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  • song,  Uncategorized

    SOUNDTRACK: Promised You A Miracle by Simple Minds

    May 3, 2025 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack to The Gentleman and His Vowsmith by Rebecca Ide

    Promised You A Miracle by Simple Minds for a book about childhood loves, estranged families, bitter rivals, and promised lives.


    As golden days break wondering
    Chance reflects on them a while
    Love screams so quietly
    Slipping back on golden times
    Breathing with sweet memories
    Promised you a miracle
    Belief is a beauty thing

    He controls on love
    Life mirrors a cure
    Everything is possible in the game of life
    Everything is possible
    Oh no
    Chance lost pearls of great price
    Take care of family
    Only aches for love

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    THE MUSIC TAG

    January 11, 2020

    RELEASE BLITZ: The Bonds Of Family by Christie Gordon (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    September 26, 2021

    COVER REVEAL: Wedlocked by Cambria Hebert

    December 13, 2024
  • song,  Uncategorized

    SOUNDTRACK: Not Alone by Otto Knows

    April 26, 2025 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack to Fire & Brimstone: Revelations by Nik Knight

    Not Alone by Otto Knows for a book about a boy, scarred and scared, finding hidden strengths and rediscovering a family.

    An army marching underneath my skin
    The scars are just a map of where I’ve been

    …

    It’s a long, long way to miracle
    But I promised my soul that I’d make it back home
    Through the fires of Jericho
    It’s a long, long way to miracle
    Just to let you know
    You’re not alone

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    BOOK TOUR: A Vile Season by David Ferraro

    October 9, 2024

    NEW RELEASE BLITZ: Unus by Stephanie Burke (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    June 20, 2021

    RELEASE BLITZ: Fearing the Dream by Ann Marie James (Excerpt)

    June 16, 2020
  • song,  Uncategorized

    SOUNDTRACK: Fortunately by Mokita

    April 19, 2025 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack to Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune: The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting by K.J. Charles

    Fortunately by Mokita for a book about a pretense, a gamble, a dalliance and a security.

    Like an illusion they don’t see
    Keep building castles against the wind out on the beach
    All my mistakes in front of me
    Send me a lifeboat the second that I drift way too deep

    …

    I had to believe
    That I had somewhere to fall
    Fortunately

    Right from the start
    Just a shot in the dark I’d take anything
    A million to one right here under the sun
    I heard everything

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    NEW RELEASE BLITZ: A Solstice Sundering by Emily Carrington (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    December 9, 2022

    JUNE 2021 PLAYLIST + WRAP UP

    July 4, 2021

    BOOK BLAST: Fall of the Pathfinder by L.C. Lowe (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    February 15, 2023
  • song,  Uncategorized

    SOUNDTRACK: I Dare You by The XX & I See You by The Horrors

    April 5, 2025 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack to Mobsters + Billionaires: Attraction by Kelly Fox

    I Dare You by The XX for a book about an intense attraction and a long awaited romance

    I’m in love with it
    Intoxicated
    I’m enraptured
    From the inside I can feel that you want to
    Wake up high on it
    Feel it suspending
    I’m enamored
    Way up in the sky I could see that you want to

    I’ve been a romantic for so long
    All I’ve ever had are love songs

    Soundtrack to Mobsters + Billionaires: Distraction by Kelly Fox

    I See You by The Horrors for a book about truly seeing a person, a possibility and a future.

    Through the summer
    You will soon forget
    Days get longer
    But the sun still sets
    You’re so fair while
    Love is yours to choose
    Life is fragile
    Don’t you let it go
    I can see your future in it
    I can see it there

    I see you

    And all the things you might do

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    NEW RELEASE BLITZ: Resisting The Dream by Ann Marie James (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    September 15, 2021

    NEW RELEASE: The Long Journey To You by Vincent Traughber Meis (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    February 19, 2024

    RELEASE BLITZ: Holiday For Six by Kelly Finley

    December 18, 2023
  • song,  Uncategorized

    SOUNDTRACK: Shadow by Amigo The Devil

    March 29, 2025 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack to The Witch Trials: The Witch and His Crow by Ben Alderson

    Shadow by Amigo The Devil for a book where a boy who grew up in the shadows learned to embrace the darkness in his blood.

    And every rule we follow was also made to brеak
    And everything we lеt go, there’s something else we take
    A goal without ambition is a key without the lock
    And who is there to listen when the shadow has to talk?

    …

    Only feeling alone around people
    Getting by, making it believable
    Love without compassion is fire without a spark
    But who protects the shadow, better than the dark?

