The Book That Would Not Be Recorded
This one's just a weird tale of strangeness and fuckery, folks. So, late last year, my incredible audiobook narrator, Jenn Johnson (you can find her link on my Collaborators page), finished recording the audio for all six of my Aphotic novels. By then, I'd released my two short story collections, UGLY STORIES ABOUT TERRIBLE PEOPLE DOING HORRIBLE THINGS , Volumes One and Two , and I was so happy with Jenn and her talented voice, I floated the idea of her maybe...? possibly...? doing the audiobooks for those as well. She was completely open to it, but asked for a break until early in 2025, which was fair. She'd basically been going for quite a few months on six books, back to back to back to back to back to back... So, in February, I reached out, and she said she was ready. I proposed one weird wrinkle this time around. In these two collections, after each short story, I appended a quick little author's note, offering up a bit of insight, a bit of history, or a bit of co...