Hello, Crickets, and happy autumn to you all!

The Four Powers is chirping along, and I'm now in the middle of chapter 13.  The very talented and very persistent narrator on the poetry collection has found a way through the morass of technical issues that were plaguing him, and after a TON of effort on his part, he's finally able to get to work.  The Light at the End of the World has now joined the other books in being performed for Audible.com/ACX.com, and I couldn't be happier.  I'm very much looking forward to hearing the performances.

There's something magical about hearing words that hitherto have lived only in my head coming out of someone else's mouth.  It almost makes the books more real, and the characters more alive, then they are in the shadowy world of my cranium's interior.  Some of the performance choices might not have been my preference, but that's why it's a collaborative effort - I want some of the narrators' choices to stand, as well.

When the narrators get it right, when their tone matches the tone of my thought-voice when I was writing, it's exciting in a way that I cannot express.  Words fail me when I try to explain the emotional side of my writing.  I suppose there are some thing that can be spoken, and some which can only be felt.

I hope that if any of you are writers or creators, dear Crickets, you someday get to experience this inexpressible feeling for yourselves.  It really is more than worth the price of admission.