I'm indebted
to Richard Vobes of Book-Snippets.com for producing a 5-minute audio extract
from my novel, Unreliable Histories. His reading can be found here: Unreliable Histories on YouTube.
Richard's
Book-Snippets is a new site dedicated to helping readers to find stories by unsung writers and giving those same writers a new and innovative platform
for promoting their works. Though still young, the site already features a host
of excerpts from talented writers such as Jemahl Evans, Jeanette Taylor Ford, Lucinda
Elliot, Phillip D Curwood and Sue Harris. Comedy writer Robert Wingfield also
has an excerpt there, and we can expect more comedies to come soon.
(Apologies
to all those I haven't mentioned but it's perhaps testament to the site's
success that, already, the list is getting pretty long.)
It's an
interesting way of encouraging readers to engage with new works and I really
hope it takes off. It's certainly a fascinating experience to hear one's own
words spoken by someone else. In my case, I chose an obscure chapter featuring one
of the book's lesser characters - a young apprentice named Tymacht Jul. He
recurs fleetingly throughout the first book and since most of the comments I
receive typically refer to only four or five key characters, I thought it might
be nice to give him an outing. His chapters are short asides from the main
action and I thought one of them might work well as a short, self-contained extract.
Richard has
clearly invested a huge amount of time and effort into this new venture so
please do show your support by visiting the site and having a poke around. There's
some good stuff there, I promise.
