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October 13, 2018
NN Light’s October Giveaway
Ooops late again…. but here we go.
October is here and it’s one of my favorite times of the year. The weather turns chilly, the leaves change color and I get an excuse to binge-eat Halloween candy/chocolate. As the wind shakes my windows, I love to curl up with a good book. N. N. Light feels the same way and they’re hosting a spooktacular giveaway. Sorry, couldn’t resist the Halloween pun. No tricks, just treats for booklovers! Everything from romance to paranormal to fiction is being given away. You can even enter to win one of mine. Go on, indulge your inner kid and enter this giveaway.
Trick or Treat Binge-Read Giveaway: https://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/92db775020/
Literary Giveaway Portal: https://www.nnlightsbookheaven.com/literary-giveaway-portal
Here are some of the prizes
signed print copy of Hacking IT by Kimberley Dean
e-copy of Spirited Attraction by Ashantay Peters
e-copy of Heart Healer by Leslie Bowes
e-copy of A Kiss and a Promise by Tricia Schneider
e-copy of Three Lessons in Seduction by Sofie Darling
print copy of Horu’s Chosen (An Alternate Egypt) by Janet Lane Walters (US/Canada only)
print or e-copy (winner’s choice) of Emmie of Indianapolis by Kay Castaneda
e-copy of Pearlman by David Russell
e-copy of Too Good to be True by Livia Quinn
e-copy of Oath of a Warrior by Mary Morgan (US/Canada only)
e-copy of The Secret of Hillcrest House by Melanie Robertson-King
e-copy of Debriefing the Dead (Book 1 of The Dead Series) by Kerry Blaisdell
e-copy of Tied Up With Strings by Madeline McEwan
e-copy of Arresting Mason by Amber Daulton
e-copy of The Queen of Paradise Valley by Cat Dubie
print or e-copy of one of C. C. Bolick (winner’s choice)
e-copy of The Mystery of Flight 2222 by Thomas Neviaser
e-copy of Once Broken by D. M. Hamblin
e-copy of Lovers by Midnight (Monster Ball) by Ashantay Peters
e-copy of A Debt to the Devil by D. M. Hamblin
e-copy of Other Dark Tales by A. L. Butcher (Smashwords voucher)
e-copy of The Colony and The Last City by RM Gilmour
5 e-copy of The Adventures of Harry Morgan, Volume 1 by Clabe Polk
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Cover Reveal – The False Series- Romantic Suspense
Cover Reveal: THE FALSE SERIES: False Memory (Book 1), False Hope (Book 2) & False Start (Book 3)
Author: Meli Raine
Release date: November 13, 2018
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Series Description: She’s faking her amnesia to fool a very real killer.
FALSE MEMORY (Book 1)
Release Date: 11/13/18
Apple Books Exclusive: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/false-memory/id1387687477?mt=11
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40405827-false-memory
Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/books/false-memory-by-meli-raine
It all started with the bereavement flowers with my name on them.
Not the best way to wake up, right? I work in a flower shop. I know a funeral arrangement when I see one.
I know a killer when I see one, too. And one is standing in my hospital room right now, straight behind the man who saved my life.
I can’t tell anyone the truth, because that’s the fastest way to really die. So I do the next best thing. I “lose” my memory.
I fake my amnesia.
Pretending not to remember a brutal attempted murder has its perks. The killer is backing down, spending less time around me, loosening the noose.
The less I claim to recall, the more my rescuer, Duff, works to help me “remember.” I hate lying to him.
But he doesn’t understand that my memory is dangerous. To me. And to him.
Fooling everyone isn’t easy. It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done.
Except it’s starting to look like I’ve been fooling myself.
In more ways than one.
FALSE HOPE (Book 2)
Release Date: 12.11.18
Apple Books Exclusive: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/false-hope/id1421994196?mt=11
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42088265-false-hope
Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/books/false-hope-by-meli-raine
FALSE START (Book 3)
Release Date: 01/15/19
Apple Books Exclusive: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/false-start/id1421999168?mt=11
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42088271-false-start
Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/books/false-start-by-meli-raine
Author Bio:
Meli Raine writes romantic suspense with hot bikers, intense undercover DEA agents, bad boys turned good, and Special Ops heroes — and the women who love them. Meli rode her first motorcycle when she was five years old, but she played in the ocean long before that. She lives in New England with her family.
