I love to read and write with music playing. The playlist for writing Fireside is a thing of beauty, I gotta say. You can see it, listen to samples or get it for iTunes here.
If you’ve read the book, you know Bo is in a garage band with Noah Shepherd, Eddie Haven and Ray Tolley. I picture them a little like this:
It’s a cover by Bowling for Soup of an old classic, “I Melt With You” by Modern English, which I used to listen to endlessly when I was but a young whippersnapper. The Texas guitar in the video is great, and the bass line (In my book, Bo is the bass player) is nice and simple.
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March 29, 2009 at 8:21 am
“Walk away.” « The View From Here
[…] books, music, reading to music, ska, videos, writing to music As you know, I always create a playlist for the book I’m working on. Sometimes, a character gets his own theme song. If you read the end of Chapter 2 in Fireside, you […]
February 17, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Carol
That was a nice little tease – the cover of your new book which we await with anticipation. Out in the fall, late fall? or just in time for Christmas!
Cheers to you.