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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.

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In Summary

Rathbone dropped technical tips, shared links to freeware that he’s used to publish, and shared his experiences.

Listen to the entire Fireside podcast at Fireside Writer’s Workshop but be warned, it’s 2.5 hours long. You can also visit Brian at his New Fantasy Fiction web page and while you’re there download The Dawning of Power Trilogy and The Balance of Power Trilogy.

Brian Rathbone has just released Regent! Regent, Book One of The Balance of Power Trilogy, is the much anticipated continuation of the World of Godsland fantasy series, which began with The Dawning of Power Trilogy. Buy Regent now from Amazon.

Brian’s Link List:

Twitter Anyone? Follow Brian: http://twitter.com/brianrathbone

His Website: http://brianrathbone.com/fantasy-fiction-regent.html

EPub Editor: http://code.google.com/p/sigil/

EPub Manager: http://calibre-ebook.com/

Auto Recorder and Editor: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ (use BETA 1.3.12 or later)

Spoken Word Normalizer (sorta) Evens out voices at different volume levels
http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/levelator

Transfer Files to Webservers: http://filezilla-project.org/

Can’t Afford Photoshop? Try gimp: http://www.gimp.org/

Record Skype Audio Calls: http://scribie.com/free-skype-recorder MP3 Converter

Run Report to see how well you target terms. Run one free report a day or $80.00 Month
http://www.seomoz.org/

Brian uses the free Rank Checker and SEO for Firefox add-ons. Track search rank, page rank, backlinks, etc from within Firefox. http://www.seobook.com/

Track usage of your website and blogs. More powerful and useful that you might imagine
http://www.google.com/analytics/

Shorten links for Twitter with the added benefit of tracking how many clicks the link gets
http://bit.ly/

Get his Ebooks on Amazon the first two free and the conclusion for only .99 cents.

Our Fireside Chat–about all things publishing related–continues as Brian Rathbone delivers the sixth part of the series.

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In the 6th part of the series Brian continues his discussion of editing, publishing, GoodReads, people to make contact with, and print on demand.

Get his Ebooks on Amazon the first two free and the conclusion for only .99 cents.

Brian Rathbone’s “Wayward Spirits” is a prequel to The Dawning of Power trilogy.

About the story: For Wendel Volker and Benjin Hawk, a day of skipping classes turns into a journey that will shape the future of Godsland.

Podioracket Presents-Glimpses is now available on Podiobooks.com.

Previous stories:

Mike Luoma’s short story “Alibi Jones:Blind Eye”, from the Alibi Jones universe, is episode #10 and is an adaptation of a comic book.

Katharina Maimers short story is “The Siege” is from the universe of Wiener Blut and is episode #9.


Emerian Rich’s short story “Holy Rites” is from the universe of Night’s Knights and is episode #8.

Open Forum Questions

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Brian Rathbone continues his fireside chat for authors.

In this episode:

• How to put your book up on Kindle.
• Your digital rights
• More about cover art-Photo shop and free software like photoshop.
• How to get stock photos you can use for a cover from deviantart.com, Istockphoto.com and others.
• Twitter to the rescue for your cover art.
• Podcasting equipment, the truth about equipment.
• Can’t Afford Photoshop? Try gimp: http://www.gimp.org/
• Twitter Anyone? Follow Brian: http://twitter.com/brianrathbone
• Track usage of your website and blogs. More powerful and useful that you might imagine http://www.google.com/analytics/
• And Brain tells everyone why he got involved with Podioracket.

Get his Ebooks on Amazon the first two free and the conclusion for only .99 cents. This price wont last!

Falling on your face can be a good thing.

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Brian Rathbone continues his fireside chat for authors.

• In this episode:
  Podiobooks.com vs audio books
• how falling on your face can be a good thing
• Social Media Networking and some great tools you can use to track your progress.
• Twitter
• Twitter vs Facebook
• Using Google Analytics.

Get his Ebooks on Amazon the first two free and the conclusion for only .99 cents. This price won’t last!

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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NEWS

Parsec Award Nominations

Parsec Awards nominations are open. Remember to nominate your favorite podcast in each category at www.parsecawards.com. Nominations close on May 31st at midnight.

Escape Eludes Us a Little Longer

A little bad news from James Melzer. He announced on twitter that the publishers have pushed the release of Escape out until March 2012. We know James would like to get the book out there so we wish him all the best on the new release date.

Free Limited Time Offer

Brian Rathbone’s Call of the Herald is flying off ebook book vendors shelves. Get your free copy soon, it is a limited offer from www.brainrathbone.com and then you will definitely want to get the rest of the trilogy here for only $2.99. 

New from Alex White

Alex White has just started releasing his new steampunk novel set in The Gearheart universe called Maiden Flight of the Avenger. Check out this cover then go get your subscription started here. Better yet, buy it on Amazon for only $2.99.

Wicked Women Writers

Wicked Women Writers stories are in and the next step is audio for the coming competition.  The WWW Forum is growing all the time. It is a great facebook group of female authors who take the time to support and encourage each other as well as a great group to get information from about everything from editing to podcasting. If you would like to join the group just let Rhonda know on Facebook.

Coming Up on Podioracket.com

Althought we’re busy celebrating our 50th episode, we haven’t slowed down. We have already scheduled interviews with Ian Rutter, two GothHaus authors, Darusha Wehm, Mark Coggins, and Verna Clay.  And while we are out for summer hiatus you’ll still get great author interviews from Podioracket.com. Brain Rathbone brings us a series of interviews from a writers conferences. Lots of great information for authors and readers alike. Brain Rathbone hit Balticon, microphone in hand. We’ll be sure to also gave you an update on Podioracket Presents - Glimpses coming soon to Podiobooks.com.  

