THIS JUST IN FROM THE PUBLISHER:
Dear Robert Rickman,
we would like to inform you that Tektime has published the book 'SALUKI MAROONED' narrated in English.
The audiobook will need about 3-4 weeks before becoming available on all online bookstores.
The assigned ISBN to this audiobook is: 9788835428183
I started recording the Saluki Marooned audiobook in the spring and completed it last week...I hope. The technical requirements are very difficult to satisfy as I have mentioned before, but it wasn't a technical problem that led to this latest revision. No, you see I forgot to...forgot to...
It's embarrassing...
I forgot to list the author and narrator at the end of the last chapter.
When I was a student we used to call them "problems" but now they're called "challenges." My challenges are to write a second novel about SIU and record the Saluki Marooned audiobook. Because my background is in broadcast journalism and aviation my talents lean away from advertising. So, I need help with promotions.
And SIU students need practical experience, so Deb suggested I attend the Saluki Job Fair, sit at the Business Incubator table, and help guide students towards part-time jobs and internships. (Deb did most of the guiding while I sat there looking important 🙂 Home - Small Business Incubator (siu.edu) And when Deb was mingling with people around the room, Incubator student worker Tristan Workman was in command at the table.
My generation of students was in-your-face brash and independent (and politeness was optional). Millennials are quieter, and some are very shy. This, of course, has something to do with COVID-19 isolation.
My goal is for the audiobook to be finished and available for publication by SIU Homecoming in October. I have no idea when the second novel will be completed, hopefully by early next winter.
My experience talking with these sharp kids has prompted me to alter one of the characters in my new novel. She will be a Millennial who is working on her Masters at SIU, very shy, but engaging.
Click the arrow to hear Peter Federson...
As of Saturday, June 19, 2012, at 12 Noon, I've lived in Carbondale for seven months, one week, two days, and one hour. I've managed to record nine chapters of the Saluki Marooned Audiobook, plus the introduction!
"As night fell, security forces held the high ground around Woody and Wheeler halls, reinforced by members of the Illinois National Guard. Students lined streets adjacent to the campus, many carrying bricks and pieces of lumber. The awkward standoff continued until after midnight. At least 55 people were injured during nearly eight hours of protest, including 18 police officers. None of the injuries were serious. Nineteen persons were arrested. All were identified as SIU students, except for one Carbondale High School student, one student from Michigan State University and one former SIU student. No one could imagine that it was only the beginning.
At 4:30 p.m., Jackson County Sheriff Raymond Dillinger requested that Illinois Gov. Richard Ogilvie order National Guard troops to Carbondale. That was about the time protesters at Wheeler Hall got the idea of marching through the downtown business district."
This from:
A social history of student unrest at Southern Illinois University in the aftermath of Kent State.
Yup, I spent a lot of time in here.
Am I: Communing with Chopin? Shielding my ears from that noisy refrigerator? Hiding from the landlady?
I'm recording the Saluki Marooned audiobook.
And why don't I look happy?
Because I'm not! First, no radio or TV studio I've ever worked in (including WSIU and WIDB) would satisfy the demonic requirements for audiobook acceptance (ACX). To give you an idea: The sound of a pin dropping would register 10 decibels, and if something made a sound at 0 decibels, most humans couldn't hear it.
But the audiobook technical criteria requires any noise to register below -60 decibels-that's negative 60db! That means if an ant burps outside three stories below the closet the meter had better register -60db or below.
Accordingly, I bought heavy drapes which I close over the bedroom windows for recording. I shut the bathroom door, and turn off all appliances that make noise or cause a hum. I pack the air conditioner and window fan vents with insulation. (I wouldn't think
of turning them on) And the laptop stays outside because of its' fan.
But the real trouble starts when I'm finished recording.
On October 15, 1969 a massive crowd showed up at SIU for a peaceful moratorium against the Vietnam war. In less than a year, the …
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