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Now available in audio
Jan. 21st, 2009 10:09 amSo first, I will apologize for my recent lack of posting. I had this nifty post all written up about my favorite books of 2008, which I still needed to edit, except I kept not getting around to editing and it just sat in my LJ client, taking up space and preventing me from writing about anything else until I did something with it. As a result, you didn't hear me whine about the fact that the beginning of 2009 for me featured a round of stomach flu, a cracked windshield, a dead battery, and a flat tire, among other hassles, because there was this stupid book post in the way.
I finally cleared it out (actually, I posted it private, so I could go back, retrieve it, and edit it for public consumption if it weren't for the fact that January is almost over and a "best books of 2008" post seems kind of pathetic at this point) so that I could post about this:
Last year I had a story published in Realms of Fantasy, "Honest Man." It got picked up by PodCastle and is now available in audio. Woot!
I originally wrote "Honest Man" as an 80th birthday gift for my grandmother. While the central action of the story is made up, the protagonist is my Grammie, the backdrop information (like her working for the FBI during WWII) is all drawn from her life, and her family members are all real people. (Amelia, her daughter, is my mother, and I'm mentioned briefly near the end of the story.) It was a really fun story to write, and my grandmother was thrilled with her present, and thrilled all over again when it got published. I have no idea how I'm going to explain the whole PodCast thing to her, though; she barely understands books on tape.
It is both very cool and profoundly weird to hear someone else reading my short story.
I finally cleared it out (actually, I posted it private, so I could go back, retrieve it, and edit it for public consumption if it weren't for the fact that January is almost over and a "best books of 2008" post seems kind of pathetic at this point) so that I could post about this:
Last year I had a story published in Realms of Fantasy, "Honest Man." It got picked up by PodCastle and is now available in audio. Woot!
I originally wrote "Honest Man" as an 80th birthday gift for my grandmother. While the central action of the story is made up, the protagonist is my Grammie, the backdrop information (like her working for the FBI during WWII) is all drawn from her life, and her family members are all real people. (Amelia, her daughter, is my mother, and I'm mentioned briefly near the end of the story.) It was a really fun story to write, and my grandmother was thrilled with her present, and thrilled all over again when it got published. I have no idea how I'm going to explain the whole PodCast thing to her, though; she barely understands books on tape.
It is both very cool and profoundly weird to hear someone else reading my short story.
