Listen
or download the ep.

CONTRIBUTORS:

Wyken Seagrave Greeting
Grizzly Smith Greeting
Emerian Rich Greeting
Mark Rayner Promo
A. Craig Newman Greeting (New Jersey Writers Society)
Alex White Greeting
Wander Radio and Arlene Radasky Promo
Edward G. Talbot Greeting
Paul Elard Cooley Greeting
Keith Hughes Promo
Jack Hosley Greeting
Arlene Radasky Greeting
The GearHeart Alex White Promo
@dahayden Greeting
Mick Bordet Greeting
Wyken Seagrave Promo
Lone Wolf Sage Co Greeting
A.P. Stephens Greeting
Craig Robertson Promo
J.D. Sawyer Greeting
Mick Bordet and Arlene Radasky promo
Keith Hughes pirate greeting
Collin Earl and Chris Snelgrove Greeting
Paul E Cooley Promo
Philipa Ballantine Greeting
Brain Rathbone Promo
Drew Beatty Greeting
Podioracket’s H.E. Roulo and Rhonda R Carpenter Promo

Listen [audiohttp://media.podiobooks.com/podioracket/Podioracket-WH02.mp3]

or download the audio

INTERVIEWS

Tee Morris

Follow Tee @teemonster

Website: allatwitterbook.com

Show: birdhouserules.com

J.D. Sawyer

Website: http://antithesis.jdsawyer.net/

Email: dan@jdsawyer.net

Twitter: @dsawyer

Bio: When he’s not indulging his psychosis or happily encouraging his burgeoning case of carpal tunnel syndrome by feeding his writing habit, he spends his time doing fine art photography, video production and editing, and podcast production through his media company ArtisticWhispers Productions. He is currently in post production on his first feature film, Hunting Kestral, which takes place in the same universe as the podcast novel Predestination and Other Games of Chance

Philippa Ballantine

Weather Child by Philippa Ballantine Historical Fantasy

Twitter: philippajane

Triple Threat Double Dipping Contest:

This Wednesday, blog posts will appear at digitalmagic.com, metamorcity.com, and jdsawyer.net containing printable PDFs.  These PDFs will contain a page of printable bookmarks.  Your mission: Print the bookmarks out, cut them along the dotted lines, and take them to your local libraries and bookstores.  Leaving a set of bookmarks near the checkout gets you one point, putting the bookmarks into similar books will get you two points – each of the podcasters will have a number of authors listed in their blog posts whose books they’re targeting.  Do this as many times as you can before December 20th, and send in a photograph of each instance to the author. Each point you earn will get one copy of your name in the hat.  On Dec 21, winners will be drawn, winners will get free books as prizes.
Anyone who enters all three contests will get their name in a second hat for a second drawing — the winner of this will get a basket with New Zealand and San Francisco goodies in it.

In the next few weeks look forward to the Podiobooks.com promo special, interviews from our street team of interviewers, and finally the LIVE Blogtalkshow will resume in January.

Listen
or download the episode.

INTERVIEWS

Dreaming of Deliverance by R.E. Chambliss
Fiction

website: rechambliss.com

email: renee@rechambliss.com

twitter: reneechambliss

A facebook fan page is in the works!
 


Tattoo by Paul Elard Cooley

twitter:  paul_e_cooley

facebook:  http://facebook.com/paul.e.cooley Find free, original visceral horror and urban fantasy stories at:

http://shadowpublications.com
 

NEWS

Hutch does it again!

From Podiobooks.com poster child, to Ipong magazine cover author, J.C. Hutchinson is featured on the cover of iProng Magazine’s 53rd issue with a killer interview about the hardcover release of 7^th Son Descent. You have to see this for yourself:  http://www.iprong.com/magazine/iProngMagazineIssue53.pdf

Podioracket on BTR

Podioracket has achieved top listing on BlogTalkRadio.com in Books and is now a Featured Show! See why by checking out the archives during our hiatus. New LIVE shows start again in January.

Podiobooks.com Promo

Lastly in the news, a big ‘thank you’ from Podioracket.com  to all the podcasters and authors that submitted a podiobooks.com Promo! We will be playing them all for you in an upcoming  holiday special.

