Shiromi Arserio

• Biography

  Shiromi Arserio is a stage actor, voice talent, and audiobook narrator from London. She holds a BA in theater from Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance. In addition to narrating dozens of audiobooks, her voice can be heard in documentaries, e-learning projects, and video games.

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• Praise for Books

  “Fun and quirky tales and ruminations about a genius, a hero, and a role model for the ages!” —David Brin, author of The Postman and The Ancient Ones

  “Reset captured me on so many levels. On the surface, it’s a gorgeous ‘what if’ scenario, told in a timeless and beautiful way. A level deeper, it’s about what makes us human and how our past affects our present if we allow it to. At its core, it’s a love story that begs to be read. Once in a blue moon you read a book that leaves its mark on you—this is one of those. It was an absolute pleasure to read.” —Naomi Gibson, author of Every Line of You

  “With a richly detailed evocation of the era, including the shockingly grim life of the poor and the repression of women, this assured and multilayered historical novel weaves its own magical spell.” —Daily Mirror (London)

  “A richly imagined collection from a stellar group of writers. Do not miss it!” —Jason M. Hough, New York Times bestselling author of The Darwin Elevator and Instinct

  “Dahlan’s elegant writing style is as light as a whisper on the wind while still strong enough to probe the unanticipated darkness of a peaceful, yet problematic, postapocalyptic utopia. Reset haunts the reader through an ethereal, existential exploration of memory and meaning that lingers long after the last page.” —D. Eric Maikranz, author of The Reincarnationist Papers

  “The story is well written, and I empathized easily with the women concerned. I knew nothing about this period in our history and found it to be a totally fascinating read.” —Historical Novels Review

  "Reset by Sarina Dahlan is a hauntingly beautiful love story that explores the nexus of memory, identity, and love. Though technically science fiction it has an atmospheric fairy-tale feel that left me spellbound. The bittersweet ending is surprising, satisfying, and in keeping with the contemplative nature of this tale. This would make an excellent book club read. Reset is a memorable, lyrical debut by Dahlan.” —Ruth Mitchell, award-winning author of Deleted

  “Sonia Velton’s debut novel Blackberry & Wild Rose transports readers to eighteenth-century London, climbing into the garrets of the Huguenot households in Spitalfields to weave a complicated tale of class, betrayal, and the turbulent silk industry. As richly textured as the fabric brought to life on the looms of the journeymen and masters, Velton examines the role of women as wives, whores, artisans, adversaries, and, ultimately, allies at a time when their voices were often silenced. A compelling read.” —Jean E. Pendziwol, bestselling author of The Lightkeeper’s Daughters

  “Reset is a vivid, evocative journey through a postapocalyptic world that calls on us to examine the relationships between memory, attachment, identity, and love, and to reflect on what chilling costs we might be willing to pay to attempt a conflict-free world. Told with an assured, graceful touch, this compelling debut is a story for our current world, where our beliefs and memories are the new battlegrounds.” —Kimiko Guthrie, author of Block Seventeen

  “Richly immersive, with a plot as finely detailed as Spitalfields silk.” —Stacey Halls, author of The Familiars

  “Who would we be without our memories, without our experiences, especially our loves and losses? Would we still be ourselves? Sarina Dahlan’s Reset wraps these questions in crisp, stylish prose and a story about love trying to withstand the rigors of time. This is a book subtle in its intensity, lush and beautiful, while carefully exploring what it means to be human and what we are to each other. Evocative and literary, I highly recommend it.” —David R. Slayton, author of White Trash Warlock

  “Told in two distinct first-person voices, it is a glimpse into the world of the Spitalfields silk trade at a time when the working class was hard-pressed and a piece of silk was worth more than a man’s life. In Blackberry and Wild Rose, author Sonia Velton weaves a tale of secrets and yearning into a bittersweet but satisfying end.” —New York Journal of Books

  “Reset is a thought-provoking journey into the human psyche that will instantly have you pondering deep questions about the nature of memory, dreams, and reality itself. This bittersweet love story is as cerebral as it is emotional, and Dahlan’s ability to strike and maintain that balance is what makes her novel about the significance of memory so memorable.” —Bobby Azarian, cognitive neuroscientist, Psychology Today blogger, and author of the forthcoming book The Romance of Reality

  “The story brings to life issues of woman empowerment, mothering, trauma, abuse, sex crimes, prostitution, human trafficking, social standing, forbidden love, dreams, desires, power, betrayal, upper vs. working class, conflict and so much more … all while being served up to you, neatly wrapped in a revolting patriarchal silver platter, but it also provides a view of redemptive power, faith and love and ultimately, acceptance. —The Book Babe

