I almost always have music playing when I’m writing or editing. I put together playlists for each book so I can get myself in the right mood. Here are all the songs I’ve been listening to while writing and editing Her Runaway Lady, a sapphic romance set in Paris in the 1880s. The setting is a Belle Epoque That Never Was but the music in this playlist, titled Sapphos, is all over the place.
It includes Fever Ray, k.d. lang, Billie Eilish, Unwoman, Sinead O’Connor, Morphine, Satie, songs from the Moulin Rouge soundtrack, Cat Stevens, Kate Bush, Baby Rose, Girlpool, Suzanne Vega, yeule, Saint Avangeline, Kiki Rockwell, Aimee Mann, Nouvelle Vague, Florence + the Machine, Christine and the Queens, Julien Baker, dodie, India, Tove Lo, Cecile Chaminade, Arlo Parks, Floor Cry, chloe moriondo, Debussy, Jill Tracy, Willow, and Sharon Van Etten.
These songs have ALL the feels of two young women falling in love but resisting that with everything they’ve got.
If you listen to it, leave a comment and let me know what your favorite track is.
BJ Sikes, author 