Singalong
songbooks
now for sale

Easy sheet music
for 300+ favorites

$39.95*

Including free templates
for audience lyrics sheets

Finally, a singalong songbook of sheet music with easy-to-follow melody lines, chords and lyrics for more than 300 oldtime favorites. songbookIdeal for singalongs at nursing homes, senior residences or just at your own home. Bound in a loose-leaf binder of durable vinyl, unsnaps for access to pages. (To see a photo of the book, click here.)

Each songbook comes with templates for copying lyrics of more than 240 songs to hand out to audience members, a great way to get audiences involved.**

To order Sing along with ease, email sidleavitt@yahoo.com directly or enter your email address as a comment in our latest blog entry and we will email you. (Your email address won't appear in the comments section.)

To review our sales procedures and philosophy, click on our entry entitled We trust you.

*plus $5.79 shipping in U.S.

**An electronic version of these templates is available free to customers who wish to reformat lyrics sheets on their own computer.

Free books
still offered

from frustrated writers
to adventurous readers

This site offers a library of original text works – nonfiction, fiction or poetry of all lengths, published and unpublished – that have been submitted free by their authors. To find these, please visit the 'Works' section in the upper righthand column of this page. This site does not claim copyright to any of these works, and no modification of any work has been done except for style formatting. No work may be reused commercially, and any noncommercial reuse must give credit to the author.

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Readers are free to download any listing from the 'Works' section, subject to the aforementioned restrictions, and to provide comments to the site administrator at sidleavitt@yahoo.com for publication in the 'Comments on works' listing. To comment on any excerpt or other post shown in the center column, simply do so directly beneath the post by clicking on the '(No) Comments' link. Unless otherwise specified, all comments will be published, subject to libel guidelines.

About us...

This blog was started as a nonprofit website giving writers a place to publish their work at no cost and readers a chance to read that work and, if they chose, to comment on it. Now we are concentrating on a singalong songbook, also an idealistic project that promotes volunteer music programs at nursing homes and senior residences as well as family singing at home, all through easy, low-cost sheet music. Although we no longer accept new works from authors, all previous submissions are still available in our 'Works' section. We also maintain a blogroll of diverse sites, all well-written, for readers to explore, although at present, no new sites are being accepted for listing. The site's founder and administrator is its first nonfiction contributor, Sid Leavitt, a retired newspaper editor who lives in Lake Katrine, N.Y.

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Fiction

Sniper in the Mist (by chapters or full text) by Joseph Cigan: Snipers threaten not only our bodies but our minds, maybe even our souls, as well. (34,000 words so far, most recent post April 17, 2008)

The Unearthing (by chapters or full text) by Steve Karmazenuk: A story filled with fantasy, heroism, adventure, mystery, maybe even a bit of the supernatural — all revolving around an unnatural object found buried in the dust of New Mexico after War Three. (147,100 words, complete, final post May 25, 2008)

Disconnected (by chapters or full text) by J. Cafesin: The story of a woman struggling with her skeptical intuition as she seeks a meaningful relationship in life on the edge of Hollywood. (39,670 words, complete, final post Oct. 26, 2008)

Waiting for Spring (by chapters or full text) by R.J. Keller: A newly divorced woman, numbed by years of rejection, trudges out of one small Maine town into an even smaller one where she is forced to confront her pain. (143,630 words, complete, final post Oct. 19, 2008)

Steal Tomorrow (by chapters or full text) by Ann M. Pino: A teenager and her friends struggle to survive food shortages, sanitation problems and gang violence after a pandemic virus has killed the world’s adults. (87,225 words, complete, final post Oct. 26, 2008)

Short Stories by James L. Fox (by title or all titles). James L. Fox, a retired manufacturing manager, industrial engineer and jack-of-all-trades, offers a variety of tall tales from his hermit’s lair in the Mojave Desert. (Most recent story June 15, 2008)

Stories by Hugh Yonn (by title or all titles). Hugh Yonn, a Florida native, writes short stories based on his life, a full and varied adventure. (Most recent story Nov. 23, 2008)

Short Stories by Luke Darbyshire (by title or all titles). Luke Darbyshire, a young man from Birmingham, England, has focused on writing during a sabbatical between a career in corporate finance and studies at university toward a career as an English teacher. He currently is working on a five-part collection of short stories. (First story Nov. 23, 2008)

Presumed Guilty by Marjorie Pagel: A short story about a murder or two is narrated by the convicted murderer’s sympathetic pen pal. (1,110 words, posted Nov. 8, 2007)

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Some public-domain selections of the Woodstock Readers Group, an ad hoc circle of writers, editors, artists, publishers and others who enjoy reading:

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov: The Russian playwright’s classic tragicomedy reflects the decline of the aristocracy, the rise of the bourgeoisie and the futility facing both classes in Russia at the turn of the 20th century. (16,500 words)

The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol: In a precursor of the modern short story, the 19th century Russian author tells the tale of an impoverished clerk who scrimps and saves to buy a badly needed new winter coat. (11,750 words)

The Redheaded Outfield by Zane Grey: The great Western writer played semiprofessional baseball at one time and loved writing about it. (49,650 words)

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens: The holiday classic, in full. (25,000 words)