Here’s part thirty-four of my reading of my 2005 novel, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town. Thanks to John Williams for mastering!
Mastering by John Taylor Williams: wryneckstudio@gmail.com
John Taylor Williams is a full-time self-employed audio engineer, producer, composer, and sound designer. In his free time, he makes beer, jewelry, odd musical instruments and furniture. He likes to meditate, to read and to cook.
Sejin Choi has translated my story Printcrime into Korean!
경찰들은 내가 여덟 살 때 아빠의 프린터를 박살냈다. 프린터가 뿜어내던 열기와 전자렌지에 식품 포장용 랩을 돌렸을 때 나는 것과 비슷한 그 냄새 그리고 아빠가 프린터에 신선한 찐득이를 채워 넣을 때 열중하던 모습, 프린터에서 갓 구워져 나온 물건의 감촉이 아직도 생생하다.
Here’s part thirty-three of my reading of my 2005 novel, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town. Thanks to John Williams for mastering!
Mastering by John Taylor Williams: wryneckstudio@gmail.com
John Taylor Williams is a full-time self-employed audio engineer, producer, composer, and sound designer. In his free time, he makes beer, jewelry, odd musical instruments and furniture. He likes to meditate, to read and to cook.
Patricia Smith is a teacher of visually impaired students in Detroit’s public school system. She mailed me a copy of my YA novel Little Brother that she had run off her school’s Braille embosser and supplied to her students. She reports, “What I could not enclose is the gratitude from my Braille reading students. For various reasons, most books in Braille are aimed at younger children. My students are all between the ages of 12 and 15 and have no real interest in reading a Kindergarten level book. I was finally able to give them something interesting, compelling, and, most importantly at their grade level.” Patricia notes that she was able to do this only because the text of the novel is available as a free, Creative Commons licensed download (though US copyright law grants her the right to prepare a Braille edition of any book, the cost of doing so from a traditional printed book is prohibitive, and converting from a DRM-crippled ebook is technically difficult).
Patricia Smith is a teacher of visually impaired students in Detroit’s public school system. She mailed me a copy of my YA novel Little Brother that she had run off her school’s Braille embosser and supplied to her students. She reports, “What I could not enclose is the gratitude from my Braille reading students. For various reasons, most books in Braille are aimed at younger children. My students are all between the ages of 12 and 15 and have no real interest in reading a Kindergarten level book. I was finally able to give them something interesting, compelling, and, most importantly at their grade level.” Patricia notes that she was able to do this only because the text of the novel is available as a free, Creative Commons licensed download (though US copyright law grants her the right to prepare a Braille edition of any book, the cost of doing so from a traditional printed book is prohibitive, and converting from a DRM-crippled ebook is technically difficult).
D’oh, posted the wrong MP3 here. Fixing it now, will post to the feed in a minute or two. Sorry!
Here’s part thirty-three of my reading of my 2005 novel, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town. Thanks to John Williams for mastering!
Mastering by John Taylor Williams: wryneckstudio@gmail.com
John Taylor Williams is a full-time self-employed audio engineer, producer, composer, and sound designer. In his free time, he makes beer, jewelry, odd musical instruments and furniture. He likes to meditate, to read and to cook.
@Halvais, a fan of my novel Little Brother, has set up a wiki-style site with the full text of the book for group annotation with links and commentary. Sweet!
@Halvais, a fan of my novel Little Brother, has set up a wiki-style site with the full text of the book for group annotation with links and commentary. Sweet!
Here’s some more pieces of that interview I did with the At Your Library folks on media literacy, activism and libraries.
The Robot Comics folks have been industriously converting my Creative Commons licensed IDW graphic novel, Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now (which collects six of my short stories adapted to comics form by an array of talented writers and editors) to a multiplicity of mobile phone platforms.
This is all under the auspices of the CC license and all the resulting comics are free — there’s stuff for Android, the Nintendo DSi, and the iPhone/iPod Touch (Apple finally caved and decided that the panel depicting an orc in a video-game being decapitated didn’t disqualify the comic of Anda’s Game from being included as a freebie in the iPhone store).
Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now reaches 60,000 downloads
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