And when the rain beats against my window pane, I’ll think of summer days again

[rolanni]

Last Wednesday, we left home early, having been promised thunderstorms and construction to slow our journey to Albany. Needless to say, the day was bright and sunny and the construction was all scheduled for night.

Last night, we returned home, riding one great, long thunderstorm from the Maine line to our dooryard.

In between those two travel events, there was a con! If you ever get a chance to go to ConQuesT — do it! Really. We had such a good time. The con was welcoming and friendly; we had work, but not too much work, and — it was just lovely. All that and a fruit and cheese plate in our room to welcome us, too! *Sigh* I love me some fruit and cheese plates.

Today was spent sleeping late, doing grocery shopping, resurrecting Steve’s suddenly and senselessly dead computer, catching up on bidness email. I am, yes, behind on all my email, including bidness email, which goes to the top of the to-do list for tomorrow.

I will tell y’all that, while we are away, the news came down that Audible will be publishing in audiobook format, all fifteen Liaden Universe® novels,  from Agent of Change through Dragon Ship.  We’re going to be putting those Weird Word Lists into immediate use!

To recap, this is the state of the Do It Now List:

1. Bidness email
2. Do laundry (started!)
3. Write short story
4. Check in with Madame the Agent re missing paperwork
5. Edit short story
6. Get proposals in shape and send to Madame the Agent
7. Pay quarterly taxes
8. Record weird words
9. Finalize Carousel Tides t-shirt details
10. Start already with writing Carousel Sun
11. Blog post re why SF isn’t about “the future”
12. Write another short story, wotthehell
13. Sign the 1,000 sheets of paper that arrived while we were away
14. Make hotel reservations for Boskone
15. Do not buy this

Oh. And somewhere in there, the existing bathtub will be removed from the bathroom, and a shiny new shower will be installed.

So! Did y’all do anything exciting while I was away?

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.

Comments

Re: Oh, hooray!

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Oh, is there only one narrator for the Heyers? If yes, what do you think of himorher? If no, do you have a favorite?

Re: Oh, hooray!

[growlycub.livejournal.com]

I've listened to many BBC/UK produced Heyer audio books and most of the readers are horrid. Especially heinous is the narrator for These Old Shades. Whatever you do, do not listen to that. /shudder

Sian Phillips is ok, but I have to say I didn't think any of the unabridged Heyers were done by excellent narrators.

Re: Oh, hooray!

[star-horse3.livejournal.com]

I second that opinion. I had to return a "These Old Shades" audiobook beause it was so bad. I've never had the temerity to try it again with any others; I don't want my Heyer books ruined.

Re: Oh, hooray!

[daughterofhonor.livejournal.com]

Well, I have to admit to two things:
1) I'm listening to my first Heyer audiobook, just recently having discovered that there were Heyer novels on there. It is narrated by Phyllida Nash. I'm enjoying it and her narration, but...
2) I'm not a very discriminating judge of narrators. In fact, there are a very few things that annoy me: extreme flatness, extreme breathiness, mispronunciation of words, and complete misreading of the author's tone. For this last reason, I did not enjoy the Marguerite Gavin version of Bujold's Hallowed Hunt. It didn't end up sounding like Bujold, which is...annoying. (It sounded a lot more like EPIC fantasy, which genre I generally equate to BORING, other than Tolkien.)
So, I'm not so helpful here. Perhaps others have additional opinions.
Still, I'm excited!

Re: Oh, hooray!

[nfurman.livejournal.com]

Just, be careful. A couple of my favorites were abridged, and I didn't pay attention. My bad, but they actually cut out almost half !!! of the books. Gahhh. Not Audible's fault, another company had the rights. Other than that, I have been content with all the Heyer I downloaded, though some is better than others.