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Thank you to all the folks for entering the Laundrygate, Strange Stories About the Future Goodreads Giveaway! This is my first giveaway for Laundrygate, Strange Stories About the Future.

Congratulations, Goodreads Giveaway Winners! Ten winners are getting a personally signed Laundrygate paperback. I am mailing signed books on Saturday, December 26th, 2020. I hope you enjoy reading Laundrygate, and I look forward to your reviews.

Laundrygate, Strange Stories About the Future is available on Amazon is Kindle version for $0.99 and in paperback $8.99.

Laundrygate: Strange Stories About the Future

I thought it would be fun to turn my first science fiction book, Laundrygate, Strange Stories About the Future, into an Audible production. Laundrygate is my first creation of an Audible book, though I listened to hundreds of Audible books. So naturally, the unknown made me nervous. So allow me to step you through the production of Laundrygate, Strange Stories About the Future.

Step One
I had to prepare Laundrygate for the process narrator selection process. So, naturally, that meant creating an audition script to entice narrators. But, holy cows, Laundrygate has four main chapters, each with different characters. Therefore, the audition script had to reflect the main character’s voices.

When I wrote Laundrygate, I focused more on style than following the hardcore rules dialogue structure. For example, many of my characters think aloud, so I represent this as an italic. The use of italics for “thinking out loud” causes confusion for the narrators.

Step Two
Finalizing the audition script, which is only five pages long, I uploaded it to ACX and put it out for a bid. Interested narrators submit an audio file reading from the script. The hardest part of this production process was selecting narrators. There are excellent narrators to choose from on ACX. I received several audio auditions, but none...

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Spend your next commute laughing, crying, and even scratching your head with this captivating and crazy sci-fi compilation. <>Strange Stories About the Future is an audiobook that features stories that tap into the wilder side of science fiction, stories as diverse as they are interesting. We live in an age of technological advancement where almost anything you can imagine is possible. The transformation of the future will change the world and everything we know about it.

Now You Can Hear Those Voices In My Head
Laundrygate, Strange Stories About the Future is an unusual collection of short stories about the unimagined consequences of technology and the creation of neI’vealities. I’ve dreamed up these wild, surreal tales, envision the outcomes brought about by technological change and human curiosity, and imagine post-humanist worlds. Laundrygate creates multiple metaverses for your imagination. Now available in audiobook format. The narration is by Christy Lynn, who took the voices that I hear in my head and brought the characters to life.

You now get to enjoy the Chairman, Witness Historian, Hobbes, Levi, Kela, Skip, Jessa, and her team in a whole new dimension.

About the Narration
I am delighted with Christy Lynn’s narration of the Laundrygate audiobook. I eagerly await your thoughts, and I don’t think you’ll be disappointed. If you have the time to delve into a work of future fiction and enjoy it for what it is—an alternate view of the universe around us—you will find hours of listening pleasure among these stories. All of them are short, interesting, and fun to hear. And you can listen to them in your car or on a train or wherever you happen to be––albeit with headphones at a moderate volume––and they are written to stand alone; you don’t need to hear one story after another.

Click the link to have a listen to the narration on Audible

Metaverses of Laundrygate
These four stories represent many worlds, metaverses, and opportunities, that technologies could bring to reality. I use strong female characters to tell the truths of what might and can be. My characters are like you and me; we strive each day to learn, create, imagine, be more significant, and experience more. Our encounters are unlike our counterparts who have it easier, but we can calculate the struggle and do so with conviction and heart. We must be flexible like the cat. When you read my short stories, I hope you encounter the connections that tie these tales together.
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