Trader’s Diary

It was a strong field and the newcomer to the mix beat us out. Congrats to James Durham and FETIDUS for a double Parsec win. Time to start planning for next year.

The finalist list for 2008-2009 Parsec Award is up and Double Share made it. Thank you, judges, for picking me for the second year in a row. This makes the third one of my books to make it to the finals list. I’m feeling truly honored! The competition is pretty strong so I’m not holding [...]

For the third year in a row, I’ve got a book in the Parsec Awards. To be eligible for a Parsec Award this year the podcast had to have been made between May 1, 2008, and April 31, 2009. The only title eligible this year is Double Share, because I’m such a derelict I only [...]

It’s taken a few days, but Double Share is now available at the iTunes Store as well as Podiobooks. Any and all reviews you’d care to make there will help the cause as well.

Well, I always wanted to have a big release party. People across America will be joining me in celebration today as the latest volume in the Trader’s Tales drops on Podioboks.com. I hear there’ll be be fireworks tonight. A Traders Tale from the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper : Book 4 When he graduates [...]

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 [...]

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.

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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 [...]