Hi, and welcome back to the Reader’s Corner.  A couple of weeks ago I gave you my TBR list, so today I thought I’d give you another list to  enjoy–my play list.

My play list is probably used a little differently than a lot of writers.  I don’t listen to music when I write.  I need lots of quiet when I write.  But when I’m thinking about the WIP away from the computer–especially driving in the car–music plays a big role in my writing. 

Certain songs have inspired particular works, some just seem to fit very well with the ideas in a piece I’m writing.  So when I need time to think about plot, characters, incidents and how they should play out, language or wording, I pop in whichever CD makes me think of that specific work and just drive (luckily I live near an interstate LOL).

Here are some of the songs that I listen to when I need to create:

Bad Romance by Lady Gaga.  This song was connected to my novel Only Scandal Will Do.  I played it so much my teenagers hated it and me when I turned it on.  It was the one song I had on my cell phone before that phone died.

As Long As You’re Mine from Wicked.  This is where I got the title for my Victorian WIP As Long As You’re Mine.  A haunting love song.

Bad to the Bone by George Thorogood and the Destroyers.  This was my inspiration for the character Lula in Hog Wild.  And I worked the title into the story as the ringtone for one of the “hogs.”

Teenage Dream by Katy Perry.  This is a play/think song for Only Marriage Will Do, the second novel in my House of Pleasure series.

A Little Fall of Rain from Les Miserables.  This song inspired a “to be written” novel set during the Napoleonic wars  about a man who is changed forever when a woman who loves him dies in his arms.

It’s Raining Men by The Weather Girls.  Inspired my WIP The Widow’s Club.  The song made me wonder how women of the Regency period would respond to the freedom to have a variety of men in their beds.

Last Friday Night by Katy Perry and Edge of Glory by Lady Gaga.  Last Friday Night flat-out inspired my WIP Seven Days of Seduction, and when I heard Edge of Glory it fit my H/H’s characters so well it now makes me think about them as well.  And with LFN being in the top 1 or 2 slots on the radio for the past weeks, I’ve been itching to get back to work on Seven Days.  Soon, very soon. 🙂

Below is the Katy Perry video for Last Friday Night, which is just how I imagined my heroine’s party to be!  Hope you enjoy it and my play list!