I contributed to the IndieGoGo for Jenna Moran's Enemies Endure. One of the rewards for my level was the ebooks of An Unclean Legacy and The Fable of the Swan. Only trouble is, I'd already bought both of those when they first went up. So now I have duplicates.

Anybody out there want 'em?

On this last day of the candy year, let's take a moment to contemplate before the fallow season starts ( Read more... )

Gacked from kouredios

I’m running a test to see who’s reading my posts. So, if you read this, leave me a one-word comment about your day that starts with the third letter of your LJ USERNAME. Only one word please. Then repost so I can leave a word for you. Don’t just post a word and not copy - that’s not as much fun!

Time for my annual roundup of what I read last year.

Total number of titles was way down, although I suspect the number of words and pages was comparable: it was a year of doorstops! I read the first volume of Mark Twain's autobiography, then I re-read all of A Song of Ice and Fire, then I read A Dance With Dragons, then I read the first volume ( Read more... )

Because I'm a little bored, and this sounds like it might be fun. From caper_est:

Instructions1. Open up your music player. Hit shuffle ( Read more... )

So, two weeks ago I got a message from acx.com saying that my recording of Ursus of Ultima Thule had been approved, that it would undergo a final quality check which would take about a week, and then go up in places like audible.com. I've kept looking on audible.com and not seen it; I decided to wait for it to be two complete weeks before sending ( Read more... )

Many of you may remember that I worked on a dramatic reading of Alice in Wonderland for the free downloadable audiobook site LibriVox. Well, the person who did Alice didn't have the ability to do something similar for Through the Looking-Glass, so I stepped up and organized it. 27 different people recorded 42 different parts, and I edited them ( Read more... )

Gakked from james_nicoll
Beginning with authors who got their start in the 1980s:

Italicize the authors you've heard of before reading this list of authors, bold the ones you've read at least one work by, underline the ones of whose work you own at least one example of.

Long, so a cut.

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Over on My Mom Watches Game of Thrones the mom says: ...the Lannisters are bad, but it might be Tyrion who ends up saving Ned.
Instantly I felt the urge to quote The Princess Bride...only in reverse. (With Ned Stark in the role of Prince Humperdinck, if you need a clue.)

Harper Collins is having a contest: the prize is a trip to New York to record a role in the new audiobook of American Gods. To enter, people load an mp3 file of themselves reading a paragraph from the book. Registered users on the Harper Collins web site can vote for files, and the top 20 votegetters get judged. (The rules specify that if fewer ( Read more... )