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Michelle Dayton shares her Spotify playlist for her latest release “Every Other New Year’s Eve”

December 11, 2025 · Posted by Tule Publishing

I’m so excited about the release of my new book, EVERY OTHER NEW YEAR’S EVE.  This is the first in a new series, the “Any Time Now” trilogy.  Each love story in this series is going to be complicated by an element of … oh, let’s call it “time magic.”

In the first book, Paige meets Will on December 31st in a bar she’s never noticed before—which is odd since she lives less than a mile away.  It’s a great place, but it doesn’t make much sense.  People are wearing fashions from bygone decades and there’s not a song on the jukebox after 1979. Somehow, though, this quirky venue is the perfect place to fall in love – too bad it only exists every two years on New Year’s Eve.

As I was writing all the scenes that take place in this magical place, I kept hearing the jukebox songs in my head.  Naturally, I had to create a Spotify playlist for the soundtrack of the bar—and the book.

So here, my friends, is a little something for you.  Play it this New Year’s Eve with a glass of bubbles. 

EVERY OTHER NEW YEAR’S EVE Playlist

Feels Like the First Time – Foreigner

Bad, Bad Leroy Brown – Jim Croce

Dreams – Fleetwood Mac

You’re The First, The Last, My Everything – Barry White

Let’s Stay Together – Al Green

Paradise By the Dashboard Light – Meat Loaf

Disco Inferno – The Trammps

All Out of Love – Air Supply

Let’s Get It On – Marvin Gaye

Knock Three Times – Tony Orlando & Dawn

I Will Always Love You – Dolly Parton

About the Author.

There are only three things Michelle Dayton loves more than sexy and suspenseful novels: her family, the city of Chicago, and Mr. Darcy. Michelle dreams of a year of world travel — as long as the trip would include weeks and weeks of beach time. As a bourbon lover and unabashed wine snob, Michelle thinks heaven is discussing a good book over an adult beverage.

ROAD TO YOU: Release day blog featuring author Barbara Ankrum

June 7, 2018 · Posted by Tule Publishing

ROAD TO YOU (and me) via Holly Golightly and Princess Ann

My non-writer friends find the whole idea of writing books fascinating crazy. The very idea makes them offer me a glass of wine and a sympathetic pat on the back. I understand this, of course. Sitting down in front of a computer with a blank page and a blinking cursor intimidates me too, even after twenty-some books. Trying to explain how ideas come to me—a frequently asked question—is even harder. I suppose that’s because no two books are ever the same, not in the way they come to me, nor in the way I figure out how to tell their stories. My latest book, ROAD TO YOU, Book Two in my Band of Brothers series, was no exception. The inspiration for it came (weirdly) from Hollywood. But more on that in a minute…

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Listen to Justine Davis’s playlist that inspired WHISKEY RIVER ROCKSTAR, out today!

April 23, 2018 · Posted by Tule Publishing

Books start in different ways, for me at least. Sometimes it’s a single situation or scene, and I have to build both up to it and down after it. Sometimes it’s an exchange of dialogue that pops into my head and I have to know who these people are and how they came to the point where this exchange happens. Sometimes it’s an image, a still or in video, that sparks something. Sometimes it’s hearing something said; I once got an entire book out of a conversation between a mother and her young son in the produce aisle of a grocery store.

 

But the one thing all of them have in common is music. Songs had always inspired stories, but it was somewhat belatedly in my career that I discovered that a “soundtrack” helped my mind set. And when I began writing more than one book at a time, that soundtrack became essential; it was the main thing that could shift my mind from one world to another. In the case of Whiskey River Rockstar, I already knew my heroine, Zee Mahan, from the previous books. But Jamie Templeton was a bit more elusive, and took some searching.

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