Mischief Corner Books, LLC
  • Home
  • Bookstore
    • Coming Soon
    • Paperbacks
    • Audiobooks
    • Translated Works >
      • Translated Paperbacks
  • Authors
    • Andi Anderson
    • Angel Martinez
    • Carole Cummings
    • Evelyn Benvie
    • Foster Bridget Cassidy
    • Freddy MacKay
    • Gregory L Norris
    • J Scott Coatsworth
    • Jana Denardo
    • Jayne Lockwood
    • Jill Wexler
    • K.S. Trenten
    • Kassandra Lea
    • Lou Sylvre
    • Mathilde Watson
    • Mere Rain
    • Nicole Dennis
    • Sandra C. Stixrude
    • Silvia Violet
    • Siri Paulson
    • Toni Griffin
    • Tray Ellis
  • Submissions
  • Our Blog
  • Where is MCB
  • Shenanigans Press

Stuff We Like - #51

12/2/2015

0 Comments

 
Angel has this week's Stuff We Like with a little of something old, something new...
Picture
When I was little, my parents would take us to the library and encourage us to pick out not only books, but also records to borrow. Our library had a wonderful section of vinyl narrations, you see, people with wonderful voices reading stories. The expressiveness of these narrators captivated me, allowing me to hear dialogue in different ways, to paint mind pictures I wouldn't have on my own.

We don't outgrow the desire to have stories read to us. You just have to look at audio book sales these days. But I have to be honest - a bad narrator can just kill a story and sometimes you just can't get past the first five minutes because of a flat, uninflected reading. Recommendations and reviews of narrators have become just as important as the reviews of the books themselves.


Picture
When you find a good narrator? Holy crumbs and crusts, it's almost better than Death by Chocolate. Or sex. Or sex with Death by Chocolate. In my rambling way, this is me saying that I like good narration and finding the perfect narrator for a story. For Shax? That person turned out to be Vance Bastian, our amazing narrator for Hell For The Company. Vance not only manages an incredibly fun range of voices for the characters, he gets the voices right for the scene. Shax - sometimes vain and roguish, sometimes a bit freaked out. Verin - from vaguely irritated to really pissed off. Ivana - from snark to sweet. Ness - from completely flummoxed to finding his feet. Heck, Vance even managed the perfect voice for Benny, which makes me want more Benny scenes so he can read them.

Look for Vance's work on Hell For The Company on audible and ACX, and here's hoping he agrees to do more. 'Cause we do like being read to and we most assuredly like Vance.

Vance Bastian can be found at: http://www.vancebastian.com/

Picture
Hell For The Company: Brimstone 1
Audio edition narrated by Vance Bastian

0 Comments

Stuff We Like #17

3/10/2015

2 Comments

 
Welcome to a special Stuff We Like. This week isn't brought to you by the usual Mischiefers. Nope. No Toni, Freddy, or Angel. This week happens to feature someone near and dear to Toni, so you could say it's indirectly related to her if you want. We guess. But this special guest is also familiar to the Mischiefers. We met him when Toni came to the US the first time. He was at the writer's retreat where the Mischiefer crew was born.

Toni's brother, Jonathan, had joined her for her cross country USA trip for moral support. When he showed up in the cabin, we stared at him (and her too). They were HUGE! Also, was this straight, Aussie brother of a gay mm romance writer going to fit in with a bunch of other MM writers?

It was a stupid question really. Jonathan was a blast. Perfectly fitting in with the rest of us. Laughs, good times, and fun were to be had. No one could ask for a better straight ally.

We also discovered he had a beautiful speaking voice. One day we woke up one of our roommates with him reading a book through the door to her. We died. It was awesome.

Toni recently visited Jonathan. On this trip, she finished up her latest Holland Brother book (A Very Holland Valentine), but she also managed to get him to read for her. As in, read an excerpt from her books so all of you can hear her wolves in an authentic Aussie accent.

(He really is a nice brother).

So, without further ado, Jonathan reading from the new, bigger, better version of Forbidden Mate: Holland Brothers 4.
Can you see why we adore him? Jonathan is most definitely Stuff (People) We Like.

You can find Forbidden Mate here on MCB and other third party outlets like Amazon, ARe, and B&N. (And, if you weren't aware of Toni's re-edited, expanded version of her Holland Brothers, here is the updated blurb for FM.)

Forbidden Mate
Finding his mate should have been Patrick Holland's greatest day, instead it turned into a nightmare with one phone call. His mate didn't want him. His heart broke, but at sixteen he was too young to do anything. The next ten years—ten long years— of Patrick's life are spent at odds with his mate. Split by forces he can't comprehend and a long line of misunderstandings, Patrick doubts he'll ever get the man he's both loved and hated.

Jake Richmond never expected to come home from Uni to find the youngest Holland brother was his mate. Knowing the news might uplift his still grieving father, Jake shares the news only to have his young mate threatened. Jake does the only thing he can think of, protect Patrick. The next ten years are nothing but torture for Jake as he watches his mate grow into a remarkable young man.
They say time heals all wounds, but how much time?

Please note: FM has been reedited, and expanded by about 50,000 words.
2 Comments

    RSS Feed

    Archives

    September 2021
    August 2020
    March 2019
    February 2018
    August 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014

    Categories

    All
    66
    AIESEC
    Anchorage Books
    Andi Anderson
    Angel Martinez
    Anthology
    App
    Audiobooks
    Authors
    Autism Awareness Blog Hop
    Band-aids
    Beer
    Blog Hop
    Blog Tour
    Brimstone Series
    Cabin For Two
    Care Packages
    Charity Miles
    Comics
    Dirty Little Secret
    Freddy MacKay
    Gay Heroes
    GRL2014
    HAHABT
    Holland Brothers
    Hounds Of Hell
    Internment
    Jonathan
    Mathilde Watson
    MCB Quarterly
    Men Of Charlestown
    Mina MacLeod
    Mischief Corner Books
    Movies
    News
    Not In The Stars
    Outside The Margins
    Paperback
    Pride Promotions
    Prism Book Alliance
    Reading
    Release
    Review
    Sandra C. Stixrude
    Shrug It Off
    Silvia Violet
    Smokey Mountain Bears
    Sock Poacher
    Sons Of Aphrodite
    Stuff We Like
    SWL
    The Atherton Pack
    The Borillian Twist
    Toni Griffin
    V8
    Voice Reading

    RSS Feed

We Would Love to Hear from you!


Hours

M-F: 9am - 5pm EST

Email

mischiefcornerbooks@gmail.com
  • Home
  • Bookstore
    • Coming Soon
    • Paperbacks
    • Audiobooks
    • Translated Works >
      • Translated Paperbacks
  • Authors
    • Andi Anderson
    • Angel Martinez
    • Carole Cummings
    • Evelyn Benvie
    • Foster Bridget Cassidy
    • Freddy MacKay
    • Gregory L Norris
    • J Scott Coatsworth
    • Jana Denardo
    • Jayne Lockwood
    • Jill Wexler
    • K.S. Trenten
    • Kassandra Lea
    • Lou Sylvre
    • Mathilde Watson
    • Mere Rain
    • Nicole Dennis
    • Sandra C. Stixrude
    • Silvia Violet
    • Siri Paulson
    • Toni Griffin
    • Tray Ellis
  • Submissions
  • Our Blog
  • Where is MCB
  • Shenanigans Press