My podcast this week is an excerpt from a fiction spy story.
After I recorded this, my podcast host sent me an email that my fees are rising. I will move my podcast for 2026, and let you know when I do. (Or, I'll just use YouTube for the videos.) If you have an opinion about this, please let me know! Thanks.
The Podcast:
The Transcript:
This is 60 Seconds of Writing in Public with Johanna Rothman for December 5, 2025, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of some writing in progress.
This is part of a spy story set in the summer.
Phoebe Dawson watched the Boston Harbor waves sparkle from her perch on the twenty-second floor of the Exclusive Hotel in downtown Boston. The July moon hung high, its light permeating even this function room on the top of the hotel.
Turning her back on the windows, she saw all the Boston movers and shakers here. These oh, so, exclusive guests. They were here, so she was here. She was looking for a spy with secrets to sell.
The air conditioning made the perfume and aftershave compete with the delicious odors of the passed hors d’oevres. Phoebe would much rather smell the food than the overly sweet perfumes, or the overly musky aftershave.
Her nose twitched, as she tried not to sneeze.
She grabbed a napkin from a passing server, shaking her head at his offer of stuffed mushrooms. She managed to stifle a small sneeze in the napkin. She crumpled it in her right hand, looking for a place to put it.
The Video:
The video link is here.