A PALE SHADOW update + soundtrack

A PALE SHADOW is now available to buy on Amazon! You can also add it on Goodreads. I love how it turned out, and I hope others do too. I'm still thinking about the characters even though I'm done writing it!

This book does come with trigger warnings, and I've done my best to list them all in the Goodreads blurb. I'll list them here too: neglect, mentions of alcoholism, mentions of abuse, abuse of minors, suicide, rape, death, mature sexual situations

As usual, I've made a soundtrack for the book! I wanted to keep it somewhat nostalgic, as much of the book takes place in the nineties and early 2000s. But there's also some random stuff thrown in for fun.

"Hey Everybody" - Rubblebucket
"No Signs of Pain" - Azure Ray
"Sugar Kane" - Sonic Youth
"Graffiti" - Throwing Muses
"July Flame" - Laura Veirs
"Landmines" - The Action Design
"Found Out About You" - Gin Blossoms
"Violet" - Hole
"Heaven or Las Vegas" - Cocteau Twins
"Goddess on a Hiway" - Mercury Rev
"Mistaken for Strangers" - The National
"Rusted Wheel" - Silversun Pickups
"Night Time, My Time" - Sky Ferreira
"Blinding" - Florence + the Machine
"Feeling This" - blink-182
"Love" - Caress
"Ghost" - Gouge Away
"Lemon Eyes" - Meg Myers

Happy reading!

WILDFLOWER HEART Soundtrack

With WILDFLOWER HEART coming out soon (hopefully in the next month, which would be about a year since I released Lament!), I thought I'd share the soundtrack that helped inspire me to write. It was tough to pick songs for this book, but I think my choices fit it well.

"Ashes on the Riverbank" - Thieving Irons
"A Forest" - Bat For Lashes
"Be Wild" - M83
"It's A Good Life" - The Horrors
"Your Way" - Ecca Vandal
"Fish" - Wye Oak
"Time to Wander" - Gypsy and the Cat
"Warm Water" - Bear in Heaven
"The Death of Me" - Meg Myers
"Holy Places" - BRANDENBURG
"Dancing Barefoot" - Caress
"NARC" - Interpol
"Old Leaves Shiver" - Laura Carbone
"Lover" - In the Valley Below
"I Feel Free" - DILLY DALLY
"Drift Away" - GOLD ZEBRA
"Madder Red" - Yeasayer
"Dreams Never End" - New Order
"Armida" - Lust for Youth

Listen on Spotify!

Updates to follow! Find me on Goodreads in the meantime!

Writing Update!

Hey all! I can't believe it's been only four months since my last book came out. Feels like an eternity. Anyway, here's the timeline of my upcoming projects.

Wildflower (tentatively titled): This is a sequel to Sea and Sky. It takes place in the same world (Aecoria) but follows all new characters. I'm also moving it away from the sea and into a mist-shrouded valley beside the forest. There's an adventuresome heroine and a grumpy but secretly sweet hero. Plus a silly brother who drinks a little too much! Plus a forest sprite who keeps trying to kill people!

Dead Love: This is going to be a short installment in my Dreams for the Dead series. It will follow Leila, Dawn's best friend, as she deals with the trauma of having been held captive by a psycho vampire. I've written a little so far, and it's pretty bleak. Because... trauma. Not everyone wants to bang a vampire, you know?

A Pale Shadow: I have always planned to write a coming-of-age story, but I kept running into dead ends with my ideas. They were all just so blah and boring. Then I finally figured out a way to put my own spin on the genre, and like magic, the ideas started flowing. So this will be a sexy coming-of-age story (thriller, perhaps?) about a girl who moves to a town with deadly secrets. I'm very excited, since these characters having been sitting around for years with nothing to do.

And that's it for now! Happy reading! <3

Sex, Blood, and Rock 'n' Roll

Heyyyyy. My new book is out now! The Dead Rule the Night is only $0.99 in the Kindle store, and it's also available in KU! A few things to know about it: smut, smut, blood, creepiness, smut.

Anyway, you know what a new book means: a super awesome soundtrack to go along with it.

"KILL4ME" - Marilyn Manson
"Your Joy Is My Low" - IAMX
"Gloom Forever" - American Nightmare
"6 Undergound" - Sneaker Pimps
"My Heart Is Immortal" - Cold Cave
"Can't Be Love" - Pink Turns Blue
"Colors (Take Me Away)" - T.S.O.L.
"Pretty Baby Scream" - Lords of the New Church
"Dead Love" - The Soft Moon
"Ghost Dream" - Blouse
"Sedated" - Hozier
"I Get Off" - Halestorm
"Chokehold" - Adam Lambert
"A Little Death" - The Neighbourhood
"Masochism World" - Hüsker Dü
"Orphans of the Smog" - Death of Lovers
"Motel" - Meg Myers
"Blood Bitch" - Cocteau Twins
"Neon Gleam" - Night Sins

Listen on Spotify!

Special thanks to my amazing pals Karly and Nenia for suggesting some of the songs! <3

LAMENT Soundtrack

It's getting closer to Lament's tentative release date of November 27th! (It could be sooner but most likely not later.) I've decided to share the book soundtrack, as I always do. One of my favorite parts of creating a book is gathering songs that help set the mood (and would be perfect in a movie. Hollywood: Call me).

"When Words Fail" - GOLD ZEBRA
"Who Taught You How To Love" - King Dude
"Vex" - Chelsea Wolfe
"Something to Remember Me By" - The Horrors
"Dark Allies" - Light Asylum
"Friends in the Dark" - Specimen
"Glycerine" - Bush
"Underworld USA" - Cold Cave
"Face Meets Glass" - ACTORS
"Never Tear Us Apart" - INXS
"Burn My Name" - Shotgun Babies, Lydia Lunch
"Little Sister" - Queens of the Stone Age
"Come My Sunshine" - The Comas
"Kissing the Ground" - Drab Majesty
"Hemorrhage (In My Hands)" - Fuel
"Dance Macabre" - Ghost
"Mouthful" - Rule of Thirds
"Take Her Down" - Ruben Young

I feel a wave of despair, regret, and sexiness crushing me now.

Here's the link to the Spotify playlist!

Thanks to my good friend Nenia for suggesting the Ruben Young song! It goes perfectly with one of the scenes.

Add Lament on Goodreads!

LAMENT Cover

I haven't written a synopsis for my upcoming book yet, but you're damn right I made a cover. So here it is! Trying to make the right cover for this book was a journey, and I'm proud of the result.

I plan to publish mid to late November, as soon as my last beta reader finishes and I give the book another read-through myself to correct any lingering mistakes. For now, you can add it on Goodreads! (Also, the synopsis will arrive soon, I hope.)

New Projects!!!

It's been so long since I last posted! That's mostly because my WIP, tentatively titled LAMENT, was being very difficult for quite some time. I had difficulties bringing the story together, and I didn't want to jinx it by doing too many updates. But I've written the last line and done the first round of editing on the complete draft, so I'm ready to talk about it a little.

LAMENT is a story about a girl who ran away from home nine years ago after a terrible experience. Now she's back, but she's not quite ready to revisit her past or face her first and only love. Will she overcome the trauma that's slowly taking her over?

My wonderful friends Nenia and Karly are currenty beta-reading for me! I hope to have the book out by the end of November. Here's the aesthetic I made for it:

This book includes teenage angst and wonder, bad memories, trauma, arson, and spooky woods. Oh yeah, and plenty of smut.

I'm planning to devote much of October to drawing and other artistic pursuits besides writing, but I do have a super secret project that I'm planning to release before Halloween. Stay tuned!