Okay, so you may have seen yesterday’s post about the audio excerpt music thingie I did on YouTube for my short story “Viva Las Vegas.”
Well, guess what? The entire Viva Las Vegas short story is available for free this weekend only (Kindle only). I hope you’ll get the free download and a review would be even more awesome. Everybody needs a lift and reviews seem to be the thing.
Remember, Saturday and Sunday only.
Oh, heck, let’s post the video here, too.
Counting down to the next 50/90 (the 50 songs in 90 days songwriting challenge), which starts July 4, I’m revisiting some of my favorite songs I discovered through FAWM and 50/90. And this is certainly one of my top favorite songs and I thought I would break it down as to why. Hey, I might make this a regular thing.
Go ahead, take a listen while I break it down.
The Breakdown:
There’s gotta be a thousand good reasons why
We shouldn’t do this, shouldn’t even try
There’s gotta be a thousand more reasons why
We’re both thinking this, yeah we’re both thinking this…
Let’s rip the ceiling off the bedroom baby
Lie here and look up at the stars
For the full track, see Wolf Kier on YouTube and Bandcamp.
Check out my YouTube shorts where I featured this song in my clips.
Rainy Day in the Pacific Northwest
PS – I did one more – JB’s Fish Camp
Monday is my day to retreat. I’ve been interacting all weekend with little time in my studio. As much fun as I’ve had (check out the “Cinderella” #shorts), I’m now in my studio, inspired to write a little romantic fiction. Especially after listening to a clip of one of my favorite Wolf Kier songs – love that “Sweet Mary Lou” line. That will ring a bell for music lovers, especially those from a certain era.
So, of course, I had to do a little remix of my own. And now that clip has so inspired a scene, taking me back to the Pacific Northwest. Btw, “Raining Men” is also set in the Pacific Northwest.
When California girl BROOKE SLADE wins a “Red Hot Love Weekend” with blond surfer type BARRIE WITHERSPOON on a girlfriend’s weekend in Las Vegas, she’s sure he must be from Southern California, the only place she can imagine living. But when she discovers he’s from the rainy Pacific Northwest, she deems him “GU” (geographically undesirable) and turns him down.
So when she loses her job and the only new job available is in his hometown in wet, rainy Oregon, she find herself working alongside him. To make matters worse, he doesn’t seem to be quite as single as she thought. With new determination to make the best of things, she sets out to date every single man in the Northwest until either Barrie is out of her system or she finds the real Mr. Right. And so now it’s not only raining the wet stuff in the Pacific Northwest, it’s raining men, too. How lucky can a girl be?
Available for Kindle on Amazon.com.
And now I must go write!
Happy Monday!
I just had to do another video for “She’s Not That Good” on YouTube. Maybe because I was scrolling through my videos and saw this one of the Mariachi Band playing Jazz in the Piazza on the Crown Princess sailing the Mexican Riviera.
But this time I used the video editor in Logic Pro, meaning, I pasted the video I already had into Logic Pro on 1 track, which separated the video and sound into 2 tracks, and then ecorded my audio recording of a book excerpt on another. This way, I could match the video with the sound. It was so much fun!
And now here’s the result:
About “She’s Not That Good”
Meet Brandi Redwine from my latest release “She’s Not That Good”
Failing to launch an adult career, haunted by thoughts of never being good enough, Brandi Redwine searches for something she is good at. After chasing music and the exboyfriend in Nashville, she returns to San Francisco feeling like a loser.
Her best friend steps in and recommends her for an opportunity to compete for a job onboard a cruise ship. Her high school sweetheart is also on board, and his girlfriend is competing for the same job.
Will her entire future rest on a final performance, or will she finally realize she is good enough when she pursues what’s really in her heart?
Available now on Kindle
Chapter 1 Audio Excerpt
Chapter 4 Audio Excerpt
Chapter 7 Audio Excerpt
One of my favorite songs is “Do You Come Here Often” by Wolf Kier. He’s talking about us – romance writers – lol! Check it out here (the lyrics are in the description).
So, of course, I had to do one of those clips:
After officially completing FAWM (14 songs in 28 days), I had a blast creating DJKat’s Lounge Show by combining 3 book excerpts with music as a bit of a FAWM bonus. I’m thinking of doing a whole book this way. What do you think?
Chapter 1 Excerpt from Lucky’s Last Chance (originally titled The Tom Jones Club):
The “Blind Man at the Bar” scene from Deja Vu at the Blue Diamond (aka “French Martini”)
The Prologue from Deja Vu at the Blue Diamond (aka “French Martini”):
For the next five days, She’s Not That Good, a novella, is available for free on Kindle. I would love it if you would download it, read it, love it, and tell the world you loved it by leaving a review on amazon – lol!
Thank you!
SHE’S NOT THAT GOOD
Failing to launch an adult career, haunted by thoughts of never being good enough, Brandi Redwine searches for something she is good at. After chasing music and the exboyfriend in Nashville, she returns to San Francisco feeling like a loser.
Her best friend steps in and recommends her for an opportunity to compete for a job onboard a cruise ship. Her high school sweetheart is also on board, and his girlfriend is competing for the same job.
Will her entire future rest on a final performance, or will she finally realize she is good enough when she pursues what’s really in her heart?
AVAILABLE NOW on Kindle.
Excerpt on YouTube.
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