If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you’ve probably seen some of my playlists and Pinterest storyboards for my published books that I’ve shared from time to time—but it wasn’t till recently that I got around to adding all the links to the books’ pages on my website. While I was at it, I thought it would be fun do a roundup post featuring all of them. Not every one of my books has a storyboard or playlist, but both my recent Western mysteries and all three of my historical fairytale retellings do.
Land of Hills and Valleys
Pinterest storyboard | Story playlist
This board feels a little more random and not as visually elegant as some of my others (see below!), but a lot of the individual images really fit with my mental vision of the story’s setting—there’s a whole bunch of elements from it in there, even if they are a bit scrambled together.
Bridge to Trouble
Pinterest storyboard
I never had a playlist for this story, but parts of the storyboard are probably older than any of my other boards, because it was an old idea that sat on a back burner (and in a private Pinterest board) for years before I made it over into the final version of Bridge to Trouble.
The Mountain of the Wolf
Pinterest storyboard | Story playlist
Somehow this was one of the easiest boards to create—the perfect images for it just fell into place and kept right on doing so. Perhaps because it’s a very moody, atmospheric type of story, and to me storyboards are all about capturing a mood or atmosphere. The playlist is a shorter one, but the pieces in it are also right on the nose.
Lost Lake House
Pinterest storyboard | Story playlist
This one is still one of my favorite storyboards/playlist combinations I’ve ever created. Lost Lake House is a very visual, descriptive sort of story, and I was able to find a lot of pictures that really matched my mental images, and—which doesn’t always happen—some of the pictures I pinned actually inspired new bits of description or new incidents in the story as I was writing it. The playlist is also super fun because it’s not only full of the type of music that features prominently in the book, but a lot of it is the classical-meets-jazz style that I really love.
Corral Nocturne
Pinterest storyboard | Story playlist
This is a smaller board than any of the rest, since it was one of the first I did and I hadn’t really gotten the hang of Pinterest yet. The playlist, on the other hand, has always been a favorite—including pieces that not only fit the mood of the book, but the composition that inspired the title and a waltz that plays a key role in the story.
(Though not as ambitious as any of these others, I also have a board for the Mrs. Meade Mysteries with a very small section for each story).