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Finding Center Stage
FINDING CENTER STAGE is about a brilliant, gutsy musician who, at 20, tragically loses his fiancé and then his direction in life. It takes his close friend and two talented women in an epic summer to help him rediscover his musical genius and to surrender to the possibility of learning to love again.
Richard Black has enough talent at 20 to become the next big thing in the music industry. That’s before his life turns upside down in a car accident and he decides to give his hit-worthy compositions to a beautiful, star vocalist so his songs can live on even if his dream of performing cannot. His offer is rejected repeatedly but when Amy Laurel finally hears his songs, she flies him to her estate. Beneath his scarred and broken exterior, she glimpses the beauty of his musical genius. Amy's off-and-on-again, gang-banger partner finds Richard a threat. In the final showdown, Amy must choose between the two men and Richard must fight his way back to claim his center stage where music can come back into his life and he can stand under the bright stage lights exactly as he is, whole and unafraid. Read more.
Richard Black has enough talent at 20 to become the next big thing in the music industry. That’s before his life turns upside down in a car accident and he decides to give his hit-worthy compositions to a beautiful, star vocalist so his songs can live on even if his dream of performing cannot. His offer is rejected repeatedly but when Amy Laurel finally hears his songs, she flies him to her estate. Beneath his scarred and broken exterior, she glimpses the beauty of his musical genius. Amy's off-and-on-again, gang-banger partner finds Richard a threat. In the final showdown, Amy must choose between the two men and Richard must fight his way back to claim his center stage where music can come back into his life and he can stand under the bright stage lights exactly as he is, whole and unafraid. Read more.
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G.H. Eckel
2Ìýbooks142ÌýfollowersGeorge Eckel has been a professional writer for twenty years. He’s been a top-ten bestseller for New Riders, an imprint of Macmillan Publications, where his books were translated into multiple languages. He’s a produced playwright and avid reader. He graduated cum laude, with honors in English (and he was also a physics major) from Bucknell University and did graduate work in English at U.C. Berkeley. A veteran of Silicon Valley, he was on the original cloud computing team at Amazon. Visit him at .
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November 12, 2017
I found Finding Center Stage very entertaining. It was fun to read, and it moved right along. I was interested in the world that the author created, and finished the book in two days.
Richard Black is a computer whiz, already being given a second chance and a big job in his uncle’s company after his fianceé’s untimely death and his own suicide attempt three years earlier. He is still emotionally and physically scarred, but Richard's heart is in his talent as a songwriter and musician. He writes what he knows to be a hit song for a world-class rock star, and through sheer force of will, manages to get her to listen to it, along with other top-notch compositions. As he shares the stage with her, he himself rockets to the top, because he is a brilliant guitar player. But he has more obstacles to overcome and choices to make. After a wild summer, and a final showdown, Richard can finally take his proper place on the proper stage, and stand there in the spotlight--and regular daylight, too--scars and all.
Richard Black is a computer whiz, already being given a second chance and a big job in his uncle’s company after his fianceé’s untimely death and his own suicide attempt three years earlier. He is still emotionally and physically scarred, but Richard's heart is in his talent as a songwriter and musician. He writes what he knows to be a hit song for a world-class rock star, and through sheer force of will, manages to get her to listen to it, along with other top-notch compositions. As he shares the stage with her, he himself rockets to the top, because he is a brilliant guitar player. But he has more obstacles to overcome and choices to make. After a wild summer, and a final showdown, Richard can finally take his proper place on the proper stage, and stand there in the spotlight--and regular daylight, too--scars and all.
January 9, 2018
I found this novel to be extremely entertaining and very hard to put down. Mr. Eckle's character development is spot on. Being a working musician, the story line is completely relatable to me , however, everyone would love the almost palpable struggle in making the journey to find your center whether it be on a stage or any other calling to personal fulfillment. The protagonist's twist in the end is refreshing and the scene, in which this transpires, transports you to an almost frenzied "oh crap, now what" I was physically stressed out which put me right there in the book. Great Read!
April 21, 2018
Without giving too much away about this book, it's a love story, it's heartbreaking, and suspenseful at times, it's funny, its about music, and unpredictable. The story follows a young man, who after having a significant tragedies in his life, tries to find purpose and build a legacy from the trauma that he has experienced. It about finding purpose, and moving forward in life when one thinks that it not possible. I highly recommend to any adult reader.
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