Like to hear a sample of my voice? There is one at the head of every chapter at
I'd love to hear some feedback.
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Firefighter Love: Curvy Girl Alpha Male Romance (Curvy Temptations) is a younger man / older woman age gap romance I narrated as Eden Cavell for Kelsie Calloway.
When a hot young firefighter moves back to the small town where he grew up, he finally gets a chance to ask out his childhood crush: his best friend's big sister!
The male lead is super sweet and it's a big-hearted, wholesome story (with a red hot finale).
"Firefighter Love: Curvy Girl Alpha Male Romance (Curvy Temptations)" is available as an audiobook on Audible, Amazon & Apple Books. It's also available in ebook and paperback formats on Amazon.
(If you've ever wondered what I sound like as the voice of a hunky young firefighter, here's where you find out!)
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I've finished: The Mercy of Gods by James S.A. Corey
The Mercy of Gods starts with a group of scientists embroiled in some heavy lab politics. Then the aliens arrive.
Sadly, the rest of the novel continues to emphasize politics. Among the humans and with the different aliens, the questions are of relationships and power politics, not of science and research.
We have a group of researchers that never geek out about their ideas. When someone has a breakthrough it comes out of nowhere, there is no setup of gathering data, forming hypothesis, testing and coming to conclusions.
There is one character who actually tries to learn about the aliens, but he does so on his own and no one else is interested enough to have a conversation about his theories.
I expected something different from a novel about a biology research group that encounters an abundance of alien life forms and is given a lab and a research project to complete. Even if it is under horrific circumstances.
I understand the main dilemma of survival, resistance or compliance under fascist imperialism. But the lack of scientific discourse, geecking out or even curiosity among researchers is baffling to me.
Instead we spend an inordinate amount of time on who is fucking whom.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/727e8286-ed23-4fe1-89f3-c40c8bcef87e
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My #TuesdayTeaser is up!
https://www.elizabeth-noble.com/thoughts-and-things-blog/tuesday-teaser-922025
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The correct answer to the question "do #audiobooks count as reading?" is not a simple yes or no. It's "yes, now please stop gatekeeping".
I haven't done an audiobook giveaway in a while. Let's fix that!
If you are going through a hard time and listening to an audiobook might be a little treat, then:
1. Make your pick from the audiobooks I have narrated (catalogue link follows below).
2. DM me the title.
3. Let me know if you'd like a free copy through Audible US or Audible UK.*
4. I will send you a code for a free copy, no strings, no questions asked.
It's that easy!
*Audible US and Audible UK are the only options or I would offer more. If you live in other regions, you can access these versions by changing the country code in your Audible phone app settings or the region on the broweser version.
If you aren't sure what to pick, I'd recommend one of these three books:
- The Giantess Slave is low spice scifi, that several listeners have told me they find helps them fall asleep. (It's an odd compliment, but I'll take it!)
- The Trouble with Angels is medium spice comedy romance that's funny and big-hearted with a great story. It gets good reviews from people who don't think of themselves as romance fans.
- Lockdown and Dirty is the book I won a narration award for. It is very high spice but also wholesome, about a sweetheart of a guy who has a big crush on his roommate but doesn't want to endanger their friendship.
Or you can pick a title from any of the books in my catalogue.
If you would like an audiobook, please don't hesitate. It would give me so much joy to be able to offer a little pick-me-up to someone who needs it.
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I've finished: The Dying Earth by Jack Vance
I know this is a classic that had an influence on SFF. When I started reading I was also not aware how early in SFF history it was written.
But I cannot get over how one dimensional the characters are, or the dialogue. There is hardly any dialogue, the characters mostly make declarations rather than talk like human beings. (and don't get me going about the misogyny)
It was amazing to see the idea for The City & the City by China Miéville in a story published in 1950, but apart from some neat ideas, the level of writing is just so bad.
