Ep. 353 AudioBook / Video

Bookbinding

I’ll explain why there is nothing in Bookbinding in the Movie/Talkies/Video section.

Fiction

I’ve worked on Dmitry the Scavenger during the past week; making it stronger, I believe. I added more descriptions, deleted more confusing bits, and made the characters stand out a bit more.

Dmitry was shocked to discover he wasn’t in Noto, Sicily, his dream destination, but Noto, Japan. A much smaller port village. 

He knows he’s in the country illegally, plus he has a fake passport. If discovered by the Japanese authorities, he’ll be deported back to Moscow, a place he doesn’t want to be. What will become of him?

Talkies / Flicks

Rather than make a book, I made eight videos. All together these eight videos make an audio book of The Dead of Winter ~ A Novelist’s Kanazawa Afterlife.

The visuals for the audio book are somewhat related to the novel. For example, when the Novelist talks about a bear being in Kenrokuen, we see Kenrokuen (sorry, no bear). When Judy talks about two or three high school females, we see two or three high school females walking on a street in Kanazawa.

All of the videos are originals taken by me so this is the Kanazawa people see. Mostly Kenrokuen, Kanazawa Castle, and the streets near both of thos places. Mostly, also, in the rain as The Dead of Winter takes place in the winter (but I didn’t want to wait or walk around in the snow).

Books

For your reading pleasure:

Sakate – life as a bartender in an unprofitable but lively bar. 

The Lonely Izakaya Down a Quiet Street – a 30-something former high school student meets up with her former high school teacher to talk about life and haiku.

 

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