Far Fetched Fables No 19 Isobelle Carmody and Adam Browne

First Story: “Perchance to Dream” by Isobelle Carmody

Anna woke knowing she had been dreaming, but as so often with dreams, to wake was to forget. Strange to remember vividly that she had dreamed, yet to have no recollection of the dream. On the rare occasion that she did remember, the minute she tried to describe it, the dream would dissolve. Pinning a dream down was like trying to catch hold of a skein of smoke.

Isobelle Carmody wrote her first book, Obernewtyn, when she was 14. It was accepted by the first publisher she sent it to and since then she has written more than thirty books and many short stories, which have been translated and/or won awards including the prestigious CBC Children’s Book of the Year Award. Her most recent book is The Cloud Road, which she also illustrated.
Isobelle is currently working on The Red Queen, the final book in the Obernewtyn Chronicles, and the screenplay for Greylands, on a Film Australia grant. She has also begun a PhD at the University of Queensland. You can learn more at http://www.isobellecarmody.net/ or go to her blog at theslipstream.com.au/

Second story: “The Weather Cinema” by Adam Browne

Yay! It’s the weekend! We’re going to see a movie!

“Movie movie movie!” chanted Mum, doing her silly dance. “We’re going to a movie!”

I sighed and checked her wallet. “Mum,” I said, “there’s hardly any money.”

“Hardly any money!” she chanted. “Hardly any money!”

The newspaper was open on the table. I looked in the cinema listings. “Hey,” I said, “have you heard about this Weather Cinema?”

“Is it cheap?”

“Yep.”

“Weather cinema! Weather cinema!”

“But what is a weather cinema?” I said.

“Don’t know, don’t care. Weather cinema! Weather cinema!”

Adam Browne lives in Melbourne, Australia. His story ‘Neverland Blues’ originally appeared in 2008 in Dreaming Again: Thirty-five New Stories Celebrating the Wild Side of Australian Fiction. It won the 2009 Chronos Award for Best Short Fiction. His first novel, Pyrotechnicon: Being a True Account of the Further Adventures of Cyrano de Bergerac among the States and Empires of the Stars, by Himself (Dec’d), was published by Coeur de Lion in 2012, and is still available as a print-on-demand illustrated hardcover. His collection of short stories, Other Stories, and Other Stories, was recently published by Satalyte, and will be available as an audio book later this year. You can visit his blog at http://adambrowne.blogspot.com.au/

About the Narrators:

Cynthia P. Colby is a Canadian voice artist whose career began by winning an international public speaking contest while she was still in high school. She then spent 15 years as a radio news announcer, reaching a national venue. Her voice was so flexible that she began doing commercials at the radio stations and her ability for doing character voices was recognized. Now as a freelance voice artist and script writer, she lends her voice to numerous short stories, books, game characters, training programs, videos, commercials, phone answering services and accessible websites. She can be reached at cynthiapcolby@sympatico.ca.

Nicola Seaton-Clark lives in the wilds of (almost) Eastern Europe with her long-suffering husband, phenomenal children and a grumpy cat. Trained as an actress and singer, she has worked in entertainment for over 20 years and currently splits her time between writing speculative fiction, helping her husband run their voice-over company, Offstimme, and voicing everything from commercials and documentaries to public transport announcements. She also hosts this podcast…..

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