And you are very welcome, Jeri. It was such a pleasure having you. I hope we can persuade you to come back again some time .

Wendy!

Congratulations! Just e-mail your mailing address to jeri@jerismithready.com, and I’ll get it right out to you.

Thanks to everyone who commented for making me feel welcome, and thanks again to Michelle for the invitation. I really enjoyed hearing everyone’s thoughts!

Chris – Yes, sometimes there’s no substitute for silence.

Tez – Thanks for the rec–my husband loves electronica, and it does get the brain going, doesn’t it?

Hope everyone’s having a good week. I’ll do the drawing Friday night and post the winner here in the comments. Good luck!

Have a lovely day!

Great blog, by the way. Sorry I’m late in jumping in but its been a rough weekend.

I’m so glad Wicked Game will have its playlist inside! I’ve always liked when authors do that.

Michelle – I’m not usually one for multiple viewings either, but Run Lola Run is one I can see again and again, too. Your South African novel sounds really cool. We need more novels with settings other than New York City and Scotland. Seriously.

Moondancer – Good luck with your author spotlights. I’ve gotten specific ideas from songs, too. I wrote a screenplay (hopefully will become a novel one day, too) originally inspired by Kate Bush’s “The Sensual World,” and one day I’d love to write a story based on Tori Amos’s “Cornflake Girl.”

Edie – What’s WF? (I know I’m going to figure it out as soon as I post this comment.) Does that Creativity CD do something with alpha waves (or is it theta waves?) in your brain? I have a white noise machine with a setting for that but I haven’t tried it yet.

Marcia – I love Loreena McKennitt! She’s one of the best people to write fantasy to. I’ll check out the Gladiator soundtrack–sounds perfect for my WIP.

Erica – ooh, you have great taste. I’ll definitely check out Rob Dougan. Thanks for the rec.

LaDonna – Glad you brought up specific trigger songs. I have one for The Reawakened, too, aside from the soundtrack. It’s “Don’t Drink the Water” by the Dave Matthews Band. It’s about apartheid in S. Africa and the genocide of Native Americans. It really gets my dander up against the bad guys in the book.

Wendy – OK, I posted the REQUIEM soundtrack here. I haven’t made a link to it yet on the site, because I’m a little sheepish as to how incredibly 90s it is. But hey, the book takes place in 1997-98, so…

And WICKED GAME will have a playlist in the front of the book of all the songs mentioned in the text. One of the big bookstore chain buyers, of all people, suggested it. I haven’t made it up yet, but I fear it will be 90s-heavy, too, since that’s the era the hero is from.

Heather – That’s 2 recs for Gladiator. I’m definitely putting it on my Wish List. Thanks!

Cynthia – glad you liked the excerpt! I love the Buffy soundtrack, too, although I find it kind of sad when heard in its entirety. Spike’s song is so dreamy. My favorite is Xander and Anya’s song.

Celeste – ooh, Firefly/Serenity sounds great! Thanks!

Stephanie – Isn’t LotR the best? No matter how many times I played it, I always stopped whatever I was doing to listen to Billy Boyd’s vocals in “The Steward of Gondor.” That was one of the most powerful movie scenes of all time. (And he’s my LotR crush–y’all can have the elf and the shaggy human, just give me a Scottish-accented Hobbit who can sing and make me laugh.)

Pearl – I like the soothing ones, too, but only if I’m sufficiently caffeinated. “Mists of Avalon” is gorgeous but tends to make me nod off. Thanks for the recs!

Maria – That’s really interesting–I’m the opposite. I can’t have any music playing when I’m revising, because I’m reading the text out loud in my head. Great to see you hear!

Catie – good point. If I hear a song on the radio I might think, “Wow, that fits [name] to a T!” Then I scramble to write it down without crashing the car.

Good luck to everyone on the drawing!