Hi, all, got some news for you: Night Prince #3, the still-untitled third novel in Vlad and Leila’s story, has an official release date! It’s coming out January 26th, 2015. Yes, nine and a half more months from now, but I hope you’ll think it’s worth the wait once it’s finally here. As soon as I have a title, back cover description and/or pre-order links, I’ll list those, too, so stay tuned.
Speaking of Night Prince 3, I’m doing my usual shout-out for song recommendations. As many of you know, I write each book to its own “playlist,” but right now, I’m writing NP3 while listening to TWICE TEMPTED’s playlist because I haven’t made a new one yet. Many of your previous recommendations have ended up in my playlists, so can you help me out again? I mostly like alternative and rock, with a little pop, rap and retro, too. To give you a more specific idea, here’s the playlist I listened to while writing UP FROM THE GRAVE (meant to post this closer to the book’s release, so my apologies for the delay.) Usual disclaimer: There’s no special meaning for the book in these songs and music tastes are subjective, so if you don’t like the music I like, no problem. Just please don’t tell me that I shouldn’t like it, because if it’s listed, I do, thus no arguing on your part will change my mind :).
Layout is Band name: songs (if more than one from the same band). Bands are in alphabetical order, not in order of preference or the order that I listened to them.
Apocalyptica: Not Strong Enough.
Band of Horses: Is There A Ghost, The Funeral.
David Crowder Band: Come Find Me, Sometimes.
David Guetta / Sia: She Wolf
Imagine Dragons: Radioactive, Tiptoe, It’s Time, Demons, Hear Me, Every Night, Bleeding Out.
The Killers: Miss Atomic Bomb
Lifehouse: Gotta Be Tonight, Between The Raindrops, Only You’re The One, Where I Come From, Always Somewhere Close, Had Enough, Smoke and Mirrors, By Your Side, All That I’m Asking For, Crash and Burn, Don’t Wake Me When It’s Over.
Matt Maher: Alive Again.
Mumford and Sons: Babel, I Will Wait.
The National: Fake Empire, Bloodbuzz Ohio, Demons, Sea of Love, Graceless.
One Republic: All We Are, Feel Again.
The Script / Will.i.am: Hall of Fame.
Shinedown: Unity, I’m Not Alright, Miracle, For My Sake, Through the Ghost.
Skylar Grey: Coming Home, part 2.
Snow Patrol: In The End.
Within Temptation: The Howling, Frozen, All I Need, Stand My Ground, What Have You Done, Angels, Memories.
Awesome, can’t wait!!
Have you listened to any Ed Sheeran? I loved his stuff so much I bought his whole CD. Kiss Me, Lego House and Give Me Love are favorites.
I also like The Civil Wars, favorites are Dust to Dust, Barton Hollow and Poison & Wine.
Be Still by The Fray is another good one.
Can’t wait for Book #3, I’ve reread the first two frequently and am very excited for a new installment!
I see fire by Ed Sheeran is really good as well. It was in the 2nd Hobbit movie.
I see fire with Ed Sheeran had me thinking of Vlad!
I know this is gonna sound corny, but I think when you are writing a love scene for Vlad and Leila you should play Sex on Fire by Kings of Leon! Maybe it’s just me, but that song seems to fit them!! Love all your books and can’t wait for NP3!!!
Stardust by Gemini Syndrome
Have you listened to Skillet yet? Monster is a phenomenal song.
Skillet is definitely a good one…Hero, Whispers in the Dark, and Awake and Alive are some of their best
really love feel like a monster
Super Excited for Night Prince 3!!!! I love We As Human: Strike Back or Red:Same Disease…really great songs
Try Concrete Blonde “Bloodletting” or The Murder City Devils “Press Gang” or Billy Talent “Devil on my Shoulder”. They are something different you could try.
For Your playlist maybe something from Poland:
Dawid Podsiadlo – “Comfort and Happiness”
That’s a new CD, but I especially recommand “Trojkaty i kwadraty” (or english version “S&T”), “And I”, “No”, “!H.a.p.p.y!”
You can find it on Spotify. It’s first album of young singer from Poland and it is truly amazing.
Halestorm- familiar taste of poison
Avantasia- wicked symphony
Manowar- Warriors of the world
Apocalyptica – broken pieces
Five Finger Death Punch- the bleeding
Enjoy 😀
Skylar Grey: Back From the Dead
Sia: Breathe Me, My Love
Ellie Goulding: Explosions, Burn
Chevelle: Safewaters
One Republic: All Fall Down, Marching On, All This Time, If I Lose Myself
Those are just a few. Hope you like them. I loved the choices for the Twice Tempted playlist. You’ve hot excellent taste. Looking forward to the third Night Prince novel :).
