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I mentioned that I have been collecting Christmas songs. And when I was listening to them, I noticed the people that each song represents. The songs are the echoes of real people in life, people who find their place in the Christmas narrative year after year. Those people read books too. So I started to feel some songs were closer to particular stories of mine than others were. I could almost imagine the characters singing these songs, although Christmas has actually never been mentioned in any of my books to date. (I’d like to do a Christmas-themed book. On the bucket list. On the bucket list.)
It's true that some of the carols I gave each book weren't written in the historical era the book is set in (or they were from another culture so the characters probably wouldn't have used the song) and that my fantasy characters don't celebrate Christmas because their worlds are imaginary and I never included a Christmas-type idea in them. But if these characters lived here and now in December they might sing these songs. The people who have such and such carol as their favorite—they are the people who I wrote about in those exact books. Just for fun, I put together a playlist for you of some of these carols. Because these songs are likely so familiar to you, they might literally ring a bell. The arrangements are choral, vocal soloist, piano soloist, even Celtic. The last two are representative of several songs I associate with my two WIP. I trust by next Christmas that one of them will be published. And after that there are always Christmases to come. Always. 😊 Click Playlist (list below for which songs go with each book. This list won't appear in the actual playlist, so reference it here.) This Merry Summertime Hark the Herald Angels Sing A King is Born City of the Invaders White Christmas Hallelujah Chorus Consuela God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen I Saw Three Ships Facets of Fantasy I Wonder as I Wander Come Thou Long Expected Jesus Bellevere House It Came Upon a Midnight Clear Emmanuel (God is With Us) Ryan and Essie Ding Dong Merrily on High What Child is This The Test of Devotion The First Noel Joy to the World A Year with the Harrisons Angels We Have Heard on High The Trumpet Shall Sound (from the end of Messiah) Victoria: A Tale of Spain Oh Holy Night Sing We Now of Christmas The Birthday Present Away in a Manger Do You Hear What I Hear? Extra Sleigh Ride O Come, O Come Emmanuel And there will be more updates. Comments are closed.
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Pleasant Fiction in an Age of Noise
Sarah ScheeleI write stories about human emotions--about the journey of life. Every step of it can be meaningfully great or simply terrible and you can only reach the end after experiencing many kinds of things that make you grow. Emotional travels are the travels of life and the road of living is not one planned out in notebooks or organized in Scrivener. It is felt in love, hope, and fear and developed through an understanding of why humans go through these. And, on top of that, my stories are adventure stories. History, fantasy, and daily modern situations are all adventures as long as you don't know for sure what's going to happen when you wake up each day. Because that would be like repeating the same day over and over again and who wants to do that? Join the weekly newsletter and get This Merry Summertime: An Anthology Celebrating Family, Fantasy, and Young Women (short stories, comedy) as a signup gift! Click the book image below to get started! + Get a free sampler of first chapters from 9 other books in the welcome email.
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