Did you notice a little addition to the sidebar on the left? Ahem. That’s right—there is now an official “Chasing Shadows” tab. That means that I’ve added the playlist, summary, and, soon to come, all the blog interviews I’ve been and will be doing.

Next to writing, music is the other half of my life; it speaks what sometimes cannot be spoken or conveyed through words. I always listen to themed music when I’m working hard on the ivory keys—actually, I can’t play piano, but it sounds cooler than “keyboard”—to really get me into a scene. The songs below are ones that I religiously listened to while writing one of my favorite stories (my sisters were fairly sick of these songs by the time I penned the last page). So, when you’re reading “Chasing Shadows,” be sure to give these songs a listen to put you in the moment.

CHAPTER 1:

            Avicii — Wake Me Up

CHAPTER 2:

            Jason Reeves — The End

CHAPTER 3:

            Schuyler Fisk — Waking Life

CHAPTER 4:

            Ben Howard — The Fear

CHAPTER 5:

            Nico and Vinz — Am I Wrong

CHAPTER 6:

            The Script — The End Where I Begin

CHAPTER 7:

            Switchfoot — Slipping Away

            Penny and Sparrow — Brothers

CHAPTER 8:

            Josh Rosenthal — No More Lies

CHAPTER 9:

            The Workday Release — A Starlit Sky

CHAPTER 10:

            YPPAH — Never Mess with Sunday

CHAPTER 11:

            Levi Robin — Breathe Easy

CHAPTER 12:

            Bastille — Bad Blood

CHAPTER 13:

            Jason Walker — Down

            Keith Urban — Stupid Boy

CHAPTER 14:

            Hunter Hayes — You Think You Know Somebody

CHAPTER 15:

            Need to Breathe — Won’t Turn Back

CHAPTER 16:

            Danny Elfman — Oz, the Great and Powerful

CHAPTER 17:

            Brand X Music — Sorcerer’s Secret

CHAPTER 18:

            Hurts — Unspoken

CHAPTER 19:

            Kacey Musgraves — Back on the Map

CHAPTER 20:

            Lady Antebellum — Learning to Fly (cover)

CHAPTER 21:

            Augustana — Borrowed Time

CHAPTER 22:

            The Weepies — Can’t Go Back Now

            One Republic — Feel Again

CHAPTER 23:

            Hunter Hayes — All You Ever

CHAPTER 24:

            The Civil Wars — Dust to Dust

CHAPTER 25:

            Two Steps from Hell — Resistance is Fatal

CHAPTER 26:

            X Ambassadors — Unsteady

CHAPTER 27:

            Mads Langer — Fact-Fiction

            Jan Kaczmarek — Finding Neverland

CHAPTER 28:

            Gabrielle Aplin — Start of Time

CHAPTER 29:

            Jimmy Eat World — Hear You Me

            Florence and the Machine — Heavy in Your Arms

CHAPTER 30:

            Sean Fournier — Goodbye

            In the Nursery — Kryptka

CHAPTER 31:

            Switchfoot — When the World Caves In

CHAPTER 32:

            Parachute — Hurricane

CHAPTER 33:

            Brand X Music — Curious Developments

CHAPTER 34:

            Greg Laswell — Comes and Goes (in Waves)

CHAPTER 35:

            Ray LaMontagne —Be Here Now

CHAPTER 36:

            Ed Sheeran — Give Me Love

            Abel Korzeniowski — First Kiss

CHAPTER 37:

            Christina Perri — A Thousand Years

CHAPTER 38:

            Bastille — The Draw

CHAPTER 39:

            Two Steps from Hell — Black Blade

CHAPTER 40:

            One Republic — Burning Bridges

CHAPTER 41:

            Tom Petty — Square One

CHAPTER 42:

            Avicii — Heart Upon My Sleeve

CHAPTER 43:

            Husky – History’s Door

CHAPTER 44:

            Red Jumpsuit Apparatus — Cat and Mouse

CHAPTER 45:

            Adele — Skyfall

            Sons of Sylvia — John Wayne

CHAPTER 46:

            Brand X Music — All or Nothing

CHAPTER 47:

            Blackmill — Journey’s End

CHAPTER 48:

            Kodaline — All I Want

CHAPTER 49:

            Of Monsters and Men — Silhouettes

CHAPTER 50:

            Lord Huron — Ends of the Earth

EPILOGUE:

            Radical Face — Welcome Home