Publishers sometimes require a minimum word count, while magazines, contests, etc might impose a maximum word count. While adding words is easy, how do you decide what to cut? Also, what is an "unhappily ever after" story, and why does Paul write them? Our links: Paul's store: https://payhip.com/paulecooley Paul's site:  https://shadowpublications.com Terry's site: https://www.terrymixon.com/ Veronica: http://www.voicesbyveronica.com/ DRS Discord: https://discord.gg/pgmQxaVbGP Enjoy the show

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LibriVox recording of The Thrill Book Vol. II No. 3, August 1, 1919 by Various. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Welcome to another edition of the exciting and influential pulp magazine The Thrill Book! In this issue, we bring you "The Unknown Revolution", a sensational novel of revolutionary....This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio.This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps MP3, 64Kbps MP3, Archive BitTorrent, DjVuTXT, Djvu XML, Item Tile, JPEG, JPEG Thumb, LibriVox Apple

LibriVox recording of Deep Moat Grange by S. R. Crockett. Read in English by ArgyEll. Deep Moat Grange is a neglected estate in Scotland where this story of murder, mystery, humor and love abides. - Summary by Amy Gramour For further information, including links to online text, reader information, R....This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio.This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps MP3, 64Kbps MP3, Archive BitTorrent, Item Tile, Metadata, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

LibriVox recording of Little Miss Grouch by Samuel Hopkins Adams. Read in English by Mokurai. A young man, known to readers first as the Tyro, meets a young woman all in tears, who is running away on a ship to England from her family and fiancé....This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio.This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps MP3, 64Kbps MP3, Archive BitTorrent, Item Tile, Metadata, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

We love colours in our comics! There’s so very much that you can do with colours, and it’s wild, but we pretty much never talk about it! This week, we do our best ot fix that. So get ready for a brief history of comic book colouring (from newsprint to NOWsprint? Is that anything?), and the various growing pains that we had to live through in the ’90s, and the advent of digital colouring. Then, once that’s over, get ready for the three of us gushing over our favourite

The sweet and sour pork I have been making for years. One pan, about an hour, feeds the whole family. Way better than takeout.

LibriVox recording of The King of Elfland's Daughter, Version 2 by Lord Dunsany. Read in English by Thomas A. Copeland. The councilmen of an undistinguished hamlet entreat their ruler to find a way of ensuring that his successor will acquire some magic to add luster to their home's reputation....This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio.This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps MP3, 64Kbps MP3, Archive BitTorrent, DjVuTXT, Djvu XML, Item Tile, JPEG, JPEG Thumb, LibriVox Apple Audiobook,

LibriVox recording of The Maltese Falcon; Novel Version by Dashiell Hammett. Read in English by NLizer. Private Investigator Sam Spade goes on a hunt for the whereabouts of an elaborately jeweled falcon statuette that was at the center of a twisting, turning case that caused the death of his detecti....This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio.This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps MP3, 64Kbps MP3, Archive BitTorrent, DjVuTXT, Djvu XML, Item Tile, JPEG, JPEG Thumb, LibriVox Apple

LibriVox recording of The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 15 by Charles Knight. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was published in competition to Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, whi....This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio.This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps MP3, 64Kbps MP3, Archive BitTorrent, DjVuTXT, Djvu XML, Item Tile, JPEG, JPEG Thumb, LibriVox Apple

Paul is on a walkabout, so Terry and Veronica are on deck to extoll the virtues of John Wick. Chiefly, how he responds to animal abuse. Join Terry and V as they discuss how best to use animals in stories. Also, what not to do... Unless... Chat will bring their favorite pet. Our links: Paul's store: https://payhip.com/paulecooley Paul's site:  https://shadowpublications.com Terry's site: https://www.terrymixon.com/ Veronica: http://www.voicesbyveronica.com/ DRS Discord:

LibriVox recording of A Great Sea Mystery : The True Story of the "Mary Celeste" by John Gilbert Lockhart. Read in English by Mark Harrington. On December 4, 1872, The American merchant brigantine ship "Mary Celeste" was found adrift and deserted, under partial sail, with lifeboat missing, off the A....This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio.This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps MP3, 64Kbps MP3, Archive BitTorrent, DjVuTXT, Djvu XML, Item Tile, JPEG, JPEG Thumb, LibriVox Apple

LibriVox recording of The Ultimate Salient by Nelson Bond. Read in English by cyndajm. As an author of Science Fiction stories, Eben Clinton is approached to send a critical message into the future to a specific person, Brian O'Shea, who will not be born for another two years! Eben takes on the chal....This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio.This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps MP3, 64Kbps MP3, Archive BitTorrent, Item Tile, Metadata, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

It starts off with a comic book no one remembers purchasing then continues on to character design and toys selling animation. DOWNLOAD Rain By Joe Hill, David M. Booher, Zoe Thorogood And Chris O’Halloran. Rain By Joe Hill, David M. … Continue reading →

LibriVox recording of Prayers for the Use of Families by William Jay. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. The principal part of family religion is prayer, every morning and evening, and reading some portion of Scripture: and this is so necessary to keep alive a sense of God and religion in the m....This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio.This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps MP3, 64Kbps MP3, Archive BitTorrent, DjVuTXT, Djvu XML, Item Tile, JPEG, JPEG Thumb, LibriVox Apple

LibriVox  volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Spirit Of The Spring by Susanna Moodie. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 8, 2026. Susanna Moodie was an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada, which was a British colony at the time....This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio.This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps MP3, 64Kbps MP3, Archive BitTorrent, DjVuTXT, Djvu XML, Item Tile, JPEG, JPEG Thumb, LibriVox Apple Audiobook,

LibriVox  volunteers bring you 12 recordings of LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Guilielmus Rex by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 15, 2026. Thomas Bailey Aldrich was an American writer, poet, critic, and editor....This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio.This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps MP3, 64Kbps MP3, Archive BitTorrent, DjVuTXT, Djvu XML, Item Tile, JPEG, JPEG Thumb, LibriVox Apple Audiobook, Metadata, OCR Page Index, OCR

Gunfights? Explosions? Marvelous melee mayhem? Non-stop action scenes that go on for dozens of minutes? Works great in visual media, but how well does it translate into literature? The DRS Crew discusses. Our links: Paul's store: https://payhip.com/paulecooley Paul's site:  https://shadowpublications.com Terry's site: https://www.terrymixon.com/ Veronica: http://www.voicesbyveronica.com/ DRS Discord: https://discord.gg/pgmQxaVbGP Enjoy the show? Consider becoming a Patreon or Buy Me A Coffee

LibriVox recording of The Four Million (Version 3) by O. Henry. Read in English by valroth. Considered one of his finest works, The Four Million (1906) is a collection of short stories by American writer O....This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio.This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps MP3, Archive BitTorrent, Metadata