To me, writing and music are completely intertwined. The process of writing Slow Boil Rising was no exception to this proposition.

With that in mind, I am going to start a series of blog posts highlighting some of the music I listened to for inspiration while writing the novel. This also happens to be music I recommend listening to while reading it!

Now, much of the plot in Slow Boil transpires out in the "Great Not-East" as it is called in the year 0039. And much of the plot feels and smells like a grainy cowboy flick from the 1960s with a bunch of guys in hats riding horses and chasing after treasure or bad guys or revenge. That the plot has that grainy, arid texture in places is no accident, because I frickin' love Spaghetti Westerns.

So in this first musical post, let's cover the Spaghetti Western aspect of Slow Boil.

A good rule of thumb is if El Asno or Beetle Johnschild appear on the page, this music was cranking in the background!

(And a brief timing update, things are looking very good for a mid-August release. Cover design and copy edit are both proceeding nicely!)