Baby’s first audiobook? https://www.katherinevillyard.com/2026/05/15/babys-first-audiobook/ #fantasy #bookstodon @bookstodon #audio #audiobook
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Five stars:
A Poisonous Pour by Maddie Day with Linda Jones (Narrator) (2026) is the third Cece Barton mystery. It's Memorial Day weekend but unpopular Regan Greene, president of the local valley district organization has been murdered after Richard's unflattering article was published.
#bookstodon #audiobook #mystery
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https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_05/poisonous_pour.html
Five stars:
Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite and Blair Baker (Narrator) (2025) is the first of the Dorothy Gentleman mysteries. Dorothy is a ship's detective who had been shelved in the library for some time off since her last body gave out. Now she's awake in an elevator during a magnetic storm in a body that isn't hers. Besides her own mystery, Dorothy has another murder to solve. There's another body, another murder, and her death seems to be died to Dorothy's incorrect body.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_05/murder_by_memory.html
#bookstodon #shortstory #mystery #scifi #audiobook
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Five stars:
Booking for Trouble by Jenn McKinlay with Allyson Ryan (Narrator) (2026) is the sixteenth and final book in the Library Lover's Mystery series. Among the many small islands near Briar Creek are two that were once connected via a bridge until a feud resulted in the bridge being blown up. Now the most cantankerous resident is dead and it looks like her artist neighbor did it.
Have you ever listened to audiobooks?
Audiobook Appreciation Month takes place every June, celebrating the accessibility, educational value, and storytelling magic of listening to books.
Established by the Audio Publishers Association in 1998.
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I've finished: Children of Strife by Adrian Tchaikovsky
What an incredible ride.
Building on the foundation set by the first three novels in the Children of Time series, Children of Strife can concentrate on the pivotal moments of Tchaikovsky's uplift universe.
The story follows a terraforming project from Avrana Kern's generation, a desperate colony ship from the ruins of old earth and a rescue mission from the Panspecific society set up by the sentient beings we know and love.
Children of Strife highlights the difference between earth's colonization project from the beginning of Children of Time, led by egomaniacal psychopaths with the egalitarian alternative established by the end of Children of Ruin / Memory.
It is a clear indictment of today's tech billionaire class and their aspirations to become humanities gods and saviors.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/02e4e6a8-1005-4fc0-bc4e-4c263d823b82
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Five stars:
Forever Fudge by Nancy CoCo and Vanessa Johansson (Narrator) (2018) is the sixth book in the Candy-Coated mystery series. A film crew has come to Mackinac island to film a mystery TV series that uses the historic buildings as backdrops. Their arrival though, is marred by a pair of murders and a bunch of mysterious clues related to chess.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_06/forever_fudge.html
Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/TymeStarwitch
Audiobook: https://owentyme.bandcamp.com/album/the-book-of-newts-starwitch
The undead queen of the space pirates kidnapped Amelia’s sisters and damaged her ship, leaving her with little fuel. Amelia’s a dead woman without her sisters, forced to attack the pirate’s mountain-sized star ship, despite how slim the odds are…
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Ebook: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1897925
Audiobook: https://owentyme.bandcamp.com/album/short-of-tyme-the-most-powerful-words
Hungry and hunting alone, a goblin boy meets a bouncing, blue slime and assumes it will be dinner. Naturally, the slime has other ideas, and the boy gets his hind-end handed to him by what’s supposed to be one of the weakest monsters of the forest.
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Five stars:
Savvy Summers and the Po'boy Perils by Sandra Jackson-Opoku with Karen Chilton (Narrator) (2026) is the second Savvy Summers mystery. As move out day approaches for Savvy she's taken on a catering job at a Southside Chicago firm specializing in tools for left handed people. One of the employees is a woman who can't leave others' food alone. The founder of the company decides a prank involving spicy peppers would be a lesson learned, only to have the woman end up dead!
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_08/savvy_summers_and_the_poboy_perils.html
Rated Remarkably Bright Creatures A Novel 8/10
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Whose Body in the Library by Eva Gates with Elise Arsenault (Narrator) is the thirteenth book in the Lighthouse Library mystery series. Lucy McNeil is now the mother of twins and the new director of the library. She's brought in Nichelle Gilchrest, a fifty something empty nester who has started a second career as a librarian. On her first full day at the library, Nichelle finds the body of a man who resembles her long lost father.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_07/whose_body_in_the_library.html
50% off @ #Smashwords : https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1789471
Audiobook: https://owentyme.bandcamp.com/album/the-book-of-newts-starwitch
The undead queen of the space pirates kidnapped Amelia’s sisters and damaged her ship, leaving her with little fuel. Amelia’s a dead woman without her sisters, forced to attack the pirate’s mountain-sized star ship, despite how slim the odds are…
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Short Works: Nothing to Report
Currently on BBC Sounds: a new story from award-winning crime writer Liam McIlvanney. A man’s early morning run veers off course when he encounters a strange figure by the Clyde.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00318ct
#Scottish #literature #shortstory #shortfiction #LiamMcIlvanney #audiobook
Looking for additional narrators of any gender and indie producers to record Sightless Scribbles posts. Sean is still narrating them and producing them, but I need someone else I can call upon, say, when I want to try a Duette style narration with a post featuring a lot of dialog between my friend Kelly that listens to her inner organs rather than any religion, or when I write about my British friend I spilled tea on one day. Most likely, you should be open to work-swaps and installments in payments, etc. Contact me with links to your website or narrator page on Audible, or at least an easy place I can hear your voice. https://sightlessscribbles.com/contact/ #VoiceOver #Voiceover #Audiobook #GetFediHired
Five stars:
Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes by Sandra Jackson-Opoku with Karen Chilton (Narrator) (2025) is the first of the Savvy Summers mysteries. Savvy is the middle aged owner of Essie's Soul Food Café. After a wedding anniversary celebration which she caters, her oldest regular dies at the cafe while eating her popular sweet potato pie.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_07/savvy_summers_and_the_sweet_potato_crimes.html
Here’s my review of One Fine Day, 1947, by Mollie Panter-Downes, just released on audio… a gentle look at a typical day for a middle class family, reflecting societal changes brought by the war #bookstodon #BookReview #reading #Storygraph #audiobook @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/e2d8043d-a4e5-468a-bb8a-5eb7a1d6fad4
Five stars:
Picture Perfect Frame by Lynn Cahoon and Susan Boyce (Narrator) (2021) is the twelfth book in the Tourist Trap mystery series. After attending a sip and paint event at a local gallery one of the attendees, a particularly drunk one, is found dead back at the gallery the next morning. Jill feels compelled to investigate the woman's death while also juggling her store and Amy's upcoming wedding.
