Go to http://www.brianrathbone.com/win-a-signed-book/ for all the details. This contest runs from July 1 to July 23, 2009 when Brian Rathbone will be interviewing on our live extended show BTR-PR at 6:00 pm PST 9:00 pm EST. Set your reminder now and spread the word! Full contest details on his site and in this Friday’s blog.

Live on BTR-PR July 2

Stacy Cochran author of several Podiobooks.com productions will be on BTR-Podioracket. Yes! His interview was so fascinating and the short format just couldn’t fit it all so we invited him to come on the BTR extension on July 2, 2009 at 2:30 pm Pacific/5:30 pm Eastern. Set your reminder now! And hear all about Claws!

Special Behind the Scenes

Listen now:

or download Podioracket-Ep12.

Here is a snippet for a much longer interview we did live on the Behind The Mike Radio Show with Joel Michalec. Heather and Rhonda enjoyed this casual conversation with Joel and felt it would answer some of the questions we have been asked.

Many people are amazed at the speed with which we were able to bring Podioracket.com to reality. Heather had four years experience as a Process consultant one of the big five consulting firms, spent over a year as a project manager, and supported web sites for a large national telecom. Among Rhonda’s other professional skills, her empire includes 4 websites which received more than 2 million unique hits per month, an extensive social network, and experience with press releases, promotions, and interviews. We were able to conceive of the plan, create documents, reach out to potential contributors, and create our web presence in a very short amount of time because of the skills we had already acquired. The thing that took the longest was settling on the name. Our brainstormed list included many other options. Would you still love us if we were Podioactive? Enjoy!

Mathew Wayne Selznick, one of the spearheads of the DIY podcasting world, will be joining the Podioracket Blog Talk Radio program on June 25 at 2:30 PM Pacific/5:30 PM Eastern. You will not want to miss this one. He is going to tell us all about Hazy Days and Cloudy Nights and what’s new for Brave Men Run.

Jason Kays on BTR June 29

Jason is a newcomer to Podiobooks.com. He is a lawyer by day and writer in his off time. He is getting a big response to his first Podiobooks.com novel Virtual Vice – a new technology crime novel based on true events thriller.

Cochran on BTR Jul 2

Stacy Cochran author of several Podiobooks.com productions will be on BTR-Podioracket. Yes! His interview was so fascinating and the short format just couldn’t fit it all so we invited him to come on the BTR extension on July 2, 2009 at 2:30 pm Pacific/5:30 pm Eastern. Set your reminder now! And hear all about Claws!

Listen now:

or download Podioracket Ep-11.

INTERVIEWS

Stacey Cochran

Stacey Cochran’s Main Website: http://www.staceycochran.com/
His writing site http://www.howtopublishabook.org/
Email Stacey: http://staceycochran.com/_wsn/page5.html

J.P. Moore

J.P. Moore’s Website – http://www.jpmooreonline.com/
Contact J.P. through his website: http://www.jpmooreonline.com/contact
Twitter: http://twitter.com/JPMoo

NEWS

Chasing the Bard was awarded New Zealand’s top honor for science fiction and fantasy works! Congratulations, Pip, on getting the coveted Sir Julius Vogel Award.

We’ve had some fantastic interviews with Podiobooks.com authors, and learned even more in the extended Blog Talk Radio LIVE interviews. They’re in the archive for you to enjoy authors such as J.C. Hutchins, J.D. Sawyer, and many others. If you haven’t already, check out Rhonda and Cyrus A. Webb, the producer of the television reality show The Write Stuff, in an interview now available exclusively at the Podioracket.com Blog Talk Radio Extension.

And a quick ‘Thanks’ to Jack of Wanderradio for placing our Podioracket banner on his site. If you check out his show, you may just hear a few familiar voices. Did you know we do bumpers? Just ask!

CONTESTS

Philippa Ballantine has extended her Weather Child contest until July 1. Write a review or blog about the book and let Philippa know with an email to pip@pjballantine.com. Your name will go into the hat for a huge collection of New Zealand goodies.

