A few years back (oh, 2009 or so) I started making novel playlists. These are songs that, somehow, evoke a character, a scene, or the overall story for me. A lot of times it’s related to lyrics, and I find that different stories tend to work better with different genres of music. For example, for my high fantasy stuff I listen to a lot of symphonic metal. With my urban stuff, I find a lot more dance music sneaks in.
Shards is a urban fantasy novel being released December 1st from Turtleduck Press. I made a YouTube playlist just for you guys, so you can listen to the whole thing, or you can pick and choose which songs you’d like to listen to.
Shards Playlist (whole thing)
- Good Girl (Carrie Underwood)
- Mi Amore (Velvet)
- DJ Got Us Fallin’ in Love (Usher)
- Chemistry (Velvet)
- You Give Love a Bad Name (Bon Jovi)
- Like a Prayer (Madonna)
- Take Me Away (Globus)
- Fix Me (Velvet)
- In This Light (Queensryche)
- If I Lose Myself (OneRepublic/Alesso)
- Fight For You (Jason Derulo)
- Higher Love (Steve Winwood)
I’m curious, do you feel like you get an impression of the story just by listening to the music, and if so, what is it? I’d love to know if your mind works the same way as mine or not.
