Michael J. Sullivan

Bio: Born in Detroit Michigan, Michael J. Sullivan has lived in Vermont, North Carolina and Virginia. He worked as a commercial artist and illustrator, founding his own advertising agency in 1996, which he closed in 2005 to pursue writing full-time. He currently resides in Fairfax, Virginia with his wife and three children.

Instead of a string of sequels, Michael’s six-book series: The Riyria Revelations was conceived as a single epic tale divided into individual episodes. All were written before the first was released so that plot elements are intertwined, yet each is self-contained and can be read independently from each other. They were released in six-month intervals and are now all available in three books from Orbit.


Website:  http://www.riyria.blogspot.com/
Email: michael.sullivan.dc@gmail.com
Twitter: @author_sullivan
Facebook (personal): www.facebook.com/michael.james.sullivan
Facebook (author): www.facebook.com/author.michael.sullivan
Facebook (riyria): www.facebook.com/riyria

Free short story The Viscount and the Witch from The Riyria Revelations By Michael J. Sullivan.
This short is currently free but we don’t know how long that will last to get your copy today in the Kindle book store.


The Riyria Revelations By Michael J. Sullivan
Theft of Swords (Riyria Revelations Omnibus #1 contains The Crown Consipracy & Avempartha)

Amazon


Rise of Empire (Riyria Revelations Omnibus #2 contains Nyphron Rising &The Emerald Storm)
Amazon

Heir of Novron (Riyria Revelations Omnibus #3 contains Wintertide & Percepliquis)
Amazon

Robin Sullivan

Robin Sullivan – founder, president of Ridan Publishing Robin Sullivan gives us the scoop on self publishing, indie publishing, and how she got her start in the publishing industry.



Ridan Publishing website: http://www.ridanpublishing.com

Ridan Publishing on Smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/RidanPublishing

Robins Blog: http://write2publish.blogspot.com

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ridan_pub

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INTERVIEWS

TM Nielsen on her Heku Series

T.M. Nielsen is the author of Amazon.com’s Bestselling books, the Heku Series. After spending a lifetime reading about the paranormal, and coming up short, she decided to fix the legends and came up with the heku.

The 8 book series is full of action, adventure, romance, humor, and drama.

Website : http://www.hekuseries.com

E-Mail : info@hekuseries.com

Twitter ID : http://twitter.com/#!/TheHekuSeries

Facebook Page :
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=hp#!/groups/140395936002360?ap=1

Seth Kenlon’s Private Property

Seth Kenlon is a multimedia artist, a Unix geek, and a
free software enthusiast. Sometimes, he
writes esoteric science fiction.

Official Book Site: http://aesdiopod.com/books

Author Site: http://straightedgelinux.com/seth

NEWS

Basil Sands Contest

Basil Sands is giving away a winners choice of either a new Kindle 3 or Kindle Touch eReader ($99 value) to a lucky winner who leaves a comment on the Amazon pages of his ebooks 65 Below, Karl’s Last Flight, Faithful Warrior, or Geeks Rule. If you have listened to the podcast novels and have an Amazon account, you can leave a comment too (without even having to buy the book) for any or all stories. Each comment left from July of this year until 12/23/11 gets one entry into the drawing.
Details on the drawing are at http://www.basilsands.com.
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John Mierau on Indigogo

John Mierau is raising money for his new book Enemy Lines. Here’s the his campaign as it’s listed on the site:

I’m an independant artist. I’ve never had an advance, a publicity budget or an editorial staff. I do everything myself or I have to find someone who can help.

To me, IndieGoGo feels like the best way to reach out to my readers to fund what I’m creating *for* them. I don’t believe I need a publisher to commission beautiful covers and pay for editng and printing costs. That just drives up the cost for you, and the profits for another company.

Check out indiegogo.com for all the details and a list of the perks he’s awarding to contributors.

Thanks!

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In Broad Daylight by Seth Harwood

Seth Harwood is now 13 episodes into a new crime novel on Podiobooks.com.

