title: The Motorgirl Memoirs: Adventures in Mania and Semi-Normality
author:  Leah-Carla Gordone 
description: Pop-Folk-Soul Singer/Songwriter/12-String Guitarist and Visual Artist Leah-Carla Gordone has received critical acclaim throughout the years for her unique voice and inspiringly beautiful songs displayed on her three, self-produced CDs "Butterfly Child," "Dancing On The Dragon," and "Phoenix From The Ashes: Rise" (cdbaby.com). A Native New Yorker from the heart of Manhattan, Leah-Carla began teaching herself 12-string guitar in 1990 in Woodstock, NY. Gordone has opened for Norah Jones, The Indigo Girls, and Amandla. She has graced such legendary stages as The Gig, The Viper Room, Genghis Cohen, and El Cid (Hollywood, CA), CBGB, The Bitter End, and The Mercury Lounge (NYC), Tinker Street Caf and Joyous Lake (Woodstock, NY). She performed at BORDERS (Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Connecticut, Columbus, and New York City), as well as on televisions FOX 28 Wake Up (Indiana) and CBS Channel 2 - The Desert's News Station (Palm Springs, CA). Leah-Carlas music has been heard on radio stations around the world, including Musashino (Japan), Wave Underground (Bucharest Romania), and Studio 88's RADIO DRAWING (Bosnia). Currently her music is playing on Womens Radio, Woman of Substance, Blog Talk Radio, Sound Machine Radio, GoGirls Music, and KXBG Birth of Radio. Her single The Road charted on commercial radio. Leah-Carla is also a trained actress who attended The High School of Performing Arts ("FAME"), and is the daughter of Pulitzer Prize-winning Playwright Charles Gordone. Listen at http://www.myspace.com/dancingonthedragon GORDONE IS A POWERFUL, AUTHENTIC SINGERA THROWBACK TO THE BEST TRADITIONS OF THE 60S. SIMULTANEOUSLY, SHE LEADS THE CUTTING EDGE OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM, FOR THOSE WHO APPRECIATE MUSIC AS SUBSTANCE, RATHER THAN STYLE, AND HOPE FOR IT TO 'LIGHT THE WAY." - PETER YARROW (PETER, PAUL and MARY) GORDONE IS A ROSE CREEPING THROUGH FISSURES IN GRAFFITI-STAINED CONCRETEA QUALITY TO HER SINGING SHARED BY THE GREATEST FEMALE SINGERSEDITH PIAF, JONI MITCHELL AND BILLIE HOLIDAY. - THE WOODSTOCK TIMES "Take a deep breath. Light a candle. Listen...Lyrically, Gordone is hauntingly beautiful and tellingly effective. Vocally, she emerges as an ethereal cross between Alanis Morissette and Rickie Lee Jones, but with a uniqueness that separates her from the two." - Michael Canter, Founder jivewired.com
zlib_text: **Command Decision:**
  
   **Project Gliese 581g**
  
   **Book 1**
  
  ![](Images/image00141.jpeg)
  
  **By S.E. Smith**
  
  **Acknowledgments**
  
  I would like to thank my husband Steve for believing in me and being proud
  enough of me to give me the courage to follow my dream. I would also like to
  give a special thank you to my sister and best friend, Linda, who not only
  encouraged me to write, but who also read the manuscript. Also to my other
  friends who believe in me: Julie, Debbie, Sally, Jolanda, and Narelle. The
  girls that keep me going!
  
  —S.E. Smith
  
  Montana Publishing
  
  Science Fiction
  
  Command Decision: Gliese 581g Book 1
  
  Copyright © 2016 by Susan E. Smith
  
  First E-Book Published April 2016
  
  Cover Design by Melody Simmons
  
  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED: This literary work may not be reproduced or transmitted
  in any form or by any means, including electronic or photographic
  reproduction, in whole or in part, without express written permission from the
  author.
  
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