We interrupt this Day of HaBO-lation to … give away some books! Jill Sorenson is giving away five ARCs of her her debut single-title romance Crash Into Me, due out in January 2009. Crash Into Me is about a tough female FBI agent placed undercover to investigate a gorgeous-hot but reclusive pro surfer.
Want one? She’s looking for help among the brilliance of the Bitchery: her editor at Bantam is looking for sexy/provocative song lyrics or titles for the title of her next book. “Crash Into Me” is, obviously, the extremely sultry Dave Matthews Band song, so her editor wants to keep with that theme. Jill’s untitled book, to be released in fall 2009, features “a wildlife expert heroine and a reluctant sheriff hero, investigating a mountain lion mauling in the fictional desert town of Tenaja Falls, California.”
[Note: Wildlife expert heroine?! Wildlife expert?! Paging Paul Tolme! Paging Paul Tolme!]
Jill will pick the winners this time tomorrow, and winners will each receive a shiny, spiffy ARC of Crash Into Me. Winners are humbly asked to post a review or their thoughts of the book on their own blogs, or to post them as a comment to the winner’s announcement tomorrow.
Here are some awful suggestions that are easy to beat to get you started: The Lion Sleeps Tonight!. Dude Looks Like a Lion! And… wait for it… wait for it… Love Bites!
Truly, there aren’t enough 80’s Hair Band Power Ballads used as romance novel titles, and that’s a damn hairy shame.
Lions – Dire Straits
I Am the Lion – Neil Diamond
Lion’s Den – Bruce Springsteen
Iron Lion Zion – Bob Marley
One Love (Song of the Lion) – Pat Benetar
Lion in Winter – Hoyt Axton
Gold Lion – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Why not another Dave Matthews song?
Sleep To Dream Her
I Shot the Sheriff. Okay, probably not a good one, but someone had to say it.
Um.
The Lion Sleeps Tonight.
Eye of the Tiger
Hungry like the Wolf
I don’t why I’m giggling uncontrollably, but I am.
Yea, Jill!!!! I’m terrible at titles. My publishers never keep mine, but they usually keep the ones my critique partner comes up with. I’ll send her over. *g*
Oh, and if Dave Matthews’ song lyrics are any indication… his lovers must crawl from his bed in the morning, their limbs boneless and weak.*purr*
Cat Scratch Fever
Smelly Cat (oh, someone had to pull that one out, come on!)
This Cat’s on a Hot Tin Roof
Born to be Wild (yaay, cliché!)
Look What the Cat Dragged In
Stray Cat Strut
Cat’s in the Cradle
And my personal favourite…
Beware! Cougar!
Okay, here are my suggestions:
Under the Gun—The Killers
Tranquilize—The Killers
For Reasons Unknown—The Killers
Night in My Veins—The Pretenders
Can you tell what I’ve bee listening to lately? 😉
Wild Thing
(nuh nuh. NUH NUH. you make my heart sing. etc)
catch word: ways55 – 55 ways to entitle your novel?
My favourite sultry song is by Eliza Gilkyson, Unless You Want Me
It’s lush and sensual, and sung by a woman, which may be appropriate if the man is reluctant.
I first heard it on the radio (ckua.com) and it grabbed so hard I actually contacted them to find out who the artist was.
The lyrics (grabbed from some site, and may be a little wrong):
don’t turn the light out
don’t let the night in
unless you want me now
don’t take your clothes off
or bear your soft skin
unless you want me now
don’t turn your gaze on me
unless you want the whole of my caress
to touch your soul
to come to rest in the moonlight
don’t close your eyes and
breathe with the soft wind
unless you want me now
unless you want me
my body aches when you draw near
your fragrance whispers in my ear
I can’t hold back my feelings here
in the moonlight
don’t touch my body
don’t even smile at me
unless you really want me now
unless you want me now
don’t turn the light out
don’t let the night in
unless you want me
spamword: public17 Go public radio!
I had way too much fun with this.
