FOR THE HELL OF IT – SPECIAL EDITION (containing actual news and useful info and at least a few digressions!) ACX and Me – A Journey of Discovery without (One Hopes) Skullduggery and Balderdash By Johnny Heller I’ve been asked by various and sundry audio type folks to share my experience with ACX. ACX is an acronym for Audiobook Creation Exchange, an enterprise from mega giant Audible/Amazon. Here’s what the ACX web site says it is: “ACX is a marketplace where professional authors, agents, publishers, and other Rights Holders can post fallow audiobook rights..” “Fallow” means, for those who don’t know what it means but are too shy …
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November 2nd, 2011 / By Jo Anna Perrin /
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The Clifton Chronicles
Only Time Will Tell: The Clifton Chronicles, Book 1 Written by: Jeffrey Archer Narrated by: Roger Allam, Emilia Fox Publisher: Macmillan Audio, August 2011 Length: 12 hours, 41 minutes Only Time Will Tell is the first installment of a five part sweeping and ambitious work of fiction that purportedly will cover 100 years in history, starting in Bristol after the end of “the war to end all wars” World War I, and taking us to the dawn of World War II. The narrative is the intriguing life of Harry Clifton, with his humble and secretly burdened beginnings and his family’s intertwining fate with the wealthy Barrington family. A multigenerational, …
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October 31st, 2011 / By
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FOR THE HELL OF IT VOL. 2 NO. 13 THE REALITY TV STAR ISSUE (and some other stuff) HOLLYWOOD… Holly Madison – a reality TV star whose fame is owed entirely to her ownership of really large fake boobies – recently had her boobs insured for $1 million by Lloyd’s of London proving once again that Lloyd’s of London is to the insurance world what Carrot Top is to stand up comedy. Madison is currently starring in “Peepshow” in Las Vegas where reviewers report that “she doesn’t sing or dance but mostly stands around.” Ms. Madison, fearing an injury to one or both of her boobs or, perhaps afraid …
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September 19th, 2011 / By
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FOR THE HELL OF IT VOL. 2 NO. 12 NEWS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE: NASHVILLE, TENN….Traffic on a Tennessee interstate was snarled recently during morning rush hour due to a spill of canisters releasing a foul smelling vapor. Emergency personnel on the scene were able to determine that the canisters were not filled with hazardous material but frozen bull semen bound for a Texas breeder. Hmmm. A number of questions come immediately to mind: 1. How did they determine it was bull semen? “Say, Bill, whydoncha go over there and see what that stuff is comin out of them canisters,” said Sgt. Wendell Smiff. “Awright Sarge,” responded Officer William Smiff …
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