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I start out every writing day with Symphony of Science’s gorgeous song A Glorious Dawn. So I look for clever, lyrical music with a twinge of melancholy – all stories about fairies have a little melancholy in them. Fairyland is both an adventure story and a prodding-sometimes gentle, sometimes sharp-of the whole tradition of children’s literature.

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A lot of the songs I like to listen to seem like they could be sung in the voice of my protagonist, September, who is carried away from her home in Nebraska by the Green Wind (who rides a Leopard) and finds her way to Fairyland, a kingdom full of wyverns, witches, marauding herds of wild bicycles, and a very wicked Marquess who has inflicted some very human cruelties on the magical world. There’s very much a sweet spot to find! With the Fairyland novels, the playlist is called Exeunt on a Leopard and it evolves with every book.įairyland is a novel about travel and magic, about growing up, about figuring out the world is a more complicated place than you thought. Anything too aggressive and I get distracted, too soft and gentle and I get sleepy. So often I start a novel by making a playlist for it, songs that say something about the subject and have a beat conducive to writing. I can’t write without music – it’s an intimate part of my process. This week’s post is by multi-award-winning author and New York Times bestselling author Catherynne M Valente by Carl Sagan featuring Symphony of Science, Loreen, Ke$ha, Milla Jovovich, Yann Tiersen, Florence + the Machine, Mumford and Sons, The Decemberists, Anais Mitchell, Orenda Fink, Anna Ternheim, Pogo, Sufjan Stevens, Nobuo Uematsu, Tom Waits, Seanan McGuire, Andrew Bird, Circus Contraption, Antje Duvekot, The Innocence Mission, Rilo Kiley, Jason Webley, Neutral Milk Hotel, DJ Earworm, Ru Paul, Lady Gaga, S.J. Once a week I host a writer who uses music as part of their creative process – perhaps to tap into a character, populate a mysterious place, or explore the depths in a pivotal moment. Horn also sang 'Kungsholmens hamn' in a memorial ceremony for the victims of the 2011 Norway attacks in Utøya and Oslo.‘I look for clever, lyrical music with a twinge of melancholy’ Her fourth album Om du vill vara med mig came out on 2 October 2013, and her fifth album entitled Jag går nu came out on 27 November 2015. She promoted it with a tour in Norway, Denmark and Sweden.

A sequel to that album Innan jag kände dig was launched on 16 September 2011 and topped the Swedish Album Charts within its first week of release.

This record eventually went gold, exposing her to a larger audience she was nominated for Gramiss (Swedish equivalent of the Grammy Awards) in the categories Artist of the Year, Composer of the Year and Lyricist of the Year. Melissa Horn's debut album Långa nätter was released on 30 April 2008 followed by Säg ingenting till mig on 14 October 2009. In 2010, she started a company called Edward AB. She took vocal courses and then got hold of a producer and eventually got a record contract before she finished high school. Her parents got her a guitar when she turned 16, and not long afterwards she wrote her first song. She was born to singer Maritza Horn (born 1951), and Edvard Terrence Weitzberg (born 1955) in an area in Södermalm, near Stockholm.

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