Music is an integral part of the story in both of my novels, "Topless Delivery - The Myrtle Beach Experience" and "Forever Autumn - The Myrtle Beach Experience Continues". The novels' two main characters, David and Ashley, are both musicians. Ashley is a classically trained soprano who had also been playing the piano and drums ever since she was a little girl. This Southern belle knows how to rock and roll with the best of them. She plays in a band with four of her fellow entertainers called "Pure Ecstasy," with Heather, her roommate of seven years, as her lead guitarist. They are the rockers of the band. Shelli, their second guitarist and fiddler, is the country cutie. Rachel, their bass guitarist and cellist, is a smooth jazz enthusiast. Kristy is a classically trained pianist who handles all the orchestral arrangements with her keyboards. All five lovely ladies are very good singers as evidenced by their occasional acapella performances. David plays guitars and keyboards while trying to regain his voice. He even performs on guitars and keyboards with Pure Ecstasy on occasion, most notably during the First Dance at Chad and Heather's wedding reception late in "Topless Delivery" with a song that he had written for his eventual First Dance with Ashley at their wedding in "Forever Autumn".
Each novel has an online soundtrack on its website featuring approximately 20 songs that are mentioned throughout the book. In order to avoid any problems involving copyright infringement, I placed a link to a YouTube video of each song listed on that page. Both websites are currently under construction and I hope to have them up and running this fall.
In fact, the very title of "Forever Autumn" came from a favorite song by Justin Hayward, the guitarist and primary lead singer of the Moody Blues, that put him on the map as a solo artist. It is one of the very few hit songs that he performed that he did not write himself.
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