Comments on: Literary playlists

By: Kevin A. Lewis

Kevin A. Lewis — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 19:54:00 +0000

Sorry, D.C., Prince Rupert’s right where I left him at the end of Volume 1, sitting in a dark, creepy 12th Century monastery writing his story down by way of absolution for his many sins; editors and agents these days are concerned that if his story ever got out, it might cause mass panic in the Conventional Wisdom Department…Not to worry though, the serious historical YA thriller I’m throwing around now will break windows in downtown Tokyo-good luck on your latest……..

By: D.C. DaCosta

D.C. DaCosta — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 22:49:42 +0000

With or without a playlist, Kevin, that sounds like a story I’d really like to read: original concept!

By: Kevin A. Lewis

Kevin A. Lewis — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:48:30 +0000

The only soundtrack I ever seriously assembled was for an Intermediate mockumentary I shopped around a while back about the original Prince Charming which featured his own 12th century memoir. The soundtrack was actually recorded in the middle ages through a highlt-secret alchemical process, and I won’t bore you with a playlist except to say it’s amazing how much some medieval minstrels sounded like Simon & Garfunkel and Led Zeppelin.. The project went south because dashing princes are an Endangered Species these days, and the agency that was looking it over couldn’t wrap their minds around the fact that the historical Sleeping Beauty had an unfortunate allergy to garlic and sunlight. I’ll send along a sample chapter to a historic YA thriller that has a lot more throw-weight soon, although there’s no soundtrack to this this one…

By: Kerry Gans

Kerry Gans — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:30:12 +0000

Just thought I would mention that Michael Nesmith, in his post-Monkees solo career, released THE PRISON in 1975 – and billed it as a book with a soundtrack. His idea was that your would read the book with the record playing to enhance the mood. He followed it up with a sequel, THE GARDEN, in 1994. So he was ahead of the times with his idea of a literary playlist!

By: D.C. DaCosta

D.C. DaCosta — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 01:10:10 +0000

Interesting thoughts.
I had thought of music in connection with my first novel…but only because (if and) when it’s made into a motion picture, I’ll be able to dictate what is to be used as the soundtrack!

By: Kristi Belcamino

Kristi Belcamino — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 11:02:48 +0000

I always have a play list for my books. And usually mention the songs in the novel itself.
For my new novel, I’ve been using Tumblr as my “storyboard” and posting pictures and songs from the novel there. So much fun.
Love this post.

By: Joelle

Joelle — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 00:34:26 +0000

I have literal play lists for two of my books. My main character is a fiddler in Restoring Harmony and my husband (guitar/vocals) and a young teen fiddler recorded some of the songs & tunes from the book and they’re on my website. Also, the fiddler, Sarah Tradewell, wrote an original tune to go with the book, which is on there.

For my third book, Tiny Tattoo, my main character is singer and her father is a singer/songwriter/rockstar. My husband is a singer/songwriter and he let me use some of his songs in my book (used the title of one of his songs for the book, too). Some of them are already recorded and when the book comes out, he will record others with a female singer we know and make those available on iTunes (can’t give those away since they’re his songs and he needs to be paid for his work, the ones in the first book were traditional public domain songs).

I also made a list of other jazz songs to go with Tiny Tattoo to listen to before I started writing each morning.

As for your actual question, the only time I ever really thought about making a list of songs is when reading the Besty Tacy books. They have so much music in them, it would be cool to have a playlist of all those old songs.