Character Playlists

Ever wonder what's on your characters' iPods?

I think music ranks right up there with fragrance in evoking memories. It becomes an important part of scene-setting, and I incorporate many instances in Shiva's Arms. For instance, on page 20, I imagined that this song could have been playing when Ram first met Alice. Those hippies!

But Ram has his own favorites, vestiges of the culture he had turned from. "He hummed the same song e...