Social Media Links:
Website: http://meliraine.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/meliraine
Twitter: https://twitter.com/meliraineauthor
Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/meli-raine
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13536295.Meli_Raine
Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/beV0gf
Cover reveal organized by Writer Marketing Services.
October 6, 2018
A Fifth of Boo! Halloween/Horror Charity Anthology
A Fifth of Boo!
Volume 5 of the Boo! series
Authors raising money for good causes.
A spooktacular collection of horror, fantasy, and Halloween-themed short fiction.
Amazon UK https://amzn.to/2Nsdrp2
Amazon.com https://amzn.to/2BZmsnu
All proceeds for the sale of this book will be donated to Cancer Research UK
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Featuring:
Dinner and a Show – Derek Moreland
Such an Adventure – Ann Cathey
The Voice – JD Mader
The Jaws of Ammon-Thet – John Petelle
Waiting – Oz Wainerdi
Untitled – Kristina Jackson
The Atherton Vampire – Lynne Cantwell
Happy Samhain – LB Clark
Punch Drunk – Laurie Boris
Betrayal – Erin McGowan
The Secret of Blossom Rise – A.L. Butcher
The Day of the Dead – Laurie Boris
Life Lessons – Ann Cathey
Flowers for Hannah – LB Clark
You Wish – Laurie Boris
Dinner – Jen Daniele
The Curse of the Single Bed – Mark Morris
Rose’s Screams – Erin McGowan
Dedicated to all those touched by cancer.
October 4, 2018
Dirty Dozen Author Interview – Linda Jordan – Here Be Ghosts Bundle
Author name: Linda Jordan
~What first prompted you to publish your work? Alfred Lets Loose is one of those magical stories that came to me just as I was waking up one morning. I could hear the voice of the main character and had the story unravel itself before I even made it to a standing position. I can’t remember how long it took me to write, but it’s rare that a story comes to me all spooling out like that. It’s a wonderful experience.
~Are you a ‘pantser’ or a ‘plotter’? I started out as a plotter, but have turned into a pantser. I read Dean Wesley Smith’s book Writing Into the Dark and I was convinced that was the way to go for me. We have very similar problems with being easily bored. After I outlined a book, I no longer wanted to write it.
Making the change was frightening at first. I was afraid that no story would come. But it always has. Every single time. And I’m enjoyed being surprised by the story that does come. I figure if I’m surprised, the reader will be as well.
~What piece of advice do you wish you’d had when you started your publishing journey? I wish I’d known to look at everything I was writing as practice. It would have taken some of the pressure off. Everything I write is always practice for something else. Also, I wish I’d known to trust myself.
~What are your views on authors offering free books? Do you believe, as some do, that it demeans an author and his or her work? I offer free books on a regular basis (usually the first in a series) as a means of giving people a taste of my work and as a gift for signing up for my mailing list. I don’t think free books are demeaning.
Libraries? They’re this awesome place that lend free books. All right, paid for by our taxes, free books.
I think free books are good marketing, if done right.
~What are your views on authors commenting on reviews? Don’t do it. What people think of your work is their own business, not yours.
As a writer, you shouldn’t be reading reviews of your past work. You’re done with that. Over. Finished. You should have moved on and be writing the next book. You did the best you could at the time. Every book will get better. If you spend all your time neurosing about the skill level in your previous books, there will be no new work. You won’t improve.
~How influential is storytelling to our culture? Storytelling is so embedded in our culture we don’t even realize we’ll listen to any sales spiel if there’s a story involved. It’s the heartbeat of our culture. We crave stories and we’re drawn into stories on a daily basis. We want the story of our kid’s day at school. We want to listen to the stories of the world when we turn on the news. Songs are stories with a rhythm. We sit around the screen at night, watching stories.
~What’s the best advice you’ve received about writing/publishing? Write the next book, publish it. Then write the next one. And repeat.
