My HWA-nominated novel, Ash Wednesday, has just been released as an ebook and unabridged audiobook (read by *me* — you think this old ham is going to let someone else read his work?) from David Niall Wilson’s Crossroad Press.

Released in 1987 to excellent reviews, it’s one of the few works to have its own entry in “Supernatural Literature of the World: An Encyclopedia.” This edition also contains the final chapter that was edited out of the first edition, so is complete for the first time.

The ebook, priced at $2.99, is available for all e-reader formats — Kindle, Nook, iPad, what have you — here:
http://tinyurl.com/2aklbr7

The audiobook, nearly 11 hours long, is available as an MP3 download for $12.99 here, so you can listen on your computer, iPhone, iPad, iPod, or anything on which you can play MP3s (and the ebook is included free with the audiobook):
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Along with performing short stories by myself and others over at MPformance, I’m going to be reading some of my own longer work, including an unabridged audiobook of the complete version (with the deleted final chapter) of my novel Ash Wednesday, for Crossroad Press. They’ll also be doing many of my novels as e-books in the weeks and months to come. In honor of Audiobook Month, there’s a free audio short story of mine, “Ants,” that you can stream or download. Go here and scroll down a bit. And enjoy!

In harsh contrast to my just-posted blog entry on “Killing…”, there’s a new MP3 performance of me reading Andrew Vachss’s short story, “Hit Man,” right here. A 14-minute story you can download for $.99, with a steamy shower sequence (you can almost hear the running water…well, actually you can, thanks to Live Body’s sound effects)  and a nifty switcheroo ending. In weeks ahead, look for new performances of my own short story, “A Lover’s Alibi,” and my crazy New Yorker piece, “Gandhi at the Bat”…

Yesterday MPformance posted another MP3 of me performing Andrew Vachss’s short story, “Dress Up Day.” It’s got original music, sound effects, and, of course, my performance as a troubled  teenaged high school kid (ah, the joys of voice acting — I could never pull that off on stage or in film!).

It’s a cheap & quick $.99 download, so check it out. There are five stories available now, and I’ve read two of them with two more in the pipeline. I’ll also be recording some of my own stories as well. Give them a listen and please let me know what you think…

I put a teaser on earlier, before my website was even up, about a new site for which I was reading some short stories. Well, it’s up now, and it’s called MPformance.  Click on the word and go there now.

The site will fill you in on what it’s all about, but the skinny is that there are currently three stories by Andrew Vachss which are downloadable as MP3 files, and I performed one of them, “Cain.” I’ve also recorded three other stories that will be up in weeks to come. Continue reading MPformance — a new way to hear stories… →

Just last week I recorded some short stories by a friend of mine most of you have heard of. They’ll soon be available as downloadable MP3 files. Sent the WAV files off today for cleanup and the addition of sound effects and music. It’s a great project that will include stories by me as well as a number of other writers. I hate to be coy, but details will follow soon!