About Joan Reeves

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  • Biography: Joan Reeves is a multi-published author of fiction and a successful freelance writer with more than 20 years experience.

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Online Sheet Music Resource

I’m not much of a musician, but I’ve been known to plink around on the piano or my dad’s acoustic guitar. Every now and then I want to try a new piece of music, but I’ve discovered that music stores that sell sheet music or going the way of the dodo bird. That’s why I was interested to find a website that sells online sheet music.

Internet To The Rescue

Like so many goods and services, the Internet is a great resource for music of all kinds. Of course, as a writer, I’m always concerned with copyright issues so I checked out Virtual Sheet Music.com immediately to see if they were legit and legal. I was relieved to see that they are.

Legal Is Good

The digital sheet music editions they offer are their own unique collections, and you won’t find them anywhere else. The powers that be at Virtual Sheet Music are the editors of the published editions they offer, and they own the copyrights. That’s a good thing because, if you are like me, you realize how copyright infringement threatens writers and musicians who make their living from their creative endeavors. I just won’t do business with sites that pirate music and books because that’s killing the ability of artists to make a living from their work.

How It Works

The website was designed to provide music lovers and musicians with the ability to locate the sheet music they want and to immediately download it. You can also listen to any MIDI and Mp3 file in their extensive catalog. So you just Search or Browse their catalog. When you find what you want, buy it or become a Member and get member benefits to access music. Then just download and enjoy it. You only need Adobe Reader to open the files. If you’re the one in a million who doesn’t already have Adobe Reader, they provide a button to click to download that too.

Takeaway Truth

Berthold Auerbach, a nineteenth century poet, once said: “Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” That’s as true today as it was then.

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Eyeglass Styles & Trends

Since I’ve been gone so much the last few months, the junk mail has really piled up in the basket next to my desk. We toss the miscellaneous stuff in there with the expectation we’ll look through it on the weekends in case there’s something of interest in the myriad advertisements. Yesterday, I skimmed the [...]

 
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I See Dumb People

on Mar 10, 2010 in Life Changes, This Writer's Life

I posted this on my other blog this morning so here it is again because I’m short of time, and I know some of you are wondering where I am. I’m here. I’m just overwhelmed with real life issues at the moment.
I know I’m going to catch flak for this one! However, I’ve been dealing [...]

 
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Choosing Sides In Grocery Wars

This morning I was reading about the changing grocery shopping habits in the economic downsizing of America.
Apparently, more people are shopping in the grocery section of Walmart rather than in the Krogers, Safeways, and Whole Foods of the nation. Since there’s a general opinion that fresh produce purchased at Whole Foods is superior to that [...]

 
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Anticipating Justified

My daughter and I are salivating over the previews of the new FX drama, Justified starring Timothy Olyphant. The show, from the trailers, appears to have all the elements we like: an alpha male hero, a setting that could easily be Texas, dramatic story lines, and lots of action. Oh, did I mention he carries [...]

 
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Olympic Opt Out

on Mar 1, 2010 in Pop Culture, This Writer's Life

I’ll be honest. I didn’t watch the Olympics.
No, wait. That’s not precisely true. I wanted to see some of the ice dancing and figure skating so I sat up one night and caught about a half hour of that. Loved the duo that ice danced to Phantom of the Opera music, and Joannie Rochette, who’d [...]

 
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Translation Award

March is just around the corner. Let’s kick it off with a contest that may be of great interest to those with bilingual skills who published a translation of literature from any language into English in 2009. The American Literary Translators Association sponsors the $2,500 National Translation Award. This is open to book-length works [...]

 
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Personality & Good Works

Private number plates in the UK are so popular that auctions are held each year where excited bidders can find the combo of numbers they want. In the past year, an auction for the coveted 1000 number plate saw the winning bidder pay 80,000 pounds for that number plate.
Private number plates or personalized plates, as [...]

 
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Perennially Fresh Children’s Books

Breaking into the children’s book market is really hard. That’s a truth writers confront when they start pursuing publication in that genre. Why? I guess because a good book for children never gets old or goes out of print. I read Poky Little Puppy when I was a child. I read it to my daughter [...]

 
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Slang: What’s In A Word

on Feb 23, 2010 in Pop Culture, Writing Biz

I read an interesting article about slang usage. I often include current slang words and/or phrases in my freelance writing because they give a certain immediacy and conversational tone that make the content accessible to a wide audience. Not only do kids and those who strive to be ultra cool talk in the latest slang [...]

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