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    NEW RELEASE: Meet Me in the Blue by A.M. Johnson

    March 6, 2023

    AUDIO RELEASE: The Crease by Crea Reitan

    October 15, 2024

    LIFE IN BOOKS BOOK TAG

    September 28, 2021
  • song,  Uncategorized

    SOUNDTRACK: Infinity by Jaymes Young & Sunshine by Red Clay Strays

    March 22, 2025 / 2 Comments

    Soundtrack to Damned Connnections: Patience by Lark Taylor

    Infinity by Jaymes Young for a book about infinite lives, eternal love, and a final death.

    Baby, this love
    I’ll never let it die
    Can’t be touched by no one
    I’d like to see ’em try

    …

    Where the time is frozen
    Where all the universe is open
    Love isn’t random, we are chosen
    And we could wear the same crown
    Keep slowing your heart down
    We are the gods now

    ‘Cause I love you for infinity (oh-oh-oh)
    I love you for infinity (oh-oh-oh)

    Soundtrack to Damned Connections: Justice by Lark Taylor

    Sunshine by Red Clay Strays for a book about a tragedy, a separation, a redemption, and a starting over.

    There’s no shame in being broken hearted
    Though I try to do more to fix my soul
    I’m trying to be more than when I started
    There’s no path before me
    There’s no horror story
    That could ever keep my God from swinging low

    People act a certain way in trials
    Different than they do on any day
    This is when you see a man’s true colors
    This is when he shows you
    How much he can go through
    Before all his faith is stripped away

    I work hard not to fall
    ‘Cause it’s a long way down
    And I owe it to my family
    Keep my feet on the ground
    It’s in the sunshine
    I feel the sunshine a-shining down on me

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    FIRST LINES FRIDAY 56: Asexual Hipsters and Winkie Faces

    May 21, 2020

    MUSIC MONDAY: I Don’t Know What You See in Me by Belle and Sebastian

    February 6, 2023

    RELEASE BLITZ: For Your Mind by Crea Reitan

    September 28, 2023
  • song,  Uncategorized

    SOUNDTRACK: Say It First by Sam Smith

    March 15, 2025 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack to Vitale Brothers: Never Say Never by Brea Alepou & Skyler Snow

    Say It First by Sam Smith for a book about a secret identity, a bloody past, a forced proximity, and a fierce obsession.

    I never feel like this
    I’m used to emptiness in my heart
    And in my arms
    You’re not what I’m used to
    You keep me guessing with things that you do
    I hope that they’re true

    ‘Cause I’m never gonna heal my past
    If I run every time it starts
    So I need to know if I’m in this alone

    Come on baby, say it first
    I need to hear you say those words
    If I’m all that you desire, I promise there’ll be fire
    I need to hear you say it first
    Come on baby, do your worst
    I know you’ll take me higher

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    RELEASE BLITZ: Ghost Light Killer by Dahlia Donovan

    August 8, 2021

    NEW RELEASE BLITZ: From The Dark We Came by J. Emery (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    March 16, 2020

    MY TOP 10 READS OF 2020

    December 31, 2020
  • song,  Uncategorized

    SOUNDTRACK: Spells by Cannons

    March 1, 2025 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack to The Wildersongs Trilogy: Sorcery and Small Magics by Maiga Doocy

    Spells by Cannons for a book about a curse drawing two enemies together like magnet.

    Boy, you put your spell on me
    There’s something about you
    ‘Cause even in my sleepless nights
    I’m thinking about you

    Well, I think it’s magic with you
    Oh, I think it’s magic
    Yeah, I think it’s magic, ohh
    Yeah, I think it’s magic
    Just like you

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    BLOG TOUR: Secrets of a Gay Man Growing Up in the 1950s by Jonathan Feinn (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    February 9, 2024

    FLICKer: I Quit

    July 14, 2022

    AUDIOBOOK TOUR: Point Blank by Morgan Brice

    July 4, 2024
  • song,  Uncategorized

    SOUNDTRACK: Seed by The Academy Is, Seeds by Yoke Lore & Seeds of Gold by Closure in Moscow

    February 22, 2025 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack to Resurrectionist: The Shooting Season by Isobel Starling

    Seed by The Academy Is for a book about old lovers, new betrayals, and different perspectives.