  “Love transcends the laws of a dystopian world in Dahlan’s immersive debut…Dahlan seamlessly marries sci-fi and romance while building a heady atmosphere through ethereal, dreamlike prose…The original concept and propulsive love story mark Dahlan as a writer to watch. Readers will be mesmerized.” —Publishers Weekly

  “A rich, rollicking read.” —Fabulous (UK)

  “Crisp, stylish prose and a story about love trying to withstand the rigors of time. This is a book subtle in its intensity, lush and beautiful, while carefully exploring what it means to be human and what we are to each other. Evocative and literary, I highly recommend it.” —David R. Slayton, author of White Trash Warlock

  “Listeners feel the streets of eighteenth-century Spitalfields, London, come alive through the stunning performances of narrators Esther Wane and Shiromi Arserio…Wane and Arserio bring the two characters to life, providing depth to the emotional content and making the listener recognize how much both Sara and Esther have to lose as they face difficulties and betrayal.” —AudioFile

  “The fraught relationship between Sara and Esther is beautifully drawn, and fans of Jessie Burton’s The Miniaturist will thoroughly enjoy this engrossing, atmospheric tale of two women struggling for control of their own lives.” —Booklist

  “Velton’s intriguing debut spotlights both the successes and hardships of Huguenot silk weavers in eighteenth-century England…Fans of Tracy Chevalier and Jennifer Chiaverini will be captivated by this story for its atmospheric, historically rich drama and forbidden romance.” —Library Journal

  “An utterly absorbing novel that draws you into a fascinating and often sinister world. I loved it.” —Elly Griffiths, author of the Dr. Ruth Galloway Mysteries

  “I absolutely loved it, and read it in one sitting, unable to put it down—the story was rich and compelling, the writing sensuous and sensitive. We were there with the silk weavers in Spitalfields, in the jacquard of their lives, their loves, their losses. A poignant and stunning debut.” —Mary Chamberlain, author of The Dressmaker of Dachau

  “Velton’s debut is a masterfully plotted tapestry; a tangle of lives carefully pitted against each other and forming an intricate and spell-binding glimpse into the rich and volatile world of eighteenth-century silk weavers. I was captive from the first page to the last.” —Natasha Boyd, USA Today bestselling author of The Indigo Girl

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  • The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie Curie

  • Edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt and Henry Herz

    Stories and poems by Scott Sigler, Jonathan Maberry, Alethea Kontis, Jane Yolen, Seanan McGuire, Lissa Price, Bryan Thomas Schmidt and G. P. Charles, Henry Herz, Christine Taylor-Butler, Mylo Carbia, Jo Whittemore, Susanne L. Lambdin, Sarah Beth Durst, Steve Pantazis, Stacia Deutsch, Dee Leone, and Emily McCosh

    Read by Tim Campbell, Natalie Naudus, Nancy Peterson, Zura Johnson, Emily Ellet, Cindy Kay, Lisa Flanagan, Kimberly M. Wetherell, Emily Lawrence, Stina Nielsen, Shiromi Arserio, Stephanie Németh-Parker, Alex Picard, Kelli Tager, Anna Caputo, Natalie Duke, Amy Landon, and Natasha Soudek

  • Release Date: 4/11/23

  • Formats: Retail CD Audiobook, MP3 CD, Digital Audiobook, Hardcover, eBook

  Luckily for humanity, scientist Marie Curie applied her brilliant mind and indomitable spirit to expanding the frontiers of science, but what if she had instead drifted toward the darkness?

  At the cusp of between child- and adulthood, at the crossroads between science and superstition, a teen Marie Curie faces the factual and the fantastic in this fabulous collection of stories that inspire, delight, and ask the question: What if she had used her talents for diabolical purposes?

  The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie Curie includes twenty short stories and poems by award-winning writers including New York Times bestselling authors Seanan McGuire, Scott Sigler, Jane Yolen, Alethea Kontis, and Jonathan Maberry, among others.

