Type casting & the Genre Police.
“Whatcha reading”? Henry asked placing his coffee on the table and lowering himself into the chair across from me. I had the paperback folded over on itself, obscuring the cover, generally I read e-books...
The Hitman and the Thief
They say you’re only as good as your last job. Ex-military operative Dan Jones has been working as a “corporate trouble-shooter” (emphasis on “shooter”). His last job went sideways when a petty (and pretty)...
Henry Writes a Review
Henry’s brow furrowed more deeply and the swiping action on his tablet became more like those of a man searching for something lost in the bottom of a junk drawer. A sigh of exasperation...
Henry Meets His Match
“I don’t read science fiction”, said Henry. “But you love who-done-it detective stories”, I said, “and this is quite a good one, a series of them in fact.” Henry’s demeanour changed. “Those are different”,...
Ribbonworld
I recently auditioned for the sci-fi novel Ribbonworld by Richard Dee, and to paraphrase Victor Kiam; I liked it so much, I bought the book! If you don’t know who Victor Kiam is and...
Beginnings and The Covenant of Wickersham Hollow
The Covenant of Wickersham Hollow by Thomas A. Bradley became available for sale on audible on December 4th 2019 and is soon to be released on iTunes and Amazon. It joins two other works,...
The end is a new begining…
Reading is a sweet pleasure and coming to the end of a really enjoyable story is just as sweet a sorrow. You feel a little empty inside, and slightly lost; looking around for the...
Listening to myself…
As a narrator, listening to myself with an objective critical ear is perhaps the most difficult part of the work. Getting my ego out of the way and evaluating the performance is not easy....
Building a Booth, Sep 29th 2019
Echoes, reflections, saliva clicks, borborygmus (yes that is a real word) and the ever-present world around us are banes of audiobook narrators. When first starting into this field I didn’t know if it was...
Telling Stories, August 31 2019.
Being able to read a book and hear the characters as if they were acting the story out in front of you is something we all do, sharing that experience with others is something...