CONTESTS

The Mark

As usual The Mark of a Druid has a contest going on and the 2009 contest series is almost over. Go to www.themarkofadruid.com for details on how to win on Nov 30 and how to have the chance to win the original oil on canvas Dec 31^st. That’s right, only two to go and the 2009 series is over.

Twitter Amazon Giveway

A.P. Stephens, author of THE STOLEN MOON OF LONDOR, is holding The Great  Twitter Amazon Giveaway. Re-tweet and you could win a $25.00 Amazon gift certificate in time for holiday gift giving.

Triple Threat Double Dipping Contest:

This Wednesday, blog posts will appear at digitalmagic.com, metamorcity.com, and jdsawyer.net containing printable PDFs.  These PDFs will contain a page of printable bookmarks.  Your mission: Print the bookmarks out, cut them along the dotted lines, and take them to your local libraries and bookstores.  Leaving a set of bookmarks near the checkout gets you one point, putting the bookmarks into similar books will get you two points – each of the podcasters will have a number of authors listed in their blog posts whose books they’re targeting.  Do this as many times as you can before December 20th, and send in a photograph of each instance to the author. Each point you earn will get one copy of your name in the hat.  On Dec 21, winners will be drawn, winners will get free books as prizes.
Anyone who enters all three contests will get their name in a second hat for a second drawing — the winner of this will get a basket with New Zealand and San Francisco goodies in it.

NEW RELEASES

The Sorcerer’s Secret by J. A. Areces Fantasy
The Rookie: Remastered MATURE AUDIENCES EditionEdition by Scott Sigler Science Fiction
Theme and Variations by Michelle M. Welch, editor Science Fiction
Cheating, Death by Teel McClanahan III Horror/Dark Fantasy
 

NOW COMPLETE

The God Conspiracy by Derek Gilbert Thriller
Untrue Tales… Book Three by Teel McClanahan III Science Fiction
Handbook for the Criminally Insane by Brian Holtz Humor

In a quick recap, there are five items that J.D. Sawyer outlines as basic qualities of good audio:

1) The voices are clear, rather than muddy
2) The background noise levels in a given scene are consistent, rather than fluctuating up and down
3) The editing is clean – where there are breaths, they are full breaths rather than chopped in the middle.
4) The plosives don’t pop and the sibilants don’t hiss
5) The sound characteristics are consistent – you can’t tell where one take ends and the other begins, even with ADR.

We resume at number 3.

Getting Good Audio
by J. Daniel Sawyer

The editing is clean – where there are breaths, they are full breaths rather than chopped in the middle

Unfortunately, very few people in the world can give a perfect read with perfect pacing every time — that’s why we edit audio. The most common newbie mistake with editing audio it failing to pay attention to the breaths between words. Most people inhale shortly and sharply between phrases, and even a trained voice actor with superb breath control will have trouble recording without at least some of these breaths.

The sound of a breath cut off in the middle, or beginning in the middle, is very effective at creating anxiety — that’s why you’ll often hear panting sounds in the soundtrack on horror and suspense films. Cutting your audio without paying attention to those little, insignificant-seeming breaths can leave your audio with little panting noises all through it, which are subliminally unnerving and distracting.

To prevent this, when editing your audio, make your tracks as tall as possible, and watch for the little bumps in the waveforms that the breath sounds make. When you edit audio, always either cut the breath noises out completely, or leave them in completely – never make a cut in the middle of a breath. All other things being equal, this will give you a clean, listenable, professional-sounding edit.

Popping and hissing is not welcome

Plosives are the hard, popping sounds – B and P in English. They’re made when a big wall of air hits the diaphragm of your microphone (or ear). To attenuate them, use a pop screen when you’re recording. Alternately, perform at a 45 degree angle to your mic diaphragm, so the mic will pick up your voice very strongly, but the breath bursts will slide by it. Finally, in either case, running a low-cut filter (an equalization pass that squashes all frequencies below about 125hz) may be desirable if you’re still getting significant bass spikes on your plosives.The corollary to this is that many people, myself included, have a harsh sibilant “s” when they speak. The sibilant sounds (”s,” “sh,” and “ch”) occur at different frequencies from the other consonants (like the “t”, for example), and it’s possible to soften your sibilant “s” without crushing your other consonants. This is called “De-essing,” and you can do it with any good parametric EQ, including the one that comes free with Audacity. Pay attention to this part of the spectrum when building your EQ curves, and you’ll be golden.

