NOVEL READINGS

NOVEL READINGS

Watch novel and transcript readings from award winning writers. Performed by professional actors.

NOVEL READINGS
  • NOVEL Readng: THE COUNTERFEIT JOURNALISTS, by Robert Russin (interview)

    Narrated by Val Cole

    While doing an audit on a journalist named Ted Simon's, Delvin Woodhouse auditor follows up to interview the main source for all Ted's articles only to find that she has been missing for 2 years already.

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your novel about?

    The Counterfei...

  • 1st Chapter NOVEL Reading: Justice Puzzle, by David Newdorf

    Narrated by Val Cole

  • ROMANCE Novel Transcript: Fury in Her Eyes, by Phillip Vega

    Perfomed by Val Cole

    BUY Novel:
    https://www.amazon.ca/Fury-Her-Eyes-Phillip-Vega/dp/1956856528

  • Novel Transcript Reading: Vivian Maier Framed, by Axel Forrester (interview)

    Narrated by Val Cole

    Vivian Maier is unattractive, too tall, has big feet and a strange accent. She is often unable to read social situations. She struggles to keep a job as a nanny, but finally she has some success working for a family on Riverside Drive in Manhattan, taking care of a little gi...

  • NOVEL Reading: UNMASKED, by Howard K. Pollack

    https://www.amazon.ca/Unmasked-Howard-K-Pollack/dp/B0B456VHVW

    When the wife of a shady Florida businessman is shot in bed in their exclusive home, all signs point to a senseless robbery. Detectives are on the case, but it's the dead woman's high school sweetheart, now a high-powered attorney, wh...

  • Novel: THE MAYOR OF MARDI GRAS: A MEMOIR, by Gregory Fischer (interview)

    Narrated by Val Cole

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your novel about?

    It's a memoir about my cousin who was more like a loving older brother to me. He died at 47. He was a third-generation Mardi Gras sculpture artist and float builder in New Orleans. I quit graduate school in 2011 and s...

  • A Sudden, Wild Craving: Sivvie, Food, (Lack Thereof), and Me., by Jessica Doe

    Narrated by Val Cole

  • 1st Chapter Reading: Thessalonika, by Annilee Newton (interview)

    https://annileenewton.com/thessalonika/

    noun

    1. The title of my novel about a girl willing to sacrifice her name and her identity

    2. The middle name of Cleo Hart, a scholarship student at a prestigious New England university in the 1950’s

    3. A feminized form of “Thessaloniki,” a city in Greec...

  • NOVEL Transcript Reading: Enfant Terrible: Opening Acts, by Gwydhar Gebien

    BUY novel here: https://www.amazon.ca/ENFANT-TERRIBLE-OPENING-Gwydhar-Gebien/dp/0578889811

    Synopsis: Damen Warner is the front man for a metalcore band who has hit the skids. Hard. His record label dropped him, his manager has gone missing and now his agent won't return his calls. He is broke an...

  • NOVEL Transcript Reading: In The Midst of Arms, by Michael Mendershausen

    Thriller

    Performed by Val Cole

  • NOVEL Transcript Reading: Blood Pudding, by Ivan Cox

    BUY on Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/Blood-Pudding-Confessions-Immigrant-Pittsburgh/dp/1639855610

    In a mining company town outside Pittsburgh, a 9-year-old boy's mother dies of a self-inflicted botched abortion. This tragedy leaves the narrator Tad Malinowski and his 6 siblings to deal with the...

  • NOVEL Transcript Reading: Les Beaux Châteaux, by Dorothy Mackevich Marks

    Buy on Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/Beaux-Ch%C3%A2teaux-Dorothy-Mackevich-Marks/dp/B09SFKJGC1

    Inspired by a headline about French bakeries shuttering, Les Beaux Châteaux is a rich story of an estranged father and son - business partners - who operate their salvage/antiques boutique across two c...

