The Music in My Books
When I'm not using my own music, like many writers, I shamelessly use other people's for scene setting, plot progression, and characterisation. And sometimes, I just sneak a track in because I love it.
So here - including the good, the bad and even the downright ugly, are playlists for the music that creates the soundtracks to my novels.
Just clicking on any of the book covers should take you to its playlist on Spotify.
With many thanks to EK for her help
So here - including the good, the bad and even the downright ugly, are playlists for the music that creates the soundtracks to my novels.
Just clicking on any of the book covers should take you to its playlist on Spotify.
With many thanks to EK for her help
Footnote: People have sometimes asked me about 'The Forgotten Song' mp3 that Niamh listens to in 'The Photograph'.
This is a recording of verses from 'A Course in Miracles' read by Beverly Hutchinson with music by Stephen Halpern.
An MP3 of the recording is currently available for free download at www.miraclecenter.org
store.miraclecenter.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=D151
Here is the text of the first two verses.... Taken from Chapter 21, verses 6 and 7 of ACIM.
The Forgotten Song
Listen-perhaps you catch a hint of an ancient state not quite forgotten; dim, perhaps, and yet not altogether unfamiliar, like a song whose name is long forgotten; and the circumstances in which you heard completely unremembered. Not the whole song has stayed with you, but just a little wisp of melody, attached not to a person or a place or anything particular. But you remember, from just this little part, how lovely was the song, how wonderful the setting where you heard it, and how you loved those who were there and listened with you.
The notes are nothing. Yet you have kept them with you, not for themselves, but as a soft reminder of what would make you weep if you remembered how dear it was to you. You could remember, yet you are afraid, believing you would lose the world you learned since then. And yet you know that nothing in the world you learned is half so dear as this. Listen, and see if you remember an ancient song you knew so long ago and held more dear than any melody you taught yourself to cherish since.
Above quotes are from A Course in Miracles, copyright ©1992, 1999, 2007 by the Foundation for Inner Peace, 448 Ignacio Blvd., #306, Novato, CA 94949, www.acim.org and info@acim.org, used with permission.
This is a recording of verses from 'A Course in Miracles' read by Beverly Hutchinson with music by Stephen Halpern.
An MP3 of the recording is currently available for free download at www.miraclecenter.org
store.miraclecenter.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=D151
Here is the text of the first two verses.... Taken from Chapter 21, verses 6 and 7 of ACIM.
The Forgotten Song
Listen-perhaps you catch a hint of an ancient state not quite forgotten; dim, perhaps, and yet not altogether unfamiliar, like a song whose name is long forgotten; and the circumstances in which you heard completely unremembered. Not the whole song has stayed with you, but just a little wisp of melody, attached not to a person or a place or anything particular. But you remember, from just this little part, how lovely was the song, how wonderful the setting where you heard it, and how you loved those who were there and listened with you.
The notes are nothing. Yet you have kept them with you, not for themselves, but as a soft reminder of what would make you weep if you remembered how dear it was to you. You could remember, yet you are afraid, believing you would lose the world you learned since then. And yet you know that nothing in the world you learned is half so dear as this. Listen, and see if you remember an ancient song you knew so long ago and held more dear than any melody you taught yourself to cherish since.
Above quotes are from A Course in Miracles, copyright ©1992, 1999, 2007 by the Foundation for Inner Peace, 448 Ignacio Blvd., #306, Novato, CA 94949, www.acim.org and info@acim.org, used with permission.
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