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Introcuding Charles Sheehan-Miles latest, Republic: A Novel of America’s Future:

A domestic terrorist attack evokes a violent and oppressive response from the U.S. government… a labor dispute ends in violence… a young boy lies dying of a rare disease with no hope in sight. When the conflict focuses on a small town in West Virginia, Ken […]

Presenting Journey To Cherchen:

In Journey to Cherchen, Nick Taylor is led by supernatural forces along the Old Silk Road to the tomb of an ancient Celtic shaman in Cherchen Xinjiang. He and the shaman have something in common - an extra bone. By looking through a hole in the bone he is transported three thousand […]

Cory Doctorow’s novella, When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth (published the podiobook anthology Voices: New Media Fiction) just won the Locus Award for best novelette of 2006. Congrats to Cory and a huge thanks to Mur Lafferty for adding Cory’s story to her collection and making it available to all right here on Podiobooks.com.
Also by Cory […]

Michael Dunn follows the changing nature of media, specifically as relates to audio (hence the name of his blog). Seeing the success many authors are seeing by podcasting their work right here on Podiobooks.com, he asks the question:
[W]hy do so many of them still want to attract traditional agents and publishers when they’ve been frustrated […]

The next book in crime fiction by Seth Harwodd, Jack Palms II: This Is Life:

Jack Is Back! Yes, Jack Palms is back to bring you more of the action, suspense and excitement that you came to expect from the hit podiobook Jack Wakes Up.
In This Is Life, Jack Palms finds himself caught in a […]

 

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I noticed a great post on the Film Flap blog. Seems the author was listening to one of the many podcasts targeted by the marketing machine J.C. Hutchins (7th Son) in his 50/50 campaign recently. Though I hadn’t thought about the possibility, the author made mention of how Podiobooks.com might help the blossoming film maker:
My […]

Jason writes in to let me know that BEA (Book Expo America) is using a logo for their Authors Studio podcast that looks rather similar to ours. Judge for yourself.

And as they say… Imitation is the best form of flattery!

“Glorious,” a podcast novel by Aram Schefrin, tells Custer’s story from after the Civil War through the date of his massacre, in the voice of Captain Frederick Benteen, the soldier who hated him.
39 episodes later, this book is complete!

Our latest title is a collection of short stories by Ken Wohlrob, “The Love Book”:
Five gritty, absurd and darkly comic tales. Five characters at a crossroads in their lives. Each must question their individual perceptions of love.
• While recovering in a New Jersey motel room, an obese female pro-wrestler is confronted by the demons of […]