Playlist for SHIFTING EARTH on Large Hearted Boy!

I made a play list for SHIFTING EARTH over at the fabulous site Large Hearted Boy! The playlist over there has a song by song annotation.

I am sitting in my office in Los Angeles during a horrible and relentless heatwave that has lasted over a week. The sun was blood red when it set yesterday, signaling that there’s a fire somewhere covering the sky with smoke. We are in a terrible never-ending drought in California and the farms and their crops are suffering and we will all feel the consequences of that. That’s just the reality for us on this Thursday but it’s been that way for a long time now and this march towards more and more extreme weather due to the climate crisis is what motivated me to write this book. But I didn’t want to write something hopeless, where there were no solutions and there was only dystopia. I wanted to write something that was hopeful, that had at its heart stated that today is always a good day to start doing something to help this planet that we love and live on. I wanted to write a book where we could see that there are other paths that we could have taken and that though we are human and that we may fumble, we can still course correct if we have the will to take bold actions moving forward. Shifting Earth is an attempt at having a character, botanist Maeve Lindholm, seeing and landing in a place where the grass is literally greener, but that doesn’t mean that there’s still not a lot of work to be done. When one does comics, it’s a collaboration, and so I want to give a shout out to Flavia Biondi for her beautiful art that really shows the two paths the two Earths in our book take. I’d also like to give a great big nod to our colorist Fabiana Mascolo, whose colors in the book really drive home the differences in the two worlds. This play list is a listen along mood board for the whole book, moving through the story from beginning to end.

I hope you enjoy the music and the book!