Just 13 more hours to pub date...and now, the News:

[ellenkushner]

 

All the kids (except 1) are real NYC highschool students who auditioned & worked hard for the experience (and some snacks). Amazing kids!  Please share the joy.

It's also the last day for WtB author Christopher Barzak's "Getting to Bordertown" Contest to win a chimera_fancies  pendant!  

More news on the new Bordertown Blog.

Comments

[pandarus.livejournal.com]

That video is ADORABLE, and a very effective appetite-whetter!

On the subject of new media, I have a question which I rather fear is going to sound crass and self-indulgent, however I frame it. Argh. So here's the thing: it's only over the past couple of years that I've embraced audiobooks as a phenomenon; for some reason they never really appealed to me (perhaps because of an unconscious prejudice in favour of the physicality of paper books in one's hands?) until I had an iPod. Then I found myself falling down the rabbit hole into a whole new paradigm of 'reading', where I could be wrapped up in a story even as I was walking to work, or shopping for groceries, or trudging on a treadmill in the gym. Audiobooks, I discovered, are a thing of beauty and a joy forever!

Fastforward a bit: a couple of weeks ago, Neil Gaiman mentioned acx.com on his Twitterstream. This site is connected to Amazon & its sister-site Audible.com, and it's a sort of matchmaking site, where performers and publishers can get together and make beautiful music audiobooks.

I was just whimsically looking up other audiobooks of books I love, wanting to listen to the sample clips of other readers performing those texts, and I wasn't able to find 'Swordspoint'.

From a swift Google, it looks like there ISN'T an audiobook version!

So, just in case you're at all tempted, can I just point you towards acx.com (https://www.acx.com), so that if you ARE tempted to look into getting an audiobook made (and, damn it, your prose is the sort that just BEGS to be read aloud) you're aware of this resource. It's a pretty cool site, as far as I can gather.

(Do check it out, though. I'd love to be able to buy it and listen on my iPod. It's such a lovely and read-aloud-able story.)

(And, y'know, then there are the short stories, and the sequel[s] & prequel...)