My husband, George, just pulled the two winning names for my #JIAM June is Audiobook Month giveaway. Both names won a download of my latest audiobook, Marilyn Monroe: My Little Secret by Tony Jerris.
And the winners are: Georgia and Betsie!
Please contact me with your email address here: LAHOWLETT@yahoo.com so that I can gift you the book via Audible. Thanks to everyone who entered here or on Facebook.
I plan to have another giveaway the last week of June where the winner gets to make his/her own choice of my recordings available on Audible.
Along with my annual excuse to post my favorite meme featuring Ryan Gosling, June is Audiobook month! I decided to hold a drawing the first week of #JIAM for two free downloads from Audible of my latest recording, Marilyn Monroe: My Little Secret by Tony Jerris. This will be very scientific. Just leave a comment below -- even if all you do is say 'Hi' -- and next Sunday two winners will be chosen to be gifted a free copy. For the 'drawing' part of it, I plan to print and cut out the comments, fold them up and place them in a bowl. Then I'll have my husband, George, pick two of the entries to determine the winners. Oooh -- that's some high-tech stuff.
If you've never listened to an audiobook before, consider this a chance to find out what it's like. While I'm at it, I'd like to give a big shout-out to LibriVox -- a site that offers free recordings of books in the Public Domain. (That would be books published before 1923 in the U.S.) Check them out if you've never been to their site. I don't record as much for them as I used to but I try to never miss the weekly poetry reading.
Have a great week and, remember, leave a comment below for a chance to win the Marilyn book!
My recording of Marilyn Monroe: My Little Secret by Tony Jerris just went on sale today on Audible. Here's the introduction Tony wrote: "'We're calling her Marilyn Monroe.' Those were the words 12-year-old
Jane Lawrence remembered when she was asked to head the up-and-coming
blonde starlet's fan club at 20th Century Fox under the supervision of
studio head Darryl Zanuck. Jane was no stranger to movie sets or movie
stars, being that her father, Sidney Lipsitch, headed RKO's legal
department. She spent many Saturday afternoons at her home with the
likes of Robert Mitchum, Lucille Ball, and Ethel Merman, but helping
launch the career of one of the world's most legendary sex symbols was a
task beyond Jane's wildest dreams. Nearly four decades later, author
Tony Jerris was introduced to Jane through a mutual friend and learned
how Jane's working relationship with the actress developed into a
special friendship that lasted right up until Marilyn's untimely death
on August 5th, 1962."
This book does contain scenes of a sexual nature but they were tastefully written. I found Jane Lawrence's story compelling and was very happy to be chosen to voice it. You can listen to a sample and/or purchase the book now on Audible here. It will also be available on Amazon and iTunes in a few more days.
My next audiobook, Marilyn Monroe: My Little Secret by Tony Jerris, is now in post-production. It should be for sale on Audible within 2-3 weeks. I'll post here when it becomes available.
My next project will be a classic short story (of the spooky variety) by Henry James called "The Ghostly Rental." Check back here for details!
I'm just wrapping up my latest audiobook, The Red Shoelace Killer by Susan Sundwall, and getting ready to send it in for author approval and post-production. This was really a fun book to record. It's a cozy mystery and the main character is a woman named Minnie Markwood. Minnie is 60-ish (she never says her exact age) has short steel gray hair and weighs 'upwards' of 170 pounds. She's a widow and former librarian who now works part-time for a company that takes surveys. Minnie is a big fan of Agatha Christie books and the Miss Marple character from television and considers herself pretty knowledgeable as an amateur sleuth. She ends up with two unlikely younger people as her investigative partners but that makes for a lot of the fun. I hope there will be more 'Minnie' books from Susan Sundwall.
Now I'm prepping for my next book, Marilyn Monroe: My Little Secret by Tony Jerris. This one is non-fiction and I'm very excited about recording it. It tells the story of Jane Lawrence and her friendship with Marilyn Monroe from the time Jane was first appointed president of Marilyn's fan club at the tender age of 12 until Marilyn's untimely death. Jane's father was a bigwig at RKO Studios where the young starlet, Marilyn was under contract. That's how Jane ended up with the enviable job with the fan club. I should begin recording later this week.
On the yarn front, I'm still looking at possibilities for Easter 'critters' to make for my three young nieces. Still have lots of time but there are a ton of choices. Tsk.
Oh, and my nephew Sam has begun taking flying lessons. I'm not crazy about this. I freely admit that little planes freak me out. My uncle was an experienced pilot of over 13 years when his small plane (which he used to fly to and from work each day) crashed into the Everglades. My cousin (my uncle's oldest son) and my uncle's son-in-law were aboard the plane, too. The cause of the crash was never discovered. This happened in 1987 and I still get the heebie-jeebies regarding small planes. Bad mojo.
Sam has posted some videos of his flight training. This is my favorite. One where he lands and is safely back on the ground. The music is "Fog" by The Mallard.
My husband, George, just pulled the two winning names for my #JIAM June is Audiobook Month giveaway. Both names won a download of my latest audiobook, Marilyn Monroe: My Little Secret by Tony Jerris. 
