So, now that I'm adept at using my audio equipment and getting to a point where my manuscript is almost complete (first draft that is), I've replaced the sample chapter on my website. I didn't realize it was still the prologue from Cause and Conviction. I thought it was the first chapter from Black Magic and Barbecue Sauce. So, I revised chapter 1 (this doesn't break the "no revision" rule because it was for a specific, finite project and didn't lead to any successive revision of later chapters) and then recorded an audio file. Sure an mp3 is as easy to copy and repost as printed text, but it's my voice and it's a lot harder to take credit for my words when I'm speaking them instead of you taking credit for writing them yourself. (That's a general you, and not directed at any of my wholly ethical readers.)

Once I'm done revising BM&BBQ, I'm going to revise Galileo Rocks the Baby (which has been in need of revision ever since I finished it, as I totally got off-point with all my Bush bashing--I now realize) and post the audio as well. I also need to write another short story so that my second short offering isn't the same as my novel offering.

So, on the website, I'll be offering audio samples instead of written samples of most of my work (exceptions are older stuff I don't want to record like Jigsaw, RPGA adventures, and Dyvers intercalary chapters).

So, if you want to hear Chapter 1 of Black Magic and Barbecue Sauce, there it is. I hope you enjoy.