YOU CAN HEAR "THE WITCHES OF LUBLIN" NOW!

...well, the first 10 minutes of it, anyway.  I am thrilled beyond belief, and hope you like it.  To listen:

Just click on over to public radio's PRX page for The Witches of Lublin.

I'm afraid you must sign in to PRX to be able to listen to the whole 10-minute segment.  But PRX is pretty cool; you might end up enjoying surfing there! ETA:  You can still sign in to PRX... but all this is now also available on our homepage, too!

And best of all, you can hear my final, produced-with-music renditions of my :15, :30 and even :60-second promos for the show! (OK, well, I think that's exciting.)  If you did read my earlier post about promo copy, you will already know that the bit-where-I'm-not-talking at the end is not because I ran out of copy, but the necessary space for stations to add their local ID & air time for Witches.

Which seems like a good place to mention that I hope this may inspire you to write to  your own local public radio station to remind them that the show is available for Passover special programming and that their listeners would very much like to hear it on their air, thank you very much.  Especially as it features Neil Gaiman in his first ever dramatic role (since grammar school, anyway).  Here's how to do that.

I'd also like to say that we are still seeking funding for this project.  If you like what you hear, and can spare a few shekels (or groshn), could you drop us some over at PayPal? All contributions are tax-deductible, and any amount is very, very welcome.  We have big gifties for big donors - those will be up soon, and include a CD of the show for tax-deductible donations of $100 or more, and a signed, limited edition print of Ilene Winn-Lederer's gorgeous art for $500 or more.  As we are offering the show to stations free of charge, we have to grant- and crowd-fund the entire enterprise.

I know that some of you have already granted one or both of the above requests for help.  I know who you are (I hope - I think I've written thanks to everyone); you know who you are.  Thanks again.  I'm beginning to believe this is really going to happen.

 

My wise friends:

Seldom do I read my Friends' List - but such gems when I do!

isabelswift  's Advice on what to do when you are at the airport and discover your flight has been delayed, and Advice to young writers, cunningly disguised as a Lesson in Cocktail-making: A Twist of Lemon

tithenai  on the Teasing Threshold (and Safe Words thereunto)

deliasherman 's reviews of every play we've seen lately, plus that Census meme

and finally (pasted from time_shark , because why try to improve upon perfection?)

From Erzebet YellowBoy and Papaveria Press:

All proceeds from sales received through the Papaveria website from Monday, 14 March through whenever will be donated to Doctors Without Borders. Nicole Kornher-Stace is also donating all royalties from the sale of The Winter Triptych to the same. Read her announcement here.

Today is my mother's birthday:  the Ides of March - and yes, she's already gotten that card from me. More than once.  At the age of (now) 81, she flew down to Sarasota today to start combing the fancy GoodWill shops for furniture for the condo she & my dad just bought down there.  I think by now she has even forgiven me for asking her once, when I was very small, "Mom?  Were you born in one of those 'hundreds' years? Like... nineteen-hundred?"

(It may have been shortly after that that my dad decided to teach me the noble game of Cribbage  - so that I would learn how to count!)