Mercifully it's a rather short novel, and I was able to push to the end, where the best of the 6 novelettes that make up this book awaits.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/98f64183-4954-47a5-89de-f27d99429319
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My all-time best selling romance audiobook is...
Taken by the Mountain Man, by Kelsie Calloway, which I narrated as Eden Cavell.
A divorced single mom starting over in a small mountain town takes a shot at a second chance at love with her brother's hot best friend.
It's a big-hearted romance that is also super hot, with a female lead who's not afraid to go after what she wants, and the kind of hunky mountain man she absolutely deserves.
Translation: I get to play Yet Another Mountain Man in this audiobook! (There are a few in my catalogue.)
If you like second chance romance, sizzling sex scenes or happily ever afters, this is the audiobook for you.
It's available as an audiobook and also as an ebook.
I've finished: The Siege of Burning Grass by Premee Mohamed
The Siege of Burning Grass has an interesting premise: It offers us the pacifist option for resistance against a fascist regime during a brutal war.
A very relevant subject in 2025.
Sadly the protagonist needs a hell of allot of narrative armor to live through many of the situations he faces.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/authors/ada8d54c-bb72-4c53-9a12-67f4afbe07a5
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I'm canceling my Audible subscription and have a few final credits to use. Seeking recommendations for #audiobooks .
Kinds of things I'm looking for:
* History, especially of places, people, and perspectives I didn't get in school in the USA
* Science fiction / fantasy
* Light reads for when everything is just too much
* Anything you think is extra remarkable
THE EYE OF THE WORLD Chapter 3: The Peddler
I've been putting away clothes that were LONG overdue for being put away (including a garbage bag of clothes from the move) and listening to The Hills of Tanchico (from #WheelOfTimeTVshow) on repeat bc it's been stuck in my head, when I suddenly realized: I could be listening to my audiobook!
Padan Fain you horrible creep, let's meet you!
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I've finished: A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys
A Half-Built Garden is the most Fediversial novel I've read.
The anarchists have won. The corporations and nation states have been sidelined. Most of the world is under the control of egalitarian communities that use an alternative network to achieve consensus and work to rehabilitate the climate change ravaged earth.
This is very much a slice of life novel in the vain of Becky Chambers, centered around a communal lgbtqia+ household. But as opposed to most slice of life novels there is a major crisis, and it falls upon this community to save the day.
Aliens have made first contact and they insist that the only way for technological species to survive is to leave their biospheres behind and build Dyson Swarms.
As their way of life comes under threat from without and within, Will the dandelion network survive? Will the power of decisions through discussion and consensus overcome manipulation and coercion.
A special aspect of the aliens is the importance they place on the place of children in society.
PS:
I didn't expect this novel to be so Jewish, what a delight.
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I've finished: Drunk on All Your Strange New Words by Eddie Robson
First of all, this is a wonderful mystery, lead by an amateur detective. Her flaws and awkward pursuit of the truth are what kept me glued to this novel.
While this is a novel about an alien embassy to earth, it is more a study of human culture than alien culture.
A climate change destabilized humanity deals badly with the soft power of an alien embassy's cultural attache.
Robson contrasts the aliens that are disinterested in digital media and humanity that is consumed by it. The telepathic aliens that find it hard to lie and obfuscate and the humans that can't stop.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/62f8f66e-e912-4afc-bd8e-efc4b38eecaa
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OMG! Kevin R Free is finishing recording the Pass the Salt Audiobook! The publisher said I can send people over for reviews! I'm gonna do that tomorrow so join my mailing list in the meantime. So excited! https://buttondown.com/weirdwriter #Audible #Free #Audiobook #Audiobooks #Books @bookstodon @bookstadon
more changes that I don't mind/that make sense:
in the books, we follow Mat and Rand from Whitebridge¹ to Caemlyn, and see their journey in farm chores, juggling/flute playing in inns for room and board, and Darkfriends trying to kill them (with a sprinkling of Rand reacting to using the One Power)
it definitely makes sense to elide all of that into doing chores at one inn and one Darkfriend trying to kill them and one instance of channeling (but no reactions), but I didn't realize until I read the book that the inn and the Darkfriend were inventions of the TV show ...
like I guess it makes sense not to do the Four Kings in Shadow story, if you're also introducing Thom Merrilin (and additionally doing the Aiel in a cage thing), bc that story was already kinda involved
1/x
¹ which is where Thom Merrilin tells them to run as a Fade is bearing down on him
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ELYAS!!!
