ALTERED Playlist

I love listening to music while I write, especially when it’s a first draft. And while I listened to a variety---lots of different playlists on Spotify, or Pandora if I wanted something random---there were a few tracks that I listened to repeatedly. I can’t NOT think about ALTERED when I hear these songs:

1. The Outsider                                  A Perfect Circle

2. The Humbling River                      Puscifer

3. Running Up That Hill                    Placebo

4. Drumming Song                            Florence + the Machine

5. Painted on my Heart                      The Cult

6. Black Dog                                      Kelli Schaefer

7. The Change                                    Evanescence

8. Rapture                                           Hurt

9. Slow Life                                        Grizzly Bear

10. Danse Russe                                 Hurt

And for those of you on Spotify, here's the full ALTERED playlist. (And if you're not on Spotify, you should be!)

Jennifer Rush is the author of ALTERED coming Fall 2012 from Little, Brown. Check out her blog for news and updates.

ARTICLE 5 Playlist

Happy Music Week!

I’m one of those people who can’t actually listen while I write for fear that my head will explode from overstimulation, but while brainstorming (and if you’re a writer you know that every second not actively typing is consumed by obsessing about the book), I listened a lot. Here are some of the songs that inspired ARTICLE 5, and make me think of Chase and Ember.

Track	Artist
1. Grounds for Divorce	Elbow
2. Kingdom of Rust	Doves
3. Magick	Ryan Adams & the Cardinals
4. Call Me When You’re Sober	Evanescence
5. Decode	Paramore
6. Imaginary	Evanescence
7. Runnin’ Wild	Airbourne
8. Permanent	David Cook
9. For Reasons Unknown	The Killers
10. My Immortal	Evanescence
11. I Don’t Believe You	Pink
12. Hurt	Christina Aguilera

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Kristen Simmons is the author of ARTICLE 5, the first installment of a dystopian trilogy, which will be published by Tor Teen in February 2012. Learn more about her at her here, at goodreads, or on facebook.