A warm welcome to author AV Sanders joining us today at our blog to talk about her first release “Percolation, Poetry, and Passion”

A.V brought along a post about the playlist for this book and she even brought not one but two giveaway !

Welcome A.V 🙂

Hello, Love Bytes, thanks so much for hosting me! I am so honored to be here today to talk to you about some of the music that helped shaped my debut release, novelette “Percolation, Poetry, and Passion”! I like everything from alternative rock to ‘80’s New Wave, and I have been listening to “techno” since the late ‘90’s. Now that genre has refined into Trance, Progressive Trance, and the blanket term “Electronic Dance Music”, or EDM. When I’m writing, EDM is definitely my music of choice.

What I’ll be sharing with you today are five songs that started to stand out while I was writing this story. As it is with all EDM music for me, the sound and beat to them is what resonates most with me, but the lyrics can be very appropriate, too. I hope you enjoy these selections, and if you would like to listen to some more awesome EDM songs that inspired this story, and my other work, you can check out my Playlist on my blog here: http://annenigmatic.tumblr.com/tagged/Playlist

CLMD vs Kish, featuring Fröder // The Stockholm Syndrome

This song has an awesome sound, and I can’t even tell you how many times I listened to it. Even though actual Stockholm Syndrome is NOT romantic, I think the lyrics to this song are. It reminds me of the scene on the book cover, too. Lyrics that relate to the story: Everywhere I go it’s that city I keep thinking of, I got the Stockholm Syndrome, Everywhere I turn I see places where we fell in love // Standing on the platform, Blinded by the city lights, Oh, still I’m so drawn, Sweep me back into your night // Warm wind caress me

Steve Angello featuring Dougy from The Temper Trap // Wasted Love

If the story had an anthem (for sound, not for theme, thank goodness) it would be this song. It’s beautiful, and one I fall in love with a little more each time I hear it. I think my MC, Simon, can relate to these lyrics very strongly. There’s also a hopefulness to the tone of the song that I think is very telling for Simon. It should be noted that the video’s cinematography is simply stunning. Bonus: The “New Player” at the very end is the mixing DJ Steve Angello. Lyrics that relate to the story: Wasted love, Why do I always give so much? Wasted Love, You know I gave you all my heart, Wasted Love, Can’t help but always give too much, But it’s never enough // Tried my luck, On a little flame, (S)He became The fire within

Kyla La Grange // Cut Your Teeth

Cut Your Teeth is something that I imagine would be playing in The Percolation Station, the coffee shop where Simon comes to write and my other MC, Beckett, works as a barista. It has that soulful, mysterious, thought provoking power that’s a lot like a good cup of coffee… Lyrics that relate to the story: Didn’t I say it slowly? Didn’t I make it clear? Is it unfair to ask you, Why it is you’re still here? // You cut your teeth on the lack of answers, and you, Come back home and it don’t feel the same, Well I, bled words onto a page for you, And you never knew my name

Lana Del Rey, DJ Cedric Gervais Remix // Summertime Sadness

Just a great song, no way around it. Since my MC’s do spend some quality time cruising around the coast in the Summer-time, it was a natural fit. Lyrics that relate to the story: I’m feelin’ electric tonight, Cruising down the coast goin’ ’bout 99, Got my bad baby by my heavenly side, I know if I go, I’ll die happy tonight // Oh, my God, I feel it in the air, Telephone wires above are sizzling like a snare, Honey, I’m on fire, I feel it everywhere, Nothing scares me anymore // Kiss me hard before you go, Summertime sadness, I just wanted you to know, That, baby, you’re the best

Cole Plante featuring Brian Logan Dales + Brix // Before I’m Yours

This song is perfect, perfect, for: the date. That’s all I’m going to say. ;3 Lyrics that relate to the story: Across the sky, you shoot your bow and arrow, And I’m yours, I’m yours, I’m yours // Our colors start to collide, Like a rainbow, baby so bright, The kind of feeling we just can’t hide, just can’t hide, Everyone can see our hearts tonight, Looks like love at first sight

Book Info:

Title: “Percolation, Poetry, and Passion”

Author: A.V. Sanders

Page/Word Count: 41 pages/12,000 words

Release Date: August 26, 2015

Publisher: Less Than Three Press

Genre: Contemporary Gay M/M Romance, featuring a May/December Relationship

Blurb:

Beckett works at a coffee shop to make ends meet while attending a prestigious university. It’s not the most exciting job, but he’s done it long enough he’s good at it—and can avoid the tedium by spinning sexy little daydreams of things he doubts will ever happen. Daydreams that soon include Simon, the hot, handsome, and older freelance writer who stops in one day. But then Simon becomes a regular, a bright spot more interesting than the inside of Beckett’s head, and daydreams start to seem like they could be something far more tangible—if reality doesn’t get in the way first.

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A.V. Sanders loves and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She shares her home with her husband, two cats, and tropical aquarium fish. She is an avid hoarder of Halloween decorations and inconsequential information. When writing science fiction, mystery, and horror with LGBTQ main characters, she can be found staying up all hours of the night listening to endless sets of EDM music. She is an advocate of love, art, animals and frivolous acts of beauty. She also has a growing suspicion that not causing harm to one another is what matters in the end.

Author Connect info:

Website: http://avsanders.com/

Twitter: @Annenigmatic https://twitter.com/Annenigmatic

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010081561254

Tumblr: http://annenigmatic.tumblr.com/

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14011372.A_V_Sanders

 

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