I like to write to music. My personal preference is a little strange: I like to have music playing in the foreground and some kind of noise, like the ballgame on TV, in the background. I am pretty sure this comes from years of having to concentrate at the kitchen table while my siblings chattered on. When it’s too quiet, I can’t focus. When it’s too noisy I can’t concentrate. Yes, I am a delicate flower.

I have just finished my latest manuscript (LOST, due out May 2014), and I thought I would share the most-played songs from writing it. (Links are from iTunes)

• Angel & Delilah by Eliza Gilkyson
• Blue on Black by Kenny Wayne Shepherd
• Blue Spanish Sky by Chris Isaak
• Bordertown by The Walkabouts
• Darkness by Leonard Cohen
• Feel It Now by The Black Rebel Motorcycle Gang
• Jedediah by Eliza Gilkyson
• Like a Soldier by Johnny Cash
• Loneliness by The Demolition String Band
• Lover by Maureen Davis
• Mad World by Michael Andrews & Gary Jules
• Short Change Hero by The Heavy
• Till I Reach You by The Walkabouts
• If It Be Your Will by Leonard Cohen
• Someone I Used to Know by Patty Loveless
• Twisted by Eliza Gilkyson