LibriVox and Pinterest
So, I kept bumping into mentions of Pinterest pretty much *everywhere* I went online, and signed up to have a play for myself. About two minutes later, I realised I didn’t have any ideas of what I...
View ArticleMilestones: LibriVox, Dante and Austen
Last month, LibriVox hit the rather astonishing milestone of 100 million downloads at archive.org. I don’t know how this compares to the Grateful Dead collection that is the other incredibly popular...
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What I’m up to for Audiobook Month 2012
Yes, it IS Audiobook Month, as spearheaded by the Audio Publishers Association, and cheered on by narrators, proof-listeners, producers, directors, sound engineers and, most of all, listeners. So, I...
View ArticleBeta listeners welcome: Pulchritude by Ana Mardoll
Experience a darker side of “The Beauty and the Beast” where, in a world of vindictive fairies and scornful magicians, not everyone will live happily ever after. Pulchritude tells the tale of Bella, a...
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Dr. Watson, I presume
So yes, The Hound of the Baskervilles has been tracked down and identified by the ever-alert Sherlock Holmes with a substantial amount of help from Yours Truly as Dr. Watson, and is available as a...
View ArticleNew audiobook: A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
I’m a little behind on my blogging, but never mind — here is my FIRST Legamus solo completed! A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf, free in MP3 format with a total running time is just over four...
View ArticleNew audiobook: Wings and the Child by E. Nesbit
Yes, I am very fond indeed of Ms. Nesbit, and was happy to find this non-fiction account of the building of a small-scale Magic City using whatever’s already available at home, in best Blue Peter...
View ArticleIambik’s second birthday & competition
You’ll have seen me posting about Iambik Audio before; a commercial venture with a range of audiobooks, particularly specialising in smaller-press books. It’s their second birthday this month, and...
View ArticleJanuary’s offerings: Nesbit, Doyle, Stein and Lawrence
It’s like buses, there are no projects for months (though I’m as busy as ever) and then several come along at once. Such a range of options, too. Closest to my heart is Dr. Watson’s second outing in...
View ArticleWhispering Willows
I have awfully random ideas from time to time. Last October I was grabbed by a particularly odd one. I’d been having a little trouble sleeping and so went searching for solutions. Amongst well-meaning...
View ArticleRandom update
This has not been much of a year for recording, I am very sad to say. I do have a book fully narrated: dear, feisty Mrs Seacole is just waiting for me to have time to edit her Wonderful Adventures (as...
View ArticleLife in books: 2013
Borrowing a wonderful meme from Catherine, and struggling a little because I’ve not read all that much this year … The rules: Using only books you have read this year, answer these questions. Try not...
View ArticleA Whispery Christmas Carol
I know I’ve been quiet all year, and that hasn’t changed with my latest LibriVox release. Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is the second of my whispered book recordings. I don’t know that I’ll do more now …...
View ArticleLife in Books: 2015
Borrowing questions from Bruce the Gargoyle, here’s a summary of 2015, using only the titles of books I read in the year. All in all, I would describe last year as being: Small Victories I could have...
View ArticleNew audiobook: The Soul of London by Ford Madox Ford
It’s been a while, but I’ve finished a new audiobook! Or, in truth, a rather patient editor finished it for me. I started recording The Soul of London in 2013, after working on something that had been...
View ArticleNew audiobook: The War of the Worlds
The works of H. G. Wells joined the public domain in Europe on 1st Jan this year … so it seemed rude to let that milestone pass without taking on something of his. The existing recordings of War of the...
View ArticleCopyright for children?
A topic I have never given any thought to: why do children need to understand copyright? An article I read recently focuses on two aspects. Firstly, earning a living from creative work, which is...
View ArticleLife in Books: 2018
This year, I created some prompts of my own … without looking at my booklist to cheat, either. If you’re curious about other LibriVoxers, they’ll be answering over in the forum.» 2018 was a year I’d...
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