I finally met Victoria Gerken of Podium Entertainment, after years of engaging with her on email, insta, zoom and all-else.
After enjoying her company through seminars on how robots will ultimately rise up and destroy us, I was in the audience for the Podium-sponsored panel on the future of audiobooks – and it was at the close of the discussion that Victoria gave me the brilliant idea to create a playlist of songs on Spotify, inspired by Ever Winter.
Podium picked up my first novel for audio and they majestically found Dan Stevens to narrate it (who has already been brilliant in Godzilla x Kong, Cuckoo and Abigail in this year alone).
I’ve taken ideas of how some of the scenes feel to me (both in print and audio) and found songs – and great cover versions of songs – which I think go with the key scenes of the story.
You can check out the play list below. Share, follow, even create your own.
I’m also interested to see if anyone can match any of the songs to scenes in the book and if any of you disagree entirely in the ‘feel’ of the music and if you would put different genres of songs together for the same soundtrack.
Fun!
https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/3qa0lnO02WmW7s1in2V11D?utm_source=generator
What I have in common with E.L James…
At the Self Publishing Show Live at Southbank in London, romance authors Lucy Score and E.L James took to the stage to answer questions on their careers and in particular how they started out.
E.L James is famous of course for ’50 Shades’ – and I enjoyed hearing how her career started out writing for English comedians/TV personalities, Bob Mortimer and Vic Reeves.
Both authors were asked about their writing styles, formats and prep and it struck me (like a whip on my bare buttocks), that I have a lot more in common with E.L James than just swings and handcuffs…
We both tried Scrivener and retreated back into Word. We both do fairly little plotting and we both edit our chapters ‘as we go’. (Although I could not live without an editor to point out all the errors that I still remain blind to at the end).
Basically, I am a different-genre, far less-successful, male Wish-version of E.L James…
and it’s not such a bad thing.
Peter Hackshaw - author. 