WIP & Playlists

Always under construction but here are the latest books and tunes....

I just published Give Her My Love: The Hawk Book One!. Trying to decide about a print version of that series, definitely something worth pondering.

As for the tunes.... Been inundated in Jars of Clay's last three albums lately. Fave tunes include "Work", "Safe to Land", "Inland", "Scenic Route", "Love In Hard Times", and "All My Tears". These songs, and others, are shaping what I'll actually write next, Book 5 of The Enran Chronicles, perhaps early next year.

However.... I'm currently hip-deep in revising a novel I wrote in the summer of 2012. Splitting the Sky is about a very duplicitous leader, six missing astronauts, and those who call that lost crew family. Here's the playlist for that story, which I'm hoping to release on January 20th, 2025. Inauguration Day, you know, hehehe.

 

Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys - Willie Nelson & Waylon Jennings

Moments of Pleasure - Kate Bush

Secret Journey - The Police

The Impossible Astronaut - Murray Gold & The BBC National Orchestra

Amerigo - Patti Smith

Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain - Willie Nelson

De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da - The Police

The Sound Of Your Memory - Willie Nelson

Message in a Bottle - The Police

Wonderwall - Oasis

Nothing Compare 2 U - Sinead O'Connon

Doomsday - Murray Gold & The BBC National Orchestra

Day of the Moon - Murray Gold & The BBC National Orchestra

I Burn For You - The Police

Never Be Mine - Kate Bush

Beth- Kiss

Bring on the Night - The Police

No Place To Fly - Willie Nelson

All You Zombies - The Hooters

The Wedding of River Song - Murray Gold & The BBC National Orchestra

The Scientist - Willie Nelson

 

 

July Storms, based upon a holiday spent in the Midwest while enduring covid, thunderstorms, and other rumbles of life.

Sugar Almond - Camera Obscura 

What's Going On - Marvin Gaye

Jesse - Carly Simon

Cherokee - Cat Power 

Soul Man - Sam & Dave

Time After Time - Chara

Silver Springs - Fleetwood Mac 

Two Out of Three Ain't Bad - Meatloaf 

Oh Well, Pt. 1 - Fleetwood Mac 

Oh Dana - Fooled By April 

You Dropped the Bomb on Me - Gap Band

Father Figure - George Michael 

Weighed Down - Jars of Clay 

Cowboys in the Void - Quilt 

Tusk (abbreviated version) - Fleetwood Mac 

Hey Ray - John Cale 

Everybody Loves a Loser - Man Atom

Mercy Mercy Me - Marvin Gaye 

The Flame - Cheap Trick

Cruisin' - Michael Nesmith 

Honest Man - My Morning Jacket 

Andare avanti - Neffa

Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry 

The Chain - Fleetwood Mac 

Bring on the Night - The Police 

Children of Light - Quilt 

Wooly Bully - Sam Sham & The Pharaohs 

The First Cut Is the Deepest - Rod Stewart 

Venus - Shocking Blue 

I Heard It Through the Grapevine - Marvin Gaye 

I'm Not in Love - Camera Obscura 

Let the River Run - Carly Simon

 

Currently I am writing The Enran Chronicles, for which an upcoming installment is entitled Four Corners. I have three playlists connected to this saga, and below is one made a long time ago and recently adopted into the fold.


I Am The Doctor In Utah - Murray Gold & BBC National Orchestra Of Wales

Starting to Show - Astrid

Somehow You Could Always Tell - Josh Rouse & Kurt Wagner

Morning Rain - I Am Kloot

What You Need - INXS

Dark Ballet - Madonna

Pocahontas - Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Hard to Be a Person - Astrid

Gideon - My Morning Jacket

Less Talk More Rokk - Freezepop

Taken For Granted - Astrid

Hispanic Minority - Endless Boogie

I'll Keep it With Mine (Scott Hardkiss Remix) - Dean & Britta

That's What I Know - Josh Rouse & Kurt Wagner

Retrograde - James Blake

Alas - Astrid

Hangin' On A Limb - Neil Young with Linda Ronstadt

(Talk to Me of) Mendocino - Kate & Anna McGarrigle

La Costa Blanca - Josh Rouse

Need You Tonight - INXS

Willie - Cat Power

Play Dead - Astrid

I Am The Doctor - Murray Gold & BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Don't Change - INXS

Ride My Llama - Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Over - Inner Sleeve

Kiss The Specifics - Joan As Police Woman

Silver Factory Redux (Sonic Boom Remix) - Dean & Britta

Pistolero - Juno Reactor

Paper - Astrid

Don't Have to Be So Sad - Yo La Tengo

I Remember You - Murray Gold & BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Rollin' & Tumblin' - Endless Boogie

Valley Home - Alsace Lorraine

Tangle & Tussle - Astrid

New Sensation - INXS

Come Alive - Madonna

5 O'Clock - Astrid

To The Last - James Blake

Can You Feel It - Astrid

Bullet Proof - George Clinton

She's In Japan - Interiors

Table Dance - Josh Rouse & Kurt Wagner

I Can See You - Astrid

Words Win Wars - Murray Gold & BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Another Day - This Moral Coil

Distance - Astrid

Never Tear Us Apart - INXS




 

Other WIPs are listed below....


A Rose Blissful

Razzle Dazzle Rose - Camera Obscura

A Freak A - Josephine Oniyama

Give That Wolf a Banana - Subwoolfer

I'll Keep it With Mine - Dean & Britta

De Diepte - S10

While My Heart is Still Beating - Roxy Music (Live 2001 version)

I Am Not that Rabid Dog - Liz Pappademas

Word Up! (7" Vocal Version) - Cameo

Sweet Child O' Mine - Taken By Trees

Verb - That's What's Happening - Zachary Sanders

Pray For Forgiveness - Alicia Keys

Teardrop - Massive Attack

Electrically You - Josephine Oniyama 

In the Sun - Peter Gabriel

Look Out for My Love - Neil Young

Shining Star - Earth, Wind & Fire

Psalm - Roxy Music

Mysterious Ways - U2

Re-Make Re-Model - Roxy Music (Live 2001 version)

Last Minute - Josephine Oniyama



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