Blowing the cobwebs away – The last Year

Wow, a long long time has passed since I sat at my keyboard and talked about podcasting. Let us just recap.

• Palms Sunday – Seth Harwood had great success and Jack Wakes Up is to be re-released by Crown next Palm Sunday
• April 1st – Scott Sigler’s Infected was released leading to Contagious coming out at the end of December.  Also (if memory serves me well) it almost cracked the New York Times best seller list
• Billi’s crazy Eights / Double Trouble – Pip Valentine Ballantine and Tee Morris both released their books on the same day 08/08/08 and both books broke into the top 20 on Amazon
• Playing For Keeps – at the end of August Mur Lafferty’s Playing for Keeps was released on Amazon which cracked the top 10 on Amazon
• Phil Rossi has had his Crescent novel in the throws of publication and a film deal as well

Congratulations to all those authors, all their books have pride of place on my book shelf.

I am going to be changing things up on here, I am still listening to PodioBooks and short story anthologies and really do admire the time and effort the various authors spend on their podcasts.  So rather than commenting on every episode I will over the coming months mention the podcasts that I am listening to and I feel warrant a mention.

Also, the “All Podcast” feed has been running without fail, Google Reader churns that out for me.  The “Featured Podcast” feed used to reflect the blog – I will start updating that again however I will not necessarily be posting about every entry in that feed.

Tee Morris: MOREVI Chapter 1

So last week I caught the first chapter of MOREVI and we meet the Queen and find out about Rafe’s task

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I loved this chapter it is really setting the story up, this weeks MOREVI is going to be delayed but it is in two parts so that is good news

Tee Morris: MOREVI – Prologue

As mentioned in my crazy week post, Tee Morris’s MOREVI remastered has started. I listened to the preview on JC Hutchins 7th Son feed, and but on Friday I saw that the prologue had dropped in the MOREVI feed and with a slightly different intro in Tee Morris’s Billi feed. Well I finally got around to listening to the entire prologue on the way to work this morning.

The story starts with Tudor pirates in the realm of Henry VIII escaping the Spanish fleet. They travel through a portal into a new world…

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As I have mentioned elsewhere I was not on board with podcasts back in 2005 – I didn’t even own an iPod until the mini’s came onto the market – and I first heard of Tee Morris on Valentines Day this year with the launch of Billibub Baddings and the Case of the Singing Sword. I the past when I have found ‘new’ authors I have gone back and listened to their previous work (usually through podiobooks), however in Tee’s case he was talking about what he has learnt while producing Billi he was going to do MOREVI remastered, so I resisted and today my wait paid of as I caught this fantastic production. The story sounds great, I will be buying it once the podcast is over, but the effects in the podcast had me ducking the cannon fire on the way to work!

This should be in your podcatcher, I see it is top on Podiobooks and number 14 on iTunes – great stuff. Thanks Tee

What a crazy week

What a manic week, we had a software release at work on Tuesday and it didn’t go well to say the least.  Where it affects this blog is that I haven’t had a lunch break for three days, and as I have been getting into work early and leaving late my commute is down to 30 minutes each way (as opposed to an hour each way at rush hour).

It is really disappointing as there is some great stuff sitting on my iPod, Tee Morris MOREVI remastered has cropped up in JC Hutchins feed (a 20 minutes preview) but it has also arrived in the Billi feed and of course the MOREVI feed, I am hoping that I can catch it tomorrow.

Also sitting in Seth Harwood’s feed is a 10 minute Black Shadow pre release prologue (Steve Saylor’s debut podcast novel which launches on the 1st).  I will hopefully be able to catch that tomorrow as well.

Anyway onto what I have caught this week…

Tee Morris: An Update

I was pleasantly surprised this morning to see a five minute update from Tee Morris on my iPod.

MOREVI remastered has been postponed due to technical difficulties, I didn’t realise it was due to start next week, but it has moved to the 29th November, which is great with Crescent and Jack Wakes Up finishing it will be good to have a new story.

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Todays Podcasts

Just a quick note, finished Tee’s show last night on the way home. Had no podcasts of notes to blog on today so I will be quiet.

If memory serves me correctly Billi was my usual Wednesday listen and that has now finished.

Tee Morris: Appreciation Show

Listened to the first hour of this mammoth listener appreciation show (just for reference I am just after my email was read just before chapter 14). Not too much to comment on about this episode other than you certainly could do a lot worse that listen to Billibub Baddings and the case of the Singing Sword, that Tee finished last week. One other comment is the bed music is just awesome and it by George Hrab

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I also caught Digital Planet by the BBC, I find it a bit hit a miss but listen to it every Tuesday, don’t expect me to blog on it again but the final story this week was about Home Automation and using wireless technology to control lights, garage doors and pretty much anything in the house remotely (the demo he was 40 KM away). The reason I am mentioning it is that one of the stories I wrote in English at school (20 years ago now!) was about such a house, and I remember going to Epcot centre in Orlando in 2002 and being disappointed by their house of the future, it seems that the future is finally here…

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A note about podcasts

I don’t tend to listen to podcasts at the weekend, certainly novels I enjoy whilst driving to work, however sitting ready to go are the first chapters of 7th Son so I am looking forward to that on Monday. Just seen an email from Scott Sigler but no sign of part 3 of the great snipe hunt hopefully that will be out today, although he is still rewriting Infection (Infested rather).

Also sitting there is a 2 hour listener appreciation from Tee Morris
got no idea when I am going to fit that in… along with The Ryan Simmons show with his All Simmons team in response to Larry, it is going to be a busy couple of days when I get round to listening