Michael J. Parry is back, this time releasing The Oaks Grove as a free serialized audio book:
It was going to be a quiet weekend in the country. Elanore was going to spend it chatting with courtly gents about matters of higher importance or something. I was going to make sure she didn’t embarrass herself too much at the table.
Yeah, those plans never work do they? Instead there’s a body in the library and we are up to our necks in murder and soup spoons.
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October 9th, 2011 at 7:47 am
Yay! More Gurt and Fursk. And Elanore in a dress! Looking forward to the continuing adventure. One techy note – I got a lot of hissing in the first couple of episodes. Might just be my deteriorating earbuds, but I actually was waiting to hear that it was raining, but nope – sunny day…lol. Thanks for continuing to present your work in this format.
October 9th, 2011 at 2:29 pm
Hi Jane
Sorry about the hiss… I thought I had got that cleane dup, so I will see if I can edit that out…
Cheers
Michael
October 17th, 2011 at 5:36 pm
The hiss is much improved as of episode 7. So happy to be hanging out with Elanore and Gurt again that i could pop; their gentle intelligence and total pragmatism are such a delight.
And that red dress! Yow-wow. xD I wouldn’t hesitate to take a troll lady dancing, that’s for sure.
October 19th, 2011 at 10:39 pm
Thanks Sola. It’s always good to hear that people like your characters
November 1st, 2011 at 9:33 am
Really good to have those two back in action again. Unique. A great twist on the buddy/cop genre.
November 3rd, 2011 at 7:13 pm
I love how Gurt keeps looking like he’s just tagging along with Elanore, not really contributing, perhaps playing Dr. Watson to Elanore’s Holmes, but then something pops up, like the larger set of dice hidden in Elanore’s bags, and you realize he’s not quite as scatterbrained as he seems.
I also like how the events of the previous book have been addressed, with enough summary to bring in the elements that will affect this story, but not so much as to ruin it for those who haven’t read the first, nor feeling like an advertisement for the previous book (the ads being, of course, blatant and done at the intro.)
However, it feels like the intro/outro music is being played at quite a bit higher volume than the rest – it may just be my ears, though, being sensitive to higher and purer tones.
November 13th, 2011 at 2:54 pm
Barry: Thanks for the comment. I am glad you like it.
Jamey: Thanks. I am glad you picked that up
The balancing act between giving enough of what has gone before/rewriting previous material and leaving it out is a delicate act…
November 15th, 2011 at 11:18 pm
One minor nit: In the intro ad for Spiral Tattoo, you say the Podiobook is available on Amazon. Don’t you mean the e-book version?
January 11th, 2012 at 3:45 pm
Jamey yes I did – I will regig the ad next time I run it.
Michael