Archive for March, 2007

The Arwen

Sunday, March 11th, 2007

Tim Callahan, author of “Ida,” presents his second title for Podiobooks.com: When a comet the size of a small moon threatens the remote world of Regal the Earth Alliance assigns the most decorated ship in the fleet, the Arwen, to destroy it. Its Captain, Marjorie Cook, sees this as an opportunity to redeem herself after [...]

High praise from new spec fiction magazine

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

Matt Wallace, the man behind the keyboard for The Failed Cities Monologues sent me Issue #0 of Murky Depths – Graphically Dark Speculative Fiction. In the new ‘zine, he penned a very nice article called “We Want the Bandwidth” where he discussed podcast fiction with a variety of authors, including Mur Lafferty, J.C. Hutchins, as [...]

More press for Podiobooks.com in the UK

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

Martyn Casserly wrote me this morning to let me know that an article he did about the site is now available in the March edition of Writer’s Forum, a UK publication (shouldn’t that be an UK publication?) focusing on, well… writers. Martyn is a freelancer and is going to see if the magazine editors will [...]

J.C. Hutchins wins Podcast Peer Award

Monday, March 5th, 2007

I’m peripherally aware of the Podcast Peer awards. I say peripherally because I’ve never actually heard any of the podcasts I listen to speak of this award in anything more than a passing mention. I’ve never been contacted by anyone administering the award or by any of the hundreds of voting members; hence peripherally. Yesterday, [...]

Tracking down podcast novelists

Saturday, March 3rd, 2007

It’s no big secret that we’re trying to build the largest collection of free audiobooks available in podcast form. I figure we’re already there with nearly 100 titles as of right now, but there’s always room for improvement. And believe it or not, new authors decide to try this without realizing that we’re here and [...]

Dodging the bullet with Romance authors

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

When I read the NYT article, I cringed when I saw myself quoted as having said: “Most of the science-fiction authors are more tech savvy than romance authors,” Mr. Terra said. Wow. Did I really say that? If I did, it wasn’t meant to be a dig on the technical skills of authors of any [...]

It’s a shame about Ray…

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

…but not really. Ray Slakinski (of iPodderX and PopCurrent fame) has been assisting us since we founded Podiobooks.com. I’m happy to announce that’s he officially joined us as staff in…erm…August of last year.  And I’m just now getting around to the announcement. Ray, I publicly beg your forgiveness. He’s now on the staff page, and [...]