  • NOVEL Transcript Reading: Honey Drop, by Krishtina Mayers and Alicia Norman

    Buy on Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/Honey-Drop-I-Alicia-Norman-ebook/dp/B0BSS4D1R1

    Dark Fantasy Romance

    After encountering an intriguing, mysterious man in an Island graveyard, a beautiful noblewoman embarks on a mythological romantic adventure that will upset the realms of both gods and men.
    ...

  • NOVEL Reading: AS THE FIRST SIGN OF DAYLIGHT, by Sophia Tsapepas Natiello

    Comedy, some drama

    Living with her ninety-two-year-old Theia Froso in a cluttered house for the last twenty years, Nitsa's life has been a whirlwind of old Greek superstitions, family secrets, chaotic and comical mishaps, cursed pound cakes, and ancient beliefs.

  • NOVEL Reading: GIANT STEPS, Benjamin Fussiner

    Emma wants to have a baby and she decides to do so with her long-time friend, Ish. Everyone thinks it is a bad idea,

    Performed by Val Cole

  • NOVEL Reading: PRINCE RIC: A TALE OF COMING OUT, by Kevin Michael Irvine

    Performed by Shawn Devlin

    https://www.amazon.ca/PRINCE-RIC-Kevin-Irvine-ebook/dp/B00PBJVY7S

    Advertising heir Richard “Ric” Terrence Smythe-Bigge has it all, and longtime wingman Hal Burke is there to narrate. “Ric adds a spice rack of power, looks, money, and personality to the sauté pan of our...

  • NOVEL Reading: Brainstorm in the Golden Hour, by Margaret Bard

    Screenwriter novelist Margaret Bard and her husband Bartley were living their dream in the glamorous world of Hollywood - when at the Santa Monica Farmers' Market their life changed in an instant. Bartley's memory was wiped out. He didn't recognize his wife. In fact, he thought he had two wives. ...

  • NOVEL TRANSCRIPT: The Kill Registry, by Brian Howlett (interview)

    How would society, and human interactions, be different if we were each allowed one free killing of another? In this work of philosophical short story fiction, the narrator works as one of two designers at an athletic shoe factory. Ally, the other designer and a missed love interest, takes him to...

  • NOVEL Transcript: LONDON'S FALLING, by David Byerlee

    https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/16000068-london-s-falling


    This is London if everything went awry and plunged into chaos as opposing, colliding forces explode to release a sleeping darkness.
    ‘Michael is made an irresistible offer by an expansive man named Constantine Czerback. A gangster...

  • NOVEL TRANSCRIPT: THE BUTCHER OF LYON, by Manuel Lasso (interview)

    https://www.amazon.ca/Butcher-Lyon-Manuel-Lasso/dp/0985877022

    About the Author
    Manuel Lasso, a Peruvian novelist, short story writer and playwright, studied Literature at the City College of New York, where he became a winner of the Floral Games in the narrative category. His work has been publi...

  • NOVEL Transcript: Elephant in a Safeway Bag, by Roderick E. Stevens

    Name: Roderick E. Stevens

    Location: Sierra Vista, AZ, US

    Title: Elephant In a Safeway Bag

    Genre: Crime thriller / Dramedy

    Synopsis:
    "Elephant in a Safeway Bag" follows the adventures of River, a feisty young man with Down syndrome determined to get to the Grand Canyon in spite of his scatter...

  • Novel Transcript: I SWIPED WRONG, by Mariani Coito

    Galavanting around an online dating world in which people ghost, lie, and cheat, Mariani Coito recounts her experiences with men in South Florida. Each chapter demonstrates a glimpse into the common complications of modern day dating.

    While she swipes through the men around her, hoping to find l...

  • NOVEL Reading: Standoff, How The Cold War REALLY Ended, by Rick Karlsruher

    Chapter Transcript: Stumbling into History
    A Few Months Earlier

    https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/34737368-standoff-how-the-cold-war-really-ended

    Genre- Satire/comedy – 69,000 words

    Logline- What if everything you were told about how the Cold War ended was ...

  • Novel Transcript - Desperation Rules the Day, by Colin Guest

    The IRGC, the unofficial rulers of Iran, are in danger of losing control of the country, so they back a terrorist plot against America on Independence Day.

    Performed by Val Cole