FROSTBORN: THE DRAGON KNIGHT now available in audio

Yep, it was certainly a feat of endurance to record the last quarter of the book.

For those who might be interested, I take care of my elderly mother, who will be 95 in just a couple of weeks. As I was nearing the finish line of THE DRAGON KNIGHT, she had a dramatic one-day plunge in what had been nothing more than garden variety dementia. This was bad, though, and the situation detiorated over the course of a several hours. In a fifteen-minute span after I called the EMT’s, she didn’t even know who I was, and was talking TO me ABOUT me as if I were someone else. It was horrible and scary, and pulled the rug of life right out from under my feet. She was admitted to the hospital for a week, then straight to a nursing home, a situation that has been her greatest fear since admitting her own mother to such a facility. During this period, she would have a day or two of lucidity, juxtaposed with times of outright insanity in which she thought she was in a basement, or at a hotel, or a mall, crying, hysterical, utterly confused. It was so very, very sad. Thus, those first two weeks were pretty much a wash for me, as I was completely exhausted – physically, mentally, and emotionally. Thankfully, Jonathan is no stranger to my unending series of crises both big and small – this one was gargantuan – and as always he displayed great compassion, patience, and understanding.

Anyway, you’d never know it from the performance, and believe me, I was worried that it would. But my ace engineers – Neil Kesterson and his daughter, Mara – managed to edit around my subsequent mistakes and flubs and bad timing brought on by brain fog and exhaustion, and the concluding chapters are filled with excitement and suspense as only Jonathan can do. Enjoy it!

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Brad Wills

March 14, 2022 at 1:41 pm

Yep, it was certainly a feat of endurance to record the last quarter of the book.

For those who might be interested, I take care of my elderly mother, who will be 95 in just a couple of weeks. As I was nearing the finish line of THE DRAGON KNIGHT, she had a dramatic one-day plunge in what had been nothing more than garden variety dementia. This was bad, though, and the situation detiorated over the course of a several hours. In a fifteen-minute span after I called the EMT’s, she didn’t even know who I was, and was talking TO me ABOUT me as if I were someone else. It was horrible and scary, and pulled the rug of life right out from under my feet. She was admitted to the hospital for a week, then straight to a nursing home, a situation that has been her greatest fear since admitting her own mother to such a facility. During this period, she would have a day or two of lucidity, juxtaposed with times of outright insanity in which she thought she was in a basement, or at a hotel, or a mall, crying, hysterical, utterly confused. It was so very, very sad. Thus, those first two weeks were pretty much a wash for me, as I was completely exhausted – physically, mentally, and emotionally. Thankfully, Jonathan is no stranger to my unending series of crises both big and small – this one was gargantuan – and as always he displayed great compassion, patience, and understanding.

Anyway, you’d never know it from the performance, and believe me, I was worried that it would. But my ace engineers – Neil Kesterson and his daughter, Mara – managed to edit around my subsequent mistakes and flubs and bad timing brought on by brain fog and exhaustion, and the concluding chapters are filled with excitement and suspense as only Jonathan can do. Enjoy it!