We shouldn’t know that you recorded over three days

Ever watch Return of the Jedi? Remember the scenes in Jabba’s Palace? It sounded like a real place, didn’t it? And like everyone there was in the same room?

Here’s the shocker: almost none of the audio recorded on set was used in that sequence, because all the actors in costumes had to have air conditioners and fans running constantly in order to keep from collapsing (and, even then, between takes they had to put fans inside the suits). The noise floor was so high that pretty much nothing was usable. Everything you saw in that sequence, audio-wise, was recorded after the fact (a technique that’s called ADR for “Additional Dialog Recording”).

Over the course of a performance that lasts more than twenty minutes, your voice changes. The muscles in your throat get tired, you get dry, and your voice drops in pitch and the crispness softens. Listening straight through from one end to another, most people can’t hear it, but when you start editing, all bets are off. What if, at the end of a chapter, you decide you’ve really found the groove and need to redo the beginning section, so just loop around? You could be causing yourself troubles.

The audience shouldn’t be able to tell you’ve been editing. Your voice should sound like it’s the same person, speaking into the same microphone, on the same day, all throughout your episode. To achieve this, you want to make sure that you are using the same mic every time, that you’re sitting or standing the same distance from it and speaking at the same angle to it, and that you’re recording at roughly the same time of day.

Beyond that, learn to pay attention to the muscles in your throat. Keep tea or water (never milk or coffee) nearby, and take a small sip whenever you start to feel a little dry. Take breaks every 20-30 minutes, and don’t talk during those breaks. Do warm up exercises (singing scales, reciting tongue twisters, etc.) for your voice before you start recording. Then, when you’re in the edit bay, listen to the sound of your voice, and make sure that you never stick two takes next to each other that sound qualitatively different.

Wrapping it up

I didn’t deal with equipment (mics, mixers, etc) in this post, because even the best equipment won’t give you a good sound until you’ve got these basics down. Once you’ve got these down, some carefully chosen and inexpensive gear can take you to the next level – but even with a cheap USB Snowball, you’ll get a serviceable sound if you’re careful.

So, pay attention to your signal, read clearly, and start podcasting!

SPECIAL NOTE

J.D. Sawyer will be the host of a special Podioracket.com Blog Talk Radio Extension where he leads a discussion with guests Rhonda R. Carpenter and Heather E. Roulo. If you have questions for the ladies about Podioracket.com, BTR, or either of their books then be there LIVE at 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern on Thursday, September 17th. Set a reminder!

ABOUT OUR CONTRIBUTOR

J. D. Sawyer is author of The Antithesis Progression, Sculpting God,, Down From Ten, the host of The Polyschizmatic Reprobates Hour, and a regular contributor to LinuxJournal Magazine. Through his company ArtisticWhispers Productions, he manages various types of a/v productions and photography projects. Find out more, and get his podcasts, by clicking here.

Getting Good Audio
by J. Daniel Sawyer

Good audio can’t save bad writing. You’ve heard it before, and it reflexively sounds true – after all, great special effects can’t save a lame movie, and the same might well be true for audiobooks. The inverse, however, is a little less obvious to most people: Bad audio CAN destroy good writing.

This one doesn’t have a good film corrolary — after all, there are gobs of great movies made on shoestring budget, shot on video or 16mm, that are interesting enough that the low production values don’t make one bit of difference, aren’t there?

Actually, there aren’t. Unless you’re a bad movie fetishist (not that I’d know what that is), any movie that holds your attention is meeting a certain quality threshold with its production values. If you’re not seeing it on the screen, close your eyes and listen: chances are the movie has good, solid audio. Even if it’s not fancy, it’s got a few basic qualities:

1) The voices are clear, rather than muddy
2) The background noise levels in a given scene are consistent, rather than fluctuating up and down
3) The editing is clean – where there are breaths, they are full breaths rather than chopped in the middle.
4) The plosives don’t pop and the sibilants don’t hiss
5) The sound characteristics are consistent – you can’t tell where one take ends and the other begins, even with ADR.

