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David “Grizzly” Smith really likes the works of Ernest Thompson Seton. So much, in fact, that he’s working hard to give us just about everything the man ever wrote in serialized audiobook form.
Today, Griz makes available his namesake: Biography of a Grizzly:
“The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end,” as Ernest Thompson [...]

That’s the general theme that Jane Lindskold writes about on the fantastic new Tor.com site (Note to self: write future blog post praising them for how they’ve embraced new media with this new site.)
Independent author have a different struggle. Where publishing companies pay someone to design the cover of a book, indie authors are footing [...]

Mr. Walker teaches English IV at a high school in Florida. That means most of his kids are seniors, ready to make the transition to higher education, the work place, or backpacking around Europe1. My recollections of high school English are poor, but I seem to remember a heavy emphasis on “the classics” and a [...]

This week, we’re going to be upgrading some of the hardware that runs Podiobooks.com. We will likely be down for a day.
During that time, you’ll get errors when trying to download chapters, and for that, we apologize. We’ll be back online ASAP.

In case you hadn’t noticed, it’s getting a little crowded around here. Well over 200 books, with plenty more in the works. Some of you have been around here from the beginning, and a handful might have actually listened to everything we’ve made available. You’re crazy, but that’s beside the point.
But for the overwhelming majority [...]

Many of you are noticing that you can’t get to the audio files of your books. Our media hosting company, Liberated Syndication, is experiencing some technical problems with their DNS records. They claim to have resolved the problem, but it takes time (like 24 hours or so) for changes to fully propagate through the interwebs.
So [...]

Woohoo! We can DRIVE, baby. Because, you know, 16? Oh, nevermind. A quick ep for you this time.
Tech report from Chris, and then…
Podiobooks featured titles:
Featured Title: Daughter of the Sun, by Lonnie Ezell
Featured Title: The Arwen, by Timothy Callahan

While it’s probably a silly idea to add something to the site when we’re seriously having issues (sorry about that — a fix is on the way), I did find something interesting the other day:

I’m going to collect all the videos made by podiobook authors — those with titles you can find on Podiobooks.com and [...]

Did you miss us? We’re back, and badder than ever. Oh, wait, no one says that anymore. We’re phatter than ever. Oh, that’s expired too, plus it makes me feel self-conscious. Hmm…we are CRUNK, baby. Yeah.
Site news from Tee, promos, and a review with Dani Cutler!
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See, if I were organized, I would have posted the 14th episode on the 14th of the month, as a special little Valentine. That would have been cool. Let’s all pretend it happened that way.
Site news from Evo and FOUR (count ‘em - four! How cool is that?) promos!
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