Approval Preferences

PLAYING THE CHANGES is high-intellect Literary Fiction featuring themes of grief, neuroscience, and jazz. Because it is highly stylistic, please ONLY request if you have an active history of reading and reviewing contemporary Literary Fiction. Please do not request if you primarily read commercial thrillers, cozy mysteries, or romance. Thank you! Here is the logline, to give you a sense of my "jazz-infused love story": "After the death of his young daughter shatters his marriage, his career and his psyche, a hyper-rational neurosurgeon is forced to relearn how to breathe, feel and love by returning to the jazz saxophone he abandoned decades earlier – forming an unlikely bond with a gruff, world-weary mentor as he struggles to unlock his emotions and win back his estranged wife before she’s gone for good."

Publisher Profile

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George Collins is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, singer/songwriter and guitarist. He was born in Washington D.C. and educated at The University of Virginia, where he earned degrees in English Literature, Music, Business and Law. The screenplay version of PLAYING THE CHANGES has won several prestigious international script competitions and is attracting the attention of Hollywood producers. A longtime musician and former bandmate of future Dave Matthews Band members Carter Beauford and the late LeRoi Moore, Collins writes, records and releases his music as George Collins Band and connects with an ever-growing global fanbase. He was previously a founding partner of one of the largest private equity investment funds in Central & Eastern Europe. He has lived internationally for much of his life, including several years in Tehran and London, and travels extensively around the world. Married with two daughters, he now divides his time between Prague, Czech Republic and Key West, Florida. Learn more at https://georgecollins.com.

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