"Reed's charming new novel stars a neurotic singer with mother issues who has been avoiding auditions and attending frustrating therapy sessions instead. When Cecilia meets a homeless boy on the streets, however, her life takes a risky new direction . . . A well-written, endearing book that surprises ."

--from Kirkus Reviews

To read Warming Up is to enter a story that keeps you eager to know what ever-compelling twist is just beyond the next page. Ms. Hutchings Reed tells a warm, wise, well-wrought tale with characters you care about accompanied by virtual music.

--Lucia Blinn, author of We Called It "The Country"

Only an ingenious writer gifted with imagination, heart, and courage could bring these people together with the result that the reader cannot turn pages fast enough to be rewarded with basic truth caring for someone else and accepting yourself, even when your own life is forcing harsh truths on you, can still break the bonds of fear and allow love to thrive.

--Enid Powell, author of To Tell You The Truth and Other Fictions