You can give us a small boost by buying a copy of our book, The Silver Trumpet.

It's really very cheap for such a nice a book. The price is $4.95 at Amazon. That's cheaper than a pack of cigarettes. What's more, some books of comparable quality sell for nearly five times what you'll pay for The Silver Trumpet.

Read the rave reviews here, then buy it at Amazon.

Sharon Sloan Fiffer, editor of Home, Family, and Body

The Silver Trumpet is a marvelous piece of fun. M.F. Downs and Zara Steinman should definitely play on.

James McManus, author of Going to the Sun and Great America

In The Silver Trumpet, Martin Downs and Zara Steinman have improvised a shrewd, jazz-inflected fable that combines the plainspoken clarity and force of children's books with something resembling Donald Barthleme's sad, morphing humor. Steinman's crisp, mordant images--hieroglyphic turtles, propeller-powered wasps, a skyline straight out of Calvino--luminescently enhance Downs' weird yet inspiring tale.

Michael Anania, noted poet

The Silver Trumpet is a contemporary fable, full of magic and its own eerie clarity. It proposes in love, friendship and creative energy an imaginary alternative to the limitations of modern life, not an escape, by a parallel world in which song and image matter with absolute urgency. Downs' text has the deft capriciousness of Kenneth Koch's narrative poems and some of the lightness of The Red Robbins.