It’s not my first foray into publishing, but definitely my first MAJOR adventure, and after the hills and valleys of edits on my debut novel, the release is finally (hopefully) approaching! Here’s a good sign: my page is up on the publisher’s website!
http://www.melange-books.com/authors/torilridgewood/windandshadow.html
I’m exhausted but thrilled!
One of the things I love about new books (or old!) is the playlists that authors provide to accompany the characters, settings, events, or even what inspired them. And of course, I do have one that I developed a few years ago when I was coming to the end of the first draft of Wind and Shadow, for all of the above reasons.
Now, the book takes place over six days at the end of October and beginning of November, so I’ve included the dates as reference, as well as the chapter numbers. I’m excited for the release (currently slated for May 30th) to see what you think of the associations I’ve made between the songs and the sections of the story!
Shadows: The Talbot Trilogy Playlist 1
Prologue:
Rolling Stones, “Time Is On My Side”
October 28
Chapter 1:
Linkin Park, “A Place For My Head”
Natalie Imbruglia, “Torn”
Simple Minds, “Don’t You Forget About Me”
Greg Joy, “A Maid in Bedlam”
Blue Rodeo, “Lost Together”
Leona Lewis, “Bleeding Love”
Chapter 2:
Alicia Keys, “Girl On Fire”
Journey, “Separate Ways”
Journey, “Open Arms”
Green Day, “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”
Chapter 3:
Third Eye Blind, “Jumper”
Sarah McLachlan, “Good Enough”
Barenaked Ladies, “If I Had $1000000″
Chapter 4:
Patrick Watson, “Slip Into Your Skin”
The Editors, “Weight of the World”
Linkin Park, “Papercut”
October 29
Chapter 5:
*dream
Lenka, “Trouble is a Friend”
Bon Jovi, “It’s My Life”
Band of Horses, “No One’s Gonna Love You”
Sam Sparrow, “Black and Gold”
Chapter 6:
Three Days Grace, “Never Too Late”
Linkin Park, “By Myself”
Tokio Hotel & Kerli, “Strange”
Loreena McKennitt, “The Mummers’ Dance”
Seether, “Broken”
Daughtry, “It’s Not Over”
Chapter 7:
Delhi to Dublin, “Apples”
Band of Horses, “The General Specific” or Toby Keith, “Red Solo Cup”
Tonic, “If You Could Only See”
Cage the Elephant, “Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked”
Daughtry, “Feels Like Tonight”
Stevie Nicks, “If You Ever Did Believe”
Chapter 8:
Chicago, “You’re the Inspiration”
The Editors, “No Sound But The Wind”
Finley Quaye, “Dice”
Radiohead, “Creep”
*attack
Nine Inch Nails, “Piggy” or Iron Maiden, “Lord of the Flies”
Florence & The Machine, “Heavy In Your Arms”
Chapter 9:
Big Scary, “Falling Away”
Lisahall, “Is This Real?”
