UNRAVELED APPROVED!

UNRAVELED has been approved by the author!

Dalston Junction, a chilling novella with a twist, by MeiLin Miranda, is in the ACX quality check queue.  Unraveled by NY Times bestselling Harlequin Romance author, Courtney Milan, will join the approvals line today!

Dalston Junction is Victorian, atmospheric, baby-farming with a sci-fi twist.

Unraveled is an epic romance set against the backdrop of the legal system of Bristol, England, 1894.  A Dickensian cast of characters in a literate romp - I laughed and I cried.

Street: Empathy, book one of a cyberpunk series by Ryan A Span is on sale now! (Audible, Itunes, Amazon)

I've started giving voice to Desiree by Annemarie Selinko, and with each new chapter I'm reminded anew of why I have read this sweeping account of Napoleon's first love, again and again.   Wonderful intimate storytelling set against the backdrop of epic history (herstory?).  The narrator is cheeky and bright, a shaper of history, as all women are, by just living her life!

Many thanks to  Annemarie Selinko's estate -  Annemarie and Erling Kristiansens Foundation, and to Anneli Høier, of the Leonhardt & Høier Literary Agency, in Copenhagen, Denmark, for making this happen.

How?

In April of 2011 I entered a contest to read on Neil Gaiman's 10th anniversary edition of AMERICAN GODS, and with the help of hundreds of social networking friends, I won.  I find that contests are a good way to get noticed quickly.  I don't win all the time, but if the wind is in my sails, I've found that it's a quick way to vet a project.  Everything has a contest, so why not enter?  The worst that can happen is that you don't win, and you're out a small marketing investment in your creative future.

I LOVE audiobooks, but I didn't know if I had the stamina for it.  I've read chapter books to my kids, great childhood classics CHARLOTTE'S WEB, by E.B. White, who also reads on the audiobook, WALK TWO MOONS by Sharon Creech, LITTLE WOMEN, by Louisa May Alcott, THE GIVER, by Lois Lowry, among so many others.

Voicing video game characters isn't the same as reading a whole book with lots of personalities, lots of emotional landscape.  It wasn't until I started sharing books with Annette Finestone, a friend with macular degeneration, who's also 95 years old and exquisite, that I realized I had it in me.

First we read Barbara Kingsolver's The Lacuna, narrated by the author in audiobook.  Annette's dear friend Frances Goldin represents Barbara Kingsolver, and had sent a copy, which Annette couldn't read to herself.  It's an epic journey through the politics and mores of both the U.S. and Mexico from before the first world war though Macarthyism and beyond.  It was a wonderful read!

Annette and I have shared several journeys since then, among them, DESIREE by Annemarie Selinko.  It's my favorite book from adolescence, when the nuns at my convent boarding school let me into the adult section of the library, age 12.  Now we're on book one of THE HUNGER GAMES by Suzanne Collins.

Today my first audiobook launches (I narrate) the first of what I hope will be many journeys I share with many others.

STREET: EMPATHY is available on Audible today!  Itunes and Amazon in the coming days.

If you like fast paced action in a cyber-punk world, a sassy heroine with an MK5 taser, then this may be the listen for you!