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- Sun June 11th, 2017, 12:46 pm
- Forum: Audiobooks
- Topic: What audiobooks are you listening to?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 8344
Re: What audiobooks are you listening to?
Second Patrick Rothfuss (UK narration). I'm about two-thirds of the way through. There has been criticism that, as with the GRR Martin novels, it shows the lack of editorial control and therefore suffers from 'bloat', but it's not too bad. There was a fairly long over-blown section that seems to ha...
- Sun June 11th, 2017, 12:43 pm
- Forum: Audiobooks
- Topic: The Great Courses
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2434
Re: The Great Courses
The King Arthur one is good. Some of them are a bit dry and need to be listened to in short chunks.
- Sat July 9th, 2016, 12:32 pm
- Forum: By Author's Last Name M-Q
- Topic: Mistress of Rome by Kate Quinn
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5332
Re: Mistress of Rome by Kate Quinn
Here's my review for another of her's in the same series (I had an advance copy but it's been out for a while now):
https://stevenamckay.com/2015/03/15/lad ... nn-review/
https://stevenamckay.com/2015/03/15/lad ... nn-review/
- Sat February 13th, 2016, 3:44 pm
- Forum: Ask Your Fellow Readers
- Topic: Amazon Audible?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2795
Re: Amazon Audible?
I got an Audible account purely to check out my own audiobooks there, make sure they worked and so on. I didn't think I'd ever become a regular listener, but I have! I'm listening to Bernard Cornwell's newest one now, also bought a Ben Kane one on special offer and last month it was Graham Hancock's...
- Sat February 13th, 2016, 3:39 pm
- Forum: Ask Your Fellow Readers
- Topic: Best way to sell used audiobooks
- Replies: 3
- Views: 958
Re: Best way to sell used audiobooks
I'd try Craigslist/Gumtree first, then Ebay. Should be able to sell those easy enough.
- Sat February 13th, 2016, 3:37 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What are you reading February 2016
- Replies: 55
- Views: 1616
Re: What are you reading February 2016
I'm almost finished listening to Cornwell's Warriors of the Storm. It's pretty good, up to his usual high standard, but I'm still left feeling this should have been wrapped up four or five books ago.
Still worth a listen/read though!
Still worth a listen/read though!
- Sat August 10th, 2013, 4:39 pm
- Forum: The Writing Business
- Topic: Word count for a novel?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2498
My debut novel is about 97,000 words which, to me seems about ideal - it's long enough to say what has to be said in enough depth, but short enough for people to read quickly without getting fed up (and they can then post a review on Amazon which encourages MORE people to buy it!) That said, one of ...
- Fri July 5th, 2013, 5:20 pm
- Forum: Chat
- Topic: Truly absurd book covers.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1669
- Fri July 5th, 2013, 5:14 pm
- Forum: Author Announcements
- Topic: Wolf's Head is now available to buy!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1049
- Fri July 5th, 2013, 5:10 pm
- Forum: Author Announcements
- Topic: Wolf's Head is now available to buy!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1049
Wolf's Head is now available to buy!
http://stevenamckay.wordpress.com/buy-books/
Wolf's Head is my new look at the well-worn Robin Hood myths and legends, set in 1321.
I've just published it in the past couple of days, so I'm very excited, please take a look.
Two 5 star reviews on Amazon already!
Wolf's Head is my new look at the well-worn Robin Hood myths and legends, set in 1321.
I've just published it in the past couple of days, so I'm very excited, please take a look.
Two 5 star reviews on Amazon already!