If you picked up a button at San Diego Comic Con, found your way here from Instagram, or stumbled onto this blog through a late night search — welcome. You're probably here because of two words on a small round button:
So let's talk about him!
Who Is Richmond Adams?
Richmond Adams is a rising British singer-songwriter from Oxford, England — the fictional love interest at the center of my debut novel Musical Awakening.
He plays piano. He writes his own songs. His music feels like it was made specifically for you — the kind that finds you at exactly the right moment and changes the direction of your life.
He is also the kind of man who already knows your coffee order. Who calls you My June. Who shows up in your life across years and cities and shows and makes it impossible to walk away.
Richmond Adams and June Snow
Musical Awakening follows June Snow — a concert photographer and music blogger — whose world becomes unexpectedly intertwined with Richmond Adams across years, cities, and a music scene that keeps pulling them back together.
It's a slow burn. A real one. The kind that builds across chapters and years and near-misses until you're reading at 2am unable to put it down.
A epistolary novel told through blog posts, tweets, texts, and intimate prose spanning 2013 to 2017, Musical Awakening is their story — set between Albuquerque, Los Angeles, San Diego, Oxford, London, and life on tour.
Where Did Richmond Adams Come From?
Richmond Adams was inspired by the world of British indie music that shaped the most formative years of my life as a blogger and concert photographer. I spent years following bands I loved to cities I'd never been to, standing front row at intimate venues, documenting moments I never wanted to forget.
The music that inspired Richmond — and the hashtag #ListenForYourself that runs through every chapter of the book — came from those years. From A Silent Film. From The Filthy Souls. From every show that felt like it was made specifically for me.
Richmond is the fictional version of a very real feeling.
Richmond Adams at SDCC
If you found this post because you picked up a Richmond Adams button at San Diego Comic Con on July 24th, 2026 — hi. I'm Megan. I wrote this book. And bringing Richmond Adams to San Diego — a city that actually appears in Musical Awakening — felt like the most full circle thing I've ever done.
Read Musical Awakening
Musical Awakening is available now in ebook and paperback on Amazon. If Richmond Adams sounds like your kind of fictional boyfriend — and I promise you, he is — this is the book for you!
📖 Read Musical Awakening on Amazon
🎵 Listen to the playlist that inspired the book
"Some songs take years to finish. So do some love stories."
#ListenForYourself 🎶
