Lisa @ Narrated Podcast
@lisajune.bsky.social
Co-host of Narrated podcast, a podcast about audiobooks (largely, but not entirely SFF) | Science Fiction/Fantasy enthusiast | My cats are @littermates.bsky.social | Boston Area
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I've been thinking about the importance of human voice actors ever since I started listening to the audiobook for You Weren't Meant to be Human by Andrew Joseph White.
The narrator, Max Weber, puts in WORK. Agree or disagree with his acting choices, but it's a performance, it's an interpretation.
The narrator, Max Weber, puts in WORK. Agree or disagree with his acting choices, but it's a performance, it's an interpretation.
November 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I've been thinking about the importance of human voice actors ever since I started listening to the audiobook for You Weren't Meant to be Human by Andrew Joseph White.
The narrator, Max Weber, puts in WORK. Agree or disagree with his acting choices, but it's a performance, it's an interpretation.
The narrator, Max Weber, puts in WORK. Agree or disagree with his acting choices, but it's a performance, it's an interpretation.
Please enjoy my teenager’s charcu-turkey
November 28, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Please enjoy my teenager’s charcu-turkey
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STARRED review in @libraryjournal.bsky.social for WE WILL RISE AGAIN, the speculative activism anthology edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social and yours truly! Pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
We Will Rise Again
From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...
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September 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
STARRED review in @libraryjournal.bsky.social for WE WILL RISE AGAIN, the speculative activism anthology edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social and yours truly! Pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
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As we near the end of the year, the last thing you might want is a big, chunky fantasy or science fiction book to drag into the new year. Good thing @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social's got 5 underrated novellas to recommend instead!
Backlist Bonanza: 5 Underrated Novellas - Reactor
It's time to add something short and sweet to your TBR stack...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
As we near the end of the year, the last thing you might want is a big, chunky fantasy or science fiction book to drag into the new year. Good thing @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social's got 5 underrated novellas to recommend instead!
Doing a novella a day this week as I catch up on books I’ve been meaning to get to before our #Novellavember episode. I have a 2+hour daily commute (ugh) and listen to audiobooks at 1.75x, so a novella gets me to work and back nicely.
October 29, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Doing a novella a day this week as I catch up on books I’ve been meaning to get to before our #Novellavember episode. I have a 2+hour daily commute (ugh) and listen to audiobooks at 1.75x, so a novella gets me to work and back nicely.
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The witch took her hands off the patient's body.
"First of all," she said with absolute conviction, "there's nothing wrong with you."
"The doctor-"
"Said you must be either man or woman?"
"That it's black or white, no grey."
"Nonsense. Every colour in the rainbow is between black and white."
"First of all," she said with absolute conviction, "there's nothing wrong with you."
"The doctor-"
"Said you must be either man or woman?"
"That it's black or white, no grey."
"Nonsense. Every colour in the rainbow is between black and white."
October 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The witch took her hands off the patient's body.
"First of all," she said with absolute conviction, "there's nothing wrong with you."
"The doctor-"
"Said you must be either man or woman?"
"That it's black or white, no grey."
"Nonsense. Every colour in the rainbow is between black and white."
"First of all," she said with absolute conviction, "there's nothing wrong with you."
"The doctor-"
"Said you must be either man or woman?"
"That it's black or white, no grey."
"Nonsense. Every colour in the rainbow is between black and white."
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Publishers Weekly has named my novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR a Best Book of the Year, 😃🇳🇬🇺🇸🤖🦿🐬.
Full list here: best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-book...
Full list here: best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-book...
October 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Publishers Weekly has named my novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR a Best Book of the Year, 😃🇳🇬🇺🇸🤖🦿🐬.
Full list here: best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-book...
Full list here: best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-book...
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AN ARCANE INHERITANCE is on bookshop's Most Anticipated: Fiction list! I AM SO HAPPY THANK YOU (and thank you to @lilymeade.bsky.social for telling me!)
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bookshop.org/lists/most-a...
Most Anticipated: Fiction Books
Checkout out this list on Bookshop
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October 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
AN ARCANE INHERITANCE is on bookshop's Most Anticipated: Fiction list! I AM SO HAPPY THANK YOU (and thank you to @lilymeade.bsky.social for telling me!)
bookshop.org/lists/most-a...
bookshop.org/lists/most-a...
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I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...
RAKESFALL wins the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
RAKESFALL wins the Le Guin Prize!
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October 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...
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Book 105 or so?: Sunward by @willalex.bsky.social. Space courier who helps raise AI bots (true AI, not the bullshit AI we have today) gets ensnared in political revolutionary shenanigans. 💙📚
October 21, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Book 105 or so?: Sunward by @willalex.bsky.social. Space courier who helps raise AI bots (true AI, not the bullshit AI we have today) gets ensnared in political revolutionary shenanigans. 💙📚
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#Booksky We’re going to kick off @wiscon.bsky.social’s new Vendor of the Month program on 11/1! Here’s how it works: sign up for WisCon’s newsletter and get the discount coupon for our webstore. Buy your queer books from us and we make a donation to WisCon through 11/30! wiscon.net/news/e-newsl...
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October 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
#Booksky We’re going to kick off @wiscon.bsky.social’s new Vendor of the Month program on 11/1! Here’s how it works: sign up for WisCon’s newsletter and get the discount coupon for our webstore. Buy your queer books from us and we make a donation to WisCon through 11/30! wiscon.net/news/e-newsl...
