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New Audio Book! Fallen Host
Aug. 7th, 2016 10:25 amFor those of you just tuning in, I've been partnering with voice actor Jack Evans to record and produce audiobooks through ACX.com. They've already produced Archangel Protocol and now they have just finished Fallen Host! Because ACX is a subsidiary of both Audible and Amazon.com, you can buy my book exactly the same way in which you could buy any Audible book--on Amazon, on iTunes, or on Audible! Here's a link to the Audible site: http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Fallen-Host-Audiobook/B01JQCXSW4.
What's cool about this particular project is that because it's just Jack and I and no middle-person/company, we're getting a royalty split similar to a self-published book. So, if you buy this audio version, Jack and I get the majority of the profits! So, if you're looking for ways to support me more directly, this is definitely one of them.
In other news, Naomi Kritzer and I are teaching a class together at the Loft on short stories. Don't worry, I'm not asking you to sign-up. I've done my sales pitch for the blog. We actually already had our first class on Saturday. It's a LONG class: 3 hours and it's only two sessions. I feel like the class went very well, but I might be hallucinating because since the class started at 9 am and went until noon, I had nothing to eat but a WHOLE LOT OF COFFEE. To say I was high energy during the class might be a slight understatement.
I think, too, my teaching style is.... okay, positive words would include: dynamic, flexible, and organic. It worked pretty well to teach in tandem with Naomi because, as I told her beforehand (and the class, during,) that while I feel as though I'm a successful writer, I don't feel that short stories are necessarily an area of expertise for me. I know a good one when it comes through my writers' group, but let's put that in perspective. I have Eleanor Arnason and Naomi Kritzer in my writing group, and between them they've had short stories nominated for and have won pretty much every short story award there *is.*
So my job during class was to facilitate discussion. To draw out ideas that Naomi has about writing short stories and to get the class to participate in ideas, etc. Adult teaching, too, means making sure that adults leave class with a sense of having accomplished a specific goal. Adults like to leave class with something concrete in hand, so we had to structure the class in a way that provided students with some time to write and time to analyze the writing, etc. And, despite the fact that the 3 hours slipped by much faster than we anticipated, we managed that. The good news is that we have a second class to underscore the more important points, some of which we only skimmed over in the first class when we realized we were running out of time.
On the other hand, I'm a big believer in doing is learning, so the fact that all six of our students produced work they COULD take home and continue made me very optimistic that the second class is going to go as well as this one did and that all of them should be at least somewhat satisfied with their experience this last time.
Or I was high.
I could have been high.
What's cool about this particular project is that because it's just Jack and I and no middle-person/company, we're getting a royalty split similar to a self-published book. So, if you buy this audio version, Jack and I get the majority of the profits! So, if you're looking for ways to support me more directly, this is definitely one of them.
In other news, Naomi Kritzer and I are teaching a class together at the Loft on short stories. Don't worry, I'm not asking you to sign-up. I've done my sales pitch for the blog. We actually already had our first class on Saturday. It's a LONG class: 3 hours and it's only two sessions. I feel like the class went very well, but I might be hallucinating because since the class started at 9 am and went until noon, I had nothing to eat but a WHOLE LOT OF COFFEE. To say I was high energy during the class might be a slight understatement.
I think, too, my teaching style is.... okay, positive words would include: dynamic, flexible, and organic. It worked pretty well to teach in tandem with Naomi because, as I told her beforehand (and the class, during,) that while I feel as though I'm a successful writer, I don't feel that short stories are necessarily an area of expertise for me. I know a good one when it comes through my writers' group, but let's put that in perspective. I have Eleanor Arnason and Naomi Kritzer in my writing group, and between them they've had short stories nominated for and have won pretty much every short story award there *is.*
So my job during class was to facilitate discussion. To draw out ideas that Naomi has about writing short stories and to get the class to participate in ideas, etc. Adult teaching, too, means making sure that adults leave class with a sense of having accomplished a specific goal. Adults like to leave class with something concrete in hand, so we had to structure the class in a way that provided students with some time to write and time to analyze the writing, etc. And, despite the fact that the 3 hours slipped by much faster than we anticipated, we managed that. The good news is that we have a second class to underscore the more important points, some of which we only skimmed over in the first class when we realized we were running out of time.
On the other hand, I'm a big believer in doing is learning, so the fact that all six of our students produced work they COULD take home and continue made me very optimistic that the second class is going to go as well as this one did and that all of them should be at least somewhat satisfied with their experience this last time.
Or I was high.
I could have been high.