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  • Swashbucklers, Rogues and Assassins: The Bad Boys of Fantasy

    Swashbucklers, Rogues and Assassins: The Bad Boys of Fantasy

    The bad boys of Fantasy, like the buddy cop flicks we all love, are full of friendship, ribald comments, one-upmanship and enough jokes to lighten up the darkest story. Set in places that range from the epic to the intriguing, their exploits run the gamut from world-ending to a simple heist gone hilariously wrong. Whatever these guys… Read more

  • Crown of Sonnets: Tales of Shayari

    Crown of Sonnets: Tales of Shayari

    A Crown of Sonnets: Tales of Shayari {Drigorem’s Curse} Not enough for you, the councilor’s seat. Not for you, little brother, for your eyes set upon a higher goal. A planned meet sealed your fate and mine. What price in blood buys a state? Did you think you could steal the crown? Read more

  • Tales of Shayari: Death of a King

    Tales of Shayari: Death of a King

    Death of a King & Drigorem’s Curse Blood pooled, weeping from a gash in his chest  and soaking into Drigorem’s clothes. He shivered. The chill stone sucked up his warmth. Boots thudded on stone. Screams and bellows competed with the metal on metal clang of a fight. How had it come to this vile betrayal,… Read more

  • Audio Book vs Audio Drama

    Audio Book vs Audio Drama

    in medias res continues its audio book obsession with a look into an emerging trend in the audio book world: audio dramas. What’s the difference between an audio book and an audio drama? A lot apparently. An audio book started out life as a book. Not a comic book or a screen play but a… Read more

  • A Bad Day in Three Concrete Sonnets

    A Bad Day in Three Concrete Sonnets

    Bad Day (Plain Text Version, scroll down for concrete version) I. Cars stopping. Cars honking. Cars whose drivers are texting. Drivers yakking on cellphones. Drivers rubbernecking. Damn those drivers creeping past police cars. Police by cones waiting, why aren’t they nabbing those drivers? Read more

  • Who Will Narrate: Listen and Cast Your Vote

    Who Will Narrate: Listen and Cast Your Vote

    Okay, we’ve talked these last two days about audio books both the professionally produced variety and the self-narrated too. If you need a refresher, pop by this post here for a discussion of professional voice acted audio books and here for the DIY option. You are armed with knowledge and ready to cast your vote… Read more

  • Elegy for Lactose, God how I miss you!

    Elegy for Lactose, God how I miss you!

    Elegy for Lactose Lost Cheesecake topped with whipped cream, sweet, velvety fudge, smooth ice cream topped with nuts, buttercream frosting heaped onto crumbly cake, I love you and I loathe that you don’t love me. Not a sip, not a crumb, can cross my lips or pay the price I must. Dear lactose it’s over.… Read more

  • Audio Book Meets DIY

    Audio Book Meets DIY

    Yesterday we talked about audio books, specifically about the money side.  You can refresh your memory here about that. I also referred you to a great post that Cecilia Lewis wrote up detailing how you pick a narrator for your book. Read her article here. Yesterday’s discussion centered around the cost to produce audio books and… Read more

  • A Silly Ballad about Buttercream

    A Silly Ballad about Buttercream

    You’ve been warned. I can’t get this damned thing out of mind so I can write a serious ballad for today’s assignment. So here is the ballad making the rounds in my skull. I hope you get a chuckle. Maybe by the time you read this I will have stopped laughing. Buttercream Day The bakery… Read more

  • Is There a Narrator in the House?

    Is There a Narrator in the House?

    I love audio books. So do my coworkers. We have our own little audio book club where we advocate and cajole each other to listen to the audio books we have loved. Right now two-thirds of the audio book club is pushing me to read Robert Galbraith’s novels. They are also lobbying me to put… Read more