Category: Author

  • Listening is Learning

    I’m almost finished listening to Artemis, by Andy Weir, Narrated by Rosario Dawson. Very good book for doing laundry, dishes, and copying the addresses of convalescent homes into mapquest. How was your day? Anyhow, I’m not enjoying the super long, super technical, super boring ending (Ch 14 is the PITS), so I’m taking a break.…

  • Notes From The Studio Audience: Return to Base

    If it hasn’t become clear to blog readers yet, “The Studio Audience” is me. In this endeavor of learning how to do audiobooks, I am my own Producer, Actor, Director, Editor, and Marketer. I’m the only person with skin in this game, so especially when I am editing my narration, I work on several levels simultaneously. (I…

  • Business Talk: Thanks, Dear Weekly Blog Subscribers!

    I’ve been looking at my web traffic and you Weekly Blog Subscribers appear to be my biggest fans. More of you visit my website and I get most visits Wed, Thursday, and Friday. So why do the monthly newsletter subscribers get all the most special things? Why are they are they *special?* Why don’t you *BLOG*…

  • Book Review: The Immortalists

    Book Review: The Immortalists

    Beginning The Immortalists after an astoundingly bad day resulted in intense nightmares. After the second dream of my dead father—deceased Jewish fathers being a major catalyst for the Golds in Chloe Benjamin’s book—my only option was to read my way past a night when the dark outside the bedroom window felt stuck inside of me.…

  • It’s Book Club Day! (FINALLY!!)

    After a hiatus of months and months and months, I’m at book club RIGHT NOW!!! I thought I’d share what that looks like. This is what it looks like after I read a book:   This is what it looks like after I read a book for book club: All those sticky notes are indicators…

  • Fictional Characters Who Walk Into The Real World, a.k.a. Cosplay

    Fictional Characters Who Walk Into The Real World, a.k.a. Cosplay

    Viola Roberts went to Seattle to promote two new audiobooks released in February: The Body in The Bathtub and The Venom in The Valentine. Well. Viola’s VOICE went (Psssst! That’s me). Her creator was there as well, author Shéa Macleod. This is us, having a blast after not seeing each other for over 2 years!…

  • Book Review: Eligible

    Book Review: Eligible

    If you’re one of the people in my life who wonders what all the fuss is about—why anyone (sometimes it seems everyone) still reads the six slim novels written by Jane Austen—Curtis Sittenfeld, a smart, funny, parent has written the delightful novel Eligible to show you why. Eligible follows all the characters you’d expect to find…

  • New Release: The Body in The Bathtub!

    New Release: The Body in The Bathtub!

    Happy Friday! Have a new audiobook! The Body in The Bathtub written by Shea Macleod and narrated by Yvette Keller is now available!   Bunco night seems like a safe bet, until someone finds a dead body in the bathtub. With her friends in shock and topping the local detective’s suspect list, Viola Roberts decides…

  • New (and used) Normal

    New (and used) Normal

    Two audiobooks in the final release stages, a monthly newsletter out (before the month is over), and a functioning kitchen: January has been a back-to-normal month. (If you didn’t get to read the January newsletter that launched today, you are missing out!) Still, normal doesn’t mean boring: 2018 is new, the kitchen is new, and…

  • Book Review:

    Once Upon A Nightmare: A Novella of the Nightmare City series by P.S. Newman My rating: 5 of 5 stars Once Upon A Nightmare is a fantastically-paced novella set in a fascinating future LA where dreams (and nightmares) can manifest. The twist of having a main character who discovers she isn’t “real” is an ironically…