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Octavia con Amore :pink_moon_and_stars:

:boosts_ok: (boost to help me survive)

Hey everyone :mew_wave: take a listen to another book reading from within the Elder Scrolls world, this time from Skyrim on the topic of the ever-elusive Nightingales :shiba_love:

Unlike the first two reading videos (which were clips taken from recent live streams), today, I decided to see how recording it from scratch would feel. I went through the text of the book itself to weed out various errors, recorded it in a way that minimised recording errors, and then further added a little treatment to clean up the audio :cat_wow:

[Nightingales: Fact or Fiction?]
youtube.com/watch?v=7lWh6PMG6G

If you'd like to help keep food on my table, monthly donations on kofi are especially helpful :espeon_love:
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I'd love to hear what you like or dislike about the book readings so far as well as any ideas you might have :bugcat_nod:

A vtuber with long, black hair in a black dress, with ram horns, wings, and a tail against the backdrop of a room with a cozy fire and bookshelves. Text in the top left reads "Nightingales: Fact or Fiction".
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Laura Blackwell (she/her)

I'm reading for the excellent Strong Women, Strange Worlds next Thursday, March 20 at 4:00 PDT/7:00 EDT—with all these fantastic writers of speculative fiction! These online readings are free—and there are prizes! Sign up at eventbrite.com/o/strong-women- to attend. See you there? @Writing_Norse #Bookstodon #FreeBooks #AuthorReading #WomenAuthors #EnbyAuthors #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #FantasyFiction #HorrorFiction

Text: Strong Women, Strange Worlds presents Third Thursday QuickReads of Sci Fi, Fantasy, and Horror by Cassandra O'Sullivan Sachar [with color photo of fair-skinned woman with long, curly dark hair; she wears a black V-neck with embroidery], Nora Peevy [with sepia-toned photo of woman with cat-eye glasses, devil horns, and straight hair worn short; she wears a dark crew-neck T-shirt], Dani Finn [color art portrait of a fair-skinned person with plastic-framed glasses, blond hair worn short and over the ears, and a light blue button-up with a pattern], Angela Acosta [color photo of a woman with medium-brown skin, glasses, and long, straight, dark hair; she wears a pink button-up], Laura Blackwell [color photo of a fair-skinned woman with cat-eye glasses and graying shoulder-length hair; she wears a lavender pointelle cardigan, and Violette L. Meier [color photo of a Black woman with long braids; she wears a black blouse] / March 20, 7pm EDT Free on Zoom / Preregister now at StrongWomenStrangeWorlds.weebly.com
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John Hartley Writer

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March 14. When writing dialogue do I include everything from “hello” to “goodbye” or stick to what’s essential?

One for the writers here … I certainly don’t *not* put the niceties of conversation in; sometimes it’s the mundanity of communication that tells more of the story. How a character greets someone can give an instant insight to their relationship.

Here’s a couple of examples from ‘This Is Not The End’, which is due out really quite soon now…

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"All right?" said Robert, as Wilf bustled through the door of the seminar room, cheeks burning against the bitter north-easterly breeze whilst his scarf protected his lips from the worst of the Arctic air blast. "Aye"" came the muffled reply. "You?" "Not bad. How was your Christmas?" "Not bad. It was good to catch up with people." "Family?" "Aye, of course. And from school. Hadn't seen most of them for six months. Probably the longest time we'd not seen each other in the last six years." "That's a third of your life!" "Mad, isn't it." "And is the band going to be getting back together?" chuckled Robert.
Wilf found the seminar room tucked away on the third floor of the five story block that housed his faculty. A half dozen of his fellow students were already present. He couldn't remember any names, and certainly hadn't been involved in any conversations with any of them either. He skirted round the back of the room and took a seat by the window, next to a radiator that was as cold as his demeanour towards the others, a mood borne much more from insecurity than any dislike. A girl sitting two rows in front turned round and smiled at him. "Hello," she said in a gentle accent that Wilf placed somewhere in Scotland. "History of language?" Wilf nodded. "Aye." He paused, a thaw quickly ensuing, and then added with a nervous chuckle, "I'm in the right place then?" "Let's hope so," she replied. "I'm Cheryl, by the way." Wilf shrugged his shoulders out of his coat, and pulled his bag round on the top of the desk. "Hi Cheryl. I'm Wilf." "There's so many people to get to know," Cheryl continued as Wilf rummaged around in his bag before pulling out his pad and pencil case. "Aye, I know. It's a bit scary, really. Everyone seems so confident." He scanned the room: a mature student decked in a Coventry City football shirt was instantly recognisable from the lecture halls in which he had consistently worn variations on the theme, whilst a younger man in sore need of a shave and a haircut chatted to a girl in a donkey jacket and a nose piercing and her - assumed - boyfriend decked in leathers
With nobody around when Wilf went into the callbox, he was spared the fraudulent guilt manifested by the ritual this time. "Hi Mam," he said when the call from home to the box was connected. "Hi Wilf, love. How're you doing?" The script rarely varied. Was he eating well? How was the course? Was he keeping on track with his work? Was he sure he was eating well? How was Dominic? Would he like a word with Dad? For his part, Wilf was keen to know what he was missing at home (generally nothing remotely approaching excitement) and what Elsie was up to. It was easier to ask, he said, than to ring her himself, because it would mean an evening phone call. He didn't especially relish the prospect of spending half an hour on the street corner, and the prospect became even less appealing when Robert told him the summer riots had started on the next street down to Kirkaldy Road. This time, the rehearsed exchange veered. "I was wondering about coming home," said Wilf after the formalities had concluded Mam sounded panicked. "What? Already? You've got to give the course more of a go than that, love." "No, Mam, not for good. Just for a weekend, maybe? In a couple of weeks, when it's Els's half term, I'd thought?"
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Zivan - Childless Cat Guy

