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Songs for the Grand Summoner



The Summoner’s Path came out last week and I just can’t let anymore time pass without giving you the playlist that helped me bring Dre’Kariston and Somerly’s story to life. Their path was definitely a windy road but thankfully they found their way to love while only giving their storyteller a few gray hairs.

I haven’t been writing these blog posts as often as I did when I first started. As much as I would like to keep you in the loop with all that is going on in my exciting and fantastical life, the truth is I’m kind of boring. My best friend is coming to visit our new house in Nevada at the very end of February, so I’ve been knee deep in painting and picking out furniture. We brought nothing with us from Maryland but our clothes, precious treasures, and computers. So, we had a lot to do with the house and we put it off when we first got here only buying the essentials. (We got some potentially worrisome news in regards to his health last night so if you want to send some random happy thoughts his way that would be great!)

The house is looking much better now but we still have a couple more weekends of paint to get through. We only do a wall or two a weekend because we hate everything about it and we’re not as young as we used to be. During the week, I’ve been either working on a book or researching for a future one. I swore I was going to add any new couples, but I have no spine, so I relented.

There are now two additions to the list and the first was is a fun shifter story while the other is a mix of sorcery and shifting. That one came to life in a rather interesting way. I was reading Resurrection of the Fallen last week and I thought about how much fun it was to write the first half of it which for anyone that hasn’t read it is historical. I can’t and won’t ever redo the exact construction of that book again. It’s Drystan and Conley’s story and I refuse to replicate any couple or follow any kind of formula when I’m creating but I thought of a way that would allow me to have a historical aspect play a bigger part of a story instead of just a chapter or two which you might get at the start of any random D’Vaire book.

I’d like this one to take place in a different time and place in history, so I’m knee deep in reference books to decide where and when these two belong. My to-write list is long and it’s in constant flux so who knows exactly this couple will fall but I will get there! I’m over forty percent through my current project and the next two guys are set in stone. Anyway, since I’m too mean to give you any more details than that, here’s the aforementioned playlist for the Grand Summoner and his dragon:

“In the Air Tonight” by Phil Collins
“In the Air Tonight” by In This Moment (this song is so good and fits so well why not have two different versions of it? Lol!)
“Incomplete” by Backstreet Boys
“Take A Bow” by Leona Lewis
“Angels” by Within Temptation
“The Past (feat. Chris Daughtry)” by Sevendust
“Apologize” by Within Temptation
“Iron” by Within Temptation
“Chances” by Air Supply

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