Ooh, look! The Ignyte Winners announcements are happening RIGHT NOW! Let’s all tune in!
October 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Ooh, look! The Ignyte Winners announcements are happening RIGHT NOW! Let’s all tune in!
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This is a lovely and blush-inducing chat about the audiobook of SUNWARD, which was given life and breath by @lindseydorcus.bsky.social.
This week on Narrated: @sullery.bsky.social and I talk about Sunward by @willalex.bsky.social. A lonely job in deep space becomes a way to nurture and grow a chosen family. narratedpodcast.com/episodes/328
328: Sunward — Narrated Podcast
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October 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This is a lovely and blush-inducing chat about the audiobook of SUNWARD, which was given life and breath by @lindseydorcus.bsky.social.
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This week on Narrated: @sullery.bsky.social and I talk about Sunward by @willalex.bsky.social. A lonely job in deep space becomes a way to nurture and grow a chosen family. narratedpodcast.com/episodes/328
328: Sunward — Narrated Podcast
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October 9, 2025 at 2:11 AM
This week on Narrated: @sullery.bsky.social and I talk about Sunward by @willalex.bsky.social. A lonely job in deep space becomes a way to nurture and grow a chosen family. narratedpodcast.com/episodes/328
Success! 📚
I’m not even done listening to the episode and I’ve already gone and bought Sunward. It sounds really lovely.
October 10, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Success! 📚
This week on Narrated: @sullery.bsky.social and I talk about Sunward by @willalex.bsky.social. A lonely job in deep space becomes a way to nurture and grow a chosen family. narratedpodcast.com/episodes/328
328: Sunward — Narrated Podcast
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October 9, 2025 at 2:11 AM
This week on Narrated: @sullery.bsky.social and I talk about Sunward by @willalex.bsky.social. A lonely job in deep space becomes a way to nurture and grow a chosen family. narratedpodcast.com/episodes/328
I wrote a song for the first time in a couple of years and I’m pretty happy with it 😊. Sometimes working within the constraints of rhyme and meter makes interesting things happen.
October 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I wrote a song for the first time in a couple of years and I’m pretty happy with it 😊. Sometimes working within the constraints of rhyme and meter makes interesting things happen.
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In which the great @maryrobinettekowal.com offers the hospitality of her blog for a My Favorite Bit post from moi:
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My Favorite Bit: William Alexander talks about SUNWARD
William Alexander is joining us today to talk about his novel, Sunward. Here’s the publisher’s description: A cozy debut science fiction novel by National Book Award–winning writer William Alexande…
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October 2, 2025 at 6:28 PM
In which the great @maryrobinettekowal.com offers the hospitality of her blog for a My Favorite Bit post from moi:
maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/my-f...
maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/my-f...
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My siblings are a huge part of my life, so I LOVED this list from @yumewrites.bsky.social in Reactor this morning. The only thing missing is SALTCROP, Yume's brand-new novel, which is one of the best books about sisters I've ever read.
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Five SFF Books About Searching for a Missing Sibling - Reactor
Yume Kitasei recommends five SFF books about sibling quests
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October 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
My siblings are a huge part of my life, so I LOVED this list from @yumewrites.bsky.social in Reactor this morning. The only thing missing is SALTCROP, Yume's brand-new novel, which is one of the best books about sisters I've ever read.
reactormag.com/five-sff-boo...
reactormag.com/five-sff-boo...
New on Narrated: @sullery.bsky.social, Mark, and I discuss The Shattering Peace by John Scalzi and the rest of the Old Man’s War series. I’ll be shocked if we aren’t repeating some of this for the Hugo Best Series episode in 2026. narratedpodcast.com/episodes/327
327: The Shattering Peace — Narrated Podcast
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September 30, 2025 at 11:35 PM
New on Narrated: @sullery.bsky.social, Mark, and I discuss The Shattering Peace by John Scalzi and the rest of the Old Man’s War series. I’ll be shocked if we aren’t repeating some of this for the Hugo Best Series episode in 2026. narratedpodcast.com/episodes/327
Inspired by current events, I listened to When Prophecy Fails. Researchers in the 1950s embedded in a UFO cult and watched exactly how the group reacted when the aliens didn’t come pick them up. Answer: they believed and justified even harder, at least at first. Fascinating stuff.
September 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Inspired by current events, I listened to When Prophecy Fails. Researchers in the 1950s embedded in a UFO cult and watched exactly how the group reacted when the aliens didn’t come pick them up. Answer: they believed and justified even harder, at least at first. Fascinating stuff.
What will be in the next batch of Neon Hemlock novellas? 👀 Can’t wait to see!
whoa october is around the corner!
reminder that we'll be open again for novellas soon.
more info here: www.neonhemlock.com/submissions
reminder that we'll be open again for novellas soon.
more info here: www.neonhemlock.com/submissions
September 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
What will be in the next batch of Neon Hemlock novellas? 👀 Can’t wait to see!
Lessons in Magic and Disaster is my favorite work by @charliejane.bsky.social so far, and one is my favorite books of the year. The intimate focus on one family and their relationships reminds me of @sarahpinsker.bsky.social’s We are Satellites. The magic in it feels like a real part of our world.
September 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Lessons in Magic and Disaster is my favorite work by @charliejane.bsky.social so far, and one is my favorite books of the year. The intimate focus on one family and their relationships reminds me of @sarahpinsker.bsky.social’s We are Satellites. The magic in it feels like a real part of our world.