In this episode Rhonda talks with Keith Hughes and Heather talks with Emmy Z. Madrigal. 

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Borrowed Time by Keith Hughes Science Fiction

This is Keith’s first book on Podiobooks.com and we really enjoyed talking to him about Borrowed Time.
Website: http://www.penslinger.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/edgizmo
Voice mail: (206) 309-9171

Star Struck by Emmy Z. Madrigal

Websites:  http://www.sweetdreamsnovel.com
http://www.emzbox.com, & http://www.horroraddicts.net/
Email:  emzboxATsbcglobal.net 
Twitter @emzbox

Related News: Emerian Rich’s Night’s Knight will be released in October.

News

Dark Overlord Media

Scott Sigler & Audacity Events of San Diego have turned the traditional publishing model on its ear with the creation of Dark Overlord Media’s inspection. The announcement was made August 19th. It is a publishing house that will create premium limited edition books and other properties for those with an established online following.

Dark Overlord Media’s first release is The Rookie, Sigler’s far in the future space football story. Get a signed, limited-edition, hand numbered hardback. This edition has 50 extra pages of content you can’t get in a podcast. The Future Dark Overlord is kicking of the Tailgate tour on September 7th with a 20 city tour in 24 days to promote this release. Order yours now at Scottsigler.com.


 

The Mark of a Druid Book Signing

August 29th – Beat the southern California heat and rise above it all in the San Bernardino mountains at the first book signing for The Mark of a Druid. Join me, Rhonda R Carpenter for the reading, see the original art and meet the cover artist Amie Perry-Reavis from noon to 2 pm At McCabes and Co Booksellers in Crestline Ca. And a little bird told me I would not be the only author in attendance. We may even give out some signed posters. When it is all said and done please feel free to enjoy the mountains, lakes, shopping or spectacular site of the community I call home.

Win a signed print of the cover to J.D. Sawyer’s Predestination!

Entering is as easy as 1-2-3:
1) Send a post card to:
Chooch and Viv
43 Town and Country Drive
Suite 182
Fredericksburg, VA 22405

2) Make sure to include your name and return address (where we’ll ship the print) and a statement that you are at least 18 years old.

3) All entries must be post marked no later than August 26, 2009

They will do a random drawing with one winner receiving the print through the mail. The contest is being hosted at http://www.intotheblender.com/

Some other Scotland

Mick Bordet is still giving out download codes for the music in Some Other Scotland. You can get the codes by tweeting the link to his interview and emailing him.
He will be running the contest until the BRT-PR interview on August 31, 2:30 pm PST/5:30 pm EST. He is giving away a free book for the best BTR question and allowed a listener to name a character. Here are the details.

Review it up!

Rhonda is asking her fans for their help to spread the word about The Mark of a Druid.

Rhonda says,

 ”Where can you put them? Itunes, Amazon, B&N, Podiobooks.com, Podcast pickle; your personal blog is a great place to talk about the book or where ever you can think of to put up a review. I still have not found a way to see overseas Amazon reviews so if you are out of the U.S. please feel free to take a screen shot and email.
This contest is retroactive so if you’ve written a review already just click participate on contest #10 and let me know where you left the review. Same thing for new reviews.
On September 13th I will announce 2 random winners from all those who review it or have already posted a review. What will you get? A lead into the final contest for the grand prize of the original oil on canvas that will be awarded at the end of this year. With this prize you can really see the hidden images on the cover.
Your words mean the world to me and I want to read them.
Good Luck,
Rhonda”

Help Name Characters in Sea Hawk

Arlene Radasky needs names for her characters in her new novel SEA HAWK. When you email her with your suggestions, she will put your name in the hat for a FREE signed book THE FOX, sent anywhere in the world. Winner will be drawn on October 30, 2009. For all the detals go to her website.

Calling all Podcasters and Podiobooks.com authors

Enter the Podioracket.com sponsored Podiobooks.com Promo Competition! Simply create your one-minute promo, the perfect storm of persuasion and enthusiasm, then email it to contact@podioracket.com. See the complete list of rules and suggestions in our handy-dandy guide.

New Releases

Dragon Ore by Brian Rathbone Fantasy

Heretics by G.K. Chesterton Essays Produced by David Grizzly Smith FAMILY FRIENDLY: Safe for family listening

The Scars by William Tennant Literature

Tumbler by Brand Gamblin Science Fiction FAMILY FRIENDLY: Safe for family listening

Completed Works

AMNAR: THE AWAKENING by Isabel Joely Black Fantasy

The Ninth Avatar by Todd Newton Fantasy

A User’s Manual for the Human Experience by Michael W. Dean Self-Help

Anon Time by Craig Robertson Science Fiction

The Sphere Of Travel (TSOT2) Science Fiction
FAMILY FRIENDLY: Safe for family listening

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or download it now.

“If you’d asked me a few weeks ago how many people listened to my podcast of AMNAR: THE AWAKENING each week, I’d probably have said it was about ten.

When I released it to Podiobooks.com, I confidently predicted months of hard promotion, with the comfort of cheering on from the ten people who listened and were finally able to get hold of it in MP3 format.

Well, that wasn’t how it happened.

I came downstairs a couple of days later, to see a tweet from author Brian Rathbone congratulating me for getting to the Number 1 slot on Podiobooks for daily downloads. In fact, there was a whole conversation about it. And I missed it.

Which is why it sometimes doesn’t help if you live in the UK and everything happens while you’re asleep.

AMNAR sat in the charts for a week, in the Number 2 position, and then reappeared this week at Number 1. I was stunned.

But that was only the start of it.

I also release a podcast on my own site of the current book in the AMNAR series, called The Inheritance, which goes out every Friday. A friend has kindly offered to own the site while I’m working on building a business and doing the basic survival thing. He called to say that downloads from that site were going up.

By the end of July, we’re looking at 10k downloads, in the space of about two weeks.

It’s the kind of thing that persuades you to call all your friends and tell them, and then spend time wondering how this happened.

It’s fantastic, of course. We – as in myself and my most vocal fans – have done a lot of work on Twitter to get people interested. Even that’s been noticed and blogged about by book marketers.

This is another step toward a dream that I’ve had for as long as I can remember, and it’s been very exciting to see Amnar doing so well.

If I’m being absolutely honest, I haven’t quite adjusted yet. It has made me very happy and I’m very grateful to everybody who’s made a noise on Twitter on my behalf, and all the fans who’re now demanding a paper version of the book. But I’ll sign off before this turns into something resembling an Academy acceptance speech. If you’re listening, thank you and I hope it lives up to expectations!”

– Joely Black