Thoughts on fandom
I’ve been thinking thoughts about fandom lately. I’m sure it’s no surprise to anyone that I’ve been in fandom for, oh, decades now 🙂 I’ve been in fandoms for many shows, books, movies. I’ve been a moderator of a lot of communities, email lists etc. I’ve gone through phases of intense involvement and phases of…
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Gear post
When I was blogging about my photography regularly, I’d do an annual gear-update post. I thought I’d try the same here – mostly because it’s fun, but it can be informative for others who stumble across my natterings, if they are starting to look into vocal audio 🙂 My gear and software haven’t changed much…
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! and Ivy Loves Christmas Songs…
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, evvveryyy whereee you gooooo… I love Christmas unabashedly. I know all the verses to all the songs (benefits of growing up in 4 different singing groups LOL), I love the peace of snowy winter (ahem, Montana? get on that, please?), I love listening to Christmas music and…
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Resume, Ho!
Someone online recently pointed out that it’s a good idea/expected/desperately vital/simply professional [??] to have a concise downloadable/printable resume on one’s site – that to expect anyone interested in you as a professional artist to wander around your [artistic] site to glean the information they need to know, isn’t 1) a good idea or…
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Ivy has joined the 21st century in audio engineering software! Learning curve, here I come!
I have decided the time has come for me to move into the modern software world for audio engineering…because Reasons – sekrit sekrit reasons 😀 I have used Audacity for more than 20 years, and it has served me amazingly well. I have pushed the limits of what it was designed to do, and…
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Mastering audio is remarkably satisfying :D
For the 2021 Cinnabar Winter Anthology, I had the great enjoyment of doing a touch of mastering on the finished chapter tracks from each narrator, and it was so fun 🙂 When I first started narrating, I thought editing was hell (and there are some cases in which I still feel this – line replacement…
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Sometimes I just really really wish….
Sometimes I really despair of doing anything with my life in the face of the constancy of chronic illness. This past 2 months have been one of those times. So was the 3 months of post-vaccine reaction (yes, I would get it again, again a hundred times – cause I’m still not over covid proper,…
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how to audiobook with severe hand injuries
Oh covid! You scamp! You came for my hands – you didn’t realize that I’ve had hand injuries since my 20s and I HAVE KNOWLEDGES. That doesn’t mean, dear readers, that things are resolving quickly….this looks like it will be a long haul. And thus I have created even more hands-free editing tools for myself. [how…
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cello is good for my soul…and my chronic illness
My hands are getting stronger! I was able to play my cello for hours tonight, it was glorious! I have extensive hand injuries, several destroyed ligaments, EDS making the ligaments too lose, and permanent joint scaring. When I take on a new hand-oriented thing (like rowing or cello) I have to go verrrry slowly, with…
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Libro.fm – an Audible-type subscription platform for audiobooks, that GIVES MONEY TO YOUR LOCAL BOOK STORES! like bookshop.org, but for audiobooks!
OH MY GOODNESS OMG OH MY!!! When Chad Musick and Cinnabar Moth Press told me about findawayvoices.com , and how we’d be distributing our audiobooks through them because 1) they offer international distribution 2) they distribute to LIBRARIES! and 3) they get us out from under the amazon/audible monopoly distribution and their [truly abysmal]…
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Unplugged: reading from The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. leGuin
I have never ending awe and wonder at Ursula leGuin’s writing, and The Dispossessed lives deep in my heart. Enjoy my adoration 🙂
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a day in the editing life – a very very rambly post, with visual aids!
Today, I edited! Many editings! There are a lot of steps to editing, and they vary from project to project – but I thought it might be fun to show some of the my steps and explain what they are and how they help get to a finished audiobook 🙂 Everyone has a different workflow,…
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Gracie & Zeus Live the Dream – it’s a hilarious romp! it’s a mystery! it’s a celebration of NA brains! and it was super fun to narrate :D
This book has been an absolute blast to narrate 😀 Full of fun voices that get to be played (largely) very broad; full of neuroatypical brains – which I also have in my skull; is full of musicians, which I am as well; and a mystery that’s just so weird you’re going WHY ARE YOU…
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if you could ask me to natter on about something…what would it be?
reposted from a tweet-thread: Filed under ‘random but looking forward to it; send help’ A few months ago I had the fun task of scaring up a lrg/med diaphragm USB mic that might remotely match my *cough* expensive mics so that there could be a reasonable match of 2 people in 1 audiobook. I researched…
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Notion, guys. Notion is The Shit.
Phew. Thank goodness for Notion helping me keep track of my progress on Current Book (on the last 3 books, actually) – because I am so natively INCAPABLE OF THINKING IN AN ORGANIZED WAY. I’ve tried everything I could find over the years to help me keep track of and be reminded of my scheduled…
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deep cello rambling
In my most recent blog post, I lead with a photo of a cello. A couple of photos of a cello actually LOL As I noted, it had been quite a long time since I had last played – life had happened, cello fell out of my brain and it was…just something from my past….
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hello and cello!
Hello blog! Well, it appears I’ve got JewelWing.net up and running! Almost mostly! I do stil really loathe the WP CMS, but at least I found something that I can work with – and that has music players and podcast players when I want them, and allows for embedding from other audiobook/podcast/music streaming sources…
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building in WordPress is the worst for the dyslexic!!!
WordPress is, to the way my mind works, utterly baffling. I miss Concrete5 so so much – the CMS I have used for the last 7 years, but which DreamHost has dropped as a one-click install (meaning when my ivytarablair.com site got sporked, there was simply no way to fix it, no recourse. So, here…
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