I created the main character in ‘She Will Never Die’ from personal experience and a fear of drowning (yes, my joining the Navy was perhaps an odd choice in view of that!). I mixed that with putting myself ‘in her shoes’, as she faces up to her horrific, inescapable situation and the end of her
When I was coming through arrivals at Heathrow Airport one day, I was struck by the sea of signs bearing names. I wondered – how do the people holding these signs know for sure that the person approaching them really is Michael Smith or Sophie Brown? What if that person was just pretending to be
How One Voice Brought My Story To Life by Jacqui Canham Read More »
Nervously excited I pressed the play button to hear the extract from ‘Busy Izzie’. Tantalising snippets of music… Why is the music stuttering? My temperamental laptop froze. My giddy aunt! I closed and restarted the browser… Tinkling, repeated piano notes, giving a feeling that ‘something wicked this way comes’, which immediately had me imagining Izzie
The Power of the Audiobook: Injecting Creepy Life into ‘Busy Izzie’ by Milethia Thomas Read More »
The Create50 initiative has been a boon for me. I didn’t think I could write a short screenplay, but through the process of the Impact50 I learned to. Same with short stories. It wasn’t a medium I had turned my hand to and initially I wasn’t tempted to have a go at Twisted50, even though
How The Twisted50 Project Helped To Make Me A Better Writer by KT Parker Read More »
The ‘Five Days’ story in Twisted 50 superbly read by the inestimable Fenella Fudge really got me thinking. If you haven’t had a chance to listen to it (or read it), it is about a woman in her late 40s, who is concerned about how she looks, the increasing wrinkles, the eye bags and the general sagging
Twisted 50 Audiobook Secret Diary… Entry Five, by Helen Lloyd… And on the fifth day… Read More »
When I was young (and flying to the other side of the world was still relatively new and special) my father brought me back an elaborately carved wooden boomerang from a business trip to Australia. So in awe of this object was I that I dare not throw it for fear it may break. Years
The Boomerang Effect and How I Became an Audiobook Convert by Kim L. Wheeler Read More »
My sons read all the Harry Potter books but they also wanted the audio version read by Stephen Fry. They would listen to life in Hogwarts while I listened to the radio. Now, having listened to the excerpt of ‘Killing Her Little Darling’ I understand why. As much as we all love movies there is
The Pleasure of Listening to ‘Killing Her Little Darling’ by Merlin Ward Read More »
When I was first contacted by Helen Lloyd to audition for the short story ‘doG liveD’ written by Troll Dahl I was over the moon for three reasons. First, I was honoured to be asked to participate in anything with Helen Lloyd (who I’m in slight awe of). Second, I’ve been wanting to narrate a truly scary story since
We just sent of the Audiobook sleeve to the printers, have mastered the CD’s and are about to send out the final files for duplication. Handling the final audiobook as a physical product is rather exciting, a bit like holding your book versus reading on a computer screen. That buzz never gets old. We shot
Artwork, packaging and final polishing of Twisted50 Audiobook complete Read More »
When London Screenwriters Festival launched the search for fifty horror stories for its Twisted50, Volume 1, I thought – since I wasn’t heading up the initiative – I might as well enter. At the time, though I’d published two books about writing, plus a couple of novels, I hadn’t actually published any short prose. It
‘The Retribution Of Elsie Buckle’, audio excerpt by Lucy V Hay Read More »