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No doubt that you’ve noticed the problems with the site over the last week. The story is this: we’ve outgrown our current server and hosting plan, and need to move to a dedicated server. We’re looking at those options now. Presently, our current host has us throttled to a single connection per second, and […]

Podiobooks.com brings you a new collection from Tim Hall, “No One Knows How I Suffer:”

What do a barstool revolutionary, gangsta poet, self-promoting author, online dating scammer, and sleazy record producer all have in common?
Please join us as we take a journey into the darkest heart of alternative culture, dating, and failed romance by a notorious […]

Podiobooks.com presents a travelogue from Damon Timm:
This is the story of the trials and trails of a man, a best friend, two bicycles, three states, four dispersed campsites, five tires, seven post-prandial naps, twenty-one dozen eggs, 1,100 miles, 15,000 vertical feet, and the search for a single kiss.
Prepare to hit the road. You’ll laugh, you’ll […]

No, you don’t have to be a Mac user to enjoy these audiobooks. But for those who are and have managed to miss this wave, MacUser magazine just put out a very nice write up on the whole idea of podcast novels, stating:

If you’re looking for some entertainment this weekend, go listen to a podcast […]

Mur Lafferty closes another book in the afterlife adventures of Kate and Daniel! Be sure to get the whole story — listen to “Heaven - Season One”

In an article titled “Get an earful of offbeat podcasts”, USA Today shines the light on podcasts that don’t necessarily fit the standard “two guys with a microphone” paradigm and instead get down to some serious niches. Of course, I think this is where the true power in podcasting lies. So says the guy who […]

Nora Fleischer (Discovered Country) helped the cause for all her fellow authors and Podiobooks.com by contributing to an article in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune with the tagline:
Have you heard a good book lately? Audio books aren’t new, but they’re everywhere. You can buy them at bookstores, order them through Internet retailers and borrow them from a […]

This post has been sitting in my “stewing” folder a while. Time to bring it out.
So…I was reading Neil Gaiman’s blog this morning and apparently he has recorded a new and unabridged audiobook of Neverwhere… I am a little bit wary of this, as I am a little bit wary of all audiobooks-read-by-the-author because reading […]

I’m a fan of David Louis Edelman. Loved his book Infoquake and am eagerly awaiting the sequel. (Damned sequels.) Yesterday, he posted Five Things That Don’t Happen When You Become a Published Author on his blog. Worthy of reading for anyone interested in a writing (or related) career.

Late last year, I read Blindsight by Peter Watts. It was one of the strangest and most compelling hard SF novels (with aliens and vampires– yeah, go figure) I’ve read. When I finished, I felt like maybe I was a little too dumb to fully “get it”, but that a deeper and perhaps smarter portion […]