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Please welcome Abigail Hilton to the site, author of The Prophet of Panamindorah, Book I Fauns and Filinians:

Corry showed up at the orphanage two years ago, unable to remember how he’d gotten there. He spoke a language no one recognized, and he was afraid of cars and planes and computers. Corry can remember snippets of another life, but no matter how hard he tries to remember, it just keeps slipping away. Then one day, he meets a fauness in an orange grove. She’s from a world called Panamindorah, and he can understand her language. In addition, Corry can read a language that no one in Panamindorah has been able to read for three hundred years; has he really been gone that long? Now he must recover his lost memories and rebuild his life, because the person who tried to kill him once is about to try again. The Prophet of Panamindorah is for listeners 13 and older.

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Seth Harwood storms back on the crime podcast fiction scene with Young Junius. This is the prequel to his “Jack Palms” series.

Before Jack Palms ever shook ‘em down, Junius Ponds came up on tough streets outside Boston way back in the day. In the middle of drugs, gang violence, and the toughest set of tower-projects you ever knew, Young Junius fights to escape the consequences of a murder he had to commit and tries to live long enough to avenge the death of his brother.

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We’ve posted the final two installments of Emerian Rich’s vampire novel, Night’s Knights. 43 chapters long spanning 41 episodes, with a fun send-off from the author at the end. Enjoy!

 

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We’ve just posted the final episode (#19, for those counting) of Collapse at Hidden Verse Three Three Two. Thanks to Brian Holtz for being timely with his releases. Now all of you “waiters’ can enjoy this young adult science fiction title. Oh, and did I mention family-friendly?

 

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Seth Harwood has two new projects in the works that he’d like to tell you about. The first has him teaming up with some of the best writers in contemporary crime fiction to get them podcasting weekly readings of their short stories. This project is called CrimeWAV and comes to you live every week at CrimeWAV.com.

So far he’s featured Vicki Hendricks, Jason Starr, Christa Faust, and Gary Phillips, with crime luminaries Charles Ardai, Megan Abbott and Jason Pinter soon to come! Check it out, come and stay. These stories will also be making their way to a Podiobooks.com release once he’s had enough to make a “season”. Or “collection”. Or whatever you wanna call it.

In other news, you JACK PALMS fans will be happy to know that the continuing story (prequel) of Junius Ponds’ early days and upbringing in Boston will begin August 17th at SethHarwood.com. Yes, YOUNG JUNIUS, which you first heard at Variant Frequencies back in May will be picked up and continue. Yes, JUNIUS LIVES!!

Of course, that’s the “talkie” version. For those of you who prefer the “story-only” content, we’ll have the book up quickly here at Podiobooks.com, too. The choice is yours!

Timothy Callahan’s has just wrapped up the third book in his series, The Arwen, Season 3: Armada. Actually, the book-content was posted at the end of July. Tim asked us to keep the book open until this “wrapup” episode was posted. Have at it!

AUG 6 - Santa Monica, CA - Author Mark Jeffrey announced today that the first two books of his scifi/fantasy Max Quick Series are now available as eBooks on the iPhone platform.

Retailing for $5.99 each, the books are immediately available and can be purchased via the iPhone App Store in Apple’s iTunes software. The books come with feature-rich ebook reader software, making it so that the Max Quick Series can now literally be carried around in your pocket.

“I’m very excited to see the books available on the iPhone,” Mark Jeffrey said. “Right now, there are very few books — perhaps a hundred or so — in the App Store, period. And of these, most are public-domain books such as Huck Finn, the Oz books, and so on. So it’s doubly exciting to see the Max Quick books join the handful of commercial books offered in the App Store — I look forward to the next few weeks to see what the response it like.”

iTunes App Store Links:
Max Quick Book One: The Pocket and the Pendant
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=287248071&mt=8

Max Quick Book Two: The Two Travelers
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=287248928&mt=8

About The Max Quick Series
Chronicling the adventures of Max Quick, a young man with a curious past, the Max Quick Series is a magical realism tale consisting thus far of two books: Max Quick Book One, The Pocket and the Pendant and Max Quick Book Two, The Two Travelers. ‘Pocket’ has received over 2 million downloads to date, and was recently named by Oscar Nominee Abigail Breselin as one of her favorite books in a nationally syndicated profile.

About Mark Jeffrey
Mark Jeffrey is the author of the Max Quick Series of books and podcast audiobooks. His first podiobook, ‘Max Quick 1: The Pocket and the Pendant’, has received over 2 million downloads to date, and was named by Oscar ™ Nominee Abigail Breselin as one of her favorite books. He is currently CTO of Mahalo.com, a human-powered search service. Previously, Mark co-founded ZeroDegrees, a business social network (sold to IAC/InterActiveCorp in 2004). He was CEO and co-founder of SuperSig in 1999. Mark also co-founded The Palace, Inc., an early (1995) avatar chat platform backed by Intel, Time Warner and Softbank with 10 million users (sold to Communities.com in 1998). Mark lives in Santa Monica, California

Mike Luoma is back on the site, today releasing the first episode of Vatican Abdicator, the book that wraps up the Vatican Assassin trilogy:

Bernard Campion, “BC”, has been an Assassin for the Pope - The Vatican’s Ambassador to Lunar Prime - CEO of The Project - Head of the UTZ Council - and now he’s the Pope of the New catholic Church, the NcC. But the mantle sits uneasily on BC. The Universal Trade Zone (UTZ) and The Universal Islamic Nation (UIN) are now forced to work together in the face of dual threats: The alien race, The Eldred and the recently revived survivor of the race known as the Ancient Enemy - Dolomay. Can BC remain Pope and still lead the battle against The Eldred and Dolomay? Can humanity come together to face those who would enslave them… or worse? It all comes to a head. There will be war… but who will be fighting who? Find out the answers - in VATICAN ABDICATOR!

But you’ll probably want to start from the beginning. That’s Vatican Assassin. Enjoy!

 

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We’ve just posted the final four episodes of The Round Red Stone by Jeff Burton. This young adult tale is now complete with 12 episodes spanning 25 chapters.

 

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Jeanette Cottrell’s young adult story There’s No Such Thing! is complete with 10 episodes.

 

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