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The Wicked Library

TW 8: Talking Wicked with K. B. Goddard

The Wicked Library

9th Story Studios LLC

Books, Fiction, Drama, Arts

4.6684 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This week on Talking Wicked, I chat with K. B. Goddard.


Miss Goddard is a frequent contributor to The Lift and The Wicked Library, and a favorite author among listeners. We talk about how she came to write ghost stories, the attraction to Victorian fiction, her strong female characters, and of course her recent episodes on The Wicked Library, and The Lift: "Reflections on a Malady" and "The Spirit of the House".

Host / Producer / Showrunner: Daniel Foytik

Get your copy of The Lift, 9 Stories of Transformation Volume One on Kindle, or in print.  Visit victoriaslift.com/read to get your copy today.

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Nico Vettese (wetalkofdreams.com)

Audio Recording

Final mix by Daniel Foytik, 9th Story Studios: www.9thstory.com

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Produced by: Daniel Foytik
Hosted by: Daniel Foytik

Transcript

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0:00.0

9th Story Studios, giving story a voice.

0:12.2

You're listening to the Wicked Library.

0:19.3

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. listening to the Wicked Library.

0:33.9

Now available from K.B. Goddard, the author of the Lyft episode, The Lost Library, and the Wicked Library episodes, The Darkness Within and Shadows, comes her debut

0:39.3

novella, The Girl with the Roses.

0:43.3

At the haunted auctions of Thornhill and Swift, where artifacts of the ghostly and the macabre

0:48.7

are bought and sold, we learn of the statue entitled The Girl with the Roses.

0:55.5

Charlotte Salt has always dreamt of marrying for love, but when she receives a proposal,

1:00.5

she realizes that romance isn't always the deciding factor in the Victorian marriage market.

1:07.5

Married to the eligible but secretive George Avery, she finds herself cut off from her family and friends

1:13.6

when her husband takes her to live in his isolated Derbyshire home.

1:17.6

Trapped in a loveless marriage, she finds her thoughts turning towards her brother's newly returned friend, the handsome Charles Jamison.

1:25.6

In failing health and increasingly troubled by strange sights and sounds,

1:30.9

she cannot help recalling Jameson's mysterious warning, be on your guard. What danger did he

1:37.7

foresee? As dark forces surround her, she contemplates the fate of her predecessor.

1:46.3

What happened to the first Mrs. Avery?

1:51.5

In a summer of storms, can anyone save her from the shadows?

1:57.8

The Girl with the Roses is now available on Amazon and Kobo.

2:18.3

The Girl with the Roses is now available on Amazon and Kobo. I'm I'm I'm I'm

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I'm

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I'm

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I'm

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