When I heard that Samantha Shannon was going to be coming over from
England for a quick US tour I immediately contacted her publicist and
asked about trying to schedule an interview. Shannon is one of the
biggest names these days in the worlds of fantasy fiction. Her latest,
"The Dark Mirror," is the fifth book in the "Bone Season" series. There
are only two more books forthcoming after this one in this captivating
series.
I was able to schedule an interview and was excited about it. I called
her at her hotel in Chicago. Unfortunately the phone in her hotel room
had a ghastly buzz on it. We went ahead and did the taping and had a
lovely chat about her work.
After that we tried to clean up the recording. We used a software
program that removed most of the annoying buzz. So you can listen to the
interview now. The software program did make it sound slightly odd
however. So if you are listening and wondering about any audio oddities
you detect that is the reason. I am so happy we could improve it as much
as we did. I have to thank Peter Hayes for that. He does all the sound
for the program and he spoke to another audiophile here at WYSO about
this software program and was able to make the recording a lot better as
a result.
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