Between Audiobooks

If you guys are subscribed to my email newsletter, you already know that books 3 & 4 in the City Between series have come out in audio format at last!

Tantor bought the rights closer to the start of the year, but obviously audiobook production is a fair bit of work and takes a bit of time, so BETWEEN FRAMES just released yesterday. If you’ve been waiting to listen to the next two books, now is your time!

Bear in mind that if you want to see more audiobooks in the series made, reviews and requests on Audible.com and Amazon will definitely help that to go through much sooner. I go through a publisher (Tantor) for these ones, and if you guys are asking, Tantor will be listening! See below for covers, links, and blurbs…

Between Jobs

When you get up in the morning, the last thing you expect to see is a murdered guy hanging outside your window. Things like that tend to draw the attention of the local police, and when you’re squatting in your parents’ old house until you can afford to buy it, another thing you can’t afford is the attention of the cops.

Oh yeah. Hi. My name is Pet. It’s not my real name, but it’s the only one you’re getting. Things like names are important these days. 

And it’s not so much that I’m Pet. I am a pet. A human pet: I belong to the two Behindkind fae and the pouty vampire who just moved into my house.

It’s not weird, I promise – well, it is weird, yeah. But it’s not weird weird, you know?

Between Shifts

There’s a body beneath the skip bins. Fae on the forklift. A vampire in the manager’s office. And there’s definitely something skeevy going on in the locker rooms. 

Hi. I’m Pet. Well, not exactly Pet. I am a pet. 

I was meant to stay out of it, but somebody’s gotta do something when humans are being killed by Behindkind creatures. 

Lucky for me, my owners are just as dangerous and inhuman as the bad guys…maybe more.

Between Floors

I’m not supposed to push through the boundaries of reality without supervision. I’m definitely not meant to drag a cop Between with me. 

But stuff happens, you know? 

Hi. I’m Pet. Well, not Pet, exactly. I am a pet. 

Nothing too hard; I just cook and clean for the Behindkind who took over my house. Easy. But now one of my owners has gone missing. He’s fae, so it shouldn’t worry me, but if there’s something out there that can kidnap fae, I don’t wanna meet it. 

Good thing I’ve got another two owners and a spare cop up my sleeve…

Between Frames

Two fae is company, but a company of fae is trouble.

Which is exactly what we’ve got. Trouble, I mean. Well, and fae. Lots of fae.

Something or someone is stalking and killing high-level fae around Hobart-tearing out hearts and leaving a trail of bloody bodies behind. Fae don’t like it when they’re the ones getting killed, so of course they came to hire my owners.

Owners, you ask?

Hi. I’m Pet. No, that’s not my name. I am a pet.

My owners? They’re fae. Well, two fae and one stroppy vampire.

Welcome to the world Between.

Friends, Readers, Fans–Lend Me Your Ears!

Earlier in the year I blogged about my determination to start working toward creating audiobooks of one or the other of my series. Judging by the feedback, there was a very slight preference for starting with the Two Monarchies Sequence over the Shards of a Broken Sword series; and I was fully determined to start with Spindle.

I say ‘was’, because after some deliberation and…well, cost-counting, I came to the conclusion that at this stage I can probably only afford to start with the shorter works. Which means that it’s to be Twelve Days of Faery, the first book in my Shards of a Broken Sword series. I very much want to produce my Two Monarchies Sequence as well, but I’m resigned to the fact that it will have to be a future endeavour.

All of this is by the way to say that I have been actively looking for audio narrators, have found three possibilities, and now desperately need your help in choosing which one of them I should use. In no particular order, here are the contestants:

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Gordon Pelagi: this guy I picked for an audition simply because I loved the way his voice sounded for scifi, and I wanted to know how he’d sound reading my stuff, since I fully planned to call on him for my scifi series, A Time Traveller’s Best Friend. Only then his audition for Twelve Days was flamin’ amazing, even to my audiobook-deaf ears. The only slight quibble I have is that his Markon sounds too old–entirely my fault, since although I mentioned Markon’s approximate age, I didn’t mention that he is still quite adventurous.

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Greg Barnett: A very solid reading, I thought. I was less enamoured of this one than the other two, but because I don’t listen to audiobooks, I really have no ear to say whether my instincts are correct or not. So I want you guys to hear this one, too.

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Nick Howden-Steenstra: I’ll admit, when I heard this one (I heard it first), I thought Oh, well, this is obviously the one. I like his Althea less than I like Gordon Pelagi’s version, but his Markon is pretty spot on. I thought maybe the general narration other than direct voices was perhaps posher than I was expecting, so I wasn’t quite sure about that; but still, the biggest difficulty I’ve got in choosing is between this one and the Gordon Pelagi one.

So what do you guys think? Comment, email me–please help! I want to give Twelve Days the best chance I can give it!