Maggie Parsons & the Nashville Slam

Could you write and perform an original song for a live audience — in one hour?Seventeen-year-old Maggie Parsons heads to Nashville determined to prove she belongs in music. What she doesn’t expect is an unlikely friendship with a forgotten blues musician who changes the way she sees music — and herself.Now available in paperback and Kindle.

Maggie Parsons isn’t brave because she isn’t scared.
She’s brave because she goes anyway.
At seventeen, Maggie leaves home for Nashville to find out if she really belongs in music.She’s talented, stubborn, uncertain — and more afraid than she lets anyone see.Her mother doesn’t want to let her go.
She enters Maggie in the Nashville Slam anyway.
Sometimes love means giving someone the push you wish you didn’t have to give.
Maggie takes the next step..

Maggie never thought of herself as brave.
She’s the kind of girl who second-guesses everything, especially herself. But when her mom, Maryanna, enters her in the Nashville Slam, Maggie has to decide whether to stay safe or take the shot. She doesn’t leave home because she’s fearless. She goes because, deep down, a part of her knows this might be the moment that changes everything.

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