~What is your writing space like? My writing space is in the kitchen (the center of the universe). I have a desk that closes with a drawer where my laptop lives. The closing desk is essential—because cats. My desk is covered with rocks, lists, post-its, fairy lights, pens and other cool stuff. And a couple of light boxes because I live in the Pacific Northwest where it’s dark and rainy for five months of the year. Next to this desk is a standing desk, which is home to too many piles of things. But I still use it, moving the laptop back and forth between the two. That’s my fall, winter and spring office. They summer office is outside at a table under an umbrella to keep the glare down. I’ve got three different tables out in various parts of the garden, each with an extension cord to plug in. Where I sit depends on the warmth of the day and whether I need more shade or sun at that time of the day. I love writing outside, but alas, it’s only for a short few months of the year.
~What’s your next writing adventure? I’m currently writing the second novel of a five book series. It’s a post-apocalyptic story with magic. I’m having so much fun with these characters and this world. Can’t wait to see how it turns out.
~What is the last book you’ve read? Space Tripping with the Shredded Orphans by Sonya Rhen. A fun YA science fiction book about a rock band touring the universe and all their mishaps. Finished it last night. Guess I’ll need to pick up the other two books in the series. Science fiction humor is a hard thing to balance and she does a great job.
~Is this the age of the e-book? Are bricks and mortar bookshops in decline? I think we’re in the middle of a transition. I think the story is the important part and that the form it takes will continue to morph and expand, along with technology. I think ebooks are a huge thing, but not the end. I also think there will always be paper books. People still love them, including kids and teens. Bookshops are in decline at this point. They may rally and shift form, but I think the age of the super bookstore is over. They take up too much expensive real estate and don’t earn enough money to sustain the business. I also think new ways of storytelling will come into being with new technologies.
~With the influx of indie authors do you think this is the future of storytelling? I can’t see that trad pub will be able to continue business the way they have in the past. They’re owned by such large corporations who are pinching every penny paid out to writers and not supporting books that aren’t bestsellers. I think being an Indie is a much more vibrant path and the potential for growth is awesome. Provided the vendors continue to send money our way. It seems to be working for musicians and for movies. I hope it continues to work for writers. I can’t say it’s the future, because the future is always changing.
~How important is writing to you?
Vastly important. I spent decades procrastinating and the days I didn’t write I felt terribly guilty. Now when I don’t write because life has gotten too busy, I feel uneasy. The whole day feels wrong. As a result, I write most every day. And most days it’s the most rewarding thing I’m doing. Telling this story, one chapter at a time. Writing is my life.
Links
www.facebook.com/LindaJordanWriter
Bio
Linda Jordan writes fascinating characters, visionary worlds, and imaginative fiction. She creates both long and short fiction, serious and silly. She believes in the power of healing and transformation, and many of her stories follow those themes.
In a previous lifetime, Linda coordinated the Clarion West Writers’ Workshop as well as the Reading Series. She spent four years as Chair of the Board of Directors during Clarion West’s formative period. She’s also worked as a travel agent, a baker, and a pond plant/fish salesperson, you know, the sort of things one does as a writer.
Currently, she’s the Programming Director for the Writers Cooperative of the Pacific Northwest.
Linda now lives in the rainy wilds of Washington state with her husband, daughter, four cats, a cluster of Koi and an infinite number of slugs and snails.
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September 26, 2018
Dirty Dozen Character Interview – Steve Barras – Ghosts/Here Be Ghosts/
Welcome to Steve Barras
Tell us a little about yourself.
I’m dead. I occupy living human bodies.
Tell us why you’re embarking on this adventure?
I didn’t choose it. It was thrust upon me. But I don’t want anyone else to go through this, either.
Do you have a moral code? If so what might it be?
…I did, once. I helped people. I was good at it. But then I died, and now I have to kill to survive.
Would you kill for those you love?
…I killed those I loved. I stopped myself and only kill strangers now.
Would you die for those you love?
There’s no point. I’m already dead.
Who is your greatest enemy?
I am my own worst enemy. But I will stop the Other in any way I can.
What is your greatest weakness (we won’t tell)?
I can’t just die for real. Instinct forces me out to hunt when by all rights I should die with the body.
How would you describe yourself?
Look in the mirror. You won’t see me there, because I’m already wearing your body.
How do you think others see you?
They don’t because they would only see someone they already know.
Do you believe you will be successful in your quest?
I have to be. The Other is killing for the thrill of it. I have to stop him, show him he doesn’t have to live this way. He doesn’t have to burn this fast and I can show him how to live a little longer.
