Trader’s Diary

It occurred to me late last night that I needed a promo for people to play on other podcasts and I wanted to do something a little different.
How’s this?

I should probably point out that this IS a drill… the book’s not on Podiobooks yet.
UPDATE: Some of the listeners have raised the [...]

Since you’ve all been so nice, I’ll post the first episode prototype here. It’s the full text, but the ID3 tags are messed up, there’s, no cover art in it, and there may well be editing flubs since even the QC team hasn’t heard this full episode yet.
Direct from me, to you.

Thanks to [...]

Sorry. I’m having problems getting this migration to go smoothly.
Hang in and I’ll get it taken care off ASAP
Update: I think I’ve got the holes, links, images, and uploads all put back where they belong.
If you find something hosed, leave a comment here or on the fan forums which are *still* at http://durandus.org/fans [...]

OK, it’s a tease … but I think this is where I’m going. I just did this take this morning as a final “dial in” on the audio settings for the gear.

What do you think? Can you listen to 25 episodes? The real ones will be longer, I promise.

One of you wonderful fans sent me a link this great medley of jigs from a Canadian Band named Great Big Sea. The music is from PodShow so is licensed for use in podcasts already. I like this tune and think it would be more compelling than the sparse sounds of the other tune.

How [...]

I like the way this sounds, but what about you folks?

What do you think? Does this make you want the story even more now?

Yes. Faithful Fans.
The book is complete. It needs some polish, probably a little fiddling. I’m sure I’ve crossed up a plot line or two, but it’s complete.
Last Friday the book was 78k. By Monday it was 96k. I threw away 15k words because the flow was wrong and then rearranged the rest. What [...]

Well, not as good a week as I’d hoped, but I spent 6,500 words on a side project with another author. You’ll hear more about that when the Sekrit Is Revealed. It’ll be fun, I think.
And in other news, some of you know already, but there’s a fan forum. If you wanted to talk [...]

This week took a nose dive when I got embroiled in a day job related fiasco that took 25,000 words away from Double Share. Still, the plot is percolating nicely.The beta readers are positive.
Yes, this is a different story, but I think a richer one. It’s not inconceivable that I’ll have the first draft [...]

We’re at 48,000 words on the road to 80k.
I’m writing about 4k a day in a normal day and 7k on thursdays and fridays.
The story is shaping up nicely, but I still need to get one of the winning ships in there. Several of you will find yourselves as crew, characters in the story, [...]