I'm all about music these days. Book Two is about a middle-aged Girl Band. Some friends and I have formed a RGB (Real Girl Band) called Marmalade Superlove; we've even performed at one open mic already. I just started guitar lessons. I'm writing my first song.

Music has always been part of writing for me. I listen to music while I write. I spend hours creating playlists to accompany the moods I want for various scenes. My first novel's title, And She Was, is the namesake of a Talking Heads song.

In this second novel, I'm taking it a step further -- creating a novel soundtrack. I don't know how much of it will actually end up in the book as music rights are notoriously hard to get, but I'll do what I can. And I can certainly share my soundtrack here.

But first...

 

Marmalade Superlove's songs (we don't have recordings yet so these are by real rock stars).

 

I Wanna Smell Like a Bad Girl -- original song by bassist Kleveland

 

 

Jose Cuervo by Shelly West

Play that Funky Music White Boy by Average White Band

I need a Man by Eurythmics

Me and Bobby McGee by Janis Joplin

 

Novel Soundtrack in progress

 

Play songs

 

 

 

More to come...

 

Songs for writing sex scenes

From tender to icky, sex scenes carry a lot of weight in a novel. This playlist has a little something for every sort of sex scene I've been working on.