What is your greatest fear?
That I will spend eternity burning out bodies until there are no more left.
What do you think of your author/creator?
Another body to occupy until it burns out. *shrug* Not my preferred choice in bodies, but if needs must, then I will take it.
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For the author
Books in which this character appears:
A Burning Rainbow Man, a short story
Available from Smashwords
Links, short author bio…
You can find my work here:
https://draft2digital.com/book/
and of course, here on Bundle Rabbit.
Ann Stratton started writing at thirteen, with the typical results. She’s gotten a little better since then, she hopes, having taken a much more serious approach in later years. She lives in Southeastern Arizona, trying to juggle too many interests at once.
September 24, 2018
Dirty Dozen Author Interview – Ann Stratton – Here Be Ghosts Bundle
Author name: Ann Stratton
Please tell us about your publications.
Some of my other stories include:
A Note From Santiago
A Burning Rainbow Man
Crossroads
Ayesha and the Teaching Woman
A Soldier Travels
Monday is Winter
Freak Sanctuary
Delta City
Gutter Ball
Close Encounters, a collection of short stories
Mistaken Identities, a collection of short stories
My Little I, a collection of short stories
Loose Marbles, a collection of short stories
Interested readers might check with Smashwords or Draft 2 Digital to see what else I’ve published. Ignore the craft and cookbooks. My namesakes are busy (and creative!) women.
What first prompted you to publish your work?
Harvey Stanbrough, one of our semi-local professionals who was getting into e-publishing at the time, convinced me to give Smashwords a try, and later Draft2Digital.
What have you found the most challenging part of the process?
The publishing end. I’d prefer to just write, but to get my work out where someone else can read it requires spending way too much time on the Internet.
Are you a ‘pantser’ or a ‘plotter’?
Pantser, definitely. Any other method makes me over think to the point of paralysis.
What piece of advice do you wish you’d had when you started your publishing journey?
Just write the story. Follow the characters and write down what they say and do, and otherwise stay out of it.
How do you deal with bad reviews?
Since I’ve only gotten one review, good or bad, I can’t really say… But I’m gonna do my very best to stay away from them.
Sort these into order of importance:
Great characters
Good plot
Awesome world-building
Technically perfect
How much research do you do for your work? What’s the wildest subject you’ve looked at?
Pretty much my entire life has been research. I use my own learning and experience to base my stories on. Everything I see and hear and experience becomes reference material.
Other than that… I may do some side reading on whatever I’m writing about at the moment. I enjoy the sciences as a tourist – I window shop but don’t buy, especially the human-related ones.
What’s the best advice you’ve received about writing/publishing?
Just write the next word. Just do it.
What’s the worst piece best advice you’ve received about writing/publishing?
Anything the little voices in my head tell me. We won’t get into that.
What is your writing space like?
It’s our front spare bedroom, used as an office. It’s a cluttered mess, as I also use it for keeping my craft stash, and the whole assembly just might fall on me someday, like Fibber McGee and Molly’s closet.
Tell us about your latest piece?
It appears to be a coming of age piece, as the heroine travels the world finding her destiny. I can see three options and I won’t know which one will apply until I get to the end of it.
At the immediate moment, her pants have split and her shoes have fallen apart, and some idiot keeps poking her with a stick.
Ann features in:
Here Be Ghosts Bundle
https://bundlerabbit.com/b/here-be-ghosts
https://books2read.com/HereBeGhostsBundle
https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/here-be-ghosts
Amazon https://amzn.to/2NP1nCN
I books https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1436455347
https://books2read.com/HereBeGhostsBundle
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Myth, Monsters and Mayhem Volume 6
Who are they? What are they? The souls of the long departed, or wicked manifestations of sin?
Tales of ghosts and spectres have enthralled us since time began. From ghostly servants, spectral possession, a space-going ghostbuster, to Halloween horrors, wicked toads and missing children these tales bring chills and thrills.
Ancient horrors, long-dead rockers, family secrets and helpful murder victims join them in providing the shivers and the quivers.
Dare you venture with the dead-walking.
13 tales of spooks, lost souls, and weird adventures.
