title: Coping With the Limelight: A Manual on Stage Fright
author:  Marianne Bahmann 
description: A performer with long experience on stage as a singer and accompanist, Marianne Bahmann struggled with stage fright for many years. Her extensive research into its causes and remedies has been brought together in this inclusive and personal manual. The author holds a Master of Music degree in voice performance from Drake University and was a Fulbright scholar at the Staatliche Hochschule fuer Musik in Stuttgart, Germany. Throughout her career as a soloist, concert accompanist, and voice coach, she has worked with others facing the spotlight to understand and minimize the physical symptoms that plague one's best efforts.
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                Copyright 2016. J.L. Leslie. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without
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                This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either a product of the author’s imagination or are
  used fictitiously.
  
  Thirty Days (Morgan Family Series: Book One)
   
  Chapter 1
   
  
  Memphis
   
  I remember the first time I took my clothes off on stage. I was nineteen. The bar in
  Birmingham was full of men yelling and screaming at me to ‘take it off.’ My hands shook so badly I
  barely got the clasp on the skimpy top I was wearing unhooked. I don’t even know how I kept my hips
  gyrating.
  I just kept my focus on the money that was being tossed on the stage. I tried to remember the
  words Ginger told me, but they weren’t coming to my mind.
  Something about not showing