Funny:
Animal : Def Leppard (or really, anything by Def Leppard)
Mahna Mahna : The Muppets
All I Wanna Do is You : Bon Jovi
Serious:
When I Said I Do : Clint Black
“When I said I do, I meant that I will ‘til the end of all time”
Fast as I can : Great Big Sea
“From the first “Hello” you gave to me I’ve done nothing else but smile”
Breakin’ Me : Jonny Lang
“I’m desperate for your love and it’s breakin’ me”
My, My, My : Rob Thomas
“Forever be what you mean to me right now”
I Don’t Know : Ruth Brown
“Whenever I feel his touch
I get a thrill that’s much too much
Too much, too much, too much”
Chasing Cars : Snow Patrol
“I need your grace
To remind me
To find my own”
In the Air Tonight (I don’t know, it popped into my head)
Desert Rose – Sting
Painted Desert – Pat Benetar
Truly, Madly, Deeply – Savage Garden
The Animal Song – Savage Garden
Yeah, I’ll see if I can do any better after I’ve slept. 🙂
Vannessa Daou’s Near the Black Forest is my fave sultry song. But darn it’s not desert..
What about the old 70s song Wildfire? Who sang that? Michael Martin Murphy? Gordon Lightfoot?
OOO put my name in for the Arc drawing too please!
Shouldn’t that be The Mountain Lion Sleeps Tonight? 🙂
And can I just say right now that my password is ‘name15’? Does that mean that I have to come up with 14 more titles?
Hm. What about Hurts So Good by John Cougar Mellencamp?
The Mountain Goats, although not as well-known as the Dave Matthews Band, have a song called Lion’s Teeth.
I guess any of Sheriff’s song titles could work: When I’m With You, etc —but they’re not instantly recognizable like Crash Into Me.
I feel like I might get more traction with the ‘wildlife’ angle.
Wild Wild West
Wild Wild Life
Take a Walk on the Wild Side or A Walk on the Wild Side
Or the California angle! Californication FTW!
There’s a real song called Sex with the Sheriff and another called Wildlife at Large. Both relevant to the plot description! Mountain Song (Jane’s Addiction) could work as a book title.
For titles:
A Wolf at the Door
Paralyzer
Night Moves
Lips Like Sugar
@ Jennifer Estep: I like The Killers too. Just discovered them recently.
Man Eater
Whhoa here she comes, watch out boy, she’ll eat you up!
Ok, now that’s in my head.
Here’s some. I tried to keep to music that at least some people would have heard of…
Running Wild – by Roxy Music
Call My Name – Prince
Desert Song – My Chemical Romance
Natural Woman – Aretha
Castles Made of Sand – Hendrix
Hot Sand – Shocking Blue
Wild Wild West – Will Smith
Wild Nights, Hot and Crazy Days – Judas Priest
Ride the Wild – Descendents
Cheerio!
Cover Me – Bruce Springsteen, hot when he sings it. Now imagine a woman singing it. Double hot.
Note to self: While the Star Wars: Republic Commando books have indeed infected my brain, this is a contest to give away ‘Advanced Reader Copies’, not ‘Advanced Recon Commandos’. Even if surly clones of Jango Fett would make awesome giveaway prizes.
‘Lay Your Hands on Me’, Mission UK
‘Evangeline’, Mission UK (read the lyrics – this is one of the sexiest songs I know) (possibly, however, it’s the wrong mood for the story)
‘You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth’, Meatloaf
‘Good Girls Go to Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere)’, Meatloaf
‘Call Me’, Blondie
‘Take Advantage of Me’, Seanan McGuire
‘Love Ain’t For Keeping’, The Who
‘Closer to Believing’, Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
‘Creature of the Wood’, Heather Alexander
I also like Night in My Veins, even if that might not work for this book. She can save it for her next one!
There’s a Semisonic song called “El Matador,” for the CA touch, but it’s not a particularly sexy song (They certainly do have some, though none that I can think of being good for this).
“Don’t Fence Me In.”
