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.

Palm’s Sunday is here

Ok – I have been very quiet recently but today is Palm(s) Sunday. Make your way over to seth’s website at 18:00 GMT and get yourself your copy of Jack Wakes Up from Amazon.com to ensure not only that Seth gets worldwide recognition but a continuing stream of FREE audio drama.

I shouldn’t need to tell you how great Jack Wakes Up is but it is a great crime drama and as an added bonus ship it to Seth’s P.O. Box and he will sign it…

Mur Lafferty: Playing For Keeps Episode 7

Last night the 7th Episode of Mur Lafferty’s Playing for Keeps novel dropped and I caught it on the way to work this morning.

The story gets going with another change in the ‘Bad Guys’

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Another great podcast from Mur, with a great if not a little bit egotistic intro from Scott Sigler.  This story is fantastic, and i haven’t mentioned it here but the pdf’s have a link to the Playing for Keeps website to get the book in print (via Print on Demand) in January

Seth Harwood: ALWFD – Tuesday

And the last in my catch up posts for tonight, last week a new short story from Seth Harwood’s A long Way From Disney collection dropped called Tuesday.

I left this one to last to write tonight because I felt that this was a story that needed telling, the events of that particular Tuesday have been lost and forgotten and twisted by the US administration (and I guess ours as well).  The story moved me, I remember that day I was working in London and the news came down at around 14:00, my main memory of the day was refreshing BBC news all afternoon.  I guess in the last six years I had forgotten all about the day and the immediate aftermath, this story reminds us that politics aside it huge event.

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So yes, another great short from Seth, I was really digging these stories but Tuesday just took me away from the Adam Berkman universe and made me think back to my experiences –  if you are not a short story fan but a fan of Seth’s give this story a listen, you won’t be sorry.

Anyway a couple of housekeeping notes, Seth still wants iTunes reviews, there is now a Seth Harwood Forum (see Seth’s site for details) and if you are in the San Fran area there is another Sigler/Harwood pub crawl on Friday

Steve Saylor: Black Shadow Chapter 2

Also over the weekend the second chapter of Steve Saylor’s Black Shadow novel arrived and i finally got round to listening to it on my way to work this morning.

The story focuses on Black Shadow and his tracking down of BlackBlood

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it was a short episode this week, which actually managed to fit quite nicely into my day – i am sure Steve did that to accommodate me… Seriously though it seems Steve is doing exams at the moment so best of luck with those Steve, I suppose one of the advatages of getting old is that it seems like an awfully long time ago that i had any exam and assignment worries…

JC Hutchins: 7th Son Book 3 Episode 20

So there we have it, the final chapter of the final book dropped this week.  Yes JC Hutchins 7th Son trilogy has finally come to a close, my guesses from last week did not come to pass and there is a final last laugh for one of the clones

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I know I am only writing short posts to get back up to date, but Hutch has created such a fantastic story here that I just want to thank him, and encourage you if you haven’t listened to any of the three 7th Son books go and look him up and get ready for one of the best books you will have read in a long long time

Scott Sigler: Nocturnal Episode 7

Over the weekend the seventh episode (I can’t believe we are 7 episodes in already) of Scott Sigler’s new podcast novel Nocturnal.

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This story is great, I have no idea what or who Brian really is but can’t wait until Scott’s twisted mind reveals all :-0

Mur Lafferty: Playing for Keeps Episode 6

Also last week we had the latest chapter of Mur Lafferty’s Playing for Keeps.

Things are really not looking good for Keepsie, does she make the wrong decision?

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I am really loving this story, I am a superhero/comic book fan and I love this story, as I am writing this I should get the next episode tomorrow which is good news.  Also it may please some of you but Keepsie Bar pint glasses are now available.

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

A small absence

I have been quiet for a week, Christmas party season is upon us and work has become insane again – I haven’t had a lunch yet this week but that is no real excuse.  The posts to follow will be pretty brief but I figured I would split them out a bit, I will try to get back onto a normal schedule but it will probably be into the new year when things settle back down again