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Toby Buckell points me to a service that creates “online book trailers” to help authors advertise and virally promote their books. Starting at $250, they make a video where the text of the description is fed on to the view pane while the pane pans over the cover of the book. Scaling up to the […]

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 on […]

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 cameras—until […]

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 White […]

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 stop at […]

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 U.S.A. […]

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 to […]

Did you miss us? We’re back, and badder than ever. Oh, wait, no one says that anymore. We’re phatter than ever. Oh, that’s expired too, plus it makes me feel self-conscious. Hmm…we are CRUNK, baby. Yeah.
Site news from Tee, promos, and a review with Dani Cutler!
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Matt Wallace’s dystopian travelogue-noir comes to it’s conclusion with episode 26, now available on Podiobooks.com. Congratulations to Matt, producer Rick Stringer, and the entire Variant Frequencies team!

 

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Jabez Van Cleef brings us one of the world’s classic myths, re-imagined as an epic poem:
Since the beginning of time, human beings have told the story of their own beginning, and of the origins of the four directions, the heavens,the God-People, the earth, and all its creatures. The Navajo People tell a story of great […]