Scoring Bertram Wiggly

“Man Martin is one of my gods. Right up there with Hermes and Poseidon,” James Iredell, Prose Poems a Novel“Man Martin is no longer just a talent to watch. He’s an author to celebrate. Loudly and now,” Michael Griffith, Bibliophilia“On the whole, very neat work, with hardly any misspellings,” Eugenia Terwilliger, Medville Librarian and Organist at First Presbyterian When Bertram Wiggly leaves his job as an appliance actuary – calculating the life expectancy of major appliances so their warranties expire precisely one day before they implode – he thinks he’s found the perfect place to retire in Medville, with its town square, circled by brick-cobbled streets and quaint shops with bright red and white awnings. But then… the town rezones itself for musicals.At any moment an invisible orchestra is apt to strike up a melody and the otherwise sane townsfolk of Medville burst into song. And not just song, either. Dance.Against his will, Bertram finds himself in the midst of a musical comedy in which he has been cast as the comic curmudgeon.Can Bertram defy Sam, the mysterious orchestra leader, and thwart the destiny laid out for him?