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Mar 13
2 min

Next Guest Author Readup - Guinevere - At the Dawn of Legend by Cheryl Carpinello

Join Brad Swift and I for our next Guest author readup, next week @ 10 MT. I'll be reading chapters of Cheryl Carpinello's book, Guinevere

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ReadingMagic - Who are three of your favorite characters from YA books & why? Day 20

Benjamin Fife

Feb 5
4 min

ReadingMagic - Who are three of your favorite characters from YA books & why? Day 20

have three characters from books for youth or from my youth that I have loved since I first read them. First is Digory Kirke from The Magi

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ReadingMagic - Are you related to any writers? Did you read any of their books as a kid? - Day 17

Benjamin Fife

Feb 1
3 min

ReadingMagic - Are you related to any writers? Did you read any of their books as a kid? - Day 17

I knew that my great aunt had been an author. This would have remained undiscovered upon my bookshelf were it not for our nightly readaloud

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ReadingMagic - As a kid, did you enjoy reading aloud to other children? - Day 13

Benjamin Fife

Jan 29
2 min

ReadingMagic - As a kid, did you enjoy reading aloud to other children? - Day 13

some time or other I was reading something out loud & my mom made me stop, come in her room & practice reading aloud with her. Thanks Mom!

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Benjamin Fife

Nov 11, 2020
6 min

An Epic Adventure with Jenelle Schmidt

Multiple times in producing these books, I’ve been moved to near tears in performance, as well as goose bumps. I'd share some of my favorite

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An Unedited and Mostly Transparent Account of Becoming a Successful Audiobook Narrator, Part I

Benjamin Fife

Oct 28, 2020
11 min

An Unedited and Mostly Transparent Account of Becoming a Successful Audiobook Narrator, Part I

It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding [or at least my own understanding] of all things from the very first, to write u

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Dark.. Darker.. and Cheese... And Dr. Who

Benjamin Fife

Oct 15, 2020
4 min

Dark.. Darker.. and Cheese... And Dr. Who

Please enjoy my first self-produced video interview of one of my authors. If this doesn't make you want to check out the book, shame on you

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Recent Releases & What's in the Pipeline

Benjamin Fife

Jun 3, 2020
2 min

Recent Releases & What's in the Pipeline

My 3 most recent releases are all part of various series - Their Greatest Game picks up where First of Their Kind left off, Gather the Child

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KneeDeep... KneeDeep... And the Next Jane Austen's Dragons book just came out.

Benjamin Fife

Apr 24, 2020
2 min

KneeDeep... KneeDeep... And the Next Jane Austen's Dragons book just came out.

If you haven't already checked out this series - this is a GREAT one to start. It comes before the first three, but does not disappoint...

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Plenty - The Answer to the Question "What Can I Do to Make This a Better World?"

Benjamin Fife

Apr 18, 2020
3 min

Plenty - The Answer to the Question "What Can I Do to Make This a Better World?"

Steve first illustrates what is broken, unjust, or just plain wrong in our (particularly American) society, then presents extensive solution

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Cows... We're Remarkable Cows... The Pitfalls of Recording Audiobooks in the Country

Benjamin Fife

Apr 17, 2020
2 min

Cows... We're Remarkable Cows... The Pitfalls of Recording Audiobooks in the Country

My nearest neighbors can be REALLY loud and obnoxious. They also taste pretty good. I know. I've eaten at least part of one who didn't beh

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Review Everything - Why I Try to & Some Tips for Reviewing Books in General

Benjamin Fife

Apr 13, 2020
5 min

Review Everything - Why I Try to & Some Tips for Reviewing Books in General

for those of us on the 'getting into our careers as creators' side of things goes - an honest review stating objectively what we did well

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Challenges - "Give Me Six Characters to make Fan art of"

Benjamin Fife

Apr 12, 2020
4 min

Challenges - "Give Me Six Characters to make Fan art of"

There are any number of challenges out there. Pick one for yourself.

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Every Single Day - My Review & conversation with Bradley Charbonneau

Benjamin Fife

Apr 10, 2020
4 min

Every Single Day - My Review & conversation with Bradley Charbonneau

This was just the encouragement I needed for my day. This book is a phenomenal little nugget to help push you in the right direction

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Rome Wasn't Built in a Day... But you can bet they were working on it pretty non-stop.

Benjamin Fife

Apr 10, 2020
3 min

Rome Wasn't Built in a Day... But you can bet they were working on it pretty non-stop.

I started with what I could. It amounted to a hut on the rural outskirts of Rome. It probably had a leaky roof.

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Benjamin Fife

Apr 9, 2020
2 min

Click Save, Genius.

I haven't had something disappear into digital ether for at least a few weeks, fortunately, but I had a close call last week that made me st

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Benjamin Fife

Apr 5, 2020
2 min

Start a Blog in 30 Days -meh. Self Directed is better than this book if you ask me.

This type of book is written, possibly by the author, but more likely copied & pasted from other people's material & then directed to other

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How to Overthrow the Corrupt System - My Initial Review of The Fringe Candidate by W. Brad Swift

Benjamin Fife

Mar 6, 2020
5 min

How to Overthrow the Corrupt System - My Initial Review of The Fringe Candidate by W. Brad Swift

The Election of 2016 resulted in a possibly mortal injury to the Status Quo. I applaud Donald J. Trump for that. Status Quo has had it com

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Donald Trump and the Fear of the "Other"

Benjamin Fife

Feb 28, 2020
8 min

Donald Trump and the Fear of the "Other"

People who are here because we made their fatherland uninhabitable for them do not deserve this. People who have fought alongside our soldi

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Benjamin Fife

Feb 24, 2020
3 min

Fascinating First Foray into Fantasy

I love when one author can capture such different styles so well. Tavenor's first foray into fantasy proved to me he can do just that.

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