An excerpt from my (unpublished) novel, BRENDA’S GREEN NOTE, is featured in the August 2024 edition of The Write Launch => BRENDA’S GREEN NOTE: EXCERPT.

BRENDA’S GREEN NOTE follows a young woman with synesthesia who harnesses her ability to see sounds as colors to become a key player in the vibrant music scene of the 1960s in Philadelphia.

At age eight, Brenda Canavan realizes that nobody else sees a C# as a pulsating green blob. As a teenager, she is taken under the wing of an avant-garde instructor/composer, who brings her into his world of mind-blowing electronic music installations. Brenda soon makes the leap to working the sound board for rock shows, where her sound/color synesthesia becomes an asset, no longer an aberration that she hides. She fixes equipment, sorts out freaked-out would-be rock stars, befriends a few groupies and even punches out an irritating band manager—while becoming the favorite of a domineering local promoter who recognizes her talents.

When Brenda experiences a severe shock from a balky fuse box, her synesthesia vanishes. Within weeks, her father dies and Brenda descends into a deep depression. Unsure when or if her gift will return, Brenda is forced to find a new path to fulfillment, in a world that has been drained of the color that so animated her spirit.

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