For romance there’s “The Air that I Breathe” or “Wish You were Here.” “I Get A Kick out of You” “From This Moment On,”
(I will refrain from mentioning an Unbelievable Truth song, “Everybody has to eat.” as that might be in bad taste. )
Oh, I remember the other one I was thinking of—“Nobody Does It Better”—my cover of it starts with the boys from Radiohead announcing that this is ‘the sexiest song in the world”
I can see I’m the country oddball here, but how about:
Would You Go With Me—Josh Turner (that deep voice gives me the shivers every time!)
Would you go with me if we rolled down streets of fire
Would you hold on to me tighter as the summer sun got higher
If we roll from town to town and never shut it down
Would you go with me if we were lost in fields of clover
Would we walk even closer until the trip was over
And would it be okay if I didn’t know the way
If I gave you my hand would you take it
And make me the happiest man in the world
If I told you my heart couldn’t beat one more minute without you, girl
Would you accompany me to the edge of the sea
Let me know if you’re really a dream
I love you so, so would you go with me
Would you go with me if we rode the clouds together
Could you not look down forever
If you were lighter than a feather
Oh, and if I set you free, would you go with me
If I gave you my hand would you take it
And make me the happiest man in the world
If I told you my heart couldn’t beat one more minute without you, girl
Would you accompany me to the edge of the sea
Help me tie up the ends of a dream
I gotta know, would you go with me
I love you so, so would you go with me
Wicked Game—Chris Isaacs
Slave to Love—Roxy Music
More than This—Roxy Music
What about Van Morrison’s “Wild Night”
Oh, wow! So many great suggestions! I’m grinning like an idiot reading all of these.
I’m going to have trouble choosing just five…
(Hi Victoria! My titles never stick, either. My original name for this book was “Dark Canyon.” Guess that was too boring, lol.)
We needed a little distraction at work – thanks! Here’s what we came up with:
Feeling Love – Paula Cole
Arms of a Woman – Amos Lee
Safe in the Arms of Love – Martina McBride
Or maybe a jazz standard?
Nature Boy – (SO couldn’t help myself)
I don’t know how sexy it is to others but Gogol Bordello have some good titles
“Wanderlust King”
“Harem in Tuscany”
“Dub The Frequencies Of Love”
“Think Locally F**k Globally”
There are some really good ones up there. I particularly like the Meatloaf and Mellancamp.. That sounds dirty in and of itself.
I’m going to suggest another Dave Matthews phrase: Lie Spread from “When the World Ends.” (“Your legs don’t work ‘cause you want me so you just lie spread.”) Gloriously filthy, but also (*BUZZKILL ALERT*) could refer to mauled, dead bodies spread on the ground.
Er, yeah. Sorry for that.
Fall Into Sleep (Mudvayne)
Fade to Black (Metallica)
Behind Blue Eyes (Limp Bizkit version)
The Kill (30 Seconds to Mars)
Bring Me to Life (Evanescence)
Right Here Waiting (Staind)
Something to Believe In (Poison)
Shot Through the Heart (Bon Jovi)
Running Blind (Godsmack)
Man, this is hard to do without having read the book. I’d have suggested Far Away (Nickelback), but the title’s too bland.
They’re all a little on the bland side, I guess. 😛
The DD was playing Evanescence this morning:
Bring Me to Life
Fields of Innocence
Lifehouse:
Hanging By A Moment
Somewhere In Between
Vertical Horizon (which could be a title itself):
Everything You Want
Just Won’t Burn – Susan Tedeschi
Desert Sunrise – Brett Dennen
Feels Like Fire – Santana & Dido
Hidden In The Sand – Tally Hall
Thirst – Percy Howard
Hot Like Fire – Leki
Kiss of Fire – Louis Armstrong
Non serious selections:
The Lovecats – The Cure
Desert Of Our Love – U2
Cry Me A River – Justin Timberlake
Carrion – Fiona Apple
I’m Only Happy When It Rains – Garbage
No Rain – Blind Melon
I Wanna Be Sedated – The Ramones
No More Sand In My Lip Balm – Moqita
Hot Stuff – Donna Summer
Thirst for Romance – Cherry Ghost
Sand In My Shoes- Dido
Give Me Your Water – HYIM
Wow, I just have to commend Rebecca on citing a Heather Alexander song. And the one she listed is rather perfect (the line “Not beast, not got, and yet not man” gives me chills even now). Too bad so few people probably have ever heard it.