Arctic Monkeys (Do I Wanna Know), Muse (Super Massive Black Hole), Phantogram
Black Roses sung by Clare Bowen from the cast of Nashville is a good song to listening to whilst writing if you take away the music as much as it is an excellent piece of music and just read the words, the words are awesome and hold so much depth its unreal and as a writer you can agree am sure a words can say a thousand different things depending on the situation and the interpretation.
Cant wait for the new book even if i do have to wait nine and half months. gutted but we do have the new series of books starting which should be an interesting read. I will certainly miss all the night huntress characters has they have become a big part of my life and i love reading the books over and over. There are many scenes that will stick with me for a long time and am sure other readers have the same feeling and there own scenes as well as those that everyone unites together in enjoying.
I like The Pretty Reckless. Two songs come to mind “You make me want to Die” and “Going to Hell.” She is rock but I think you will like her. I can see Lelia going dark in these songs.
Enter Sandman
Disturbed — survival
Avenge seven fold- dear God
Cannot wait for the next book to come out!
How about: Bastille – Things we lost in the fire
Have you heard of imagine dragons I just started lIstening to them recently and live them
I can’t wait for this book! I love Vlad and Leila.
Remember everything by Five finger death punch
What if I was nothing by All that remains
One for the money by Escape the fate
Some great bands: Tallhart, She’s a Keeper, Not A Planet, Chidodos, Four Years Strong, Bright Eyes, Florence & The Machine.
Some great artists: Peter Gabriel, Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds, Tori Amos, Kate Nash, Jenny Owen Youngs.
I am so excited for the next Vlad book! Thought UFTG was the literal definition of perfection. Thank you, thank you, thank you. 🙂
http://youtu.be/h4Vbj_mbMIc
Try this one. Think it would work well for NP3.
There’s something about Venus Hum… No matter the subject/tone of the song, they bring me joy. Their first album came out in 2003, yet I keep going back to it (or maybe I never left it). The whole album is spectacular, as is their later stuff, but I’d say Soul Sloshing or Sonic Boom might be good songs to start with.
Halestorm is great.
My personal favorites are: Here’s to Us, Bet You Wish You Had Me Back, In Your Room, Love/Hate Heartbreak, I Miss the Misery.
Other recommendations:
Kongos: Come With Me Now
The Killers: Shot At the Night
Needtobreathe: Keep Your Eyes Open
Kodaline: High Hopes
St. Lucia All Eyes on You
try some Evanescence and Foo Fighters… Ed Shearen’s Lego House is good too…. 🙂 Can Wait for the new book. 🙂
The Toadies: I Burn, Possum Kingdom,Tyler…. well, everthing By them works for me.
Hi, can’t wait.
Here are some songs I really like:
Biffy Clyro /Opposite
Editors /An End Has a Start, Escape The Nest, Like Treasure
White LIes/ E.S.T,
100 Monkeys /Ldf
My recommendation is Thunder Clatter by Wild Cub. Really loving this song right now.
Biffy Clyro. Anything on their Opposites or Only Revolutions albums. Solid gold.
Night Prince #3
CANNOT WAIT!!
Love it!
I love love LOVE the Apocalyptica song! Excellent choice!
Have you listened to “Monster You Made” by Pop Evil?
Can’t wait for NP3!
Try listening to Icon for Hire- Only a memory; i love them
Oh and now i cannot wait until January!!! NP3!! woot!!
Anything from Volbeat or Nonpoint
Hozier: Take Me to Church
Ms Mr: Think of You
Lo Fang: When We’re Fire
My recs are Paradise by Within Temptation
Hail to the King and This means War by Avenged Sevenfold
Can’t wait for more Vlad
Artist: Adam Hurst. Album title: Ritual. Song: Seduction. It makes me think of Vlad. xx
Hailstorm is an awesome group.
Two songs that always makes me think of Vlad is
Set Fire to the Rain by Adele
Closer by Kings of Leon
You might try an a capella group called Pentatonix. They have some really outstanding music. You can find them at iTunes or YouTube to sample them.
The Pretty Reckless has some good ones 🙂
Cannot wait for NP3 and I love the play list you posted. I have most of those songs on my own play list (and Within Temptation is one of my favorite bands).
You may also wanna try: Evanescence, Dishwalla, Fireflight, Eric Clapton, Dishwalla, Kenny Loggins, Dido, Kerli, Nightwish, Skillet, Breaking Benjamin.
Gosh, i can’t wait for the next Night Prince novel! thats gonna be a long wait.
My recommendations are:
Samantha Jade: What you’ve done to me, Firestarter, Soldier.