How do you get these? Here are a few quick tips:

Clear voices

Voice is what you’re all about as a podcaster, so make sure that you’ve got a mic that plays fair with your voice. If you’ve got a bass heavy voice, don’t get a mic that attenuates the high end — you need those consonants in there to have a bright, clear sound.

To pull this off, the spectrum analyzer is your friend. Almost every audio editing program has one. Vocal range for most people is between 200 and 2000hz for the tone, and between 4000 and 20,000hz for your consonants. Record your voice doing different things and then look at it in the spectrum analyzer to see where your voice is the strongest and where it’s the weakest. Make sure that your consonant peaks don’t get lost when you process your audio — so don’t ever boost your bass without also making sure you can hear your consonants brightly and clearly.

Give me a clean sound

You must record in a dead room. In audiogeek speak, “dead” means “does not have much of an echo” where “live” means “has echoes like a gymnasium.” When you chose which room to record in, you want something that is, as Miracle Max would say, “mostly dead” (but not all dead – you need a teeny bit of resonance to help bring your vocal characteristics out.)

Most houses are pretty live – the flat, parallel, bare walls and the flat ceilings make for very unpleasant reverb – so you’re going to need to break things up. Throw pillows all over the place. Record with a bookshelf (filled with actual books) behind you. Cover any metal or glass or hardwood tables with reasonably thick blankets. Hang moving blankets or quilts in front of the walls and put throw-rugs down on hardwood floors. Put chairs at odd angles. The object of the game is to reduce the number of straight lines in the room and to introduce surfaces that absorb sound. If the flat surfaces can’t reflect sound back and forth to each other like a ping-pong ball then you’re on the right track.

Once that’s done, and you’ve recorded, you’re going to find out about another kind of floor: the noise floor.

Your noise floor is the noise that you can hear on the track when you’re not speaking – it’s the noise produced by the air moving in the room, fans in your computer, the electricity in the lines, the transistors in your equipment, and any radio frequency interference your mic cable might be picking up.

In professional environments, -70db or lower is an ideal noise floor and -60 or lower is acceptable (as most playback equipment produces -60db levels when it runs.) Anything over these levels is likely to be audible to your audience.

To measure the noise floor, use your spectrum analyzer — select a “silent” portion of audio and have the spectral analyzer graph it. On the x axis of the analyzer you’ll see the frequencies marked off, and the y axis will have the amplitude (volume). As long as your highest peak doesn’t break above -60, you should be fine.

Sometimes, it’s not possible to get a noise floor this low. If you’re recording multiple mics simultaneously, or you’re in a room that just can’t be made quiet. When this is the case, your audio requires special care when you edit. A number of programs out there contain noise removal tools called “gates” and “levelers.” Unless you know what you’re doing, do not use these – most of them will silence the quiet parts of your signal and/or boost your words (including the noise underneath them). This leads to sharply fluctuating levels in the noise floor, which triggers the fight-or-flight response in the human brain and will subtly unnerve your audience. On the other hand, the brain is perfectly capable of adjusting to even a fairly loud constant noise floor — put simply, it’s better to have a slightly dirty signal with a consistent sound than it is a signal that’s only clean in some places.

Stay tuned for Part 2.

SPECIAL NOTE

J.D. Sawyer will be the host of a special Podioracket.com Blog Talk Radio Extension where he leads a discussion with guests Rhonda R. Carpenter and Heather E. Roulo. If you have questions for the ladies about Podioracket.com, BTR, or either of their books then be there LIVE at 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern on Thursday, September 17th. Set a reminder!

ABOUT OUR CONTRIBUTOR

J. D. Sawyer is author of The Antithesis Progression, Sculpting God,, Down From Ten, the host of The Polyschizmatic Reprobates Hour, and a regular contributor to LinuxJournal Magazine. Through his company ArtisticWhispers Productions, he manages various types of a/v productions and photography projects. Find out more, and get his podcasts, by clicking here.

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

Listen Now:

or Download Episode 16.

