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Pip Ballantine is back with an all-new tale — Weather Child: New Zealand’s first podiobook author, Philippa Ballantine, brings her first tale set totally in homeland. Step back in time and sideways into an alternate world, where magicians and seraphim are found only on the shores of the Long White Cloud. Between two world wars, [...]

Today Dave Hitt begins launching the serialized audiobook version of his novel, Blood Witness. As you can tell by the description, it blends two different genres: Catherine is a 1500 year old vampire. (She’s really 1800 but she lies about her age.) Chris is a high school senior. She is a blood sucking creature of [...]

As Patrick McLean tells the story, it took him some time to figure out what he wanted to do with How to Succeed in Evil, a story that was floating around in his head. It wanted to be a comic book. It wanted to be a podcast. He tried both to varying degrees of success. [...]

Things have been so busy here around Podiobooks.com that I completely missed an announcement! Heather Roulo finished uploading episodes of her book Fractured Horizon a month ago… and I totally spaced it. Speaking of space, all 26 episodes of this science fiction tale in serialized audiobook form are now available!

J.C. Hutchins — of 7th Son fame — is about to blast into the publishing world with Personal Effects: Dark Art, and I’m not sure things will be the same after he’s done. For this book, released by St. Martin’s Press in June 2009, Hutch has teamed up with Jordan Weisman, one of the founding [...]

Never finished. Well over a year. Deleting. Michele Roger today begins releasing her free serialized audiobook, Dark Matter. Sounds kinda creepy: In a freak accident that leads to her untimely death Louella, a plain Jane from the suburbs finds herself transformed into one of the walking undead. Michael, the Archangel, offers her a chance to [...]

Abbie Hilton has wrapped up her book, The Prophet of Panamindorah, Book III Fire and Flood. Curious what you’re going to do now? Abbie says: That concludes the book and the series. However, if listeners enjoyed this world, they’ll have a chance to visit it again. I’ll be releasing a new Panamindorah series (a completely [...]

Paul J. Joseph joins our site and increases the count of science fiction free serialized audiobooks. He’s releasing his book, Marker Stone: There’s trouble on CMC-6 and it’s been brewing for a long time. The golden age of space travel and asteroid mining has ended almost before it began and the bean counters have taken [...]

I’m really tired of the “Which is better: listening to an audiobook or reading a book” debate. It’s inane, banal and pointless. It’s requires the creation of a false dichotomy. A mandate that you fall into one side or the other. The assumption that you can’t do… both. And there in lies the idiocy of [...]

Author Seth Harwood received a nice write up on the upcoming print release of his book, Jack Wakes Up. From Publishers Weekly: Readers who like their hard-boiled crime fiction violent and gritty will cheer Harwood’s debut. [snip] While the plot line may be familiar, the taut prose and fast pacing bode well for future entries [...]