Interview

Evo Terra

Evo Terra founded Podiobooks.com in 2004, an audiobook service that uses podcasting technology to distribute serialized versions of novels, non-fiction books, anthologies and short story collections. He is the co-author of Podcasting for Dummies and Expert Podcasting Practices for Dummies.

$4.99 a month

Becoming a Podiobooks.com patron is very simple. Click the button and PayPal will ask you to confirm that you want to give us $4.99 right now, and then again in 30 days. Rinse. Repeat. Over 500 titles. Support Podiobooks by becoming a patron.

Wondering why you should donate to Podiobooks.com? What you should donate and when? Hear the answers in this one-on-one interview with Evo Terra.

Now Releasing

GothHaus by Emerian Rich and M. J. Hahn Audiodrama

Queen of Swords: Riding Toward Sunset by D.C. Wood Historical Fiction

Hijacked: The Creation Story by Mike Hartman Fiction

Released Complete

Great Britain at War by Jeffery Farnol History

I Am Adam by James Twerell Magical Realism

Tripping The Light Fantastic by Davy Ferguson Science Fiction

Now Complete

A Moment In Time by Eric (Erk) Brook Fiction

The Immortal Game by Mark Coggins Thriller

Four Dog Riot by Joe Cottonwood Fiction

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Bio: Author Scott Nicholson has written 12 thrillers, 60 short stories, four comics series, and six screenplays. He’s also a freelance editor and journalist. He lives in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, where he tends an organic garden, successfully eludes stalkers, and generally lives the dream. He’s online at www.hauntedcomputer.com.

New Release

Marco and the Red Granny by Mur Lafferty Science Fiction
Untrue Tales… Book Five by Teel McClanahan III Science Fiction
Act of Will by M. Darusha Wehm Science Fiction

Now Complete

Bone Machines by John Dodds Mystery
KIRINS: The Flight of the Ain by James D. Priest Fantasy FAMILY FRIENDLY: Safe for family listening

Released Complete

Your Days Are Numbered by Myke Bartlett Magical Realism
Pastoral Sketches by Beverly Carradine History FAMILY FRIENDLY: Safe for family listening
Kissyman and The Gentleman by Scott Sigler Thriller

LIVE BTR Show with the Authors

The short story Podioracket Presents-Visionaries is complete! We’ve invited the final 8 authors to join the LIVE Blog Talk Radio Podioracket show. Speak with some fantastic novelists such as Mike Luoma, Philippa Ballantine, Basil Sands, Teel McClanahan III, Brian Rathbone, J. Daniel Sawyer, H.E. Roulo, and Phil Rossi. Brian Holtz will be co-hosting with Rhonda Carpenter and, to add even more excitement, there will be book give-aways. Don’t miss out on June 9th at 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern on www.blogtalkradio.com/podioracket!

Prize for Comments & Ratings

Now that the anthology is complete, we want to hear from listeners which stories they particularly enjoyed. So, listen to the anthology then leave a comment and rating. Once you’ve left a rating, send an email to heather@podioracket.com and you’ll be entered into the drawing. Win a copy of Handbook for the Criminally Insane. The drawing will be held during our LIVE interview show on Thursday, June 9th at 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern on www.blogtalkradio.com/podioracket!

FINAL BTR SCHEDULE

The final calendar for all of this season’s Blog Talk Radio-Podioracket shows contains some exciting upcoming interviews. Find all of them at www.blogtalkradio.com/podioracket

Thursday, May 20th: Paul E. Cooley is a writer of horror, supernatural, and, well, other types of fiction. Most of his stories are rather difficult to classify. Shadowpublications.com his website presents stories every month (when possible) with rants and ramblings at least once a week. Fiction has been his hobby since he was a teenager and led him to get a degree in English from Colorado State University. His newest releases include Tattoo and Closet Treats.

Wednesday, June 2: For those who wish their kids came with an instruction manual… Here’s a book for you. Authors Traci Davis & Vicki Holleman-Perez have written The Momma Guide, providing everyday practical advice for mommas everywhere. The Momma Guide addresses topics are far-ranging as birth, health problems, depression, divorce, death, and everything in between. As inspirational as it is informational, the hefty volume (461 pages) is a handy guide.

Thursday, June 3: We can’t wait to chat with R.E. (Renee) Chambliss. She is the author of the novel and podiobook Dreaming of Deliverance and is the narrator for Kenn Crawford’s podiobook Dead Hunt. She has also hosted some episodes of the writing podcast Unpublished Not Dead that is usually hosted/produced by her friend Kael (aka Eric). Help us welcome R.E. to the show!

Wednesday, June 9: The short story Podioracket Presents-Visionaries is complete! We’ve invited the final 8 authors to join the show. Speak with some fantastic novelists such as Mike Luoma, Philippa Ballantine, Basil Sands, Teel McClanahan III, Brian Rathbone, J. Daniel Sawyer, H.E. Roulo, and Phil Rossi. Brian Holtz will be co-hosting with Rhonda Carpenter and, to add even more excitement, there will be book give-aways.

Thursday, June 10: Welcome Alex White for the final Blog Talk Radio-Podioracket show of the season! Author and artist, Alex White’s The Gearheart recently completed.