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I've finished: City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett
After I finished A Drop of Corruption, I was looking for more Robert Jackson Bennett.
City of Stairs is similar enough to the Shadow of the Leviathan Series to feel very familiar yet not so similar you feel like your reading the same story in a different location.
This time the female is the lead, but she isn't infallible, and the male partner is an uncannily capable muscle.
Like in the Leviathan novels, The story begins with a murder investigation that then reveals more and more about the world, the gods, the old imperial power and the new. Neither political system is admirable but our heroine intends to try and change things for the better.
The premise is also quite unique, What if the rebels found a way to kill the empire's gods? What would an empire that has lost not only its gods but everything that was powered by their miracles look like after decades of occupation?
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/b092604c-3cdd-4088-9691-e3ce2d6d577d
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📖 📻 **Does listening to an audiobook count as reading?**
🔗 https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/2025-07-12/does-listening-to-an-audiobook-count-as-reading.
_What do you think?_
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📖 📻 **Does listening to an audiobook count as reading?**
🔗 https://www.npr.org/2025/07/12/nx-s1-5454723-e1/does-listening-to-an-audiobook-count-as-reading.
_What do you think?_
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I've finished: City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett
General Mulaghesh, the grizzled veteran is at the center of this Divine Cities novel.
This one is about the horrors of war, and the harm it does to the perpetrators as well as the victims.
As ancient and modern warfare come to ahead, can the cycle of violence be broken?
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/a32241fc-48cd-499f-9192-1a631294f6da
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I've finished: Calypso by Oliver K. Langmead
This is a generation colony ship sci-fi novel.
One of the first scenes introduces a Terra-formed Mars. The technological hurdles have been solved. Overcoming technical issues inherent in such a grand project is not the subject of this novel.
It is not nature but human nature Calypso struggles with.
What form should such a colony take? What toll will such a project take on its crew?
Calypso is also a literary experiment, giving different view point characters different literary styles. Including a view point written entirely in verse. I enjoyed this aspect and applaud the audiobook Producers for using distinct narrators for the different viewpoints.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/3fa3baaf-5616-4dca-b251-affb0cc05a00
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Most of you probably don't know that I narrate audiobooks, so I should probably bring that up more often, hmm?
I am not taking new contracts at this time as AI scrapes up public voices and destroys the field. But I still have a catalogue of past work that pays royalties. I narrate(d) romance as Eden Cavell (with a one-off novel as Alana Thicke), as well as non-fic under my own name.
Sales help me & my lovely indie authors. Check them out!
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I've finished: Raising Stony Mayhall by Daryl Gregory
A wonderful zombie novel for people that don't like the killing fest that is most zombie media.
Written in sections, each part explores new ideas about zombies, exploring their nature and treating them like an extreme type of marginalized people.
Each turn the story takes supplies an interesting new twist that takes you on a new path away from the cookie cutter version of the Zombie Apocalypse story.
I never expected to encounter a 5-Star Zombie novel.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/f9f7d019-aee2-4726-bdc3-8e69ffc78a15
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This reviewer on Audible knows the way to an audiobook narrator's heart! 🥰
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It's almost the end of the month & you know what that means!
It's a great time to boost your fave indie artists by buying from us, subscribing to our newsletters, reviewing our work, leaving a tip, etc.
Your support lets us keep making art for you. Thank you! 💋
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If you are an Audible member and you have credits leftover at the end of the month, why not treat yourself to a steamy audiobook? 💋
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