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November 9, 2013
The Sheep Walker’s Daughter Audible Audio Edition
The Audible Audio Edition of Sheep Walker’s Daughter is now available for download. The print and eBook edition will be available on December 3, 2013.
Lisa Copeland has done a masterful job narrating the story.
The Sheep Walker’s Daughter by Sydney Avey. ISBN 978-1-938708-19-0 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-938708-20-6 (ebook). Publication: December 3, 2013. ISBN 978-1-938708-30-5 (audiobook). Publication: November 8, 2013.
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November 4, 2013
365 Short Stories (Holiday)—Week Forty-four
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Time to summon up the holiday spirit; I’m looking for holiday-themed, heart-touching stories to set the mood. They are hard to find. Giving them a mood setting rating from a 1-star “Treacle” to a 5-star “Uplifting ”
I have also compiled a short list of holiday stories on a Pinterest Board reading list.
“ Home for the Holidays ,” By Maile Meloy, Byliner.com
A not uncommon tale of a young person trying to form her own...
October 28, 2013
365 Short Stories (Dark)—Week Forty-three
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Picked up my copy of Phoenix Noir and decided to go dark this week, not my usual inclination or my mood but it’s thought provoking to examine the dark corners occasionally.
“Wild Frank’s Return,” by Walt Whitman Story of the Week, a Project of Library of America
Here is another great website that delivers free short stories! Whitman’s prodigal son does not have a happy ending. Replete with moral and ethical insight, no God extends grace and mercy to the pr...
October 21, 2013
365 Short Stories (Daily Dose)—Week Forty-two
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Get your daily dose of literature delivered by email or call it up in an app. Here’s how.
” The Awakening, ” The Awakening and Selected Short Stories, by Kate Chopin
On this site readers can sign up to have books and stories emailed to them in short installments. I did not realize that The Awakening is actually a novel, and that it would be sent to me in 65 installments! The good news is that you can read as much or as little as you choose; just click...
October 15, 2013
Breathe–enjoy the feel good moments
Vivid details do more to stir emotions than snappy dialogue or clever exposition.
Drawing by Tristan Trabucco
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October 14, 2013
365 Short Stories (Tension)—Week Forty-one
Tension in literature heightens involvement, plays on uncertainty and contemplates the equilibrium that results from the harmony of opposite tendencies. This week I’m looking for tension in what I read.
“Train,” by Alice Munro, Harper’s Magazine April 2012
We are uncertain why Jackson seems so aimless his movements yet so dedicated when he is helping strangers with maintenance projects. One phrase, “She was a certain kind of woman, he a certain kind of man,” sets an expectation. Then the story...
October 9, 2013
Breathe–contemplate the seen and not seen
I contemplate these things I’ve seen before–but not ever really seen. They tell a story I’ve neverasked to hear.
Dee Moraga Carter in THE SHEEP WALKER’S DAUGHTER
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October 7, 2013
365 Short Stories (scenario)—Week Forty
The scenario, a likely sequence of events, reveals the strengths and weaknesses of characters that touch our hearts and keep us reading.
“Likely Lake,” by Mary Robison, Object Lessons: The Paris Review presents The Art of the Short Story
Socially awkward moments reveal our deepest insecurities. What is likely to happen to a man who screwed things up with his ex-wife and is trying desperately to make a go of it with his reluctant girlfriend when a woman he barely knows blurts out that she has a...
October 2, 2013
Lisa Copeland on Recording The Sheep Walker’s Daughter
Lisa Copeland
Lisa Copeland is recording the audio book version of The Sheep Walker’s Daughter. Read about her experience, the recording process, what it takes to succeed at recording books, and hear a sample of her work.
How did you get into recording audio books?
My husband has had a recording studio for years. He made radio and television commercials. After we got married, I started doing voice work for him.
We travel the country in a motor home and were looking for new ways to support our “di...
October 1, 2013
365 Short Stories (scenes)—Week Thirty-Nine
Scenes are the building blocks of stories. Favorite scenes stay with you, even when you’ve forgotten the title, author and plot of a story.
“The Signature of All Things,” by Elizabeth Gilbert, One Story
From Gilbert’s novel coming out in October, this excerpt introduces Alma, a product of over-educated parents. My favorite scene is where an astronomer arranges party guests into a solar system, sets them in orbit and assigns Alma the role of a comet. Try that at your...