  • The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie Curie

  • Edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt and Henry Herz

    Stories and poems by Scott Sigler, Jonathan Maberry, Alethea Kontis, Jane Yolen, Seanan McGuire, Lissa Price, Bryan Thomas Schmidt and G. P. Charles, Henry Herz, Christine Taylor-Butler, Mylo Carbia, Jo Whittemore, Susanne L. Lambdin, Sarah Beth Durst, Steve Pantazis, Stacia Deutsch, Dee Leone, and Emily McCosh

    Read by Tim Campbell, Natalie Naudus, Nancy Peterson, Zura Johnson, Emily Ellet, Cindy Kay, Lisa Flanagan, Kimberly M. Wetherell, Emily Lawrence, Stina Nielsen, Shiromi Arserio, Stephanie Németh-Parker, Alex Picard, Kelli Tager, Anna Caputo, Natalie Duke, Amy Landon, and Natasha Soudek

  • Release Date: 4/11/23

  • Formats: Retail CD Audiobook, MP3 CD, Digital Audiobook, Hardcover, eBook

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  • Reset

  • By Sarina Dahlan

    Read by Shiromi Arserio

  • Release Date: 5/25/21

  • Formats: Digital Audiobook, Trade Paperback, eBook, MP3 CD, Retail CD Audiobook, Hardcover, Large Print Hardcover

  Can you love someone you don’t remember?

  After the Last War destroyed most of the world, survivors form a new society in four self-sustaining cities in the Mojave Desert. In the utopia of the Four Cities, inspired by the lyrics of “Imagine” and Buddhist philosophy, everything is carefully planned and controlled: the seasons, the weather—and the residents. To prevent mankind from destroying each other again, its citizens undergo a memory wipe every four years in a process called tabula rasa, a blank slate, to remove learned prejudices. With each new cycle, they begin again with new names, jobs, homes, and lives. No memories. No attachments. No wars.

  Aris, a scientist who shuns love, embraces tabula rasa and the excitement of unknown futures. Walling herself off from emotional attachments, she sees relationships as pointless and avoids deep connections. But she is haunted by a recurring dream that becomes more frequent and vivid as time passes. After meeting Benja, a handsome free-spirited writer who believes his dreams of a past lover are memories, her world is turned upside down. Obsessed with finding the Dreamers, a secret organization thought to have a way to recover memories, Benja draws her down a dangerous path toward the past. When Metis, the leader of the Dreamers, appears in Aris’s life, everything she believes falls to pieces. With little time left before the next tabula rasa, they begin a bittersweet romance, navigating love in a world where names, lives, and moments are systematically destroyed.

  Thought-provoking and emotionally resonant, Reset will make you consider the haunting reality of love and loss, and the indelible marks they leave behind.

  • Reset

  • By Sarina Dahlan

    Read by Shiromi Arserio

  • Release Date: 5/25/21

  • Formats: Digital Audiobook, Trade Paperback, eBook, MP3 CD, Retail CD Audiobook, Hardcover, Large Print Hardcover

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  • Blackberry and Wild Rose

  • By Sonia Velton

    Read by Esther Wane and Shiromi Arserio

  • Release Date: 5/07/19

  • Formats: Digital Audiobook, Large Print Hardcover, eBook, MP3 CD, Hardcover, Retail CD Audiobook, Trade Paperback

  Set in eighteenth-century Spitalfields, London, Blackberry and Wild Rose is the rich and atmospheric tale of a household of Huguenot silk weavers as the pursuit of the perfect silk design leads them all into ambition, love, and betrayal.

  When Esther Thorel, wife of a master silk weaver, rescues Sara Kemp from a brothel, she thinks she is doing God’s will, but her good deed is not returned. Sara quickly realizes that the Thorel household is built on hypocrisy and lies and soon tires of the drudgery of life as Esther’s new lady’s maid. As the two women’s relationship becomes increasingly fractious, Sara resolves to find out what it is that so preoccupies her mistress …

  Esther has long yearned to be a silk designer. When her early watercolors are dismissed by her husband, Elias, as the daubs of a foolish girl, she continues her attempts in secret. It may have been that none of them would ever have become actual silks, were it not for the presence of the extraordinarily talented Bisby Lambert in the Thorel household. Brought in by Elias to weave his master piece on the Thorel’s loom in the attic of their house in Spitalfields, the strange cadence of the loom as Bisby works is like a siren call to Esther. The minute she first sets foot in the garret and sees Bisby Lambert at his loom marks the beginning of Blackberry and Wild Rose, the most exquisite silk design Spitalfields has ever seen, and the end of the Thorel household’s veneer of perfection.

  As unrest among the journeyman silk weavers boils over into riot and rebellion, it leads to a devastating day of reckoning between Esther and Sara.

  • Blackberry and Wild Rose

  • By Sonia Velton

    Read by Esther Wane and Shiromi Arserio

  • Release Date: 5/07/19

  • Formats: Digital Audiobook, Large Print Hardcover, eBook, MP3 CD, Hardcover, Retail CD Audiobook, Trade Paperback

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