Swing Sisters — Jeane Westin

Originally titled "Swing Sisters" and published by Scribners

As one New York reviewer saidl: "You can hear the music on every page."

It's 1937, the Great Depression, but also the beginning of the Swing Era of Big Bands...and women wanted to play the music: singers, drummers, pianists, trumpet players were forming all-girl bands to hit the ballroom circuit just like Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey.

Ex-burlesquer Rita Ramone forms the Swing Sisters and the group moves from smoky hotel ballrooms to the cavernous sound stages of Hollywood. This is their story: Sara on piano, recovering from a painful divorce, former Vaudeville headliner Roz, on drums, hiding a secret desire, Tonia, playing a New Orleans trumpet, who can never share her forbidden love, and beautiful singer Lovey Anderson, aching for her lost child and torn between her dangerous passions for two men.

Three years in the writing. Originally published by Scribners and rights optioned for a movie and Broadway musical.