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_08/picture_perfect_frame.html
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Deadly Does It by Abbi Waxman with Patti Murin (Narrator) (2026) is the second book in the Mann & Mason mystery series. Mason's sponsor Alexa receives a series of threatening notes that are now culminating in the murders of her A.A. sponsees. Can Mason and Julia solve the mystery before Mason ends up one of the bodies?
#bookstodon #mystery #audiobook
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https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_08/deadly_does_it.html
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Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/TymeStarwitch
Audiobook: https://owentyme.bandcamp.com/album/the-book-of-newts-starwitch
The undead queen of the space pirates kidnapped Amelia’s sisters and damaged her ship, leaving her with little fuel. Amelia’s a dead woman without her sisters, forced to attack the pirate’s mountain-sized star ship, despite how slim the odds are…
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Ebook: https://books2read.com/TheMostPowerfulWords
Audiobook: https://owentyme.bandcamp.com/album/short-of-tyme-the-most-powerful-words
Hungry and hunting alone, a goblin boy meets a bouncing, blue slime and assumes it will be dinner. Naturally, the slime has other ideas, and the boy gets his hind-end handed to him by what’s supposed to be one of the weakest monsters of the forest.
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Five stars:
All Shell Breaks Loose by Molly MacRae with Callie Beaulieu (Narrator) (2026) is the third book in the Haunted Shell Shop mystery series. A haunted sword is the center of attention this time, especially after a man is found dead in the forest and the sword has recent blood stains on it. Dr. Irving Allred who wants the sword because of the ghost swears he had nothing to do with the man's death. Can Maureen and Emrys Lloyd sort things out?
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_08/all_shell_breaks_loose.html
RE: https://supervolcano.angryshark.eu/@AdaraAstin/115466503341357020
I would love to get some fresh reviews on my spooky, spicy audiobooks in October!
If you like high heat audiobooks and you buy and review mine, I am grateful from the bottom of my heart.
But! If you aren't in a place to buy audiobooks at the moment & you'd be up for writing a supportive review, I would gladly give you a free review copy! If you're low on spoons and you'd like a free copy in exchange for (kindly) just adding a starred review, that's still a big help.
Pick one or more books from the linked post below, and let me know which titles you want, and if a US Audible or UK Audible review copy (my only options) works best for you.
*If you listen to a free review copy and absolutely hate the audiobook or DNF, that's okay: please don't give it an awful review, just skip the review completely.
If you like this idea and you're not sure where to start, The Cauldron is a fun little romp that's probably most accessible and enjoyable for people who aren't into the specific kinks that the author caters to. I'd recommend starting there.
I know that a lot of people on Fedi will hesitate when creators give things away for free, thinking "someone else needs it more than I do", but please don't feel that way. Instead, please let me have the joy of giving out some Halloween treats this month and boost visibility and sales for my authors at the same time.
If you like high heat Halloween stories but audiobooks aren't your thing, the books are also available as ebooks on Amazon too!
Questions? Let me know.
Happy Halloween!
Ebook: https://books2read.com/TheMostPowerfulWords
Audiobook: https://owentyme.bandcamp.com/album/short-of-tyme-the-most-powerful-words
Hungry and hunting alone, a goblin boy meets a bouncing, blue slime and assumes it will be dinner. Naturally, the slime has other ideas, and the boy gets his hind-end handed to him by what’s supposed to be one of the weakest monsters of the forest.
@bookstodon
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #fiction #goblin #shortstory #audiobook #prejudice
Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/TymeStarwitch
Audiobook: https://owentyme.bandcamp.com/album/the-book-of-newts-starwitch
The undead queen of the space pirates kidnapped Amelia’s sisters and damaged her ship, leaving her with little fuel. Amelia’s a dead woman without her sisters, forced to attack the pirate’s mountain-sized star ship, despite how slim the odds are…
@bookstodon
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #sff #sciencefantasy #scifi #actionadventure #fiction #books #audiobook
