Volunteers outside the USA: Dorothy L. Sayers died in 1957. This person's work may still be protected by copyright in countries where copyright duration is determined by the author's death date. In Europe this is 70 years; in Canada it is 70 years for authors who died after 1971; and in Australia it is 70 years for authors who died after 1955.
Narrator: CiufiLord Peter Wimsey is back for the second installment of Dorothy L. Sayers’s mystery series (published 1927), and this time a death threatens the core of his family. Will he be able to save his brother, the Duke of Denver? Exactly what kind of trouble has his sister landed in? And what misadventure will Lord Peter get himself and Bunter into this time? (Summary by Lynette Caulkins)
Editor: LCaulkins
Parts PL: LCaulkins
Final DPL: Ciufi
Source text (use this for final-DPL): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70432
(read only from these chapter scripts) Folder link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1l91fH-O6W0v7UM5I4zwI1LZdmUfBaTpl?usp=sharing
*Note, readers will find a chapter link provided in the notebox for each section.
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Magic Window:
BC Admin
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Genres for the project: Dramatic Readings; Crime & Mystery Fiction/Detective Fiction; General Fiction/Published 1900 onward
Keywords that describe the book: Detective, Mystery, murder, London, yorkshire, moors, nobility, parker, jewelry, lord peter, wimsey, bunter, sugg, mistress
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LibriVox recording settings: mono (1 channel), 44100 Hz sample rate, 128 kbps constant bit rate MP3. See the Tech Specs
For individual roles:
Submit one file per chapter. At the beginning of the first file, say:
Leave 3-5 seconds of space between your lines (room noise, not generated silence)."Character, read by your name."
For narration/stage directions:
Leave 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning.
Say:
At the end of each file say:"Chapter # of Clouds of Witness, by Dorothy L. Sayers. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org."
If you are recording the final section of the book, add:"End of Chapter #."
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end."End of Clouds of Witness, by Dorothy L. Sayers."
Filename:
For individual roles: cloudsofwitness_role_##.mp3 where ## is the chapter number. (e.g. cloudsofwitness_ladymary_01.mp3)
For finished chapter files: cloudsofwitness_##_sayers_128kb.mp3 where ## is the chapter number. (e.g. cloudsofwitness_01_sayers_128kb.mp3)
Upload to the LibriVox Uploader: https://librivox.org/login/uploader
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MC to select: Rapunzelina
Copy and paste the file link generated by the uploader into a new post in this thread along with the file duration (mm:ss). Watch this thread for prooflistening notes.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask! Just post in this thread.
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