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Tim Dodge makes his debut on the site, releasing his thriller, Acts of Desperation, as a free serialized audiobook:
Ray Davis is newly divorced, going nowhere at a dead-end job in a warehouse, and has almost worked off the debts his ex-wife rang up. Then his underinsured brother’s need for a liver transplant forces Ray to [...]

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 [...]

Just when I think I’ve got everyone listening to Podiobooks.com figured out, I get little surprises like this:
I’m usually a library book reader and not a book buyer. That is unless it is at a second hand book sale. I would go broke because I really can’t help myself from owning books. However, because [...]

You’ve gotta love this title: Podcasting Your Novel: Publishing’s Next Wave? It’s from Time.com, a company that can’t seem to get enough coverage of the changing face of publishing.
We’ll take it.
In this new article, the author explores the careers of J.C. Hutchins, Mur Lafferty, and Scott Sigler. It also promotes the hell out of [...]

Last year, Bantam Dell Publishing Group’s director of Internet marketing Ken Wohlrob was facing an interesting challenge. Could the same new media efforts that had been previously leveraged by independent authors work for an established author? And how would it work when the test was for the print release of the third book in a [...]

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 — [...]

Abigail Breslin is a childhood star currently shooting across the heavens. You’ve probably seen her in Little Miss Sunshine, Nim’s Island, a dozen or so TV episodes and most recently a slew of appearances on the talk-show circuit.
She’s a fan of her recently-lost iPod, and if this story from the Orlando Sentinal has it right, [...]

Terry Fallis is the author of The Best Laid Plans, a satirical story of Canadian politics. I’m not Canadian, and politics bore bore the hell out of me, but this book is one of my favorites. And it’s also received quite the distinction, according to Terry:
I was shocked, stunned, and every other appropriate adjective for [...]

I just received one of the nicest compliments from a listener about the service we provide:
To a casual observer, Podiobooks.com may seem to be just a DIY approach to “books on tape”. In reality, it is something much more important. To me, podiobooks represent nothing lest than the next great chapter in the history [...]

Chances are, none of you have ever read Publishers Weekly. Yet I’ll bet a good number of you are familiar with the name of the publication, as it’s bandied about on dust jacket covers and any ads for books you might have seen. This is the trade magazine for the publishing industry, and getting you [...]