Put your feet together for: The Souls of Her Feet! (Spring Cobbler #3)

What if Cinderella didn't have dainty little feet? What if Cinderella's fairy godmother was... kind of a drag? What if Cinderella actually found her voice?

The Souls of Her Feet launched today!

Friends of the musical (FOTMs), I'm so very excited to invite you to read The Souls of Her Feet on your kindle, kobo reader, or iPad! Heck, you can even read it on your computer, no matter what brand!

(Secret hint - ONE of the links above has the price wrong... and if you've got that reader, you can download the book for FREE this week until it is fixed!)

Did you notice there are THREE covers? That's because there are THREE versions. (I can't do anything simply, can I?)

The Souls of Her Feet (a musical cinderella)

If you enjoyed reading the blook online, you will be delighted to find Ashley's story entwined with the musical-making subplot in a complementary and enticing design. 

You'll love pushing the buttons to play the songs (all music by Michael O'Dell), watch the videos (including some great new ones), and finding the pop-up surprises.

The Souls of Her Feet (a novel cinderella)

My super-cool editor convinced me to publish a version with just Ashley's story, which she (yay) thought was very strong and wonderful. Lucky thing, because I could only publish the bells-and-whistles version for the iPad. The 'novel' version, very shortly, be available everywhere!

Anyone who donates $20 or more to the musical gets a physical copy of the book—not available anywhere else! Can you pitch in and help us reach our goal of $2,500 in the next 30 days? We're working hard at this! Michael even went out and shoveled snow for donations, god bless him. We need more love!

Here are some of the other perks for the campaign:
- get a free ebook!
- we'll donate 5 pairs of shoes donated in your name
- a shoe on a shirt
- a jingle written JUST FOR YOU
- a magic tchotchky
and
- the undying love of the creators (you know it's true!)

I priced the ebook low ($2.99 and $5.99) to make it easy for everyone to buy it. I would love to hear your thoughts — please read and write a review! The more ratings the book gets, the better our chances for world domination and all that. I'll be doing lots of book giveaways this month, so let me know if you want to get one for free and I'll try to send word your way.

Thanks for your encouragement toward this very big step! 

Kristen

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Spring Cobbler - FOTM news

Hooray for our three Prince Charmings, Magic Talisman and Glass Slipper! Are there any Fairy GodWhatevers out there? With your help, we've raised enough with our crowdfunding campaign (donations are now tax-deductible, yay) to fly Michael out here for some serious songwriting. We're still trying to raise $2000 more to record new songs. 

You can still be part of the fantasy! The more supporters we get, the more eligible we'll be for grants when production time comes. Whatever your budget (seriously, NO donation is too small), there is a giving level with fun rewards. One of them is...

The ebook!

It's coming out on April 21st. Yes, you can finally read the story of Ashley, Harry, and Jeff without interruption, on your e-reader. Wherever you are, I hope you can join me for the launch party on April 27! 

The Blook is over and I've got an editor who's an expert on superheros, radicals, girlhood, supervillains, woman in pop culture, and heroes. Plus, I've had so much fun creating the new cover art...this one is a teaser...

Please x3 support the arts!

In spite of all of our wishing and dreaming, the musical has refused to write itself. So the first thing I want to tell you about is our campaign to raise some dough to help us take the next step. This new video tells the whole new wrap-around magic realism story behind the musical - and the forthcoming books and CDs. We are currently trying to raise $2500 to fund a wild writing session in late May and the completion of the score.

Please please please support us in this—you can donate as little as a PENNY (well, a penny plus a story), and get lots of cool thank-you rewards. Won't you be our Prince Charming... or our Fairy GodWhatever? (You could also just go, eeeeeeee!) 



It would be so great if you could share this with your friends (especially poor ones who love fairy tales and rich ones who like to support the arts)!

Curiouser and Curiouser

The Souls of Her Feet BLOOK adds a new twist to our musical project by fictionalizing the creators and making the characters real people. The blook begins with a pretend 2010 magazine clipping of Michael and Kristen as musical theater "who's who's..." seeking real-life stories of people with fairy tale lives.

Help us create this magically-realistic world by writing your story on the comments of one of the posts at www.fairytalereality.com. It can be a real story or a creative one. Just a few sentences or paragraphs will do.

Fairy Tale Reality is intended to be an estuary between fact and fiction (an estuary being the place where fresh water and sea water swirl together at land's end). No one will know the difference, and  that art can take on a life of its own.

Kristen's story about living a Beauty and the Beast life, incidentally, is TRUE!

