22 Days and Counting!

22 Days and Counting!

Once upon a time -

I grew up on stories that started that way. Grimm's Fairy Tales being favorites. My Mom or my Dad would read using various voices for the characters, adding dramatic pauses for effect, increasing the speed at which they read when the characters were fleeing danger - well, you get the idea.

Now when I'm reading for pleasure I do the voices, pacing, pausing - in my head.

But there is one place I still read out loud and it is not to grandchildren (at 17 and 23 they'd rather be on their smart phones or computer or talking to friends). I read out loud to myself when I go through my manuscript one final time. It is amazing what I find as awkward, what just doesn't "sound" right when I do that.

Remembering the time in my life when having books read to me was special, I know I also want to explore audiobooks.

That idea is leaping forward in time because at this point, Love and Magick is 22 days away from release. But it is an idea whose time will come!