Gails Yarns, Hooks & Needles

Well, really, it’s just me who found them again. Last I heard, Myke Bartlett, author, was busy and would take up podcasting again when he could. This was months ago. Then I had some hardware problems and things got lost, but fortunately not forever. Thank you, Julie D. (of Forgotten Classics), for reminding me.

I have been a fan of Myke’s for donkey’s years, ever since I found How To Disappear Completely at Podiobooks.com. You will also find Electricity at Podiobooks, Myke’s other novel. So far.

But now, there’s more. Myke has returned to the partnership of Salmon and Dusk for a few new stories. Julie found them at Myke Bartlett dot com, and I went there as fast as I could to subscribe. The link will take you to a page where I subscribed to it all.

The first book I ever bought from a podcaster was one of Myke’s. Later I bought a mug, too. So I have two things related to Salmon & Dusk, which is one more than any other podcast or website. (Except my own!)

It is such a pleasure to listen to Myke read, his voice is detached and cool, perfectly suited to his characters. It’s hard to describe the stories, but I really like the new tagline for Salmon & Dusk: Detectives. Thieves. Time-Travelers. (Reasonable Rates.)

These will go in the sidebar.

That’s right, the “beta” notation has been removed from the Ravelry logo. Casey said he’d been meaning to do it for months but didn’t want to create a rush, so one day he just quietly removed it, and then briefly mentioned it in the Site Announcements in the For Love of Ravelry forum.

Casey also pointed out that it makes no real difference, there is always something to add or improve on the site.

But still a milestone!

News from the store:

My international shoppers may have noticed the lack of a First Class option lately. It was a glitch introduced by the USPS themselves, now found and matched on my end. (By my awesome tech support.)

Hm, you know this might be happening a lot of places. And might happen again if the USPS corrects that misplaced hyphen. You are welcome to tell me via comments/contact us page for a faster fix.

An email arrived yesterday to let me know that Ridan Publishing will print the podcast book “Quarter Share” (link in the sidebar). I added my email address to the “please notify me when the book becomes available” list.

I’m very happy for Mr. Lowell, and feel sure that once the first in the series is out, the rest will follow. It’s hard to overstate their addictive quality. See the cover (squee!!) and add your email to the list at the Ridan Publishing page (click the link above).

Last year I started listening to a podcast of a novel called, “The Day I Died” by Griffith Hewitt. Not the sort of title I expected to enjoy, but I did. Icing on the cake was that another Gail (Love) was reading it! But it stopped in the middle.

So finally I bought the book from Amazon. It’s good. It is a good listen, but it may be an even better read.  I stayed up late last night, trying to find the answer to the mystery!

It was worth the price. An enjoyable, off-beat story.