![]() Even imprudent Miranda, who has recently had to move back home, is being unusually solicitous.īut with her daughters doubting her campaign against their father, Jennifer can’t help but wonder if the poisoning is all in her head-or if there’s someone else who wanted her dead.Nisha Patel is the City of Edmonton’s eighth Poet Laureate and the 2019 Canadian Individual Slam Champion. Moody scientist Aline, who keeps her mother at arm’s length, nonetheless agrees to help with the investigation. Calm medical student Emily is there for whatever Jennifer needs. ![]() Meanwhile, her daughters are each processing the news differently. Separated from her husband and with a contentious divorce in progress, Jennifer focuses her suspicions on her soon-to-be ex. But when she realizes she was possibly poisoned a year earlier, she’s determined to discover who might have tried to get rid of her before she’s gone for good. While stunned by the diagnosis, the forty-eight-year-old mother decides to spend what little time she has left with her family-her adult triplets and twin grandsons-close by her side. Jennifer Barnes never expected the shocking news she received at a routine doctor’s appointment: she has a terminal brain tumor-and only six weeks left to live. Six Weeks to Live by Catherine McKenzie, out now! ![]() There are many more great songs on the full playlist, which I hope you’ll check out along with the book! Happy listening! But her songs are curative and catchy and great music to write to. Doctor, doctor, you don’t have to cure me from this pain that I’m feeling. If you haven’t listened to it, you need to immediately. I don’t even know how I found MoZella but her Belle Isle album has inspired a lot of writing by me. I can’t control my fingers, I can’t control my toes. Most of my best writing happens when I don’t have too much time to think about it, my fingers flying, and this is the kind of song that can make that happen. But on a meta level, for me as a writer, it has a propulsive beat that helps me drive words onto the page. “ Yesterday you were an only child/Now your ghosts have gone away/You can kill them in the classic style/Now you, “parlez vous francais” – I mean, come on! Trust me, listen.Īnother obvious choice given the subject matter. Of course, Jennifer doesn’t listen to this advice, there wouldn’t be a book if she did. Don’t wait for answers … don’t ask me why. A song about questions and getting through adversity. A great song and a great cover.Īn oldie but a goodie-gah, I really am old. But the sentiment of the song- you don’t always know what you’ve got till it’s gone -is pretty apt too. The title for chapter two of Six Weeks to Live is Paved Paradise, Put Up a Parking Lot-a lyric from the song, and it takes place in, well, a parking lot. This Joni Mitchell song has always been a favorite, but I love this cover that Counting Crows did in 2002. “Big Yellow Taxi” by Counting Crows, feat. As the kids these days say, this song “slaps”. “Insane in the Membrane” by the Old School PlayersĪlso known as “Insane in the Brain” by Cypress Hill, this classic from 1993 doesn’t have much to do with the plot of my book, but the title was perfect for the first chapter where Jennifer Barnes learns that she has brain cancer and only six weeks to live. You can find the full playlist here (Apple) and here (Spotify) but here are the first five songs. Think the film DOA meets Before I Fall Asleep. She sets out to figure out who tried to kill her before her time runs out. I recently did this for my latest psychological suspense novel, Six Weeks to Live, which is about a woman who learns that she has terminal brain cancer, but also discovers that she was likely poisoned a year before. It often surprises me in the end, all the songs I played, all the thoughts and words those songs inspired. When the book is done, I go back and put together a playlist which is a roadmap to my writing of the book. Sometimes the theme is obvious and sometimes it’s simply something that inspired me-a phrase, a feeling, something that helped me write that chapter. Those song titles, or lyrics from them, often appear as chapter titles in my books. When I’m first-draft drafting though, I often pick a song for each chapter I write to set the mood and theme. Something on Netflix that I’ve already watched, or the news or music playing. I can pretty much write anywhere, but I generally need some ambient noise in the background-something on to distract me from my overactive brain. One of my writer friends now writes with her youngest child clinging to her back-not her choice, but a necessity. Others require the hustle and bustle of a public space (also in short supply) or some other distraction. Some require total silence to write-in short supply these days for a lot of people.
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