    Subjects are thrown around the room
    Looking for the ones that got away
    A feeling of soft anticipation
    Another confrontation I won’t make
    But how do we do it?
    We turned into something else entirely, we fake it
    But I wanted it so desperately to be real

    Run, run, holding on to some pieces that you left behind
    Hope now, as I walk away, you’re the one that finds me out
    Run from the only thing left that I hold close

    Soundtrack to Resurrectionist: The Gentleman’s Thief by Isobel Starling

    Seeds by Yoke Lore for a book about a lonely gentleman, a mysterious lover, secrets to unravel and a mission to conquer.

    I remember the first words that you ever said
    Burried soft like seeds deep in my chest
    I wanna know who you are
    I wanna know who you are

    Your hands like winter, eyes like wings
    And the first kiss cut like ice in the spring
    I wanna know who you are
    I sleep deep in the dark

    ….
    Stumble into love like a challenge above
    But I ache with the fear that my fate is to yell and to yearn

    Soundtrack to Resurrectionist: Infernal Vices by Isobel Starling

    Seeds of Gold by Closure in Moscow for a book about beautiful liars, willing victims, and the tricky problem of getting them out.

    A liar of the sharpest tongue
    We can’t be something we’re not
    I’ve met with the winged things baying
    And they feed off the winter lurking in your mind
    I can see it in your eyes
    I just want you to get out
    I just want you to get out

    But once you were
    Beautiful enough to bear seeds of gold
    I didn’t sow much
    You would hold me and I would stare
    A pillar of salt whisked away by the air
    Beautiful right from the start
    I loved your soul enough to leave in the cold

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    BLOG TOUR: Blood and Bone by Patricia Logan (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    May 27, 2024

    New Release Blitz: A Broken Winter by Kale Night (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    November 25, 2019

    BLOG TOUR: The Demon Lord of California by Bennu Bright (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    January 7, 2023
  • song,  Uncategorized

    SOUNDTRACK: Tonight, Tonight by The Smashing Pumpkins, You Were Right by Rufus du Sol, Found Me by Men I Trust, Loon by Bears and Lions & Bloom by The Paper Kites

    February 15, 2025 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack to RELIC: Smash & Grab by Maz Maddox

    Tonight, Tonight by Smashing Pumpkins for a book where a punk convinces a scholar of the past to live in the present and enjoy the moment.

    And our lives are forever changed
    We will never be the same
    The more you change, the less you feel

    Believe
    Believe in me
    Believe, believe

    That life can change
    That you’re not stuck in vain
    We’re not the same, we’re different
    Tonight
    Tonight

    Believe
    Believe in me
    Believe, believe

    In the resolute urgency of now

    Soundtrack to RELIC: Sink or Swim by Maz Maddox

    You Were Right by Rufus du Sol for a book about a bet, a heist and a combustible chemistry in the middle of the sea.

    You were right
    I know I can’t get enough of you
    Leave it all bloom, you were right
    I know I can’t get enough of you, no
    The things that I would do

    Under the water, I’m sinking further down
    Floating I’m nothing, I’m nothing
    Arms are wide open, I’m calling out your name
    Sitting and waiting, I’m waiting

    Soundtrack to RELIC: King & Queen by Maz Maddox

    Found Me by Men I Trust for a book about a wandering queen finding a home among fearsome and the wild.

    Motion blurred dream visions and kindred faces
    Thoughts like bursts of youth taking me places
    Living the best outcome of myself
    ‘Cause I do remember where I come from

    I’m happy
    My home found me
    By which force I do not know
    I found my home and it grows by me in beauty

    Soundtrack to RELIC: Lost In Amber by Maz Maddox

    Loon by Bears and Lions for a book where raptors of the same feather find each other.

    he happiest bird is the one that is heard
    the happiest thing is the one that has wings
    the happiest voice is the one that has a choice

    so fly away and be free and make it on your own
    fly fly fly now you’re free
    will you find your way back to me

    Soundtrack to RELIC: Gardens & Ghosts by Maz Maddox

    Bloom by The Paper Kites for a book about a plant loving shifter, a cowboy T. Rex, lots of unrequited feels and Cotton-Eyed Joe.

    In the morning when I wake
    And the sun is coming through,
    Oh, you fill my lungs with sweetness,
    And you fill my head with you.

    Shall I write it in a letter?
    Shall I try to get it down?
    Oh, you fill my head with pieces
    Of a song I can’t get out.

    …

    Can I take you to a moment
    Where the fields are painted gold
    And the trees are filled with memories
    Of the feelings never told?

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    June 2, 2021

    REVIEW TOUR: Your Pace or Mine by Kim Stephenson (Excerpt)

    September 22, 2025

    COVER REVEAL: Exposed by H.L. Day (Excerpt & Giveaway)

    August 10, 2020
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