Contest number 9 has been announced in The Mark of a Druid 2009 Contest series. Kidnap the Trailer. Go to http://www.themarkofadruid.com snag the trailer and put it on your blog, twitter the link and talk it up, then click participate on the book site and give Rhonda the link. Every time you talk it up add to your participate list and your name will go in the drawing each time you let her know you kidnapped the trailer. Contest details located here.

New Releases

• A Coffee Crusade by Theodore Isaac Erski Fiction
• Biography of a Grizzly by Ernest Thompson Seton Historical Fantasy
• The God Conspiracy by Derek Gilbert Thriller
• Ancient Rising – Rise of the Ancients Book 1 by JC De La Torre Fantasy
• Heaven – Season Five: War by Mur Lafferty Magical Realism

Now Completed

• Blood Witness by Dave Hitt Horror/Dark Fantasy
• Theater of the Midnight Sun by Michael McGee Audiodrama
• Contagious by Scott Sigler Horror/Dark Fantasy

Monday-

This week starts off with a bang! J.D. Sawyer will be joining us on the Podioracket.com BlogTalkRadio extension. He is a premier podcaster and is finally joining Podiobooks.com. Listen to the show and find out all about Predestination and Other Games of Chance and his newest project Down from Ten LIVE on Monday 6-15-2009 at 2:30pm Pacific/5:30 pm Eastern. Join us!

Wednesday-

We release an episode full of contests, news, and interviews with J.P. Moore, the author of Toothless, and Stacey Cochran, the author of several podiobooks and our guest blogger, about his newest release Claws.

Seeing Results!

On the Podioracket blogtalkradio extension we are having fantastic live turnouts and the archive listens are doubling the exposure  authors are getting through Podioracket.com! Last week’s Live Podioracket Blog Talk extension with J.C. Hutchins was the successful cap to Support J.C week. In the three days following the interview it was downloaded more than 2,000 times, in addition to the more than 100 LIVE listeners.

*Congratulations to Snowmedic and Cobalt for winning the autographed copies of J.C. Hutchins Personal Effect: Dark Arts!*

How can we be even more successful?

Thank you to all our subscribers, listeners and contributors.

If you’d like to help spread the word, please keep telling people about Podioracket.com. To make it even easier, we have the Spread the Word page with badges and our 30-second promo. Add them to your site or podcast! We are also having a lot of fun creating custom bumpers for podcasts. Contact us if you’d like a little something from Podioracket whipped up for your show!

We also want to hear from you! There is a new voice recorder feature on the main page of Podioracket.com. We encourage you to leave us a message. Tell us what you want to hear, what you think, and suggest ways to improve the show.

As with any of your favorite podcasts your feedback is invaluable. Leave us a comment and please rate the show and review us on iTunes.

Thanks so much, Rhonda and Heather, for having me on today as a guest blogger at Podioracket.com and thanks so much for all that you do on behalf of authors, readers, and listeners. You guys are amazingly generous, and I hope you know how much we all appreciate you. Thanks so very much!

So, yes, I am coming down the home stretch of my 45-Day Blog Tour to promote my novel CLAWS. It has been a wild ride that has seen the sale of nearly 1,500 copies of CLAWS (and The Colorado Sequence) on Amazon Kindle alone, and so I thought it might be interesting to y’all to hear how I’ve done it.

It all started with podiobooks. I’ve been publishing books on Podiobooks.com from the very beginning; I think I was one of the first 5 or 10 authors to sign on with Evo and company. And it has steadily grown the past few years from book to book.

This year, I decided to launch my new novel CLAWS in paperback and on Amazon Kindle a few months before releasing the podiobook version, and I lined up a 45-Day blog tour to help promote it. NYT bestselling authors and local self-published authors alike signed on by hosting me as a guest blogger. Additionally, I rallied the troops in North Carolina where I organize a 2,000+ member writers group, and I gave away free copies for review purposes during the first couple of weeks.

