2008 Founders Choice Awards
This year’s five Founders Choice Awards for excellence in serialized audiobook production for titles here on Podiobooks.com go to:
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Joe Cottonwood for Clear Heart
Nathan Lowell for Double Share
Basil Sands for Faithful Warrior
Scott Sigler for Infected
Peter James Froning for Letter from China
Honorable mention goes to:
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Bill DeSmedt for Doctor Jack’s Soapbox Seminars
Barry McArdle for I Sold The Moon! (A True Story)
Derek Gilbert for Iron Dragons: Book 1 – The Saramond Quests
Mur Lafferty for Playing for Keeps
Christiana Ellis for Space Casey
Here’s to 2009!
About the Founders Choice Awards
- The Founders Choice Awards are given annually — well, they will be given annually — to serialized audiobooks of impeccable quality. There are four criteria for choosing winners:
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The final episode* must have been posted within the calendar year
Must have passed our panel of Sounding Board Editors who decide which titles are featured on the site
Evo (that’s me) must have listened to all episodes
Evo says it wins
No, it’s neither scientific nor democratic. But that’s OK. There are lots of awards and accolades out there. I’d kind of like to have my own, if that’s OK with you. I consume lots of the serialized audiobooks on our site. But no, I don’t listen to them all. I dare say that I listen to most of them (or at least start to listen to most of them), but I will concede that there are books on the site that I haven’t listened to. Again, that’s OK. The start and end of the Founders Choice Award is me mentioning it here on the blog. And maybe someone will come up with cool graphic to put with each title that wins. But there’s no special treatment — as if I had any to give!
* – By “final”, I mean the last episode in the primary book content. That doesn’t count Q&A or other sorts of “extra” materials that aren’t critical to the story itself.
December 30th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Daaaannnngg…..I’m famous.
Thanks for the shot in arm Evo….and congrats to my fellow podsters. Happy new year!
December 31st, 2008 at 7:51 am
Congratulations to all the winners and honorable mentioners! There are some marvelous books in that list.
Now I have something meaningful to shoot for!
December 31st, 2008 at 10:51 am
Evo, I loved Letter from China, too. I’m really happy to see it win.
Congratulations to all the winners!
December 31st, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Congratulations!!! Glad you could all tickle Evo’s fancy. I hope to someday join you. Feather at the ready!
January 2nd, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Awesome! SO glad to see ‘Double Share’ on there!! One of the best podcast novels ive had the pleasure to listen to hands down.
Playing for keeps and space casey are both swell as well. Looks like I need to get cracking listening to the rest of these.
January 13th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
[...] I’m proud to announce that the guys behind PodioBooks.com selected the audio version of Iron Dragons as one of five Honorable Mentions in the 2008 Founders Choice Awards. [...]
January 5th, 2010 at 10:46 pm
[...] is given out at the book level. But yes, you’ll notice some of the authors listed above also had winning titles last year. That’s OK. Their books deserved it. You can read more about the selection criteria [...]
April 3rd, 2011 at 8:17 pm
phil rossi, scott sigler, mike bennett, nathan lowell – WOW! what a group of AWESOME Authors! These guys are GIVING us their souls for FREE! I am so honored to have run across this website about a year ago, I would have never known about these books available, its like having my very own library AT HOME! I love this website and kudos to ALL the authors that contribute their sweat and hard work to this site! They ALL deserve AWARDS! I want bigger flashdrives and more memory on my devices so I can listen to the large variety of books available!
Thank you all for contributing you works to Podiobooks.com
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