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

Coming up on Podioracket’s Blog Talk Radio Extension on Thursday, August 20 at 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern is author J.D. Sawyer.

J.D. Sawyer is the author of several works, including Sculpting God, Predestination (a 2009 Parsec Finalist for “Best New Speculative Fiction Podcaster/Team,”) , and Other Games of Chance. Join us LIVE to learn about his new release Down From Ten.

Set a reminder! because we will also be giving away some Podioracket swag at the LIVE interview! Win with us, and be sure to enter J.D’s contest.

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/.

or download Podioracket Ep-13.

INTERVIEWS

Brian Rathbone

Website: http://www.brianrathbone.com

Email: Brian@BrianRathbone.com

Twitter: @brianrathbone

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1388294048

MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/brianrathbone

Bio: Horse trainer turned technology geek turned fantasy author and podiobooker.

J.D. Sawyer

Coming soon to Podiobooks
Website: http://antithesis.jdsawyer.net/

Email: dan@jdsawyer.net

Twitter: @dsawyer

When he’s not indulging his psychosis or happily encouraging his burgeoning case of carpal tunnel syndrome by feeding his writing habit, he spends his time doing fine art photography, video production and editing, and podcast production through his media company ArtisticWhispers Productions. He is currently in post production on his first feature film, Hunting Kestral, which takes place in the same universe as the forthcoming podcast novel Predestination and Other Games of Chance.

CONTESTS

Seth Harwood is offering a signed copy of Jack Wakes Up on our BTR-PR show July 21, 6:00 pm PST/9:00 pm EST. Be at the show as a call in guest 347-996-3319 or in the live chat and get to ask him a question in order to qualify for the drawing. You could win! Set a reminder.

Brain Rathbone’s has 4 ways to win four autographed copies of his book, including on our LIVE BTR-PR show on July 23rd at 6 pm PST/9 pm EST. Details on the other ways are available at his website. Set a Reminder for the Podioracket live show and join in the fun.

Philippa Ballantine has extended her Weather Child contest until August 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.

Arlene Radasky needs book club questions for The Fox. Visit her site and shoot her an email with a question and your name will go into the hat. Contest ends July 31, 2009

J.C. Hutchens and Matt Wallace bring you the Sword of Blood show and tell competition. Watch for Friday’s post or visit http://SwordOfBlood.com

NEWS

Parsec nominees are being reviewed. Watch for badges coming soon to nominees.

Phil Rossi’s Crescent hit #5 in horror in his Amazon book rush. Killer job!

Podiobooks 2.0 is so close! Stay tuned for the details as authors prepare!

New Releases

There are many options to enjoy!
   

• Checkwolf – Book 1 by Remy Gibson Fiction
• Quilt, Book and Bard by Bryna Chalmer Fantasy-Family Freindly
• T’Aragam: the Max Ransome Chronicles, Book One by Jack W. Regan-Young Adult-Family Freindly
• Acts of Desperation by Tim Dodge Thriller

• Unconventional by J. J. Hebert Inspirational Fiction-Family Freindly
• Untrue Tales… Book Two by Teel McClanahan III
  Science Fiction
• See Tom Run by Scott Wittenburg Mystery
• Star Struck by Emmy Z. Madrigal Romance

• The Mariner’s Secret, a Matt and Heather Thriller by Mary TomasiDubois Thriller-Family Freindly
• Inherited Danger by Brian Rathbone Fantasy
• Checkwolf – Book 4: Failure Not Tolerated by Remy Gibson
  Fiction
  

Now Completed

These have completed since our last Season One show.
   

• See Tom Run by Scott Wittenburg Mystery
• Inherited Danger by Brian Rathbone Fantasy
• The Mariner’s Secret, a Matt and Heather Thriller by Mary TomasiDubois Thriller-Family Freindly
• Jujun by Graydancer Magical Realism-Adults Only

• Hard Boiled Headline by Greg Crites Humor
• Untrue Tales… Book One by Teel McClanahan III Science Fiction
• Traitor, Book 1 of The Turner Chronicles by Mark Eller Science Fiction
• T’Aragam: the Max Ransome Chronicles, Book One by Jack W. Regan-Young Adult-Family Freindly