http://amysfoster.com Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:19:03 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://amysfoster.com/books/comment-page-1/#comment-33 Fiction Writers Review » Blog Archive » When Autumn Leaves by Amy S. Foster Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:19:03 +0000 http://amysfoster.com/?page_id=27#comment-33 [...] I’ve always been in awe of songwriters. Creating a song that people want to listen to over and over, or that brings a listener back to a particular time and place in her life seems magical to me. It takes a true artist to convey such strong emotion in just a handful of lines within a three- or four-minute long piece of music, and Amy S. Foster is one such artist. An award-winning lyricist, she’s written songs for musicians such as Diana Krall, Michael Buble, and Andrea Bocelli. It’s impressive when a writer can achieve success both with a short, collaborative form and with a longer, stand-alone work. Foster makes an eloquent transition from songwriter to novelist in her debut novel, When Autumn Leaves. [...] [...] I’ve always been in awe of songwriters. Creating a song that people want to listen to over and over, or that brings a listener back to a particular time and place in her life seems magical to me. It takes a true artist to convey such strong emotion in just a handful of lines within a three- or four-minute long piece of music, and Amy S. Foster is one such artist. An award-winning lyricist, she’s written songs for musicians such as Diana Krall, Michael Buble, and Andrea Bocelli. It’s impressive when a writer can achieve success both with a short, collaborative form and with a longer, stand-alone work. Foster makes an eloquent transition from songwriter to novelist in her debut novel, When Autumn Leaves. [...]

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