The Script (i saw you mentioned Hall of Fame, these are some others by them that i love): Six degrees of seperation, You won’t feel a thing, If you could see me now, Nothing, Dead Man Walking.
Gabrielle Aplin: The power of Love
Katy Perry: Dark Horse, Unconditionally
Breaking Benjamin: Blow Me Away, I will not bow, Breath
Jessica Mouboy: Never Be the Same.
Rhianna and Enimen: Monster
This is a pretty mixed group of suggestions. Hope they help.
I cant wait. Love your books.
I want to add to your music list.
Lorde-Love Club or any song.
Any song by Florence and the machine.
The fight scene between Bones and Cat in his New Orleans home, always makes the song “kiss with a fist” play in my head.
Have you heard of Ane Brun?
we discovered her last year
my favourite album is It All Starts with One,
tracks – Undertow, One & Do You Remember
Cheers
In This Moment: Adrenalize, Lost At Sea
Sevendust: Black (acoustic)
Stone Sour: Tired
Wow, 2015 seems like a long time! The other two were 9 months apart….. but, okay, I’ll try to not whine… too much.
ALt-J has an amazing album – An Awesome Wave. Quiet, densely layered. Every few weeks I have a new favourite song, but Taro, Matilda, Tesselate and Blood Flood deserve special mention.
The Lumineers is also great. To me it sounds like the ultimate ‘guy’ album – pure male joy.
BAbe I’m Gonna Leave You – Led Zeppelin
Awayland by Villagers – particularly Earthly Pleasures (which is a cool fantasy song) and Nothing Arrived.
Don’t always like Drake’s lyrics – a bit too mysoginistic and self-aggrandising – but still find myself listening to Take Care incessantly. KEndrick Lamarr’s Good Kid Maad City is even better!
I’ll end (yeah, I could go on and on, but the keyboard on this tablet sucks – ahem, luckily) with Milo Greene -1957.
RIght, one more – The Noisettes – Atticus.
Soooo, hopefully some of these songs will help to get your creative juices really flowing, and who knows, it might be only 8,7,6 months to d-date!
I know, it’s much longer than the length between Once Burned and Twice Tempted. Sorry. If it’s any consolation, you get two more books to read in between that wait: Up From The Grave (came out this January) and The Beautiful Ashes (coming out this August.)
Thanks for the song recs! I’ll check out the other bands, and I already have The Lumineers on my playlist for The Beautiful Ashes :).
Kind of a random mix here:
Dr. Feel Good by Rania; Innocence by Halestorm; Show Me by Kid Ink; How Could This Happen To Me by Simple Plan; Everywhere I go and Gangsta Sexy by Hollywood Undead; and Royals by Lorde
Looking forward to Vlad & Layla’s HEA. 🙂
Song List
Maybe some music from indie-alternative-psychedelic rock band
The Flaming Lips…
“Do You Realize??”
“Fight Test”
“Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, pt. 1”
Hi jeaniene,
I always think that breakin benjamin suits vlad and leila.
Breakin benjamin-breat, I will not bow, dance with the devil
There is this band from Cali that I love called Dommin. They never made it big but their music is awesome.
Love is Gone, Dark Holiday, My Heart-Your hands, and Remember are some of my Top faves but the whole album is great! You should definitely try it!
What I want to know is WHY VALD and LEILA ONLY GETS 3 BOOKS??????
I mean come on Cat and Bones get 7. I ardour them too don’t get me wrong.
But I mean Vald has been out their for centuries fighting Bones is still the new kid on the block
compared to Vald.
Also Cat’s got a cool new power, so is Leila going to get the same now she’s turned into a vampire.
and what about training, cat kicks ass with what she’s learned, but surely with the amount of enemies Vald’s got he’s not going to let his wife have only one form of defence. Yes he maybe old fashioned, and all that, but dam it he knows Leila won’t stay locked up safe and sound, she is just as much a fighter as his best friend Cat.
I’d love to see it when all the wives get together and go clubbing , shopping and as usually get way over their heads in trouble. Can you guys picture it, Leila, Cat, Kyra and Denise on a girls night out while the boys are at home discussing business.
Flamingstar
If I have more story to tell with Vlad and Leila by the end of Night Prince 3, I’ll tell it in a fourth book. BUT, as of now, I don’t have more story, and I detailed at length in this post, that when I’m done with a storyline, the series is done.
Sorry, I know all good things have to come to an end, but I still think The Night Prince’s stories weren’t ready to end yet. I hope you do end up writing a fourth book because I would be one of the first ones buying a copy Vlad and Leila ROCK.
I bought the entire Night huntress series and audio series so I get to listen to it while I work.
I always thought you should be able to enjoy a good book while you work.
I love your work Jeaniene and look forward to the stories yet to come.
Flamingstar.
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