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Theodore Isaac Erski starts us off on a good note this week, providing you with all 11 episodes of his audiobook, Salavandra: A Coffee Tale:
Salavandra is an isolated Caribbean island. Its products-coffee, lumber and flowers-are controlled by Penkava Inc., a New York based multinational commodity corporation. After discovering that Penkava is responsible for his father’s […]

The nominations for the Fall ‘08 Podcast Peer Awards have been announced, and Podiobooks.com authors make their strongest showing yet. OK, so the deck is sorta stacked in our favor. Since their second program, they’ve had a category just for those doing long-form podcast fiction. But this time around is special. A new category — […]

Tobias D. Robison joins our list of fantasy authors, today starting the release of his book, Raven’s Gift:
When Raven comes to Redthwen to meet her mentor Orvannon, she encounters a vicious traveler, a hag with an extraordinary Voice of Command, and that hag’s charge, a mysterious little girl. By the time Orvannon arrives, Raven will […]

 

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Double Share, the fourth book covering the travels of young Ishmael Wong, written by the machine that is Nathan Lowell… is ALREADY complete.
Holy cow. I don’t want to hear ANYONE griping about not having time to finish one episode a week. Seriously.

 

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Thanks for Scott Farquhar for bringing us another work from the public domain. He’s compiled three tales by John W. Campbell into one anthology called Black Star Passes:
Follow along with Arcot, Morey, and Wade as they discover a revolutionary form of propulsion, visit our neighboring planets, and go up against aliens from a rogue solar […]

The interwebs are once again spreading the Good News of yet another company (this time an audiobook retailer) eschewing DRM in favor of .mp3 files. And once again, it seems that few of the news sources haven’t bothered to look beyond a press release and actually see if the claim holds up under scrutiny. In […]

Brian Holtz adds to our “Family Friendly” collection with his new story, Collapse at Hidden Verse Three Three Two:
The Multiverse Generator is failing. Dimensions threaten to collapse and entire populations will cease to exist unless it is reset. One being from each of more than five thousand verses has been acquired, and their […]

 

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When Cate Brody took a look at the free audiobook offerings we have here on Podiobooks.com, she found a big hole: no “chick lit”, to use her terms. That ends today, with her story Crazy Gone Love. It’s narrated by her friend, Anna Kelk:
Ceil Clark is fed up with dating the twenty-something hipsters and slackers […]

 

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Please welcome Edwin Alexander to the site, with his novel Theft of the Master:
Theft of the Master has been described as the Boys from Brazil meets The Da Vinci Code —Kirkus
Private Investigator Al Hershey takes the reader across the globe in his search for a young woman’s killer. Hired by the girl’s parents to […]

Back in 2005, I said that Brave Men Run by Matthew Wayne Selznick was one of the finest podiobooks I’d ever had the pleasure of listening to. I wasn’t lying, and I said that even before we put the book up here on Podiobooks.com.
On July 13th, the book is coming out in a brand […]