Archive for March 13th, 2007

Do All “Stop Smoking” Authors Need a Cigarette?

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

While the title of this post may be largely in jest, we’re currently 2 for 2 in this arena. Back in September, Matthew and I got involved in a strangely heated debate with an author who we’ll call Don (because that is his name) who wanted to release his SureFire Way to Stop Smoking™ book [...]

Lamp Post Motel

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

Podiobooks.com presents our latest title, from author Joe Gold: Are UFOs graduate students from the future, researching their past? Students from the University of the Rings are doing field research in sexual anthropology—at the Lamp Post Motel. Elmo Skinner prefers logical circuits to unpredictable people. He owns the motel and watches his customers on hidden [...]

White Trash Land

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

Presenting “White Trash Land,” a book written by Andrew Beatty and performed by Sean McGaughey: Chuck Mitchell thought he had everything –a high powered job, a beautiful girlfriend, an exclusive condo on the Toronto waterfront, but the death of his long-lost father plunges him in to a world he never knew existed. The world of [...]

Hunting Elf

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

Podiobooks.com presents “Hunting Elf” from author Dave Donelson: Meet Elf, a champion-bred Silky Terrier who lives a dog’s life — when he chooses — with hapless Dan McCoy and his capable wife, June, in the leafy suburbs north of New York City. Too late, these innocent dog owners learn that nefarious show dog breeders will [...]

The Wacky Misadventures of Warble McGorkle

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

Blackbird Crow Raven and Podiobooks.com presents the prequel to “The Zany Time Travels of Warble McGorkle!” Warble McGorkle considers himself a genius. In reality, he is a jumble-headed, paranoid megalomaniac. This is the darkly humorous account of his meteoric rise from drifter to President of the United States. Warble and his wife Mary crisscross the [...]

The Flown Sky

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

Presenting Matthew Olshan’s new book for children and young adults: Allele Island is a beachcomber’s paradise for a charming little primate named Eena Beena, who tends her stretch of beach—and the hapless castaways who wash up there—as if it were her own private garden. Everything changes when a deranged ape named Prospero arrives with plans [...]