Blurb: FBI Agent Jess Harding always gets her man… or woman.
In this thriller, Harding returns to the scene of her first years as an FBI agent to track the still-at-large killer from her first case. Back in 2006, as a young, inexperienced agent, Harding chased leads across Alaska for a full summer without catching up with this killer. Now, after 5 years of honing her skills, she’s back and ready to try again.
But when she starts to see that the killer knows a little something about her, the heat turns up and Harding realizes she may not be the only one getting chased. Listen to it on Podiobooks.com for free. Due out in Febuary 2012 as an eBook.

Hit Seth up on his websites:  www.sethharwood.com and www.crimewave.com
Friend him on twitter and facebook, or join in the fan discusions on his website forum.

Giving an E-Reader for Christmas? Why not fill it with Harwood’s Crime Fiction.  Click the get them all link and fill’er up! The pricing is sweet and for under 25 bucks you can have them all!

Get them all!

Let’s kick off the show with a bit of Scott Sigler trivia: Our first guest shares his name with the main ship in one of Scott’s short story series. Is it BloodCast or The Crypt?

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INTERVIEWS

James Keeling’s Compensating Controls

Bio: James Keeling is a working author located in sometimes frozen tundra of Minnesota. The father of four daughters, he never ceases to be amazed by the magic of life around him. His role of both bedtime and fireside storyteller has led him inexorably into authorhood. His work has been published in the Flying Island Press’ Pirates Cove.

Synopsis:  Nicholas Edgwood rides a wave of good karma–a job he excels at, a new girlfriend, and a bright future. When he gets framed for a cyber-crime he did not commit, he must run for his life while his entire world crumbles around him.
Betrayal and murder replace peace and hope as he finds himself in unfamiliar territory. He may not be the biggest and baddest guy out there, but he has skills, the kind garnered from a career steeped in computers and code. Now he must leverage these skills to their fullest to stay above ground and breathing. It will take all of his talent, and courage he may not have, just to survive.

Get it on Amazon today! for only $3.99

For more information
Website: http://www.jameskeeling.com
Twitter:  http://twitter.com/#!/search/synapticjam
Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/#!/SynapticJam
Google+:  Find him here.

Michael J. Parry’s Elanore and Gurt Tales:
Synopsis: Book one The Spiral Tattoo introduces the reader to Elanore, the eight-foot tall troll, and Gurt, the six-inch tall (don’t you dare call me a fairy) Eleinu, both guardsmen in the city of Delvenport, tackle their most baffling case yet. When they find a dead waitress, naked except for an intricate tattoo in a spiral across her body, they’re launched into an adventure in the seedier side of Delvenport, filled with rogue mages, prostitution, and narcotics. But can they solve the case before madness and riots take over the city?
and Book 2 The Oaks Grove is a fantasy country mystery.

You can get book one in Ebook right now on Amazon for only $.99.

Bio:Fantasy mystery author writes fantasy and science fiction, mixed in with the occasional piece of contemporary fiction. He live on a small block of land in the Tararua district of New Zealand, where he and his partner grow trees and our children. To earn a crust he works in a University library as the Digital Initiatives Librarian. Michael loves social media, and uses it as a tool for the library he works in.
For more information
Website: http://michaeljparry.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/Michael_J_Parry
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Michael-J-Parry/177255755657054

NEWS

3 Podiobooks.com authors topped the charts on Amazon this last week and are still charting now.

Emerian Rich’s Night’s Knights [Kindle Edition]

Get it from Amazon for free today.

Hit #1 in both of these categories and is still at #1 Hit  #1 in Kindle, Store, Kindle eBooks, Fiction, Genre Fiction, Science Fiction

and #2 in KindleStore, Kindle eBooks, Fiction, GenreFiction, Horror, Ghosts


Seth Harwood’s Jack Palms in Triad Death Match (Jack Palms Crime) [Kindle Edition]

Get if from Amazon for free today!

Hit  #1 and is currently #3 in Kindle Store, Kindle eBooks,  Fiction, Genre Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers, Mystery, Hard-Boiled

We also have a special interview with Seth Harwood hitting the feed soon.


And our own Rhonda R Carpenter’s The Mark of a Druid [Kindle Edition]

Get it from Amazon for Free today!

Hit #1 in Kindle store, Kindle eBooks, Fiction, Historic, Fantasy and is currently #2 in Kindle Store, Kindle eBooks, Fiction, Fantasy,  Historical

If you hurry you can still get all 3 of these authors’ works for free at Amazon in the kindle store. That’s right for free!