The Cardigans, “Lovefool” or A-ha, “Take On Me”
Chapter 10:
Coldplay, “Fix You”
Guns N’Roses, “Welcome to the Jungle” or Blue Oyster Cult, “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper”
The Barr Brothers, “Old Mythologies”
Beck & Bat for Lashes, “Let’s Get Lost”
Eagles, “Hotel California”
Cavo, “Let It Go”
Muse, “Undisclosed Desires”
October 30
Chapter 11:
Bruno Mars, “Grenade”
Placebo, “Running Up That Hill”
Gordon Lightfoot, “If You Could Read My Mind”
Blue Oyster Cult, “Blown Wide Open”
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, “Done All Wrong”
Chapter 12:
The Flys, “Got You (Where I Want You)”
“Fur Elise”
The Rolling Stones, “Sympathy for the Devil” or Antsy Pants, “Vampires”
Imagine Dragons, “Radioactive”
Saidah Baba Talibah, “So Cool”
Said The Whale, “The Gift of a Black Heart”
Chapter 13:
The Police, “Every Breath You Take”
Sarah McLachlan, “Fear”
October 31
Chapter 14:
Sarah McLachlan, “Fear”, or Katy Perry, “Wide Awake”
Greg Joy, “Unquiet Grave”
Day One, “Bad Before Good”
Chapter 15:
Sarah McLachlan, “Into the Fire”
Lorena McKennitt, “Huron ‘Beltane’ Fire Dance” or Bonnie Tyler, “Holding Out for a Hero”
U2, “One”
The Tragically Hip, “New Orleans Is Sinking”
Linkin Park, “One Step Closer”
Chapter 16:
Taylor Swift, “Safe and Sound”
Plain White T’s, “Welcome to Mystery”
Ajnabee feat. Go-ray, “Earthrise Sound System”
Linkin Park, “New Divide”
November 1
Chapter 17:
Avril Lavigne, “Keep Holding On”
Sarah Harmer, “Coffee Stain” or Neverending White Lights & Jonathan Bates, “The Warning”
Dido, “Here With Me” or Theory of a Deadman, “Not Meant to Be”
November 2
Chapter 18:
Pink, “Fucking Perfect”
Third Eye Blind, “The Background”
Playlist for Book 2 TBD. Your comments are welcome!
Although the yard is still very soggy, it didn’t take as long as I’d feared to clear up all the doggy poopy from our long winter, and then I was able to do some gardening. I worry that it might still be a bit early, but after seeing the weeds gleefully taking hold in the garden patch, and the ferns starting out front, I decided to take a chance. I put in some bulbs and seeds, and then did some potted plants and seeds in eggshells.
Beltane will be upon us in a few days. Let’s hope that the rest of the snow will melt away by then!
Well, whatever I was expecting to read from my initial impression of the title, I was pleasantly surprised by Aftereffects. It’s a refreshing, deceptively layered, and exquisitely detailed look at a zombie apocalypse, from more than one perspective. It was like 28 Days Later and the Walking Dead meets CSI, NCIS, and Criminal Minds, with a dash of Alfred Hitchcock for added zest and skin-crawling irony. For someone like me with a morbid and twisted sense of humour, the creativity with which the author treated zombie attacks, the perspective of the zombies themselves, and the motivation and actions of the protagonist, a zombie psychiatrist, were absolutely compelling reading. I wish the story hadn’t ended when it did — I would have liked to have known who was behind the mysterious camera keeping tabs on things throughout. (I won’t add anymore, for fear of being spoiler-ish.)
I highly recommend Aftereffects for anyone who enjoys a bloody good zombie read. You’ll barely be able to put this one down, I guarantee it.
I’m delighted to have Mysti Parker tell you about her latest project:
Author Mysti Parker
On Sunday, April 28 from 5-9 PM EST, I want to show off this new beautiful cover, so please join me for a night of prizes, games, music, and merriment! Share this event AND bring a friend!
Schedule/Prize List:
Cover Reveal, Blurb, Trivia / Weekend Spotlight OR Interview
Song & Excerpt
What’s Your Hobbit Name? / Notebook & Mug
Song & Excerpt
Add Your Own Caption / 4 E-Copies of Serenya’s Song
Song & Excerpt
Share the Cover / Signed Print of Serenya’s Song
Song & Excerpt
LIKE & Share / $25 Amazon Gift Card
Join the Party HERE: https://www.facebook.com/events/558913810796302/
To learn more about Serenya’s Song and the Tallenmere Series, visit my Goodreads page: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4625596.Mysti_Parker
Update: The new cover is OUTSTANDING!
You know how your eyes can be be bigger than your stomach? I get like that with books. I have so many on my to-be-read list that I’ve been feeling overwhelmed, not sure where to start. And there’s a difference between my list of TBR on Goodreads, which includes books I don’t yet have in my possession, and the ones I have available to me now. So I’m going to list them alphabetically (by title), and by location, and make a start…
On my Kindle (app):
Aftereffects: Zombie Therapy (From the Case Files of Dr. Victor Frenzel, Zombie Psychiatrist), by Zane Bradey – Done!