Big Bitch with Action Figures

On Feb 15, 2012, at 7:06 AM, Paul Goldenberg wrote:

There’s a real kind of ‘gentile william finn’ thing going on there. (that’s a compliment!)
Quite impressed actually. Very funny! J
 
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Thanks for telling me it was a compliment... I have no idea what that remark meant! Now you'll have to 'splain it to me so I get smarter. 

On Feb 15, 2012, at 12:34 PM, Paul Goldenberg wrote:

Do you know William Finn? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Finn   March of the Falsettos? 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee? He’s both brilliant and perhaps slightly disturbed. You’re not disturbed but your Barbie doll show was for sure. J  Your voice, subject matter, and Barbie video just somehow brought to mind William Finn without the Jewish element.

Is that a good explanation?

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On Feb 15, 2012, at 1:44 PM, Kristen Caven wrote:

Oh, THAT William Finn! (Not the Irish Parliament member.) Why thank you, that is a compliment. So is "brilliant and slightly disturbed." I looked over Wikipedia and thought, "well, I'm also straight and female..." but then I realize my character Harry isn't...!  (I'm actually wondering if he might be Jewish.... though his name is Carrington, pretty WASP-y.) I'll share the compliment with MO the music guy... he added a nice EDGE to the piece with the gritted-teeth sound of the strings, don't you think?

As always, thanks for the enlightening. :)

K

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Coming Soon: The Blook!

Get to know Ashley, our protaganist, intimately before the musical comes out, in the novel version of her story by librettist Kristen Caven.

Kristen, who writes across many genres, has been working on the novelization since 2007, and is doing a final polish as "literary performance art" by publishing a chapter a week online.

Fans of the musical are especially welcome to read along and give feedback on the developing story.

Kristen will start publishing as soon as she gets 100 subscribers to the blog/book, or "blook." Click here for a sneak preview and to sign up!

Our Musical LIVES!

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The SMBPR Scoop
Greetings Friends of the musical (FOTMs),	January 2012
Did you wonder where we went? Did you wonder what happened to our show? Wonder no more.... it's ALIVE! A Long Break After we did the rewrite of The Souls of Her Feet in April, 2009, Michael and I drifted apart for a long, long time. He went on tour with a big show. I wrote two books about my former cartooning career. After a long and awkward estrangement, we reunited last December, and have been loving our collaboration! The first song we're re-writing is "A Girl Like Me," formerly the "Can't-Go-To-Prom Blues," which was the first song Michael ever wrote, to get the job, in 2005. It's a beautiful evolution, and now shows Ashley's inner struggle in a much more moving way, as she decides to take a chance and go to the prom. (You'll get to hear it soon if you are signed up on our blog.) >>>> The Big Shoe Project Kristen is trying to talk to local high school theaters about doing scenes and songs in collaboration with other schools. A year or so down the road, there could be a really fun community project taking shape. Meanwhile, Michael, who now plays a red piano on the Boulder Mall, is scoping out voice talent in Colorado to make recordings. The Book Every musical has a book, but ours has more than one. Kristen, who works in publishing, is working on a novelization of the story that will be available some time this year, Godesss willing. Calling All SMBPR Alums Have you worked on the musical, either as an actor or a volunteer? Do you have a Facebook page? Please post a link to it on our Facebook Page - and let us "like" your page. As your career gains momentum, so does this project - and it helps us all to stay connected. I recently touched base with Sherry Vine (a.k.a. Keith Levy, who played Harry in New York), who is now Lady Gaga's worst nightmare. Meanwhile, did anyone catch Jen Ponton (narrator in New York) on 30 Rock? ("Fraaazerrrr!") Or Brian Yates Sharber (original Demo recordings) as the Gay Man in Milk? It's fun to see what everyone's doing with their careers. 'Like' our page and check back for links! Thanks for being in our cult! Here's to an amazing 2012 Kristen Caven & Michael O'Dell	Singin' on the Blog We'll be doing fewer newsletters from now on (what's 'fewer' than one ever three years, you ask? Good point...) and putting our announcements on the SMBPR blog. If you get an email from Blogspot, it's because I've signed you up to the email feed. Please opt in if you want to stay in touch! Artistic Support I got the most amazing thing in the mail last fall. Friend of the Musical (FOTM) Rhonda Bryce sent this gorgeous assemblage, covered with over a dozen examples of Just the Right Shoe, who started making their collectibles the year after I wrote the first draft of the song. (Hmmm.... merchandise tie-in??) SOMEDAY... there will be a viral video of our shoe song... and everyone will be just this obsessed! A Little 'Bitch' Reply to this email if you'd like a sneak peek of a silly little video (of me playing with singing dolls) from a musical theater workshop.  "purify the aaaiiiiirrrr!" (coming soon to YouTube!)
You never know where a new pair of shoes will take you....

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