PRP-Glimpses is Complete on Podiobooks.com
And the eBook is ready for your enjoyment.

 Get it at Amazon Today!

Podioracket Presents-Glimpses, the anthology from established Podiobooks.com authors that takes place in the worlds of their full-length novels, is now complete on Podiobooks.com. If you’ve already listened to these 12 stories from diverse genre, please leave a rating for others on Podiobooks.com or iTunes.

We’re proud of the stories you’ll find in PRP-Glimpses:

• Conclave – Mick Bordet
• Foretelling – Arlene Radasky
• The Interview – M. Darusha Wehm
• Appeasement – Gloria Oliver
• Good Luck – Casey S Townsend
• Fleeting Time – Keith Hughes
• Blind Curve – Dave Donelson
• Holy Rites – Emerian Rich
• The Siege – Katharina Maimer
• Wayward Spirits- A Prelude to The Dawning of Power – Brian Rathbone
• Future In Hand: A Rivenspace Story – H.E Roulo

Fireside Chat

If you haven’t listened to the Fireside Chats yet don’t miss out on some great Indie author information. Podioracket.com continues to release useful information for author and reader alike in our blog posts, including our 7-part audio series on good book creation, promotion, and the self-publishing industry. Make sure you begin with Part-1 and continue through this quick and informative series from fantasy author and indie publisher “White Wolf Press” Brian Rathbone’s.

We hope you all had a safe Thanksgiving! And you guys tell us, do you miss the New Release list and Now Complete list we used to put in the blog posts? We would like to hear from you.

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INTERVIEW

John Dodds novel Bone Machines

Bio: John Dodds was born on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. He has been a journalist, a publicist for arts and social housing organisations, a graphic designer and a person-centred counsellor.  Now a freelance writer and editor, he lives in Bulgaria with his wife, two dogs and
two cats.

Synopsis:

They suffer for his art.

When a number of women are reported missing in Glasgow, the spectre of a previous spate of unsolved disappearances in the city rears its head.

Journalist Ray Bissett is drawn into the case when his daughter joins the ranks of the missing. And ambitious police detective Tom Kendrick won’t let Ray forget a terrible incident from his past which resulted in the death of a young boy.

Damaged lives and dark secrets…

The streets of Glasgow haunted by the ghosts of the missing…

And an artist driven by a deadly inspiration.

For more information on John Dodd’s work visit his blog at http://bonemachines.wordpress.com

NEWS

PRP-Glimpses is Complete

Podioracket Presents-Glimpses, the anthology from established Podiobooks.com authors that takes place in the worlds of their full-length novels, is now complete on Podiobooks.com. If you’ve already listened to these 12 stories from diverse genre, please leave a rating for others on Podiobooks.com or iTunes.

We’re proud of the stories you’ll find in PRP-Glimpses:

• Conclave – Mick Bordet
• Foretelling – Arlene Radasky
• The Interview – M. Darusha Wehm
• Appeasement – Gloria Oliver
• Good Luck – Casey S Townsend
• Fleeting Time – Keith Hughes
• Blind Curve – Dave Donelson
• Holy Rites – Emerian Rich
• The Siege – Katharina Maimer
• Wayward Spirits- A Prelude to The Dawning of Power – Brian Rathbone
• Future In Hand: A Rivenspace Story – H.E Roulo

Watch for the eBook release as we make the book available on Amazon, Smashwords, and Barnes & Noble.

. . . And What You Missed

During our break, Podioracket.com continued to release blog posts, including our 7-part audio series on good book creation, promotion, and the self-publishing industry. Make sure you begin with Part-1 and continue through this quick and informative series we like to call Brian Rathbone’s Fireside Chats.

Listen now to part two of Brian Rathbone’s Fireside Chat

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Part 2 Give it to them free and then they will buy it…

In this episode:

• More about engaging fans and building a lasting platform.
• Book scan = cash register sales of print books.
• How to use Google adwords. Cover art and how important it is to your success.
• Ratings from fans and what they mean to the author. 
• Why we should  connect with other authors as allies and not competition. 

We also heard just last night that Brain Rathbone’s new book is at the editor for the first round of editing. Can’t wait for Regent to hit the shelves!

