New Looking Glass review, and I've been involved in a (non-writing) charity project · 11:25pm Jul 1st, 2021
Hey, so, first off let's start with the fact that PaulAsaran has done a review of Looking Glass! A while back he did a review of my story Great and Powerful, Darling! and had issues with the pacing (which were fair) and I pointed out that I've never fully gotten the hang of pacing shorter stories, and am better at novels. To that end, it makes me very happy that he's read and reviewed one of my novels. If you've read LG (which most of you here have) then check it out for a bit of nostalgia, if not, check it out for incentive to do that.
Secondly, I've been working on a musical compilation album. A friend of mine runs the non-profit record label Wicked Entry, and he compiled his second compilation album for the label, with all proceeds going to charity (the California Wildlife Recovery Fund as most of the artists and the label are based in California). The music is indie/alternative rock, all smaller artists. I wasn't involved in the digital version, but I had the idea of making a physical cassette version. So I hand manufactured 25 cassettes of the comp myself, and I'll be mailing them out to anyone who gets one. You can buy the digital release for $4 a piece or the cassette for $5 plus $5 for shipping within the US (idk how shipping to other countries work, but it should be calculated by Bandcamp). 100% of the digital proceeds go to the Wildlife Recovery Fund, and once we recoup the cost of making the cassettes (should take about 12 cassette sales) then all proceeds of the cassette sales will also go to charity.
You can stream and/or buy the album on Bandcamp here. For some highlights, check out "Sightseeing in San Franciso" by "Two Bears High Fiving" and "Barrington" by "Bess Egerton".
Cool.
Now let’s make a Broadway adaptation of it.
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Coincidentally, I've just finished listening to your own reading of 'Looking Glass' on youtube a few days before. If you like, I will find some time to write a review about it in the story comment. It's not gonna be very positive like PaulAsaran's review though, so I understand if you don't want to have it.
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Sure, if you want to! Whatever your feelings of the story, I'm open to hearing them.