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  • song,  Uncategorized

    SOUNDTRACK: Awaken (Feel Alive) by Big Wild & Surfaces

    September 17, 2022 / 2 Comments

    Soundtrack to Magic & Steam: The Doctor by C.S. Poe

    Awaken (Feel Alive) by Big Wild & Surfaces for a book where the country’s most powerful federal magic caster lost everything and the country’s most wanted outlaw taught him he could be anything if he let himself.

    Nothing else that I have left leaves
    Nothing but this to hold on
    I could be anything next to you
    We could make anywhere home

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    SOUNDTRACK: Arrows by Trevor Hall

    September 10, 2022 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack to Necessary Evils: Lunatic by Onley James

    Arrows by Trevor Hall for a book about a man who lives multiple lives laid bare by another man’s relentless pursuit of his heart.

    This journey has got me bleeding
    A certain kind of feeling

    But I can never leave it
    Good God I know I need it

    Arrows come straight for my heart
    Arrows come straight for my heart

    I thought I’d never face it
    And now it’s stripped me naked

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    COVER REVEAL: Song of the Sea by Duckie Mack (Giveaway)

    September 4, 2022 / No Comments
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    BOOK BLITZ: Light My Fire by Katy Manz (Excerpt & Giveaway)

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    BOOK TOUR: The Otto Digmore Series by Brent Hartinger (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    January 17, 2020
  • song,  Uncategorized

    SOUNDTRACK: Heal Me by Snow Patrol

    September 2, 2022 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack to The Formicary: Cross by S.E. Harmon

    Heal Me by Snow Patrol for a book about a broken amnesiac android assassin, the sweet, gentle doctor he could never forget, and the mad narcissist who played god.

    Can you heal me, baby?
    I’ve been dancing in this fire for way too long
    But I kind of like it
    Oh I like it ’cause it’s more dangerous than me
    There’s a siren somewhere
    But I’m pretty sure it’s only in my head
    So tell me how’d you hear it?
    Is there something supernatural in your bones?

    Oh this is love like wildness coursing through you like a drug
    And this is hurt like kindness breaking you with gentle hands

    I call out your name, it feels like a song I know so well
    And it whispers and roars like an orchestra
    You call out my name like no one before, it sounds like I
    Am called to a home that I never had

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    SOUNDTRACK: Prince by Versailles

    August 26, 2022 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack to Copper Point Medical: The Doctor’s Date by Heidi Cullinan

    Prince by Versailles for a book about a poor little prince in a gilded cage and the ogre who gave him strength to break free.

    If you’re scared, lend me an arm and take you away.
    Every time I think of “you who cried so many times because you were hurt by something”
    The love that wells up overwhelms my heart. Before dawn
    As it is I’ll take you away and I’ll never let you get anywhere.
    To this future where I want to pick you up now and take you to the sky.

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    June 19, 2020

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    SOUNDTRACK: Bound Together by Kate York feat. Vanyo & The Curse by Agnes Obel

    August 20, 2022 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack to Fallen Messengers: Spellbound by Ava Marie Salinger

    Bound Together by Kate York for a book about a teenage runaway and the ties that bind her.

    We’ll find a way home
    ‘Cause we’re bound together
    Looking up at the ceiling
    Holding onto a feeling
    That won’t seem to let go
    Every day falls behind us
    The shadows just remind us
    That we keep forgetting
    Take it all away
    We’ll stay, we’ll stay the same

    Soundtrack Fallen Messengers: Edge Lines by Ava Marie Salinger

    The Curse by Agnes Obel for a book about monsters who attack the various realms and the fallen who fought again them.

    It was swift, it was just, another wave of a miracle
    But no one, nothing at all would go for the kill
    If they called on every soul in the land on the move

    Only then would they know a blessing in disguise

    The curse ruled from the underground down by the shore
    And their hope grew with a hunger to live unlike before

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    February 24, 2020
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    SOUNDTRACK: You Stole My Heart by My Sun and Stars, Curious by Franz Ferdinand & Sweet Chaos by Day6

    August 12, 2022 / 2 Comments

    Soundtrack to Frat Wars: King of Thieves by Saxon James

    You Stole My Heart by My Sun and Stars for a book about one frat boy’s most guarded possession snatched by a cute enemy prince from right under his nose

    I guess my heart it has a point
    ‘Cause you are way too cute
    It was clear it would jump at you
    But now please just bring it back to me
    ‘Cause my heart is fragile too
    It can break right over you

    And I’m looking everywhere
    But I just realized
    That you’re the reason why

    ‘Cause you, yes you, yes you, you
    You stole my heart

    Soundtrack to Frat Wars: Master of Mayhem by Saxon James

    Curious by Franz Ferdinand for a book about a very curious frat boy and his obliging frat brother.

    Will you want me when you’ve got me?
    Are you gonna love me?
    Tell me, I’m a future seeker
    Heat-seeking freak
    I want to know now
    I’ve got to know now
    No I know that no
    I shouldn’t be so curious
    But hell you’ve got me curious

    Soundtrack to Frat Wars: Presidential Chaos by Saxon James

    Sweet Chaos by Days for a book about the calm frat president and the passionate frat president turning each other’s world upside down.

    The world I lived in
    Has flipped over
    Inside out because of you
    Right is left
    Left is right

    My sandcastle
    Has met your wave
    It’s starting to break down
    What do I do? Help me

    Because of you, I’m losing control

    It’s a sweet chaos
    Ever since you entered
    My life, my dreams, my future
    Everything has changed

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  • song,  Uncategorized

    SOUNDTRACK: Red Strings by Aldious

    August 5, 2022 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack to Unraveling the Threads of Fate by Alice Winters

    Red Strings by Aldious for a book about two men connected by the strings of love and death and their fight to defy fate.

    I have the confidence to get it!!
    But it’s not worth it.
    Still, the hard-line shouts were noisy.
    Red threads, please don’t fray.

    To be able to trace and return without hesitation

    I’m confident we’ll see each other again, but…
    Not equal to nothing.
    Don’t think, “It’s more fun now than it was before.”
    Red threads, please don’t forget.
    To be able to trace and return without hesitation

    So that one day everything will be back.

    ***duck duck go translated lyrics

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    SOUNDTRACK: Blood Sings by Suzanne Vega

    July 29, 2022 / 1 Comment

    Black Veil: Blood Boss by Davidson King

    Blood Sings by Suzanne Vega, a song about meeting one’s father for the first time, for a book about a young man with a powerful voice who learned who his blood family was and their sacrifice.

    When blood sees blood
    Of its own
    It sings to see itself again
    It sings to hear the voice it’s known
    It sings to recognize the face

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  • song,  Uncategorized

    SOUNDTRACK: Ride by Clans

    July 22, 2022 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack to King Of Men MC: King’s Virtuous Son by Ki Brightly & M.D. Gregory

    Ride by Clans for a book about a biker and a mobster who discovered they’re good together in love and club wars.

    White teeth and black leather
    You and I would go good together, baby
    Black soul, white feathers
    You and I would go good together

    That smile
    Don’t know whether you should break my heart
    Or put me together
    And those eyes
    I don’t know whether we should just stay friends
    Or if we should get together

    Ride baby, ride

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