Bedtime Story: "The Spider Sweeper! (Patreon)

Hello, All (*⁰▿⁰*)！

Back to being overwhelmingly busy, this time with edits. But I think this is the last humongo wall to climb for The Japanese Folklore Book. Sure there will another pass or two down the road, but those shouldn't be as bad as this one. The deadlines are tight again. Basically, I'm having to edit up to seven chapters a day, yet it takes me at least two hours per chapter. Not that there are a lot of edits, but I'm rechecking everything again against the sources, and also finding parts that I want to rewrite for clarity and flow. And also finding things I've discovered and want to slip in. So how to write as clear and concisely as possible to allow the occasion new cool thing. 

Not complaining, I'm very excited, weee! Also, I really appreciate the publisher for letting be so hands on with everything. From my opinions about the artist and artwork to my request to have actual Japanese in the book when talking about certain terms. Totally selfish. But I remember when I was first studying Japanese, how I wished I could see and look up and learn kanji for terms that only had romaji and it just wasn't there. So hopefully there are others out there who feel the same way. 

Okay, Bedtime Story time! For this month I recorded "The Spider Sweeper" from The Carp-Faced Boy. It's been literal years that I've wanted to record the whole book and put it out as an audio book. I started a year ago, it seems. Richard found this old recording on his computer and dolled it up. It meets all the requirements for AXN/Audible. I'll start recording the stories in earnest soon so we can get that done. But for this story today, we really want to know what you think about the sound, the reading pace, pauses, breaths (yay or nay?), how to the S's sound? Just anything that bothers you or sounds off when listening to it, or is done well, maybe? I guess I do have this thing where I enunciate too much. But Richard things it comes from the decades I've been recording English tests for high school kids. Is it annoying? I can try and unlearn that. Anything at all, let us know! 

Miss you all, hope you're staying well and wonderful!

Here let me share one of the author photos Richard so kindly took for me. My last one I was like ... twenty or something. 

XOXO, 

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