Saturday, June 02, 2018

What is Emily Devenport reading?

Featured at Writers Read: Emily Devenport, author of Medusa Uploaded (The Medusa Cycle, Volume 1).

Her entry begins:
I love audio books. At one time I used to consider them the cheater's way of reading books (with more than a tad of arrogant dismissal in my tone). And you know what? Maybe they are the cheater's way – and that's fine with me. Because I have a full-time day job (I'm a buyer at the Heard Museum book store in Phoenix), a writing career, a household, and a (wreck of a) garden to maintain. At the end of the day, my eyeballs feel pretty fried.

A good audiobook is like one of the old radio shows. It's really more of a dramatization. Over the last few years, I've heard some of the best narrators reading books by my favorite authors. I love Michael Connelly, Stephen King, Patricia Cornwell, Robert...[read on]
About Medusa Uploaded, from the publisher:
My name is Oichi Angelis, and I am a worm.

They see me every day. They consider me harmless. And that's the trick, isn't it?

A generation starship can hide many secrets. When an Executive clan suspects Oichi of insurgency and discreetly shoves her out an airlock, one of those secrets finds and rescues her.

Officially dead, Oichi begins to rebalance power one assassination at a time and uncovers the shocking truth behind the generation starship and the Executive clans.
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--Marshal Zeringue