Gonna spend the rest of the day reading, but I do have a podcast of my work, narrated. If you know someone that would rather listen rather than read, share my podcast with them. I also serialize my audiobooks on my podcast too just in case one of my publishers doesn't publish on Libro FM. The serialized audiobooks are premium episodes though because I pay narrators. It also costs money to have narrators narrate these, so share the premium page if you know someone that wants to listen to audiobooks with a pay what you want model. https://weirdwritings.pinecast.co/ #Podcast #Podcasts #Audible #Audiobook #Audiobooks
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I've finished: When the Sparrow Falls by Neil Sharpson
This is a story about a Soviet style East European dystopia. As someone who grew up in the late 80s it really appealed to me.
An ideology turned into an authoritarian nightmare and the people that get ground up in the wheels.
It is Sharpson's ability to personalize those people as they get crushed in the gears that makes this a great novel.
It's a bit strange to read a novel in 2025 where the AI future is viewed in a positive light. But it was published in 2021, before AI became synonymous with LLMs.
It was interesting reading When The Sparrow Falls at the same time as The Ragpicker, a novel where the digitization of human consciousness and virtual reality are the cause of the apocalyptic nightmare.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/50271032-ec89-41c3-87ad-ac67855b8417
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Saved by the Mountain Man is a High Heat Romance audiobook I narrated as Eden Cavell.
When a Runaway Bride crashes her car on a snowy mountain road, she turns an unsuspecting Mountain Man's life upside-down!
I was thrilled to narrate a story about a Runaway Bride! The female lead is full of fire and absolutely deserves her happily-ever-after. (Also, off the record: the groom that ditched her was seriously a bullet-dodged. We love to see it.)
In addition to the hunky Mountain Man love interest promised by the title, this story also features the steamiest shower scene I've ever narrated. Kelsie Calloway writes great sex scenes and in this book she outdoes herself.
At 46 minutes long, this is the perfect listen for a cozy, romantic night by the fire.
Saved by the Mountain Man is available as an audiobook on Amazon, Audible and Apple Books. It's also available as an ebook for Kindle Unlimited on Amazon.
Go on, treat yourself. 💋
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If Mountain Man Romances are your jam, I have narrated three of them for Kelsie Calloway!
I grew up in the mountains around genuine mountain men. The voices for these hot male leads were inspired by real guys I know!
Scar, about a City Girl rescued in the Alaskan wilderness
https://geni.us/scarh
Saved by the Mountain Man, about a Runaway Bride
https://geni.us/SBMM2
Taken by the Mountain Man, about a single mom who gets a second chance at romance
https://geni.us/TBTMM
If you like Mountain Man Romances -- or Runaway Brides, Single Moms, or City Girls starting new lives -- these are a great stories!
They are all available at the links above as audiobooks on Amazon, Audible and Apple Books. They're also available as ebooks for Kindle Unlimited on Amazon.
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🌴 What would you do if you washed ashore on a tropical island full of giant women?
Daughters of Atlantis is an erotic tropical island fantasy story I narrated for Amber Collins. If you're a fan of sensual tiny man + giantess stories, this is the audiobook for you. 💋
Daughters of Atlantis is available as an audiobook on Amazon, Audible and Apple Books. It's also available as an ebook for Kindle Unlimited on Amazon.
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LAST THREE DAYS! This is your LAST CHANCE to get the audiobook with Dave Robison, Veronica Giguerre, and J. Daniel Sawyer for TWO MONTHS!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/villyard/immortal-gifts-hardcover-paperback-and-audiobook
Want to test-drive the audiobook? You can listen to the first four chapters here: https://youtu.be/RmDtm6koQCY
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I've finished: Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
As someone who has recently finished T. Kingfisher's back catalog I was glad to discover Heather Fawcett's work. It scratches a similar itch.
I loved the academic angle, it takes me back to my years at university.
I do wish the solutions Emily finds were based on events we were told about in advance rather then a moment of inspiration. She has a vast amount of knowledge that comes in handy, but I want to see her work towards a solution using the clues she found along the way.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/1735e2b1-a9df-4923-bbbf-825297721654
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It's almost the end of the month & you know what that means!
It's a great time to support your fave indie artists, writers, musicians and creators by boosting us, 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! 💕
PS If you are an Audible member and you have credits leftover at the end of the month, why not treat yourself to an audiobook narrated by yours truly? 💋
You can find my audiobooks (and all my links) here:
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For the @bookstodon readers, January and February will be huge months for my podcast because I am serializing my two audiobooks for January and February. Off the grid, and pass the Salt. If you don’t have audible, this is a great way to get the audiobooks and support me and my narrators. I do not use AI narration. The price is pay what you want. You’ll get a private RSS feed that you can put in any podcast app of your choice. https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/weirdwritings you’ll get a private RSS feed after you tip monthly. #Audiobook #Audiobooks #Audible
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ICYMI: how to spot GenAI audiobooks on LIbby
https://mashable.com/article/how-to-spot-ai-audiobooks-libby
I've finished: Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove
I was a bit worried about the premise of this novel, I don't usually like when cliche historical monsters are recycled into a new setting. Many times it is just name dropping.
I was pleasantly surprised by Of Monsters and Mainframes. The monsters are characters in their own right and are more than a place marker for evil antagonist.
The AIs are the traditional kind, expert systems rather than the LLM type, finding human interaction difficult rather than built to simulate human interaction. For this is essentially a found family story, and the AI is coded autistic.
It is fun and funny, but also dark, there are cozy elements but I hesitate to categorize it as cozy.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/df12836a-b0dd-416c-b75f-32f0d6f390db
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Discovered a new author to me as well as disability representation because I was browsing favorite narrators. https://share.libbyapp.com/title/10216742 #Audiobook #Romance #RomanceLandia #Audiobooks @bookstodon
If you're looking for a polyam romance, I've narrated a good one.
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If you're looking for a Christmas Romance audiobook, I've narrated a great one!
Lily is a single mom starting over in a small mountain town. Last Christmas, her brother's hot best friend Beckett kissed her under the mistletoe. This year she's newly arrived, newly divorced, and hoping for a second chance in more ways than one.
Lily is a great character: she is a woman who knows what she wants and is not afraid to go after it. And Becket is the hunky mountain man we all deserve: caring, together, and more than ready to appreciate a good woman who comes his way.
Taken by the Mountain Man by Kelsie Calloway is one of my top three best selling romance audiobooks of the year. At just 42 minutes long, you can listen in a single session!
If you like a story with a big heart and sizzling sex scenes, this one's for you. Go on and cozy up with a nice hot mountain man romance!
The books is available for Kindle and Kindle Unlimited from Amazon, and the audiobook is available from Amazon, Audible and Apple Books.
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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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