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Marla Reed’s article chronicling the journey of sci-fi story “Local Custom” from novel to audiobook is now up at SciFiAbout.com: “Local Custom: A Novel’s Journey & Michael Shanks”<\/p>\nMarla Reed’s article chronicling the journey of sci-fi story “Local Custom” from novel to audiobook is now up at SciFiAbout.com: “Local Custom: A Novel’s Journey & Michael Shanks”<\/p>\n
Part One: click here<\/b><\/a> Part Two: click here<\/b><\/a> Part Three: click here<\/b><\/a> Our thanks go to Marla Reed for sharing this article and its insights with us \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n The “Local Custom” audiobook narrated by Michael Shanks is now available for pre-order from Buzzy Multimedia at a cost of $45.00 The story is unabridged and presented on 8 CDs. Orders placed between 23rd February and 19th March 2005 will receive a complimentary silver Liaden charm. <\/p>\n To place your order for “Local Custom” and listen to audio clips of Michael Shanks reading from the novel, click here.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Marla Reed’s article chronicling the journey of sci-fi story “Local Custom” from novel to audiobook is now up at SciFiAbout.com: “Local Custom: A Novel’s Journey & Michael Shanks” Part One: click here Writers Sharon Lee and Steve Miller are interviewed about the evolution of their Liaden Universe series, their love for Georgette Heyer and writing … Continue reading “Michael Shanks: Local Custom – a journey”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merchandise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWriters Sharon Lee and Steve Miller are interviewed about the evolution of their Liaden Universe series, their love for Georgette Heyer and writing “Local Custom” as a sci-fi romance.<\/p>\n
\nMichael Shanks – Daniel Jackson on Stargate SG-1 – describes the events that led him to sign on as narrator for the audiobook and shares with us some of the trials and tribulations of ‘cold reading’.<\/p>\n
\nMichael Shanks describes the communication process between actor and writer, and between narrator and listener, feeling that his role in reading “Local Custom” was to be, in effect, the listener’s insight.<\/p>\n