# Elena Vasquez Author Bio & Media Kit

## SHORT BIO (50 words)
Elena Vasquez crafts stories where music defies silence. In *The Forgotten Melody*, a pianist in WWII Europe smuggles secrets through symphonies. A former concert violinist turned novelist, she now lives in Brooklyn, where she's decoding old scores for her next tale of hidden harmonies. (48 words)

## MEDIUM BIO (150 words)
Elena Vasquez's fingers once danced across violin strings in sold-out halls; now they weave prose that resonates like a crescendo. Her debut, *The Forgotten Melody*, follows a pianist in WWII-occupied Europe who embeds coded messages in her performances to aid the resistance—blending her classical training with meticulous historical research.  
After a decade performing worldwide, Elena traded spotlights for solitude to chase narratives that linger. A Brooklyn resident who collects vintage sheet music, she draws from her Venezuelan roots and immigrant family's tales of resilience. Her work explores how sound carries the unspeakable.  
Currently, she's at work on a novel about jazz in 1920s Harlem, unraveling rhythms of forbidden love. (142 words)

## LONG BIO (300 words)
Elena's love for stories began in Caracas, where her abuela's lullabies filled evenings thick with arepa steam, and her own violin lessons taught her the pull of a single, sustained note. By 18, she was touring Europe as a prodigy violinist, sharing stages with orchestras from Vienna to Valencia. But a wrist injury at 28 silenced her bow, redirecting her to the page.  
Self-taught as a writer, Elena pored over Marguerite Duras and Gabriel García Márquez, obsessing over how rhythm—musical or narrative—could encode truth amid chaos. This fusion birthed *The Forgotten Melody*, her debut historical novel where a young pianist in Nazi-occupied Paris risks everything by improvising resistance codes into Beethoven sonatas. Drawing from declassified archives and her own sheet-music hunts in Brooklyn flea markets, the book captures the shiver of a forbidden chord.  
No stranger to reinvention, Elena teaches violin to neighborhood kids, fostering the same quiet rebellion she writes about. Her thematic north: art as defiance, whether smuggling messages via melody or words on a page. Influences like Pat Barker and Colson Whitehead shape her eye for ordinary lives in extraordinary pressure.  
Today, from her Brooklyn walk-up overlooking the East River, Elena balances revisions with rooftop jam sessions. Her next project, a tale of a Black female composer in 1920s Harlem navigating patronage and passion, promises to riff on identity's improvisations. With *The Forgotten Melody* now charting new charts, she's proof that silence breeds symphonies. (278 words)

## FIRST-PERSON "ABOUT ME" (100 words)
I write because notes and words both hide secrets in plain sight—I learned that sawing away on my violin before my hands gave out. *The Forgotten Melody* lets a WWII pianist smuggle intel through her music, straight from the archives I geeked out over. Now in Brooklyn, amid stacks of yellowed scores, I'm chasing the next story: jazz, love, and Harlem's hidden beats. Grab a coffee with me (black, no sugar), and I'll play you a phrase that sticks. What's your unsung tune? (92 words)

## SOCIAL HANDLE BIOS
- **Twitter/X (160 chars)**: Violinist-turned-novelist spinning WWII secrets into symphonies. *The Forgotten Melody*: a pianist codes resistance in Beethoven. Brooklyn scribbler | Next: Harlem jazz intrigue. 🎻📖 #HistoricalFiction (138 chars)
- **Instagram (150 chars)**:  
Violin bows down, pen up.  
*The Forgotten Melody*—WWII pianist smuggles via sonatas. 🪶🎹  
Brooklyn, vintage scores, resistance vibes.  
Writing Harlem's hidden rhythms next. DM for chords.  
#Bookstagram #HistFic (142 chars)
- **LinkedIn (220 chars)**: Elena Vasquez, novelist & former concert violinist. Author of *The Forgotten Melody*, historical fiction where a Paris pianist embeds resistance codes in wartime performances—rooted in archival research. Ex-touring musician; now Brooklyn-based storyteller exploring art's defiant power. Open to speaking on music, history, writing. Next book: 1920s Harlem jazz. (214 chars)

## AUTHOR PHOTO CAPTION
Elena Vasquez in her Brooklyn studio, surrounded by sheet music that inspired *The Forgotten Melody*.

## MEDIA CONTACT BLOCK
Elena Vasquez  
elena@elenavasquez.com  
(555) 123-4567  
www.elenavasquez.com  
Twitter: @ElenaVWrites | Instagram: @ElenaVMelody | LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/elenavasquez