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I've also been told I have little tact, so if this offends you simply ride on.

Monday, April 22, 2024

Court Room Edition

 Monday.  I have to work a full 8 hours.  Outside, the weather is cool but not cold.  Overnight temps dropped down to 40 (F), which was better than what they had been predicting.  Yesterday afternoon I received a text telling me we were under a freeze watch... of course, a watch is better than a warning.

I paid off my trip to Greece this morning.  That's one less bill I need to be concerned with.  Now, all I need to do is save up the money I spent so my checking account is nice and plump again.

With The Body on the Lawn, I've decided that I'm going to deal just with Audible and Itunes.  This means I'm not going to go with Findaway.  While that was a good learning experience, it was just that.  And I'm still learning.  I've been watching educational videos at ACX University.  ACX is the publishing part of Audible.  They cover everything from pre-production to publication of the audio book.  Findaway made it easy, however there were glitches along the way, like The Body Under Ice only getting submitted to certain retailers, rather than all I had selected.  Findaway is now owned by Spotify, which is moving into the audiobook business.  

After listening to soooo many auditions, I've finally settled on a narrator.  An actor named Dermot, who's an Irishmen living in Madrid.  While I was happy with the work the previous narrator did, he was not open to suggestions.  He also managed to get cast in an Indie film and communications with him seemed less important, something he could get away with putting on the back burner.  Anyway, I'm thinking the audio version of The Body on the Lawn should now be out on Audible around the first week in August. 

And I saw this yesterday and thought it rather appropriate.


Today will be the actual first day of the Moral Degenerate's trial.  Opening arguments will be heard.  Donnie will have to try and stay awake.  You may not find this surprising, but I'm not the only person to have doubts about his not napping his way through the 4 years of his presidency. Maybe that was why conversations with him needed to be peppered with praise.  This is also probably the reason he doesn't read; after the first sentence he's out like a light.

Also, his rally in North Carolina was canceled because of rain.  I'm betting it wasn't because he was worried about his cultists, either.  Most likely he was worried his make-up might run



9 comments:

  1. I thought of you the other day as I'm listening to The House on the Cerulean Sea on Audible and was thinking how talented the narrator is! I mean, how can you voice an octopus with a lisp?????

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    1. The entire process is very interesting. Audible has it's own stable of narrators you can hire, but I'm using a company called Voice123. There are so many out there.

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  2. It's Earth Day today. Let's hope the dump keeps the air clean by not passing any gas or hot air.

    Boy I really do believe in miracles.

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    1. I didn't hear anything about him farting up a storm, but I do believe she was in the courtroom.

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  3. His rally was canceled because ... "Stormy."

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    1. And I understand that the cultists were none too pleased.

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    2. Perhaps the storm is a sign of God’s anger at their worship of their modern day Moloch.
      What ‘s the first commandment ?
      Oh yes , do not worship other gods before me ! - Rj

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  4. Cheeto has been violating his gag order ever since he left the courthouse. Ugh. The amount of fuckery....
    And an Irishman living in Madrid? Sounds like an interesting choice to narrate the book. Also, if he's open to suggestions...

    XOXO

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  5. There's going to be a hearing today about his violating his gag order. I don't think he'll be happy with the outcome.

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