Within two weeks, reviews started showing up on Amazon, and then I began pushing the Kindle version hard. With a list price of a dollar, Kindle readers have embraced CLAWS, which has effectively acted as a marketing leader contributing to the sale of close to a thousand copies of my previous novel (The Colorado Sequence), which was beating the Star Trek movie tie-in book, Dune, and A Brave New World for most of the past few weeks.

The underlying message of all this has been that the kindness and the generosity of fans, readers, and fellow authors is the single-most powerful force in our little corner of the entertainment sandbox. A concerted marketing effort supported by a clear vision, good story, and affordable price helps as well.

I’d just like to take this opportunity to say thanks. Thanks first to you, Rhonda and Heather, for your kindness and generosity. And thanks to the podiobook community, which has offered such gracious support and encouragement the past few years. You’ve truly changed the world and given authors a place to grow and readers a place to listen and enjoy good books.

So what’s on tap for later this summer? I’ve lined up award-winning voice actor Nancy Stolfo-Corti for the podiobook version of CLAWS. Nancy’s voice is like satin, and I’m excited to be working with her in a brand new recording studio in Raleigh, North Carolina, which my good friend (and one of my TV show’s directors) Michael Graziano is building. Not sure exactly the date yet that we’re going to start rolling out CLAWS at podiobooks, but we should be online by later this summer or early fall.

Rock on, people! And thanks so much for listening!

Stacey Cochran

Remember that J.C. Hutchins will be joining Podioracket.com’s live show next week and two lucky participants will receive an autographed copy of Personal Effects: Dark Art Personal Effects! Set a reminder and talk live with a Podiobooks.com superstar.

Be ready for a Claws sighting right here on Podioracket.com. Next week Podioracket.com will welcome a guest blog.  Stacey Cochrane, author of Claws, has included Podioracket in his large online tour. 

Listen now

or download Podioracket Ep-08

Interviews

James’ Websites – is at Kirin Books

James’ Email – jamesdpriest@aol.com

Buy the PDF – Foremost Press

Twitter – www.twitter.com/7speckarin7

Facebook – Search for James Priest

Video trailer – See it here


 

Mark’s Website – http://www.hellholetavern.com/

Mark’s Email – hellholetavern@aol.com

Twitter – http://twitter.com/Mark_Eller

Facebook – Search for Mark Eller

News

Stacey Cochran is no new-comer to Podiobooks.com. He is the author of the free serialized audiobooks Amber Page and the Legend of the Coral Stone, The Colorado Sequence and The Kiribati Test.  He now has a new print book out called Claws and is undertaking a huge 45 day virtual tour.

Have you heard of him?  If you have, he’s asking for comments. 

If you haven’t heard of him, check out the virtual tour.  He will even be making a stop at our own Podioracket.com blog on June 12.

He also has a website about writing and publishing called How to Publish a Book.
Claws– coming to Podiobooks.com in June.

Parsec Awards nominations draw to a close on June 7. Have you nominated your favorite? You know they’d appreciate it.

Contests

Christine Rose author with Ethan Rose, of Rowan of the Wood, is running a competition with a Kindle 2 as a prize. Find details about it on their website. There are TEN ways to enter–from the extremes of video to a follow on twitter.

These contests are closing so not much time left:

The Mark of a Druid Meet The Characters Contest closes on May 31.

Philippa Ballantine’s Win-a-Hamper-of-New-Zealand-Goodies ends June 1 so get your review in for a chance to win.

New Releases

• Personal Effects: Sword of Blood by J.C. Hutchins Thriller
• Traitor, Book 1 of The Turner Chronicles by Mark Eller
  Science Fiction

Now Complete

• The Secret Society of Seven Sorcerers by J.A. Areces
  Fantasy FAMILY FRIENDLY: Safe for family listening!
• Virtual Vice - a new technology crime novel based on true events by Jason M. Kays Thriller