“Blue Mountain Rose” for the Nevada Shakespeare Festival

Blue Mountain Rose: A Novel in Five Acts

“Masterful, delightful, and thoroughly engaging” ~ “A love letter to theater”

Our story of love, fame, family, grief, and healing is set in a fictional theater festival called the Blue Mountain Rose. Come see how great art can bring people together and help them face the challenges of life.

By special arrangement, 20% of the net proceeds from sales of this product (SKU BMR-NSF) go to the Nevada Shakespeare Festival!

As the Curtain Opens

Richard James Aloysius Keane is a lion of the theater—and a weary man. His outdoor Elizabethan stage, the Blue Mountain Rose, lures theatergoers from around the world with its memorable productions. But after 40 years of service in all weathers, this grand “wooden O” in the Arizona mountains is showing its age. Tossed about by the financial storms of 2009, how will the Rose survive?
Company manager Kate Morales believes in this dream of a great theater in a small town. Richard says he might close down the Rose and retire, but she just can’t say goodbye. Kate has been Richard’s loyal understudy for a decade. Is she ready to step into the leading role?
When the unknown actor Peter Dunmore catches their attention with a star-worthy audition, Richard and Kate sense an opportunity. Maybe this “cross between Sir John Gielgud and the young Ken Branagh” can attract a new generation of fans with his powerful Hamlet. But Peter is haunted by a secret sorrow that could bring an end to all their dreams.
As they try to save the Rose, Richard, Kate, and Peter must ask themselves questions worthy of a Shakespeare play. What does it mean to belong to a family? Who do we mourn, and why? And what does it cost to wear a crown?

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About the Author

Julie Hammonds fell in love with Hamlet during a high school trip to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and has nurtured her passion for Shakespeare ever since. She studied the plays in school, stage-managed The Winter’s Tale and Much Ado About Nothing, and helped create the Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival. Her quest to complete the canon as an audience member has taken her from a community hall in Juneau, Alaska, to the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon. She has four plays to go. This is her first novel.

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Soulstice Publishing is delighted to give 20% of the net income from this product to the Nevada Shakespeare Festival. We admire their mission: “Providing fresh perspectives ~ Sparking new ideas ~ Elevating our cultural connections”!

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