I’m amazed!
The Parsec Awards have listed the short list finalists and BOTH Full Share and South Coast have been selected as finalists. Only one can win, of course, but hey, just getting the finalist nomination is an honor.
Archive for the Full Share Category
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.
After much delay and frustration, the Afterword file is ready for you all to grab.
It’s just a short thank you to all of you who’ve been so supportive of the Trader’s Diary over the last few months. I think I’ve answered all the questions. We can do this again after South Coast Shaman, maybe 
A Trader’s Tale from the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper
The Lois McKendrick runs headlong into trouble when a routine in-system transit goes bad. Ishmael and the rest of the crew must scramble to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it in order to keep the ship alive. Learn more about the officers and crew as they struggle to keep their ship and discover how Ishmael finds out how wrong he’s been about what it means to be a spacer in this latest Trader’s Tale.
