CHAPTER 36

In this final episode: Unable to prevent it, Keynes must ensure the nature of Martha’s escape works in his favour. Later, Lady Katherine offers Keynes a proposition he is unable to refuse.

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CHAPTER 35

The penultimate audio chapter arrives at last!

Keynes finds himself at the mercy of his adversary, but it is not only he who is subject to her will as she reveals the darkest of secrets he has hidden for eight years.

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CHAPTER 34

Merrick and his men search for evidence, while Keynes makes after the escaping Martha.

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CHAPTER 33

Martha ignores warnings and proceeds with the seance, while Keynes experiences that for which he has been searching for many years.

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CHAPTER 32

Lady Katherine discovers the social ambience at the Martha Benson séance to be less than congenial while Keynes understands why his life has been unfulfilled in recent years.

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CHAPTER 31

Keynes starts out on the day of the Martha Benson seance with something of an unexpected outlook.

Total running time: 23 minutes

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There are pros and cons to this method as you might imagine. As the Persistent Spirit story begins to enter its final phase and the end of the book is on the horizon, I find myself contemplating whether I might undergo the same process for the second book, A Shot in Time. ---- All rights reserved. nd.com Read on...

The cons

Time: writing and recording an episode consumes 15-20 hours of effort. Maintaining that each week with an increasingly demanding and unpredictable day-job has been, frankly, stressful.

Structure: episodes have a completely different structure to a novel, requiring continuing momentum, restructured scenes, and some point of tension at the end of each one. Unedited, this brings the novel a strange, pulse-like pace which now needs a further re-write.

The pros

Progress: episodes promoted regular writing. I believe I am further along in the story than I would have been without to self imposed demands of a regular episodic production.

Story momentum: despite the structure issue mentioned above, the story has a pace and continues to move along ithout getting bogged down and sluggish. Once the “episodic pulse” is edited out I think the novel will have an enhanced page-turning pace.

Feedback: reaching out with even an unpolished story to potential audience around the globe has generated feedback that has helped both encourage the work and help shape it.

What’s in store for 2009?

Not another audio book, that’s for sure. The pros most certainly outweigh the cons, so the audio book of the second Table Rappers book must correct some of the negatives of this years’ experience. Most importantly is the frustration from being unable to produce regular, weekly episodes. Book two (titled A Shot in Time) will not be released as serialised audio until it has completed the second draft.

That does not mean there will be nothing from the Table Rappers in 2009, however. I’m planning some short story dramatised episodes, including a cast of actors, full sound effects, etc. Doesn’t that mean even more work? Yes, but the work flow can be controlled around the production, and such a project is free from an ongoing, weekly deadline.

2009 is already promising to be a challenging year on both personal and professional fronts, so careful planning will be essential to achievement of my goals. I’m thoroughly looking forward to what might prove to be a formative year for the future!

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Ewan Spence, podcaster extraordinaire and producer/presenter of – amongst others – the annual Edinburgh Fringe Podcast (sponsored for the past two three years by The Stage), submitted the podcast suggestions. I was delighted to learn that Persistent Spirit made the cut and receive a prominent and very complimentary mention: ---- All rights reserved. nd.com Read on...

Table Rappers – Persistent Spirit is the first in a planned series of audio books, which author Neil Dixon brings to life through a reading of the text. But it’s far from an author in search of a microphone, as Dixon uses the serial nature of podcasts coupled with an atmospheric sound mix to bring his characters to life.

The article also appears in the print version of The Stage.
A very big thank you to Ewan Spence for submitting TableRappers.

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CHAPTER 30

Martha learns of her impending fate at the hands of others and plans her escape, while Keynes learns that Lady Katherine is not all that she would seem.

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CHAPTER 29

Keynes tries to uncover the truth behind Hanson’s threats and is handed a puzzling opportunity he cannot afford to refuse.

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