mean, I played [the songs] on acoustic guitar for a long time, but I didn’t know how to transfer them to the other format. I didn’t want it to be a solo acoustic record. I wanted there to be bells and whistles and full band arrangements even if I didn’t want it necessarily to be electric guitar rock....

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Sessions: Vetiver

“It’s always slightly confounding to me whenever Vetiver is depicted with the same tropes that people have read off of press sheets,” says Andy Cabic. “The same sort of milestones get mentioned but then no one really digs to find out that there are those other things going on.”

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Behind The Song: “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing”

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell sang, it has been remarked, like lovers, although they weren’t. Similarly, Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, the team behind one of Marvin and Tammi’s most enduring hits, “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing,” wrote as if under the influence of amatory forces; even if, in the spring of 1968,