This Is This

This week’s going to be better than last. I’ve had a skinful of sleep, the sun is shining, unread emails read are down to double figures and I have a plan to do something on this blog that I haven’t done before.

OK, I’ll tell you.

Stories, right? Short stories, read out by yours truly. Or me, if we can’t get him.

I was thinking about this the other day and kept turning over the same three things:

1. We don’t read as much as we should.
2. We all own a pair of headphones.
3. I have a lot of books.

I’ll make them available for download so you can put them on your ipods and stuff, or you can stream them down right there and then if you spend a lot of time at your computer.

There will be an archive and stuff so you can listen back to stuff, and if you have anything you want to share, then please send them along and we can share them that way.

But let’s get some things straight, if only because I’ve figured out how to do numbered lists in Wordpress:

1. This is not a showcase for my own writing. While some of the stories will have been written by me, it’s a way of sharing good writing you may not have heard before. Blog knows you read enough of my stuff every day.
2. This is just for fun. There is no commercial benefit in this at all. Please don’t get all copyright on my ass about the author’s permission. These are just extracts from books which I encourage you to buy. I’ll include a link to the books in question so you can spend you money on them. Remember that my site is free so please be cool. An audio extract is a sample of your enjoyment of the writers fare. Please don’t circulate the MP3 files beyond this site but feel free to direct people to the posts where they can find them. And if you put them on your site and charge people to hear them, then everything’s just wrong.
3. I do not like the sound of my own voice, but it’s the only one I have. Let’s get past that and move on. Life’s too short and we may learn something or enjoy yourselves.
4. This is not a book club. No. Jesus.

If you like the idea, let me know.

I’m feeling like this is a proper website now. We’ve got pictures, you’ve got the weekend song, a reading from a book, you’ve got me goofing past former heads of state. In return I get tolerance over my ups and downs, clarity of truth (mostly) and the pressure of dragging my mind’s arse up and out for a cause. Yeah, it’s a mission. I don’t care what that makes me. You’re reading.

Anyway. New things. I’ll try it for a month, running audio posts every Wednesday.

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