GIFTS is Top (#1) in Romance, Short Story Literature on Booktracks (Books with Soundtracks: Reinventing Reading)

Click here to experience Gifts.

                             

I'm sharing the first beta interactive multimedia test version of a short story, Gifts. I've integrated literary and cinematic elements (music score, ambient effects and sound effects) to this tale to expand and enhance the storytelling experience.

Feel free to leave comments regarding your experience to help fine-tune this new publishing platform made available by Booktrack™based in New Zealand.

The next step planned is to re-write Gifts as a short film script and to use the Booktrack™ platform to create a new soundtrack and sound effects for it. Do contact me if you're a screenwriter, music supervisor or composer who would like to explore collaborating with me on the script.

Technical notes:

1) You can control synchronizing the reading & soundtrack speed of the story using the (+) and (- ) icons located at the bottom right of each page.

Click here to experience Gifts.

Gifts is a Booktrack™-sponsored production.

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Cupid's Hunt 2013 | Lady Venus | VALentine

It's Cupid's Hunt 2013! Looking for love in all the right places! This is one of those places as part of the 6th Annual Cupid's Hunt Collaboration Podcast.

For this year, I decided to continue the theme I began with Kokopelli in 2012: Venus is the planet of and our Lady of Love. Love (like ladies) come in a variety of personalities, so this music podcast reflects as much of the diversity and variety of love in music as I could fit into this love menagerie.

Do visit the official Facebook page, learn more about the project, listen to all the love mixes, and plan to submit yours next year in 2014.

Get ready . . . Cupid's arrow is pointed at you and I'm letting it fly!


Playlist

1. Creator's Parrot Theme/Oh Venus! | Valerie Michele, Neil Alexander, Frankie Avalon

2. Hear My Call | Jill Scott

3. Love On Top | Beyonce

4. Love On Top (Do Over) | Beyonce

5. I Will Survive | Gloria Gaynor

6. Don't Rain On My Parade | Barbra Streisand

7. Try A Little Tenderness | Otis Redding

8. R.E.S.P.E.C.T. | Aretha Franklin

9. Want It Bank | Deborah Jordan

10. Lady Like | Amber Ojed

11. This Girl | Tom Davis featuring Junior Bear

12. Wreck | Mieka Pauley

13. The Lady Is A Tramp | Lena Horne

14. Along Came Betty | Quincy Jones

15. Luck Be A Lady | Frank Sinatra

16. Lady Marmalade | The Fabulous Pink Flamingos

17. Lady Love | Lou Rawls

18. Where Can I Go Without You? | Carol Weisman

19. Dusk Till Dawn | Philip Clark

20. Blues In the Night | Lainie Kazan

21. Come To My Window | Melissa Etheridge

22. I Will Always Love You (Valerie Michele Mix) | Dolly Parton & Whitney Houston

23. Creole Lady | Jon Lucien

24. Because of You | Tony Bennett & K.D. Lang

25. Home To Myself | Melissa Manchester

26. Creator's Parrot Theme/Oh Venus! | Valerie Michele, Neil Alexander, Frankie Avalon