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Escapeart. Episode 864. Spider. By Patrice Sarath. Part 1 of 2.

Hello and welcome to EscapePod. I'm your host and co-editor, Myr Lafferty.

This week we bring you Spider by Patrice Sarath. Patrice is an author and editor living in Austin, Texas.

Her novels include The Fantasy Books, The Sisters Maderos, and Fog Season.

Books 1 and 2 of The Tales of Port St. Frey.

The books of the Gordath, Gordath Wood, Red Gold Bridge, and the Crow God's Girl,

and the romance The Unexpected Miss Bennet. Her short stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies.

To find out more about her, novels and short fiction, visit her website at PatriceSarath.com.

She blogs about fantasy, science fiction, movies, including the one she's made, and Jane Austin.

Please stop by and say hi. It's narrated for us by Tatiana Gray.

Tatiana is a New York City-based actress of stage screen and, of course, the audio booth.

She adores traveling and counts her lucky stars affecting and dancing have taken her all over the United States.

The Montreal, Vancouver, Ireland, and Holland, but she loves coming home to New York where it all started.

Equally at home, speaking heightened language in a corset, in a leather jacket, spouting of sedenties,

and as a dancer, she has been compared to such dark, vivacious heroine as Helena Bonham Carter,

a young man known a writer, and Elliott Page.

This depth and facility with multiple genres garnered her a New York-innovated theater-award,

best-featured actress nomination for her work in the night of the Nosferatu.

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