Communication Breakdown – Dayle A. Dermatis
Alfred Lets Loose – Linda Jordan
Seventh – Debbie Mumford
Crossing the Naiad – J.M. Ney-Grimm
Full Circle – Kate MacLeod
Roadside Ghosts: A Collection of Horror and Dark Fantasy – Steve Vernon
The Palace – Leah Cutter
A Burning Rainbow Man – Ann Straton
The Whole World for Each – Kate MacLeod
The Queen of Toads – Joe Bonadonna
Ghosts and Ghoulies – Deb Logan
The Secret of Blossom Rise: A Ghost Story
The Popcorn Thief – Leach Cutter
New Release – Here Be Ghosts Bundle
Here Be Ghosts Bundle
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https://bundlerabbit.com/b/here-be-ghosts
https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/here-be-ghosts
Amazon https://amzn.to/2NP1nCN
I books https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1436455347
https://books2read.com/HereBeGhostsBundle
Myth, Monsters and Mayhem Volume 6
Who are they? What are they? The souls of the long departed, or wicked manifestations of sin?
Tales of ghosts and spectres have enthralled us since time began. From ghostly servants, spectral possession, a space-going ghostbuster, to Halloween horrors, wicked toads and missing children these tales bring chills and thrills.
Ancient horrors, long-dead rockers, family secrets and helpful murder victims join them in providing the shivers and the quivers.
Dare you venture with the dead-walking?
13 tales of spooks, lost souls, and weird adventures.
Communication Breakdown – Dayle A. Dermatis
Alfred Lets Loose – Linda Jordan
Seventh – Debbie Mumford
Crossing the Naiad – J.M. Ney-Grimm
Full Circle – Kate MacLeod
Roadside Ghosts: A Collection of Horror and Dark Fantasy – Steve Vernon
The Palace – Leah Cutter
A Burning Rainbow Man – Ann Straton
The Whole World for Each – Kate MacLeod
The Queen of Toads – Joe Bonadonna
Ghosts and Ghoulies – Deb Logan
The Secret of Blossom Rise: A Ghost Story
The Popcorn Thief – Leach Cutter
September 22, 2018
The Watcher – Spotlight – now in Audio
The year is 1888, and the place is Whitechapel, in the very heart of London. But the heart is bleeding. A mysterious killer is stalking women of the streets – his true name is unknown but his legend will go down in history. This is a short tale of Jack the Ripper.
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18 rating for scenes of violence.
https://www.books2read.com/TheWatcherJTR
Amazon UK http://amzn.to/2xdkprc
Amazon.com http://amzn.to/2v6EUsb
Smashwords http://bit.ly/2xtps6k
Barnes and Noble http://bit.ly/2v6xDZs
Bundle Rabbit https://bundlerabbit.com/products/detail/the-watcher
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Audio – narrated by Matt Jenkins
Amazon UK audio
Amazon Audio
September 21, 2018
Echoes of a Song – Spotlight
Echoes of a Song – A Legacy of the Mask Tale is now available as an audio edition – to celebrate here’s a spotlight!
Synopsis
A dozen tumultuous years after the dramatic events at the Paris Opera House Raoul, Comte de Chagny is still haunted by the mysterious Opera Ghost – the creature of legend who held staff at the Opera House under his thrall, kidnapped Raoul’s lover and murdered his brother. In Raoul’s troubled imagination the ghosts of the past are everywhere, and a strange and powerful music still calls in his dreams.
Madness, obsession and the legacy of the past weave their spell in this short, tragic tale based on the Phantom of the Opera.
Excerpt 1
(c) A. L. Butcher
The Angel of Death stalked the De Chagny’s so the whispers said. Maybe it was true. For once the Angel of Death had been a man. A masked man of magic, of music and of murder. The Angel had many names, and many guises; Raoul had once laughed scornfully at Christine’s infatuation with the Angel of Music. But now he understood the terrible bewitchment, for it was his now to bear. This man, this ‘Phantom’, who at once was angel, ghost, maestro, architect, and magician had held them all in his not insubstantial power. Erik – so he called himself – had almost brought the mighty Paris opera house to its knees. Erik’s opera house, so Christine had told him. And in those desperate nights, at least, it had been true.
