“I always listen to music when I write. My gears turn slowly enough as it is, the thought of spending two hours staring at a blank screen, in silence, is too painful to consider.”
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“What does a mystery sound like? I think it sounds like things you want to understand, but don’t. These songs are what a mystery sounds like to me.”
“There is love and frustration and secrets and so much unspoken that they are happy never to speak.”
“A secret festers. Blood is poisoned. Tragedy ripples out. Characters are haunted by bad decisions and worse mistakes. Music hangs in the background of the book in a significant way.”
“Although music features several times in The Edge of Water, the songs on this playlist are the ones that linger in the background of my years-long journey to completing the novel.”
“Each choice is a song that feels foundational to my teenage self.”
“Truth be told, if you follow the music in my atmospheric thriller, The Department, you unravel the twist.”
“My newest book, Save Me, Stranger, is a collection of twelve short stories set all around the globe, each story revolving around themes of rescue.”
“Text can sometimes lock things into time and music has the ability to extend beyond the page, continue forward in time while reaching back simultaneously.”
“I compiled the playlist below during the 8 years of writing Old Soul, adding a new track every time I stumbled across something that fit with the themes, mood, atmosphere, characters or a certain scene of the book.”