Dear Friends,

It's hard to believe it's been exactly a month since I last wrote, and in that short amount of time I’ve been presented with some rather overwhelming opportunities, for which I'm deeply grateful.

My latest album, Flowers in Winter, is now available via CD Baby.com, iTunes, and several other major paying download sites, such as Verizon, Napster, and Muze. As the album continues to be made available via digital distribution, physical sales of the limited edition CD are also doing well. Very soon I will have recouped enough to repay the backers approximately 70% of the recording and production costs. Although I have no way of knowing how many countries for sure, I can tell you that my CDs are currently being played in: England, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, India, Japan, Australia, Mexico, Canada, and the US. Heartfelt thanks go to all of you who continue to support my music, and to all of my new friends and fans as well!

Perhaps the most exciting thing to happen since my last newsletter, is that shortly after the release of Flowers in Winter I was asked by the London-based charity SoundAid (www.soundaid.org) to donate an extended play CD (EP) to raise money for Heifer International. Heifer Intl is an amazing organisation that not only helps people to help themselves, but gives them the means to help others as well. I chose to donate six tracks, and the resulting album Heartsounds may be seen here: www.soundaid.org/janeellen/. Needless to say, I am extremely proud to have become involved with SoundAid and to have my music help to make a difference in solving the problem of world hunger. I look forward to contributing a second EP in the future.

Several radio and internet radio stations have asked me to submit Flowers in Winter, along with my other two albums, for airplay evaluation. As of this writing, I have been accepted by Mystic Age Radio in Fort Pierce, FL (an internet station which you can find at www.mysticageradio.info) and will be the artist on their official 2008 calendar for the month of July (which you can see here: www.cafepress.com/tdnt.181584553, if you click on "view calendar pages" you can actually see the July page with my picture!).

Once again, I'd like to invite you to visit me at both My Space (www.myspace.com/janeellenmusic) and Classical Lounge (www.classicallounge.com/janeellen). Both places have proven invaluable to me for networking, and not only have I met composers and musicians from all over the world in the virtual neighbourhood of cyberspace, I have exchanged music with several. I have been able to pick the brains of others who have been kind enough to take the time and trouble to share networking techniques and tips with me, and I've also met some lovely music fans who are wonderfully receptive to and encouraging of my work.

For those of you interested in word games, I'd like to invite you to the wonderful new online game sponsored by the United Nations called Free Rice: www.freerice.com. It's a vocabulary game where you match a word with its definition, and for each word you get correct, 10 grains of rice are donated. I'll warn you though, it can become wonderfully addictive, and you'll easily find yourself donating 1,000 or more grains of rice a day!

I hope to have more exciting news to report in December. Until then, as we enter this most festive season with numerous holidays being celebrated worldwide from now until the end of the year, I wish all of you health, happiness, and joy.

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See you in December!

Follow your heart,
Jane Ellen