{"id":23692,"date":"2014-07-11T14:02:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T19:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=23692"},"modified":"2014-07-11T15:40:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T20:40:57","slug":"free-radical-audiobook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=23692","title":{"rendered":"Free Radical Audiobook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?page_id=16523\">few books<\/a> over the years. I think my writing has improved drastically since I started, but that doesn&#8217;t change the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/shocked\/\">my first effort<\/a> is still the one that incites the most discussion and has the most requests for a sequel. <\/p>\n<p>But if you&#8217;re more of an audio fan then maybe you&#8217;ll dig the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peripheralarbor.com\/FreeRadical_Audio\/\">audiobook version of Free Radical<\/a> recorded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peripheralarbor.com\/\">Paul Spooner<\/a>.  It&#8217;s the whole book, unabridged, in OGG format. Like the text version, it&#8217;s free. (There&#8217;s also a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/shop\/shamus-young\/free-radical\/paperback\/product-18836044.html\">print version<\/a>, and the price is only to cover print costs. I don&#8217;t take any money for the book.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll admit these are hard for me to listen to. Especially the first chapter. That&#8217;s not a dig at Paul. He did fine work. It&#8217;s just that when I hear the words I hear the voice of a novice author who hasn&#8217;t yet found his voice and is suffering from a bad case of Trying Too Hard.  <\/p>\n<p>Thanks so much to Paul for putting this together. Here&#8217;s hoping some of you find it useful. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written a few books over the years. I think my writing has improved drastically since I started, but that doesn&#8217;t change the fact that my first effort is still the one that incites the most discussion and has the most requests for a sequel. But if you&#8217;re more of an audio fan then maybe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[157,46],"class_list":["post-23692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-free-radical","tag-system-shock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}