Get his Ebooks on Amazon. The first are two free and the conclusion is only .99 cents.

Just because you don’t think it will work doesn’t mean it won’t

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We are so lucky to have this 7 part series to give to you this summer. It is filled with fabulous information and resources.

Brian Rathbone hosted a writer’s workshop at the Forest City, NC at the Fireside Books store in 2011 and spoke to a group of writers about the ins and outs of publishing.

Part one of our series gives you basic information on building a platform, using Podiobooks.com, and how giving it away can make you money. He addresses questions concerning publishers treatment of new authors. Brian’s experiences are first-hand: Where he started. What he was doing. How he was he doing it. And reflection on whether he was doing it well.

Resources shared in this episode

www.brianrathbone.com
www.firesidebooksandgifts.com
www.podiobooks.com

Get Brian Rathbone’s eBooks on Amazon. The first two are offered for free and the conclusion is available for $0.99.
  

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INTERVIEWS

Murdo Morrison

Roses of Winter

Bio: Murdo Morrison was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1950, spending his early years in a tenement room and kitchen near the shipyards similar to those described in his historical novel, Roses of Winter. His family has many links to the industrial history of Glasgow, particularly related to ships and shipbuilding. Several relatives worked in shipyards or served on ships during and after World War 2. In 1973 he moved to the United States with his wife Susan and lives in southern New Jersey near the city of Philadelphia. The website for his book www.rosesofwinter.com will be live very soon, until then please use his personal website.

Website: http://www.murdomorrison.com

Email: murdom6 (at) comcast.net

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/murdo.morrison

Brain Holtz

Doris & the Ankh (Family Friendly)

Brian Holtz is the author of Handbook for the Criminally Insane, Collapse at Hiddenverse Three-Three-Two, and Nephilim Push.

Brian is one of the editors for the Podioracket Presents anthologies.

Website: http://darksidesally.com/

NEWS

J Daniel Sawyer Releases Train Time

Description: Have you ever seen that well-dressed man at the airport, or the station, who stands patiently by as if he has all the time in the world? Have you wondered who he was waiting for, and how long he’d stay? Have you ever been that man, stuck in the hours between delay and disappointment, with no way to know if the person you’re waiting for will show?…

Get it here.

Shadowmagic by John Lenahan now on sale

The top rated Podiobooks.com novel of all time is on sale for $.99. We highly recommend this one.

http://www.podiobooks.com/charts.php

Get it here.

NEW AND COMPLETE

Now Releasing

Testing the Prisoner by Phil Giunta Horror/Dark Fantasy
Tio Jorge by Vincent Meis Fiction
The World of Unicellular by Oleg Seriy and MaRiCaBo Mystery
Remarkable Incidents and Modern Miracles Through Prayer and Faith by G. C. Bevington Spirituality FAMILY FRIENDLY: Safe for family listening

Now Complete

Doris and the Ankh by Brian Holtz Fantasy FAMILY FRIENDLY: Safe for family listening

Released Complete

The Little Dragons by Rowan Starsmith Fantasy

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The promo:

Grimmer than Grimm  is a free podcast taking classic children’s Grimm fairy tales and turning them on to their heads horror style. . .  or maybe Wicked Woman Writer style. Check out the promo and give her some feedback.  The story “Handsome and Regrettal” is premiering now at www.comproom.co.uk/ourplace. Find out more at http://www.micheleroger.com/ or on Facebook: micheleroger.

Interview details:

11:11 Countdown to 2012 By Verna Clay
www.vernaclay.com
vernaclay@vernaclay.comBuy

Links
Smashwords: http://tinyurl.com/vc-2012-smash
Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/vc-2012-Kindle
Kindle UK: http://tinyurl.com/vc-2012-KindleUK
Barnes & Noble http://tinyurl.com/vc-2012-Nook
OmniLit: http://tinyurl.com/vc-2012-omni

Interview:

Eternity by Casey Townsend

Website: www.eternitynovel.com

Twitter: @caseysamuel

Facebook: Casey Samuel Townsend.

Bio: Casey S Townsend is a young author from southern North Carolina and studied music at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He has been married since 2007 to his wife who is also named Casey Townsend. They have home studio where they record podcasts, audiobooks, music along with video and photography.