Tag: music
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Yours Truly rocks the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers podcast
True story: at the RMFW conference this year, I bumped into my good friend Mark Stevens, an award-winning author and host of the Rocky Mountain Writer podcast. Somehow, we got to talking about weird musical instruments. I’ve just started playing one of the weirdest of all, the theremin. It’s the original electronic instrument, one that…
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4 Amazing Skills I Wish I Had in Real Life
One of the little-known perks of being a writer is that I get to pretend that I know all kinds of cool stuff. Every character I create is an expert in something. They can hack into top-secret computer networks, field strip an AK-47 blindfolded, make a peanut butter sandwich without dripping any. These people have…
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What Music Do Writers Listen to?
While I was writing No Sleep till Doomsday (Dru Jasper series, book 3), much to my surprise, I found myself listening to a certain Ukrainian pop music album over and over. Here’s why. My book features an evil crystal sorceress named Lucretia, and there are subtle references throughout the book to the song “Lucretia, My Reflection”…
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How to Create the Perfect Writing Soundtrack
Before I became a full-time writer, I thought music was too distracting to play while I was writing. I thought I needed absolute silence. Then I got a job as a staff writer, and suddenly I couldn’t hear myself think. Stuck in the middle of a bustling open-plan office, I quickly discovered that if I…
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The official soundtrack of IT HAPPENED ONE DOOMSDAY
Here’s a selection of female vocalist covers and remixes of some of my favorite 80s and 90s songs. I listened to these tracks over and over while I was writing It Happened One Doomsday. A few notes: • Kelly Sweet – In The Air Tonight: a song for Rane’s anger. • Creep (Radiohead Cover): a…
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Frightfully cool music: Midnight Syndicate interview (Part 2)
In case you missed it last week, I got to talk with Edward Douglas and Gavin Goszka of the soundtrack band Midnight Syndicate. These guys make what is possibly the scariest, most evocative music in the world. (Want a sample? Click here.) And now, appropriately enough, they have their own movie! SciFiBookshelf: So I’ve been…
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Midnight Syndicate: Halloween ambiance on demand
The two gentlemen comprising Midnight Syndicate make what is possibly the scariest, most evocative music in the world. I know this firsthand, ever since the night I was driving down a particularly lonely stretch of fog-shrouded highway and popped their 1998 album Born of the Night into the CD player. Besides a world-class case of…
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