On editing and music

I’ve just started the first major edit of the next novel, and it’s at times like this that I use music to help the editing process. As with all my previous books, I choose a new singer/group that I’ve never really listened to, It helps me stand outside my comfort zone, and see the words on the screen differently, more objectively. The music has to somehow relate to the protagonist. With Nadia, in the last book, 88 North, it was Siren’s Call by Cats on Trees, as the heartfelt way it is sung reminded me of the way Nadia felt about Jake, and how desperate she was to save him.…