The Singing String
The Singing String. A Work in Progress.
The Singing String is a Children's novel targeted to children ages 10 - 14. The novel has been in progress for two years and I intend to spend one more year working on it before beginning the querying process. In this novel I have attempted to tackle several big questions and things I am passionate about, namely: Christian Faith, operatic singing, family struggles and dynamic changes, adoption/fostering, and the girlhood experience. Thank you so much for your interest in this project. I will be sure to share more about its production in my newsletter, so be sure to sign up!
Book Blurb
All Paisley wants is a life guided by sameness. The same house. The same school. The same friends. She would even settle for her sort of sameness. A normal where her mother sings magic into existence and her brother watches transfixed; where her father's booming operatic voice clings to the walls and bleeds through the floorboards.
But change is inevitable as the burning of a struck match.
When Paisley finds herself thrown into another new town and another new school and another boring, moldy house—which she unaffectionately calls House Number Six—she’s left simmering with guilt that their latest move was all her fault. Even though her magic was passed down through her maternal family line through her immaculate singing voice, even though her little brother desperately wants magic of his own but only one sibling can inherit, and even though their new town is steeped in an evil magic only Paisley can fix, she absolutely refuses to sing again.
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