Join me for interesting tidbits and factoids about the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, announcements of upcoming works, and audiobook narration.
How to become an audiobook narrator – Part 4 – Visual Editing
Once you’ve completed the automated post process, you’ll notice that some sounds, sounds that weren’t audible before, are now in your recording. They are typically breath sounds and voice clicks. …
How does an author select point-of-view?
I saw an article today at the Inficons.com website by an author / friend of mine – Austin Camacho. It's posted at inficons.com. You might enjoy it and find it …
A Matter of Timing – A Gregg Maguire Short Story by Mark Bielecki
It was a sunny Saturday morning. The birds were singing, the flowers blooming and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. A perfect day to go to the beach, take …
How to become an audiobook narrator – Part 3 – Post processing
Now we get to the part of being an audiobook narrator that isn’t quite so much fun. It’s a good news / bad news situation. It’s called Post Processing and …
How to become an audiobook narrator – Part 2 – Recording
In last weeks’ post, we talked about the equipment you’ll need to become an audiobook narrator. This week, we’re going to detail the process of actually recording an audiobook broken …
How to become an audiobook narrator – First, you’ll need equipment & training.
I get asked regularly about what it takes to create an audiobook. Before you start recording, you need to get some training. There are a good number of online classes …
Does every mystery story have to involve a crime?
There are literally thousands of mysteries, thrillers, and techno-thrillers on the market today. By far, most involve a crime, most notably murder. There are some that add treason, kidnapping and …
A More Modern Whodunit
The Golden Age of Whodunits was between 1840 & 1941. Have there been any since then? Yes, but not too many. One of my favorites is The Burglar series by …
The Grey Man – Changes is now available in Audiobook!
The next installment in The Grey Man series (#3) is now available in audiobook on Amazon and Audible. The latest story in the saga of the Cronin Family brings together …
Free Chapter from “The Chase of the Golden Plates”
The Chase of the Golden Plates is a modern adaptation of a novel by Jacques Futrelle published in 1908 updating the story to 1933 and rewriting it in modern English …
From the Desk of Dr. Whodunit….
What’s happening now and coming next….. There’s a new posting on the Inficons website (www.inficons.com). It’s a short story about critiquing other writer’s work. I think you’ll find it interesting. …
An interesting tidbit about the life & death of Jacques Futrelle….
Jacques Futrelle, the author of the Chase of the Golden Plates, the Thinking Machine novel on which I based a modern adaptation of the same name died on April 15, …
The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe’s Death
One of the most intriguing mysteries about Edgar Allan Poe Poe is how he died at the age of forty. Doing some research on the web, I found the following …
The Dr. Whodunit site is live.
At long last, the site, www.markbielecki.com (aka Dr. Whodunit) is live with the posting of two audiobooks – The Chase of the Golden Plates and Pugh & Tress Times Two. …
Mystery Surrounds Two Famous Detectives
We’ve all heard of Sherlock Holmes and many of us have read the stories. You may or may not have heard of Nero Wolfe, a fictional detective who lives in …
New Whodunit released in April 2021
The Chase of the Golden Plates has been released in eBook (PDF) and Audiobook (MP3) format effective April 30. It's a classic Whodunit involving a masquerade ball, a Burglar, a …
New Audiobook Released April 7, 2021
It’s entitled The Wall: Chronicle of a Scuba Trial by Dr. Lawrence Martin.A young woman is lost on a scuba dive in Grand Cayman. Did she suffer nitrogen narcosis? Or …