{"id":20866,"date":"2025-06-27T19:22:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T23:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=20866"},"modified":"2025-06-27T19:22:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T23:22:28","slug":"troll-valley-recording-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=20866","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Troll Valley&#8217;: recording done"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Troll Valley: Recording done\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1XvevoUdWYw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Tonight, BIG NEWS!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deeply\u2026 underwhelming\u2026 big news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(By the way, do kids today realize that \u201cunderwhelming\u201d wasn\u2019t always a word? I first saw it used in the Pogo comic strip, back in the 1960s, I think. It was funny because \u201coverwhelming\u201d had never (that I know of) been paired with \u201cunderwhelming&#8221; before. \u201cOverwhelming\u201d was one of those words that had no commonly used obverse form, just as we still never talk about anyone being \u201cgruntled.\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What I mean to say is, I finished recording my novel, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Troll-Valley-Lars-Walker-ebook\/dp\/B006WNC4J4\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3RGFFMP9AMI3Z&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.egOEWrwYYcNMbIjz4SF-QA.Z7aqzhy-5uKrnMvAB9-dFQrevTArUVU-QSq03Q0KOCE&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=troll+valley+lars+walker&amp;qid=1751066285&amp;sprefix=troll+valley%2Caps%2C181&amp;sr=8-1&amp;tag=brandbooks-20\">Troll Valley<\/a><\/em>, this morning. To mark the occasion, I decided to film myself \u201cin studio,\u201d for the benefit of future literary historians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I apologize for the quality of the video. The old HP laptop I use for recording doesn\u2019t have much of a camera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But you\u2019ll note that the sound is good. That\u2019s the quality of sound you\u2019ll be getting with my <strong>fully artisanal<\/strong> audiobook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I need to give the whole thing a listen-through again, though, just to be sure it\u2019s right. I should be able to do at least two chapters of that a day, so it ought to take a couple weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then, it will take as long as it takes for me to jump through the hoops of converting files for Audible, and uploading. (Phil has already modified the book cover for me, for which I\u2019m most grateful.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it\u2019s coming. It can\u2019t be too long now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You may now return to your scheduled weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, BIG NEWS! Deeply\u2026 underwhelming\u2026 big news. (By the way, do kids today realize that \u201cunderwhelming\u201d wasn\u2019t always a word? I first saw it used in the Pogo comic strip, back in the 1960s, I think. It was funny because \u201coverwhelming\u201d had never (that I know of) been paired with \u201cunderwhelming&#8221; before. \u201cOverwhelming\u201d was one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=20866\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Troll Valley&#8217;: recording done<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,12,13],"tags":[246,1610,5515,3201],"class_list":["post-20866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-publishing","category-reading","tag-audiobooks","tag-lars-walker","tag-recording","tag-troll-valley"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20867,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20866\/revisions\/20867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}