The audiobook for my anthology, The Moon Panther, is finally available everywhere.

Today, we’re returning to the first and shortest novella, The Conquest of Qongqor Caine. Femme fatale Josephine, a minor character in my epic The Hounds of Harujin, is sent on a daring mission to assassinate a villain in Auckland, timezones away from home, limited reconnaissance, and all under the watchful gaze of a prince's royal security.

This one was originally recorded by my friend Andrew Bunton back in 2015,and it was played in full all the way back in episodes 8 and 9. That recording is not the best—it was, in fact, the first time I’d ever edited audio, and I’ve tried to clean it up a few times, and I’m just not satisfied with it. So, I’ve gone ahead and re-recorded it (this new recording is the one now for sale on Audible and elsewhere) and today we’re playing it in full. No previews here, you’re getting the full thing.

With one catch. Today’s episode has been altered. from the Audible and Spotify version We’re having some fun with this. Several of the major characters have been excised from this, and been replaced with characters from elsewhere in my oeuvre. Some of their characteristics have bled over as well. Josephine, my lead, for example, has been replaced by Jean Chou, the half-Scottish one-time girlfriend of Olive Yang, who has appeared in Tiger Blues, Taming the Laser Leopard, and the forthcoming Pattaya Gambit.

90% of the novella remains unaltered. I’ve gone back and rerecorded to change the names. In some instances, accents have changed. Flourishes have been added to tie in with the replacement characters. Otherwise, these new characters have largely just been inserted in, resulting in some rough transitions. Things are a bit less serious in this version, and this is a story about a vigilante assassin. So you may prefer it in its original form, links are here:

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EricaJurus is an author of urban fantasy whose work plays at theintersection of science fiction, horror, and, with her newestrelease, romance. Erica's fourth book, The Summer Door, has just comeout, and it is a horromance novel set in the extended universe thatbegan with her Chaos Roads trilogy. Erica was on back in episode 57 discussing Chaos Roads, but the Summer Door can be read entirelyindependently from that, following a minor character from ChaosRoads, and veering into new genres. The Summer door starts a newseries in that wider universe, the Llithfaen universe, though, unlikeChaos Roads, each entry in the Magic in your Bones series is beingdesigned as a standalone.

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Crystal Quast has now released thefourth volume in her Serenity Acres series. The series focuses on afictional picturesque suburban neighbourhood where all of thecharacters, despite their pretentions of keeping up with the Joneses,have reams of problems ranging from infidelity to embezzlement tomurder. This fourth volume, called Influenced, focuses on a toxicmother trying to craft her daughters into social media influencers,and what happens when the daughter says no more.

Crystal was previously on in episode 54discussing the first two volumes, and episode 78, where MatthewGabrielson, Ryan David Gerrard and I held a launch party for volume3. If you have not been following along with the series, be aware youdon’t need to read the previous books to pick up and enjoyInfluenced. Here, we talk about Crystal’s snappy prose, what it’slike to be nearing the end of a five-book series, and how socialmedia is effecting us as authors.

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