And That’s Why I’m Single, by Josh Stern – in progress
The Aristotelian, by Steve Poling
As the Witch Turns (An All About Women Short Story), by Anne M. Carpenter
Audrey’s Guide for Witchcraft, by Jody Gehrsan
Beltane: Ten Tales of Witchcraft, edited by Rayne Hall
Caledonii: Birth of a Celtic Nation, by Ian Hall
Cinderella’s Secret Diary: Lost (Book 1), by Ron Vitale
Crow’s Hill: The Dark Seeds, by L. M. Fields
Curious Hearts, with James M. Cricket, Walt Trizna, T.D. Jones, Jane Carver, Ellen Margret, Nell Duvall, and Jenny Twist
Dead Rich, by T. H. Rahman
Eleven Town, by John-Paul Cleary
The Eleventh Universe, by Jim Fostino
Entanglement, by Dan Rix
Faeries Forever, by Ellen Margret
The Girl from Yesterday, by David L. Dawson
Globular Van der Graff’s Goblin Tales for Adults, by Jack Eason
Hellbound, by Su Halfwerk
Journey to Rome, by L.K. Killian
Labyrinthine, by Ruby
Life in Mental Chains: My terrifying journey with OCD, by Ruth J. Hartman
The Last Mailman: Neither Rain, Nor Sleet, Nor Zombies, by Kevin J. Burke
Level Zero, by Jaron Lee Knuth
Lonely Moon, by Andrew Saxsma
Mercy, by Jay R.
My Only One, by Gregory M. Thompson
The Noble Fool (Vol. 1 of The Hungering Saga), by Heath Pfaff
The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap, by Paulette Mahurin
Plague Nation, by Dana Fredsti
Rescued by a Duke, by Ruth J. Hartman
Risking Everything: Coming Out in Coffee Land, by Elizabeth Worley
The Seventh Age, by Jack Eason
Take One at Bedtime, by Jenny Twist
Taxicab Stands of Kirkland Lake, by Scott Hough
TransShifter, by Cindy Borgne
The Twelve Dancing Zombie-Killing Princesses, by Cate Masters
The Vampire Bible, by William Meikle
When Women Were Warriors (Book 1: The Warrior’s Path), by Catherine M. Wilson
Witches Bureau of Investigation, by Richard Capwell
Witch Eyes, by Scott Tracey
On my Kobo:*
Clockwise, by Elle Strauss
Llewellyn’s 2013 Magical Almanac: Practical Magic for Everyday Living
The Thirteenth Unicorn, by W. D. Newman
The Witching Pen (Book One of The Witching Pen Novellas), by Dianna Hardy
*Not counting 57 PREVIEWS!
Print Copies:
Be Blessed: Daily Devotions for Busy Wiccans and Pagans, by Denise Dumars
Coffee in the Morning, by Roz Denny Fox
Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales From Around the World by Kathleen Ragan
The Girlfriend Curse, by Valerie Frankel
Hannah: Daughters of the Sea, by Kathryn Lasky
The King’s Daughter, by Barbara Kyle
A Human Element, by Donna Galanti
Much Ado About Marriage, by Karen Hawkins
Need, by Carrie Jones
Super-parenting for ADD: An Innovative Approach for Raising Your Distracted Child, by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., and Peter S. Jensen, M.D.
UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities by John B. Alexander, Ph.D.
A Vintage Affair, by Isabel Wolff
A Witch’s 10 Commandments: Magickal Guidelines for Everyday Life, by Marian Singer
I’ll post reviews on Goodreads, etc. as I complete them, of course. And if anyone has read these as well, please comment below — I’d love to know what you thought of them!
The question bothering me now is — how long will it take me to read all of these fabulous writings? Hmmm…
From the Coffee Time Romance Fang Lovers Session yesterday, the winner of the signed print copy of Wind and Shadow: Book One of the Talbot Trilogy (reserved), t-shirt, pen, notebook, mug, magnet, and mystery goodies is…
J. Annas Walker!
A big thank you to everyone who visited my posts on the Coffee Time Romance Fang Lovers Session! And hugs to everyone who commented!
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