“This is a breathtakingly beautiful book. The ones you keep, the ones you remember are the ones that represent beauty.”
- Eric Kampmann,
President Midpoint Trade Books
“A lot of big publishers wouldn’t have looked at a manuscript of “quirky, honest prose” submitted in CAPITALS from an octogenarian dancer in Death Valley. Stephen’s Press LLC published To Dance On Sands, the story of Marta Becket, from model, painter, dancer in NYC to the epoch of her creativity, The Amargosa Opera House. Her story is an affirmation of the creative process at any age, for as long as we are willing to keep plugging away.”
- Easy Writer
To Dance on Sands reveals the inner life of a creative child for whom art always mattered more than anything else.
- Robin Flinchum,
Pahrump Valley Times
“There is indisputably a whiff of eccentricity about Ms. Becket’s enterprise. And if one might expect the woman herself – dark haired, trim, with the visible sinews of a dancer – to carry an eccentric air, she doesn’t, though there is a faint haughtiness of the artiste about her. Ms. Becket is self-aware, perfectly willing to admit that her shows and her painting have been her obsessions. In explanation of what amounts to her self-imposed exile, she said, ‘I couldn’t have created another world anyplace else’.”
- New York Times