The Reading Desk

I'm finding a few interesting things about lulu.com.  The written help and the forums don't necessarily match what is going on in the application.  This means that when you upload art, it is a crapshoot as to whether or not your customers get what you thought they were going to.  That's pretty sad for the [...]

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In for a pound.  Or should that be a dollar?  Did that expression originate in England, or is it some kind of baker's secret?  I have no idea. At any rate, it's been more than 24 hours, and I'm posting from a position of defeat.  Well, perhaps not defeat but neither is it victory. I [...]

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I've been reading Moby Dick in advance of beginning the recording of the audio book.  I had forgotten how completely homophobic the first couple of chapters are!  And what an insight into the lives of 19th century whalers this book has been. I know that if I'm ever stuck in Nantucket in a drafty beaten [...]

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Well, no sooner did I blog about having to wait a week then I figure out that since I'm not publishing a "book" on lulu.com, it's all up already. The link to the store is under the Catalog section on the left.  It is a limited choice right now – either an MP3 download or [...]

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The MP3 download version (~160Mb in a single file) of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is available now on lulu.com.  The DVD/CD version (WAV format) is uploading……. and uploading….. and uploading….. so it may not be available until sunday.   Would you prefer the MP3 version be 'chapterized' in separate files as well?  It could be [...]

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If you look over there —>  you will see a link to a photo album where I'm posting at least some ideas for what the final audio book DVD and dusk jacket might look like.  Art critics are welcome, just leave your snark at the door.

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I've spent some time in the unfamiliar chair of designing graphics for my audio book. The DVD jacket is coming along nicely, but still not quite what I'm looking for. I still plan to have everything cooking by the middle of April.  I'm getting good reactions to the sample files from Alice's Adventures, so I'm [...]

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I've completed recording the unabridged version of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with a couple of delays because I had overworked my voice a little, and I needed to tone down some of the voices I had been doing.  But it is so easy to over do voices with rabbits and angry queens and [...]

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Welcome to The Reading Desk.  I know this blog post will be buried under a ton of other stuff, but I'm putting it here for anybody curious enough to dig this far. Speaking of curiouser, my first audio book is going to be a reading of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.  It is [...]

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