Paul V. Patanella, a songwriter and musical-theater composer based in Rochester, N.Y., has agreed to write music for several fictional songs which are referenced—complete with lyrics—in Sara Holliday’s debut novel, A Thousand Dances: A Novel of the British Blues Boom, coming from Coral Press in September 2018. Patanella is best know for the Off-Broadway musical revue Baseball, Sex and Other Facts of Life (1995).
