To promote his debut title, The League of Dangerous Young Ladies, to be published by Sourcebooks' Stonefruit Studio on June 2, J.A. Morgenstein, long a competitive ballroom dancer and instructor and now an author, too, has figured out a way to make his two artforms work together. At the suggestion of Jennifer Kandarian, manager of Books on the Square, Providence, R.I., when visiting bookstores, Morgenstein will find a volunteer from the staff and teach them to dance--around the store--for five minutes. The video of the lesson is called Dancing with the Stores, and aims to promote the stores and convey the message that anyone can learn to dance. One of the first episodes of Dancing with the Stars features Cristina Iannarino of Books on the Square.
Incidentally the YA fantasy adventure The League of Dangerous Young Ladies stars the daughters of some of the most famous villains of Victorian literature, such as Rose Moriarty, daughter of Sherlock Holmes's nemesis, Professor James Moriarty.