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The Pirate Island is complete!

Tricia, how about this? Lynette am I giving too much away? A story of sea-faring adventure including a shipwreck with a daring rescue, a ship fire and a close escape, pirates and enslavement, gold, danger, redemption and a desperate bid for freedom. There is excitement in every chapter in this harro...

TriciaG wrote: ↑

March 28th, 2020, 7:18 am

Sorry - I should have clarified. The intro/summary needs to either be written by you (or someone else around here) or from a PD source. I'm thinking B&N wouldn't appreciate our propagating their blurb all over the internet.

I figured that was the case. I'll try to work something up today.

Here is a summary created by Barnes & Noble. The Pirate Island: A Story of the South Pacific by Harry Collingwood and Illustrated by C.J. Staniland and J. R. Wells, first published in 1884. A very exciting story. It starts with a severe gale on the Essex coast of England. A rescue is effected, as a ...

TriciaG wrote: ↑

March 27th, 2020, 5:07 pm

I will need a summary/intro for the catalog for this.

If there is no available summary/intro, is it appropriate for me to write one? I'm not much of a writer, but if that's the process, I'll give it a go.

Chapter 20 uploaded, https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/pirateisland_20_collingwood_128kb.mp3, length 38:28

Book is finished (pending successful PL)!!!

Chapter 19 uploaded, https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/pirateisland_19_collingwood_128kb.mp3, length 33:17

A revised version of Chapter 17 has been uploaded, https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/pirateisland_17_collingwood_128kb.mp3 , length 28:11 I plan to start recording Chap 19 now. Hopefully no more tongue twisters today. This "stay at home" business is helping me speed up my production, at least. I ...

Ch. 17 - At 20:05 "and we hope that if so be as these here gen'lemen are thinking of topping their brooms. . ." should be booms. Although, the image of them flying off as witches is entertaining. :) Argh! I think I recorded that particular sentence a dozen times. :D I just couldn't wrap my mouth ar...

TriciaG wrote: ↑

March 25th, 2020, 6:57 am

Looked like just a typo in the MW, since the link is in the thread. I changed it. Try it now.

Thank you for fixing that!

Chapter 18 uploaded, https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/pirateisland_18_collingwood_128kb.mp3, length 29:30

Thanks Todd and Kevin. I will continue engaging my daughter and her classmates on this topic. I'm hoping to keep this fun and easy for them and maybe a few will get involved in other projects. Now that they can't rehearse for any shows or audition for post-graduate work, they suddenly have free time...

Chapter 17 uploaded, https://librivox.org/uploads/triciag/pirateisland_17_collingwood_128kb.mp3, length 28:12

Any advice would be welcomed. I think it's a wonderful idea! Putting aside my excitement and enthusiasm, however, one practical point comes to mind. Is your daughter and her friends willing and able to edit their own individual recordings? That makes things much easier and certainly more in keeping...

I am currently a Librivox reader (finishing my first solo project now). My daughter and her classmates are all graduating with theater/musical theater degrees in a few months and facing the reality that there are no jobs out there for them right now. They just completed an online audition process fo...