In anticipation of the release of the Skinned paperback (30 days away!) and the sequel, Crashed (63 days away!), I'm working on updating my website. If all goes well, this will include a playlist of the songs that got me through writing Crashed.  Now, as I think I've mentioned around here before, I'm not known for having particularly good taste in music. You're talking to a girl whose first cassette tape was New Kids on the Block, which was maybe excusable because I was about 11, but far less excusable is my first CD when I was 14 and thus old enough to know better: The Sign, by those musical maestros, Ace of Base.

(You know, I was going to just link to this video, but I'm sorry, I can't resist.)




Anyway, the point is, I'm not sure anyone will want to see my Crashed playlist, or that it's a wise thing to make it available for public consumption, but putting it together has reminded me of something I've been meaning to post here for an incredibly long time. A few months ago, very awesome reader McKenzie B -- who, unlike me, has incredible taste in music -- decided to put together a playlist for Skinned.

And it is, like her, very awesome.  Enjoy:

"All Dead, All Dead," Queen
"Golden," Fall Out Boy
"Everything We Had," The Academy Is
"Somebody Hates Me," Reel Big Fish
"Backstabber," Dresden Dolls
"There's a Good Reason These Tables are Numbered," Panic at the Disco
"We Both Go Down Together," Decemberists (this was a particularly excellent choice, since it's actually on the real playlist, ie songs I listened to while I was writing the book)
"The Ghost of You," My Chemical Romance
"One Day, Robots Will Cry," Cobra Starship
"Coppertone," The Academy Is

And, because in addition to being awesome, McKenzie is brilliant, here's where you can listen to the whole thing yourself.