My somewhat joking suggestion would be NIN’s “Closer”. Since the line “I want to f*ck you like an animal” might be a bit much for the bookshelves, maybe skip to the next line: “Feel You from the Inside”
Second suggestion would be something from Sophie B. Hawkins, who is sexy on a stick. “Your Tongue Like the Sun in my Mouth” might be a little too obscure, but it has some good lines, like “I rode his joy like a child on a merry-go-round” Eh, great song, but not thematically appropriate. The title for her first album, “Tongues and Tails” might be better, but may also call up visions of the furry variety. There’s also “Before I Walk on Fire” and “As I Lay me Down”, both sexy and interesting.
And then there’s the classic Eagles tune, “Hotel California”, which is terribly sexy, in a dark kind of way.
Monique—The Killers are great, aren’t they? They also have a new album coming out in a couple of weeks. 🙂
Animal I Have Become by Three Days Grace:
So what if you can see the darkest side of me
No one will ever change this animal I have become
Help me believe it’s not the real me
Somebody help me tame this animal
Makes me all warm and tingly inside, but maybe it’s just me.
Also:
Bilingual by Jose Nunez (but listen when there’s no little children or old ladies near. OMG melt your socks off)
Bad Things by Jace Everett (someone told me this is the True Blood intro? I think?)
Control by Puddle of Mudd
Inside Out by Eve 6
And btw, even if I don’t win, I bet anything I’ll be picking up this one. I have a thing for CA, and for surfers. Yummy and home sweet home, at the same time.
Keb Mo:
Dangerous Mood
Everything I Need
She Just Wants to Dance
Kardinal Offishall & Akon
She’s So Dangerous
Crawling in the Dark – Hoobastank
Away From Me – Puddle of Mudd
Drift and Die – Puddle of Mudd
Come Clean – Puddle of Mudd
Closer to Madness – Jesse Cook
Down Like Rain – Jesse Cook
wicked game – chris isaac
into the mystic – van morrison
love will turn you around – kenny rogers
everything i do – bryan adams
cowboy take me away – dixie chicks
i fall to pieces – patsy cline
my wild love song – doors
cry to me – solomon burke
Been lurking a while – love the blog! Anything that involves hefty doses of laugh-till-you-cry and romance novels is a good thing 🙂
Some (other) suggestions – since I was beaten to “Wild Thing”:
Where the Wild Roses Grow (Nick Cave, Kylie Minogue)
Never Tear Us Apart (INXS)
Into the Wild (Eddie Vedder – granted it’s not a ‘sexy’ song – but his voice sure is)!
Beautiful Wreck (just because it’s Shawn Mullins mmmmm the voice *shiver*)
Making Memories of Us (Keith Urban) Hey it’s country and it talks about making love in a cabin in the wild 🙂
Warm Whispers (Missy Higgins)
Wicked Game (Chris Isaak)
I could go on and on but I’ll spare you more 🙂
Lots of great suggestions here. A few more:
“Maneater” – Nelly Furtado
“Points of Authority” – Linkin Park
“Hold Me Down” – Tommy Lee
“Get Back” – Ludacris
“Hazard” – Richard Marx
“I Got You” – Split Enz
Safe in Your Arms – Beth Orton
Bird Never Flies – Ari Hest
When I Fall – Barenaked Ladies
Time After Time – Cyndi Lauper
All I Want is You – U2
I’m not sure that I’d ever refer to anything sung by Cyndi Lauper or Bono as “sultry” but they’re both songs that would maybe apply.
Do you first then do myself – by Corey Glover (You know that title would TOTALLY sell. You could shorten it to Do you first. Shit, that’s a great title. Maybe I’ll take it. No, you can have it for the free ARC.)
Wild is the Wind – David Bowie – I think this is fitting for a wildife expert heroine, and it makes a nice set with ‘crash into me’ in the sense of elements.