Penric's Fox in audio in February
I am pleased to report that Blackstone Audiobooks has picked up the novella "Penric's Fox" for audio. They have it on their schedule already, for February 2018.
https://www.downpour.com/penric-s-fox...
for their vendor page. It will also be available in due course at all the usual suspects, wherever the prior Penric stories have appeared.
Ta, L.
https://www.downpour.com/penric-s-fox...
for their vendor page. It will also be available in due course at all the usual suspects, wherever the prior Penric stories have appeared.
Ta, L.
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Happy to hear that the Penric's Fox audio is in the works . I'm a little surprised that Blackstone was so slow off the mark. They have to know it will be profitable for a long time. I bought Shards of Honor about 30 years after it was first published then galloped through (and bought) the rest of the series as fast as I could.
Margaret wrote: "Happy to hear that the Penric's Fox audio is in the works . I'm a little surprised that Blackstone was so slow off the mark. They have to know it will be profitable for a long time. I bought Shards..."Slow...? "Penric's Fox" was only published 4 weeks ago. The offer was lightning-fast.
Ta, L.
Lois wrote: "Slow...? "Penric's Fox" was only published 4 weeks ago. The offer was lightning-fast."Lois, you just don't understand the agony endured by a fan who is waiting for your audio book ;-)
Glad to hear it! With my own hyperactive little git of a 4-year-old, audiobooks are the only way I can fit in my reading these days. :)
I am so excited for this! I really enjoy having both the ebook as well as the audio.
Just over a month till the audio of Penric's Fox arrives. And I see mention on the Blackstone/Downpour web site of Prisoner of L, to be released in Audio soon also. March sometime, did it say?
Jerri wrote: "Just over a month till the audio of Penric's Fox arrives. And I see mention on the Blackstone/Downpour web site of Prisoner of L, to be released in Audio soon also. March sometime, did it say?"Huh! Indeed it does.
https://www.downpour.com/the-prisoner...
That was quick...
Ta, L.
On a related issue, I have been thinking about the issue of "stand alone" stories vs is it best to read in order. I do think that the later Penric tales can stand alone, and be enjoyable to read and/or listen to even if you haven't read the earlier ones. However, I do think that the advent of ePublishing has changed the playing field on this issue. It used to be more important to have each book or story "stand alone", since a prospective reader might well find themselves in a book store or library which had later books in a series but not the earlier ones. If a new reader couldn't jump in and read and enjoy the book in his/her hand, they might not get back to the series at all, or at least not for some time.
But today, anyone who finds Penric's Fox at an eBook retailer can also find Penric's Demon, and all the rest of the collection at once. As long as there isn't some strange glitch, they can start at the beginning just as easily as in the middle.
And while a new reader can read and enjoy Penric's Fox without having read Penric's Demon and Penric and the Shaman, I feel that a reader who reads Penric's Demon AFTER reading the later Penric novellas will have a less meaningful experience. Now, they will still enjoy Penric's meeting with Desdemona and the development of their relationship, but they will know too much about where the developing relationship will end to get the full experience of watching that development. Now, any reader will probably guess pretty quickly that Penric and the demon will develop some sort of positive working relationship, but on first reading of Penric's Demon before reading the later tales, I certainly didn't know exactly how things would develop. Even on re-reading (and re-listening), the fact that my FIRST encounter with Penric and his then un-named demon was without spoilers lets me re-live the joy of that developing pairing.
The same is true in some ways, with a person who reads Penric and the Shaman after Penric's Fox. There are certainly spoilers for Penric and the Shaman in Penric's Fox.
So in this day and age of ePublishing, I would certainly encourage a new reader to read Penric's Demon first, and the other two novella's in their paired order. (That is, don't read Mira's Last Dance before Penric's Mission and don't read Penric's Fox before Penric and the Shaman). Reading out of order won't spoil the later book, but I think would somewhat spoil the earlier book.