A Twitter search on my name just turned up a tweet in Portuguese from user @lamevaperdicio (La Meva Perdició):
“#02DL “Portava a la mà una carpeta vermella amb una etiqueta en què es podia llegir TOP SECRET”. (David D. Levine).”
This tweet is a translation into Portuguese of a sentence from my Wild Cards Volume 1 rev 2.0 story “Powers,” but I can’t figure out what the #02DL hashtag is or why he tweeted it. Any guesses?
Mad Scientist Journal, Spring 2013, including my story “One Night in O’Shaughnessy’s Bar,” is now available!
Mad Scientist Journal, Spring 2013, including my story “One Night in O’Shaughnessy’s Bar,” is now available!
In an incredible coincidence with yesterday’s release of the Space Magic audiobook, you can hear me reading my Hugo-nominated story “The Tale of the Golden Eagle” (an excerpt from that very audiobook) on the Escape Pod podcast today! Enjoy!
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You can hear me read “The Tale of the Golden Eagle,” an excerpt from the new Space Magic audiobook, on the latest Escape Pod podcast!
As you may know, I’ve been working for some months on a professionally-produced audiobook version of Space Magic, my award-winning short story collection. Well, it’s finally done, and today is its release day!
The Space Magic audiobook is now available from Book View Café, Audible, Amazon, and iTunes in a variety of audio formats. Tell all your friends!
If you’d like to try before you buy, you can download a five-minute sample of “Tk’Tk’Tk:”
This has been quite an adventure. It’s been a lot more work than either I or the audio engineer had expected, and a real learning process for both of us. I’ve learned all about sibilants and plosives and “mouth noises,” and I’ve discovered that I don’t really have as many different voices in my repertoire as I thought I did. But I hope that you will find an entertaining variety of voices within each story. There are some dramatic scenes I’m really proud of, and I’m quite pleased with how the alien language in “Tk’Tk’Tk” came out.
This has also been a couple of months of having my own fiction rubbed in my face. You know how they say you should read your work aloud as part of the editing process? They’re right — there is no better way to spot problems in your own prose, and now I wish I had done this for some of these stories before they were published. And having to not only read my own work over and over, but then listen to it over and over (and I know I’m far from the only person who hates the sound of his own voice) has been truly humbling. But, on the whole, I find that I am still proud of these stories, and despite the problems I can still hear in the recordings I’m happy with the audiobook and I hope that you will enjoy it.
Many people have told me how much they enjoy my readings at conventions. Now here’s your chance to take a little piece of that experience home and enjoy it at your convenience.
Some people have asked me where and when they should buy my stuff. The bottom line is, you can get it wherever and whenever you like. If you buy from Book View Café I get more money, but if you usually get your audiobooks from Audible or iTunes or Amazon you should go ahead and buy it there, because those sales will help drive the “if you liked this audiobook you may also enjoy” engines at those sites. It would also be helpful to me if, after you’ve listened to the audiobook, you would rate it or even post a review at the site where you bought it (or on your blog, or anywhere really). But what I really care about is that people read (or, in this case, hear) and enjoy my work.
So, wherever you go, just go out and buy it… and then you can stick me in your ear! :-)
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The Space Magic audiobook is now available from Book View Café, Audible, Amazon, and iTunes in a variety of audio formats. Tell all your friends!
We are okay here in Minneapolis after the storm, though we have no power or hot water. There is power in some nearby buildings, and the hotel says power will be restored "soon," but we're not holding our breath.
The storm hit last night while we were out for dinner at a fine local Indian restaurant. Wind, lightning, horizontal rain, then the lights flickered and went out. We hung out there until the rain slackened, then walked back to the hotel, becoming only lightly soaked.
Back at the con, the scheduled yarn swap and music circle continued in the dark. Texture in yarn is so important, don't you think? And singing songs in the dark, by the light of flashlights and cell phones, felt very right.
Weather forecast for our flights MSP-MKE tomorrow and MKE-MSP-PDX Wednesday is not encouraging, but we'll see.
We are okay here in Minneapolis after the storm, though we have no power or hot water. There is power in some nearby buildings, and the hotel says power will be restored "soon," but we're not holding our breath.
The storm hit last night while we were out for dinner at a fine local Indian restaurant. Wind, lightning, horizontal rain, then the lights flickered and went out. We hung out there until the rain slackened, then walked back to the hotel, becoming only lightly soaked.
Back at the con, the scheduled yarn swap and music circle continued in the dark. Texture in yarn is so important, don't you think? And singing songs in the dark, by the light of flashlights and cell phones, felt very right.
Weather forecast for our flights MSP-MKE tomorrow and MKE-MSP-PDX Wednesday is not encouraging, but we'll see.
As I've mentioned before, I'm working on a self-published audiobook of my short story collection Space Magic. Well, it's nearly ready for release! So I'm looking for a few good readers… er, listeners.
If you are an audiobook reviewer, or if you can suggest a review site that might be interested in an SF/F short story collection audiobook, or if you are an audiobook listener who would like to beta-test an audiobook (especially if you listen to audiobooks using something other than iTunes, iPod, or iPhone), please drop me an email at dlevine@spiritone.com. (This offer expires 6/27/13.)
!!EXCITED!!
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