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The writers, musicians,
and artists featured on this website come from varied backgrounds,
experiences, politics, religions, influences, training, studies, and
interests. They're a diverse lot with a lot to offer. Their work appears
in a variety of forms, from books and CDs to crafts and instruments.
Some writers have been featured in "year's best" anthologies,
magazines, and journals around the world, while others have been featured
in podcasts and on radio and television. Please explore the links
to the works of these talented people, found on the Friends
&... page. Maybe you'll run across a work that you'd like
to read or listen to. We hope so.
Christopher Steven Fuqua's
work has appeared widely in publications such as Main Street Rag,
Iodine, Brutarian, Slipstream, Poet, Pearl, Bogg, Sulphur River Literary
Review, Chiron Review, DAW Books' The Year's Best Horror Stories,
Cemetery Dance, Christian Science Monitor, Honolulu Magazine, Naval
History, The Writer, Best of the Net 2006, and many others,
most listed on this site's fiction and nonfiction pages. His published
books include Big Daddy's Gadgets, Notes to My Becca, Divorced
Dads, Music Fell on Alabama, and the four-novel audio series Deadlines.
A University of West Florida graduate, he has passed himself off as
a newspaper reporter, magazine editor, English tutor, substitute teacher,
furniture and flute craftsman, janitor, respiratory therapy technician,
gas station attendant (when such things existed), salesclerk, and
many more roles not worth mentioning. He is now a full-time freelance
writer, which is to say he's in constant debt. Entries about his literary
work appear in Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 23rd Edition
and Who's Who in Entertainment, 3rd Edition.
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 It
has become apparent that, even to many of the most skeptical, the
planet is in trouble, that time is running out for positive action
to save the environment and the myriad species it supports. Still,
the message has a long way to go to be understood, accepted, and acted
upon positively by a majority, which is where organizations such as
Musicians United to Save the
Earth (MUSE) come in, using music, film, and literature as vehicles
to promote understanding and change. Please visit
www.coolourplanet.com to hear music from artists around the planet,
music to celebrate the environment and inspire positive change, including
two songs by C.S.
Fuqua, the new age instrumental "Rain," and the song
"Again," which explores the apocalyptic consequences of
humanity's present path.
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 Out
from Reverse -- Letters to the President
features songs by
a group of diverse musicians and styles who have donated their music
to benefit those most directly and adversely affected by the invasion
and occupation of Iraq. All proceeds from CD sales go to the Armed
Forces Foundation and Operation
Iraqi Children. The CD is the brainchild of Kimberly Streible
who heads the La Grange, Kentucky-based band A
Death in Summer. C.S. Fuqua's songs, "Devil
Disguised" and "We Used to Sing (My Country 'Tis of Thee),"
both written in response to the invasion and occupation ofIraq, have
been included on the CD and are also featured on Neil Young's Living
With War website. With her own debut CD Towards Tomorrow coming
soon from Sour Lamp Records, Kimberly has assembled a diverse collection
of styles on Out from Reverse that explore the frustration
with and opposition to the war in Iraq and the desire to help and
support those most adversely affected, including U.S. military service
personnel, their families, and the children of Iraq. The CD can be
purchased at CD Baby
or downloaded at ITunes.
Learn more about the project and watch the promotional video at the
Out from Reverse
MySpace website.
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 New
age, folk, rock, and multi-genre music by C.S. Fuqua is now available
for licensing for commercial use. If you have a project for which you'd
like music that's not the conventional radio fare, please explore Fuqua's
available songs and instrumentals at Pump
Audio.
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Japan-based band Neo
Epoque has released the CD/DVD package, Just
a Human, an eclectic mix of musical styles, video, and animation,
featuring the band Neo Epoque and works by some of their musical and
artistic friends, including a new-grass song by C.S. Fuqua entitled
"Killing the Buddha." View a 2-minute trailer for the package
on YouTube. For
information on ordering, visit
the band's website where you can listen to the monthly Internet
radio program and get more information about the band's activities
and other CDs.
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 The
Native American Flute: Myth, History, Craft,
published by Awe-Struck
Books, separates flute myth from flute fact to provide a better
understanding of the Native American flute’s true place and function
in history and in today’s culture, exploring aspects that have
become obscured by the false contention that the instrument is and
has always been nothing more than a tool with which a man could seduce
a woman. The book details the development and use of the native flute
by both women and men, as well as the myths that have grown up around
its use. The book’s final section provides readers with detailed
instruction on crafting both the ancient, end-blown native flute and
the modern native flute. You can buy the book here.
Read two reviews here.
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 Big
Daddy's Gadgets, published by Awestruck
Books, is a satirical, socio-political romp that one reviewer
calls "heartwarming and full of adventure," a book "that
will make you laugh as you follow along with Big Daddy and his time
machine experiments." The book can be purchased at numerous
Internet booksellers, includingFluteFlights here,
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  EPIC,
the professional organization for authors of print and electronic
books, has awarded its highest honor, the EPPIE Award, to The
Swing: Poems of Fatherhood as Best Collection of Poetry, 2008.
From Uncial
Press and available from Amazon.com,
C.S. Fuqua's The Swing: Poems of Fatherhood explores the rewards
and challenges of fatherhood. "C. S. Fuqua gives us a snapshot
of a father doing his best at parenting in his delightful collection
of poems, The Swing - Poems of Fatherhood... Although we have
sons, these poems elicited thoughts and feelings from many experiences.
A must for any (parent)." -- Willie Elliott for Myshelf.com,
May 2007
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 Music
Fell on Alabama, the trade paperback edition of the "folk
history" of the diverse musical influence of the Muscle Shoals,
Alabama, recording industry, is now available through most bookstores.
Recounting the rich history of "The Hit Capital of the World,"
Music Fell on Alabama profiles such Alabama stars as W.C. Handy,
Jimmy Buffet, the "Swampers," Fame Studio's Rick Hall, Hank
Williams, Alabama, and others. The Crane Hill Publishers' hardback
edition is now out of print, available only through used and collectible
book dealers for a premium price. The new, updated edition can be
ordered through the publisher, New
South Books, Amazon.com, Barnes
& Noble, and other bookstores. Read a review here.
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 From
Uncial
Press and available from Amazon.com,
C.S. Fuqua's poignant short story, "Eyes
of a Child," recounts a farmer's imprisonment of an angel
in a desperate attempt to "heal" his severely handicapped
daughter, but his demands -- and prayers -- are answered in ways he
never dreamed. "In 'Eyes Of A Child' ... Hollis prays for a miracle
to transform his physically and mentally handicapped daughter. But
when an angel comes, Hollis captures her... and pleads with her to
do something. Hollis is dying, the child's mother is dead, and he
knows how cruelly the world will treat his daughter once he is gone...In
the end, [the angel] does help Hollis and [his daughter], but in a
way that [is] both tragic and joyful." -- Jim Reichart, Tangent
Short Fiction Review, December 1999
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