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LAST CHANCE TO WIN!

Hey everyone, today is your last chance to comment or tweet me with your #resolutions progress. 2 random commenters will be chosen to win an ARC of RUN FROM FEAR and a copy of the iTunes playlist that helped inspire me as I wrote.

As for my resolutions (eating more mindfully and lowering the volume on my inner critic), I would give myself a B- on both. While for the most part I’ve made a point to put everything I want to eat on a plate and actually sit down at the table to eat it, I still catch myself picking things off my boys’ plates and walking around the house with food in my hand. And yesterday there was a bit of a cheeto incident at the park…
My inner critic has taken a back seat, but I can’t decide if it’s because I’ve brought her back down to a manageable level, or because I’m just don’t care as much about certain things right now. Hmmm. things to ponder.

  • January 31, 2012

HIDE FROM EVIL Mood Music Day 32: Alice In Chains Rain When I Die

This is the last selection before HIDE FROM EVIL hits the shelves! So tonight I leave you with another selection from Alice in Chains, and tomorrow to commemorate the release I’ll post the entire playlist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMm0bpbOOkU

  • October 25, 2011

HIDE FROM EVIL Mood Music day 29: Patty Griffin’s Rain

Rain from Patty Griffin’s 1000 Kisses album still makes me choke up every time I hear it. How could I not, with lines like:

It’s hard to listen to a hard hard heart/beating close to mine/pounding up against the stone and steal/walls that I won’t climb

easy to see how it made me think of Sean and Krista, right?

  • October 20, 2011

HIDE FROM EVIL Mood Music Day 28: Nine Inch Nails

I first heard this song,  A WARM PLACE on the Natural Born Killers Soundtrack.  It is the perfect backdrop for writing an angty, emotionally intense scene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN6sfJ1qFQg

  • October 18, 2011

HIDE FROM EVIL Mood Music Day 19: The Fray Covers Kanye

I’m not a juge fan of the Fray or Kanye West, but somehow, I find the Fray’s cover of Kanye’s “Heartless” is close to perfection. Plus, the almost mournful delivery by Fray lead singer Isaac Slade perfectly suited the mood of this book.

  • October 4, 2011

HIDE FROM EVIL Mood Music Day 18: Jami Gets Sucked In By Twilight Commercials

As I was delving into Hide From Evil, commercials for the third Twilight movie was in heavy rotation, featuring LETTERS FROM THE SKY by Civil Twilight. Though I’m not usually one for this flavor of emo music (I like my emo a little edgier, ala NIN), I couldnt’ stop thinking about this song as I was starting Sean and Krista’s story. Especially these lines, which I think sum up Krista and Sean’s connection despite everything that has happened in the past:

You and I were made for this/I was made to taste your kiss/we were made to never fall away

  • October 4, 2011
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