After a hiatus, Lee the Puppet is back to answer your questions. In Episode Three, Lee answers these questions. Josh Storey – When an audio book is being recorded, how much does the author collaborate with the director and/or narrator on the way dialog is read? Jonathan Boynton – How do you figure out character motivations? […]
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It’s now two weeks after my nasal airway surgery and most of the healing has happened at this point. So far? Breathing is amazing. AMAZING. I’ve still got some swelling and stitches (inside my nose!) It’ll apparently take about two months for everything to finish settling, but from here on the changes will be subtle.
What do I sound like after surgery? Like this… Read More »
Christopher Husberg is joining us today with his novel Duskfall. Here’s the publisher’s description: Pulled from a frozen sea, pierced by arrows and close to death, Knot has no memory of who he was. But his dreams are dark, filled with violence and unknown faces. Winter, a tiellan woman whose people have long been oppressed by
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Curtis C. Chen is joining us today with his novel Waypoint Kangaroo. Here’s the publisher’s description: Kangaroo isn’t your typical spy. Sure, he has extensive agency training, access to bleeding-edge technology, and a ready supply of clever (to him) quips and retorts. But what sets him apart is “the pocket.” It’s a portal that opens into
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Laura Lam is joining us today with her novel False Hearts. Here’s the publisher’s description: Laura Lam’s adult sci-fi debut False Hearts: Two formerly conjoined sisters are ensnared in a murderous plot involving psychoactive drugs, shared dreaming, organized crime, and a sinister cult. Raised in the closed cult of Mana’s Hearth and denied access to modern
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This is a small thing. You can write a letter. It’s also a huge thing. You can write a letter. See, our government representatives still respond more to letters than the do to emails, Facebook, or Twitter hashtags. I’m not saying that you shouldn’t do those, too, but there’s this other thing you can do.
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Shannon Page is joining us today with her book The Usual Path to Publication. Here’s the publisher’s description: A collection of essays about the UNusual, amusing, heartbreaking, random, and quite perfectly crazy ways writers got their words out there. CONTENTS: Cherie Priest, “How I Skidded Sideways Into Publishing” Alma Alexander, “Don’t Try This At Home” Mark Teppo,
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Rob took this photo. a) I had no idea he was in the room. b) I had no idea that both cats were on me. I’m losing most of my saving throws against napping, and I’m fine with that. Smells are more vivid, which will be great when I’m cooking, but less exciting around the cats’
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I had surgery on Friday to correct a deviated septum, turbinate hypertrophy, and collapsed nasal valves. I’ve been posting pictures of myself in the recovery process, because I think medicine is neat. But you — you decided that it would be funny to make a joke that I had black eyes because my husband hit
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I am home! There is grapefruit-peppercorn sorbet. My surgeon pulled the nasal tampons out and that is so much more accurate a name that rocket. Like… wow. I could immediately breathe better than I could before I went in and that was while I still have swelling and a brief nosebleed. (Totally normal.) Seriously. I
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Yesterday’s surgery seems to have gone well. I still have bi-lateral rhino-rockets in my nose and am really, really looking forward to having them removed. I’ve been told that they are called nose-tampons. Having googled, yes. Yes, that’s a really good description of them. That is, in fact, exactly what they are. And I’m really
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It sounds like a rocket part. It’s actually a thing that’s happening in my nose. Nose rocketry! Well… no. It’s like this. My husband noticed that I was getting out of breath when we were walking. My heart rate wasn’t elevated, but I was breathing through my mouth. The right side of my nose just
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Adam Rakunas is joining us today with his novel Like A Boss. Here’s the publisher’s description: In this breathless and hilarious followup to Windswept, former labor organiser Padma Mehta’s worst nightmare comes true: she gets yanked out of early retirement. After buying her favourite rum distillery and settling down, she thought she’d heard the last of her
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Anna Kashina is joining us today with her novel Assassin Queen. Here’s the publisher’s description: Defeated by the Majat forces, Nimos and the other Kaddim Brothers retreat to their secret fortress in the southern mountains. Nimos knows that the Majat’s victory is only temporary: during the flight, he managed to place a mark on Kara, one
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Kids Need to Read is a great charity started by Nathan Fillion. Tonight, at Phoenix Comicon, I’m participating in a fundraiser for them. Other authors are raffling off ARCs and things like that. Me? I’ll write a story for you, on demand. Here’s how it works. You donate $40 to the charity, and then you
Tonight, at Authors with Drinks, I’ll type a story for you. For charity. Read More »