News from the Golden Age
Seth Harwood, another of the Podiobooks authors, is having a big release coming up and those of you who like good story telling might appreciate this news.
Keep an eye out for Seth Harwood’s stuff and if you like it, leave him a comment and tell him where you heard about it!
In case you missed the interview I did with WNDR Radio’s Jack Hosley in January, Chris Moody has picked it up for re-publication on his excellent PodioMedia Chat as Season Two Finale.
If you’re not following PodioMeida, you’re missing out on some excellent conversations!
Thanks, Chris!
Well, it’s half past February and Double Share is finally underway.
I’ve hinted at stuff that’s going on but until the contracts are signed, I don’t want to jinx it. Just say, I think you’ll all be pleased with the outcomes, if not the delays those projects have caused.
This weekend was GOING to be the big 20k kickoff weekend, but I overlooked some important RL interflictions here. (Happy Anniversary, Dear and, No, i’m not going to sit here ALL weekend.)
The writing IS progressing, tho, and I’ll keep you posted.
If you’re interested in submitting last minute suggestions for names or logos, now’s the time. I’m not at the point where I need them yet, but … soon.
Oddness abounds and I get to add another thing that I never thought I’d be dealing with. Comes from not thinking things through, I suppose.
Long and short is that the music I’ve used in the four novels has been licensed in various ways. For the present use, that is, as a free podcast novel, the licensing which includes Non-Commercial is fine since the Podiobooks are released under attribution, non-commercial, no derivatives licenses. The Podiobooks authors working to support the OLPC project by having our work included as source content for educational purposes. The problem, of course, is that we have to change the license to Attribution-ShareALike and my music isn’t licensed for that.
So, I’m posting the music credits here in text in hopes that the people responsible have vanity-searches and will contact me.
Quarter Share: Lucky Black Cat – James Curran
Half Share: Banks of Newfoundland – Peter James Conlan
Full Share: Foxhunters – James Curran
South Coast: Wish – Raphael Garcia Perdigon
All from the Open Audio archives at http://www.archive.org.
And any musicians out there who’d like to have me consider music for future novels, drop me an email via the Contact link on the side bar! I’m planning on six books this year and I may wind up remixing if I can’t get these licenses untangled.
It’s appropriate that I send all of you a thank you on Valentine’s Day. The love fest just keeps on building.
A year ago Quarter Share went up onto the Podiobooks.com servers. The first six episodes cleared review and were posted on Feb 18, 2007. Since that time, the outpouring of support has been overwhelming. I remember watching the numbers in those early days and wondering how long it would take to break into two digits, and then into three. Now, with the listings on iTunes, I have no idea how many subscribers I really have, and I’ve come to realize it’s not about the numbers.
It’s about the stories and it’s about the people who care about the stories.
We’ve always had the ability to tell stories to ourselves. There are piles of typewritten pages all around the globe. There are moldy journals with painfully scratched out stories in them in attics on every continent. But with the internet, we have the ability to tell stories to each other in ways that seem miraculous. Podcasting, print-on-demand, blogs, and even simple webpages provide the distribution channel that permit my simple stories to flow out into the world.
And it’s about finding the audience.
You all are the best audience in the world. I know every podcaster/author/performer says that. I used to think, “Ya, right … a little biased are we?” whenever I heard somebody use that phrase, but the truth is, you are. The nature of audiences is that you’re the ones listening/reading/watching. By your actions — fan mail, donations, reviews on iTunes, and podiobook rankings — you offer encouragement and give back something that I’ve come to appreciate more as the year has worn on. You’re not just responding back to me, you’re spreading the word to your friends and families. You’re finding others and — through the stories — connecting to them. You’re the reason that – a year later – Quarter Share is back on the Top Ten Subscriptions for the Month list at Podiobooks. You’re the reason that all four of my titles have been camped out on the Podiobooks charts for the last month. You’re the reason Scott Sigler hates me. And believe me, it’s an honor to be hated by The Sigler.
New stories are on the way, although not as fast as we’d all hoped. I’ve had some other projects get in the way – some of which you’re going to be happy about when I can actually talk about them. There’s a new novella coming out, but it’s not one of my stories. I’ve recorded a “SF Classic” for SFFAudio as a way to recognized the giants upon whose shoulders we all stand. It’s all recorded and only needs a few hours of editing before I dump the whole thing up onto Podiobooks. And no, that’s not one of the projects that got in the way.
So, Happy Valentine’s Day, shipmates.
Safe Voyage.
