Playlist!
A note on playlists: I used music to get into the zone for writing. It was especially helpful when writing When Stars Come Out because I needed to elicit the feel of High School (this year is my ten year High School reunion). I listened to a lot of music from my High School days including The Academy Is…(my favorite band in HS), My Chemical Romance, Paramore, and Fall Out Boy. Later, I remembered how much I also loved bands like Taking Back Sunday and Bring Me the Horizon.
So, in addition to the songs below, I listened to anything by the above named artists. Some of my favorite song by the above mentioned artists are:
The Academy Is… Everything We Had, Same Blood, About a Girl, The Phrase That Pays (though the whole Santi Album was like my soundtrack for HS).
My Chemical Romance…Helena, I’m Not Okay (I Promise), The Ghost of You, Cemetery Drive, This Is How I Disappear, Disenchanted.
Paramore…Pressure, Emergency, We Are Broken, Careful, Ignorance, Brick by Boring Brick, Misguided Ghosts, All I Wanted.
Actual playlist can be accessed here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgScxgyM26mFmsMT5_yMD66L6uWaQbTQu
* Ron Pope – A Drop in the Ocean
* The Neighbourhood – Sweater Weather
* Tom Odell – Hold Me
* Plumb – I Want You’re here
* Archis – Bittersweet
* Bring Me the Horizon – Throne
* Boys Like Girls – The Great Escape
* Death Cab for Cutie – I Will Follow You Into the Dark
* Ella Henderson – Beautifully Unfinished
* Lana Del Ray – Lust for Life
* My Chemical Romance – I’m Not Okay (I Promise)
* Twenty One Pilots – Trees
* Daughter – Medicine
* Amber Fun – I found
* Andrew Belle – In My Veins
* Taking Back Sunday - MakeDamnSure
*A note: A Drop in the Ocean by Ron Pope has always been Shy and Anora’s anthem. Sweater Weather by The Neighbourhood has always helped me with the feel of the book—that sort of dark, smoky, and sweet environment. Bittersweet by Archis is definitely creepy and also helped with vibes. Last, I Will Follow You Into the Dark by Death Cab for Cutie pulled so heavily on the themes of my book, I listened to it on repeat while writing certain chapters.
Anora Silby can see the dead and turn spirits into gold coins, two things she would prefer to keep secret as she tries to lead a normal life at her new school. After all, she didn’t change her identity for nothing.
As it turns out, hiding her weirdness is just one of many challenges. By the end of her first day, she’s claimed the soul of a dead girl on campus and lost the coin. Turns out, the coin gives others the ability to steal souls, and when a classmate ends up dead, there’s no mistaking the murder weapon.
Navigating the loss of her Poppa, her mother’s unpredictable behavior, and Roundtable, an anonymous student gossip app threatening to expose her, are hard enough. Now she must find the person who stole her coin before more lives are lost, but that means making herself a target for the Order, an organization that governs the dead on Earth–and they want Anora and her powers for themselves.
As it turns out, hiding her weirdness is just one of many challenges. By the end of her first day, she’s claimed the soul of a dead girl on campus and lost the coin. Turns out, the coin gives others the ability to steal souls, and when a classmate ends up dead, there’s no mistaking the murder weapon.
Navigating the loss of her Poppa, her mother’s unpredictable behavior, and Roundtable, an anonymous student gossip app threatening to expose her, are hard enough. Now she must find the person who stole her coin before more lives are lost, but that means making herself a target for the Order, an organization that governs the dead on Earth–and they want Anora and her powers for themselves.
Scarlett St. Clair lives in Oklahoma with her husband. She has a Master's degree in Library Science and Information Studies and spends a lot of time researching reincarnation, unsolved murders and Greek mythology-all of which made it into her debut novel, When Stars Come Out.
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I love this cover & what I have read about this book sounds fantastic!!
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