I've finished: The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

This Holms and Watson duo really captured me. The fact that the setting isn't London, but a province near the seawall that protects a biotech empire from seasonal attack by giant leviathans makes it much more appealing.

The biotech isn't mimicking current or future technology, it mainly enhances natural abilities. The augmentations have repercussions and unwanted side effects.

The story is toled in first person by Dinios Kol, an engraver, augmented to have perfect recall. He is very competent but suffers from imposter syndrome as he tries to hide his dyslexia from his superiors.

Kol is assigned to assist the eccentric genius investigator Ana Dolabra, an over sensitive woman that has to blindfold herself in order to manage the amount of information assaulting her brain. Kol assits her by going out into the world and recalling what he's seen and heard.

As the plot thickens, we learn more about the empire and its ills.

As mysteries go, our attention is pointed towards many clues, the satisfaction is more in watching competent people do a good job in the face of adversity.

The Tainted Cup is a real page-turner and I found it hard to put down.

app.thestorygraph.com/books/a9

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Book cover for The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
app.thestorygraph.comThe Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson BennettAn eccentric detective and her long-suffering assistant untangle a web of magic, deceit, and murd...
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Kirsten Menger-Anderson

Just ahead of my March 18th book release (and on Pi day!!!), the LA Times ran a wonderful review by Ilana Masad of THE EXPERT OF SUBTLE REVISIONS. The final paragraph below:

“The Expert of Subtle Revisions” isn’t a political book, per se, nor is it moralizing. Menger-Anderson doesn’t overtly connect 1933 Vienna with the first and second Trump administrations in Hase’s near future. Instead, the plot follows Hase’s investigation of her father’s disappearance and Anton and Zedlacher’s eventual encounter with time traveler Haskell. But as Hase herself knows from editing Wikipedia, neither history nor language are neutral, and Menger-Anderson superbly demonstrates how a writer needn’t shy away from the political tensions of a historical period but can use them to heighten and contextualize setting, character and plot."

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A screenshot of the LA Times review by Ilana Masad of my novel THE EXPERT OF SUBTLE REVISIONS. The headline reads "Neither history nor language are neutral in this time-travel mystery"
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Octavia con Amore :pink_moon_and_stars:

Oh, huh, well this is convenient :cat_giggle: Here's a fedi-only preview (read: the whole damn thing) of my reading of Nightingales: Fact or Fiction from the Elder Scrolls games :bear_love:

Unlike my previous two videos (cutie.city/@OctaviaConAmore/11), this one was recorded from scratch instead of clipped from one my twitch streams, so there are fewer errors in the reading as well as a bit better sound treatment on the audio file :shiba_love:

Succubard Soft Reads:
Nightingales - Fact or Fiction (from The Elder Scrolls)

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James Davis Nicoll

Don’t Sleep With the Dead (The Chosen and the Beautiful, volume 2) by Nghi Vo

New York is a perfect place for a man to reinvent himself, especially for a man who is an artifact in the shape of a long-dead man.

jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/a-
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James Nicoll ReviewsA Broken ThingNghi Vo’s upcoming Don’t Sleep With the Dead is the second work in Vo’s The Chosen and the Beautiful period-piece fantasy series. New York is a perfect city for Nick Carraway. As long as he presents himself judiciously, nobody will wonder if the successful writer is straight or queer. For that matter, nobody will question if Nick is the man he claims to be… or just an ingenious origami figure borrowing the shape of a man long dead.
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