The easy answer is that the idea for A Song For A New Day came from a story called “Our Lady Of The Open Road” that I wrote a few years ago. Ha! I’d like to say I was, but I honestly can’t remember. Where did you get the idea for A Song For A New Day? Or, more specifically, what venue were you playing music in when you came up with it? Then she gets a job that sends her out into the world - into Luce’s world, specifically. Rosemary Laws grew up entirely in the After, working for an online megacorporation that makes sure nobody ever has to leave the safety of their home. In the new After, congregation laws have been enacted, supposedly for the protection of the people, and she has to find new ways to get her music out there. It’s about music and human connection and making art in troubled times, I guess? Um, Luce Cannon is a musician who was just on the cusp of making it big when events transpired to turn everything she had known into a Before. To start, what is A Song For A New Day about? In the following email interview, Pinsker talks about how her life as a musician, and as a person, inspired this story, what she listened to while writing it, and what other music books she read in preparation to writing hers. So it probably won’t surprise anyone that her first novel, A Song For A New Day ( paperback, Kindle) is a musical dystopian sci-fi story. To others, she’s a singer / songwriter, most recently with the band The Stalking Horses. To some, Sarah Pinsker is a writer of science fiction stories.
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