Amanda Hocking

I love listening to music when I write, and the full list of songs I listened to while writing Crystal Kingdom added up to 27 songs. I narrowed it down to the best 14 that fit the feel of the novel. My favorite song on the list is Aston’s cover of “Bulletproof” (originally performed by La Roux, which I also love so much). In Crystal Kingdom, Chapter 51: Dallience was written specifically around that song. It really set the scene so perfectly.

Here’s the YouTube playlist that includes all 14 songs on the playlist, plus a track list below.

1. Aston – “Bulletproof”
2. The Airborne Toxic Event – “Sometime Around Midnight”
3. Blondfire – “Dear In Your Headlights”
4. Broods – “Never Gonna Change”
5. Family of the Year – “Hero”
6. Fauntella Crow – “Delicate”
7. John Newman – “Love Me Again”
8. Jon E. K. – “Cold World”
9. L’anarchiste – “Juneau”
10. Mapei – “Don’t Wait”
11. MisterWives – “Vagabond”
12. of Verona – “Castles”
13. Vitamin String Orchestra – “Change (In the House of Flies)”
14. Meg Myers – “Make a Shadow”

If you haven’t preordered Crystal Kingdom yet, and you’d like to, here are some ways you can do it:

iBookstore – for ebook 
Barnes & Noble – for paperback, ebook, hardcover, & audio
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Indiebound – for paperback, hardcover, & audio 
Powell’s– for paperback
Books-a-Million– for paperback, hardcover, & audio 
Booktopia (Australia) – for paperback 
Waterstones (UK) – for paperback