Raoul pulled out the hidden drawer beneath one of the shelves and read the newspaper – now yellow and faded – as he had every night for three years like a consuming obsession. First the accounts of the ‘accidents’ at the opera: the terrible night the chandelier had fallen killing an employee, the apparent suicide of a stage hand and the murder of one of the foremost tenors. Wild stories abounded about an ‘Opera Ghost’ who’d managed to fool the managers into parting with a fortune, terrified the corps de ballet and whose face was so terrible to behold that any who saw it would die, but who sang with an angel’s voice. The truth was not something that bothered the Paris Tribune too much, but the truth could be strange beyond reason. And the Surete could hardly believe the wild stories of masked men and angry ghosts. They’d searched and asked questions, and considered a cuckolded husband or an angry father, but no perpetrator had been found. The case dwindled into obscurity. Months and years went by and other cases took prominence and now few remembered one death in a city where murder was common and adultery more so. Peering at the faded print in the bad light Raoul found the part he sought in the letters of the city’s more reputable rag.
“Erik is dead,” Raoul said it aloud. Three words. Three words which had haunted him these twelve years.
Echoes of a Song – Universal Link
Amazon .com http://amzn.to/2E7Cdu0
Amazon.co.uk http://amzn.to/2BJwAgk
Amazon Audio https://www.amazon.com/Echoes-Song-Legacy-Mask-Book/dp/B07HCKG3WK/
Amazon UK audio https://www.amazon.co.uk/Echoes-Song-Legacy-Mask-Book/dp/B07HCM1624/
Audible UK https://adbl.co/2xlH8Tz
Audible.com https://adbl.co/2MRTQP7
September 20, 2018
Audiobook Narrator Interview – Matt Jenkins
*Name: Matt Jenkins
*Tell us a bit about yourself: Born and raised in a church (literally, in a church – the graveyard was my playground…) I have been reading in public since I was able to see over the lectern. Then I got dragged down the dark path of technology and computers consumed my soul. At least for a while. Then, thankfully, I escaped. Now I’m a Buddhist (much to the chagrin of my Christian folks) and a freelance electronic designer. One side-effect of all the technology is an understanding of audio production, and I am the chief audio engineer for the local Talking Newspaper for the Blind. I also sing in a number of local choirs.
How did you become involved with audiobook narration and production? One of our reading team at the Talking Newspaper mentioned ACX to me one day, so I thought I’d look it up and see what it was. Sometimes when reading a book I’d secretly visualise myself producing it as an audiobook, and ACX has opened that door to me.
Is this your day job? Nope. As I mentioned above I am a freelance electronic designer. I spend my days sat in front of my computer drawing lines on the screen. Industrial control and monitoring systems are my thing.
Tell us about some of the titles you’ve narrated. Do you have a favourite amongst these? This is a tough one to answer: I have only produced two books so far – The Watcher: A Jack The Ripper Story, and Beyond The Vale, by Kerry Alan Denney. I’m not sure which is my favourite, as they are like chalk and cheese. Both have been enjoyable to produce, and good stories that I enjoyed reading. I hope for many more to come.
Do you have a preferred genre? Do you have a genre you do not produce? Why is this? Not really a preferred genre. I do, though, think it’s important to enjoy the stories you read. If you’re not enjoying the story it comes across in your reading. You have to enjoy the story to take a proper interest in it and bring the story to life. There’s no genres that I won’t touch, but if the book doesn’t appeal to me I won’t bother with it. Mostly I gravitate towards fantasy and science fiction, but I’m not fixated solely on it.
What are you working on at present/Just finished? Just finished The Watcher. Nothing lined up at the moment, but I do have a few auditions out there – one I’d really like to get selected for is Among The Dead – a Zombie book.
*Tell us about your process for narrating? (Be as elaborate as you like.) My first book was produced all manually. Lots of reading and re-reading, then cutting up, splicing together, etc afterwards. The editing took longer than the reading. That was the worst part of reading, actually – the editing. So, being a technofreak, I decided to do something about it and wrote my own software to do it all for me. Now the editing is done while I’m reading by the program itself at the press of a key and afterwards is just a brief cleanup to make it sound as good as possible. The editing for The Watcher (it’s only a short story) took about 30 minutes, and 25 of that was just listening through.
What aspects do you find most enjoyable? Getting to read books I’d otherwise never think to read – and (hopefully) getting paid for it 
