Orphaned Mabel struggles to raise her sisters by working as a sewing girl for long hours and low wages. She meets her challenges with a calm steady faith while her younger sister chafes against the injustice of their lot in life. She is determined to uncover the mystery she thinks is lurking behind their misfortune. This book will appeal to those who love intimate family dramas, light mysteries, scathing social commentaries, or sewing machines! ( Jennifer Fournier)
Type of proof-listening required (Note: please read the PL FAQ): standard
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Genres for the project: Family Life; General Fiction/Published 1800 -1900
Keywords that describe the book: Mystery, faith, christian, social, sewing machine, sewing, injustice
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No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording! START of recording (Intro):
"Chapter [number] of Mabel Ross, the Sewing Girl. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
Say: "Mabel Ross, the Sewing Girl. [Chapter]"
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"Chapter [number] of Mabel Ross, the Sewing Girl. This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain."
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"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
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At the end of the section, say: "End of [Chapter]"
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Title: ## - [Section title]
Album: Mabel Ross, the Sewing Girl
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I have uploaded a few files. I had forgotten all the MW updating steps so had relearn more than a little Please let me know if I got it right or need to fix something.
Dave - get out your hanky for Chap 1 - it's a tear jerker
Critical feedback is ALWAYS welcome - in the forum or via PM
MW looks fine though you should change the status of the files to "Ready for PL." Off now to get my hanky. And off to the Art Institute of Chicago before some exhibits close. Will finish later.
I am back...have been for 3 months but have been using the time to catch up on other projects. Good/bad news is that I am (probably-still not set) taking another job out of state for 6 months.
I have also changed my recording equipment since I did the first few chapters so will probably re-record them.
What is the best way forward? Pull this or leave it on hold?
Jennifer
Critical feedback is ALWAYS welcome - in the forum or via PM
If you don't intend to use the files, or get back to this any time soon, then we can abandon this, delete the files and you can start over with a new project in the launchpad when and if you get back to this. Alternately, this project can be put on hold and the thread stored off the active forum as is until you let an admin know that you are ready to have it moved back here. At that point you can decide what to do with the files. Just let me know which you would prefer.
(Note: a third option, if you really don't think you will have time for this - we can abandon the project and then someone can use your existing files and finish it up as a group project.)