An Alibi Jones Spin-Off
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Mike Luoma appeared on Podioracket.com before when we interviewed him for is Podiobooks.com novels, including Synthetic Marmalade and Alibi Jones. He is, perhaps, best known for his Vatican Assassin Trilogy. He also contributed a short story to our Podioracket Presents-Visionaries anthology. Most recently, he created a guest post entitled Why Give Your Shorts Away.

This episode is unusual in that it is an adaptation of Mike Luoma’s comic book. Turning a comic into audio is a tricky process. We’d love to hear what you think of it.

Here is the audio short story “Alibi Jones: Blind Eye”.

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

Previous stories:

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.


“Blind Curve” relates to Dave Donelson’s Podiobooks.com novel Heart of Diamonds and is episode #7.

Or you can listen now

or download the episode.

Show Notes

INTERVIEWS

Nobilis Reed

Nobilis Reed is the most prolific erotica author in podcasting today. He has been around podcasting almost from its inception. Scouts is coming out in print Oct 13th. To celebrate, Nobilis is making it possible for one of our listeners to be awarded an autographed copy of Scouts. See the Contest section of Podioracket.com’s Episode 35 show notes (below) for more details.

Website: “Scouts” science fiction erotic romance – http://www.logical-lust.com/scouts.html

Email: http://groups.google.com/group/nobiliserotica

Twitter: @nobilisreed

Michael J. Parry

Bio:
I am an aspiring writer. One day I hope to be able to say I am an author, the difference being someone has seen enough merit in your work to pay you for the rights to publish it. That will be a fabulous day indeed. I write fantasy and science fiction, mixed in with the occasional piece of contemporary fiction. I won’t pretend that my work could be considered to have any literary merit, I just hope that people enjoy my stories. I live on a small block of land in the Tararua district of New Zealand, where me and my partner grow trees and our children. To earn a crust I work in the local public library.

Website: http://michaeljparry.com/

Email: michael@michaeljparry.com

Twitter: @Michael_J_Parry

James D. Priest

Kirins: The Flight of the Ain is the second book in the KIRINS trilogy by James D. Priest.

Original first edition books are available at Amazon.com.

Revised editions are available for download at foremostpress.com.

Email: jamesdpriest@gmail.com
Twitter: @Michael_J_Parry
 

NEWS & CONTESTS

From Nobilis Reed
The prize: A signed print copy of Scouts, plus the winner’s name (or alias) will be written into the sequel, “Pirates”.

To enter: Listen to the Nobilis Erotica podcast, and email Nobilis Reed with the subject line “CONTEST” and name one of the effects of listening to the podcast you were warned about. ”Scouts” is a science fiction erotic romance – check it out at this site.


Mike Luoma
Mike Luoma, longtime Podiobooks.com author and Podioracket Presents: Visionaries anthology participant, mentioned in our Blog Talk Radio extension that there was an Alibi Jones comic on the way. A prequel to the Alibi Jones podiobook. That short is now out in a new science fiction comic book anthology! The 16 page short with artist Meisha is in the new Earthbound Comics science fiction anthology Spacebound! #1. It’s on sale now at Indy Planet: http://indyplanet.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=4223. For more information, check out the press release from Earthbound Comics.

A Dance With Demons
Archive listens for the BTR-PR show with Jeff Offringa and P.J. VanderKooij are way up. Did you listen? If you did this will be an easy question to answer and if you send the right answer in to P.J. at mrlemurboy@gmail.com by October 30th you could win one of 5 copies of either a autographed print version or a ebook version of A Dance with Demons. If you haven’t listened to the show yet there’s still time, here is the link to the BTR-PR Episode. Listen carefully for the answer to this question: Book 2 in A Dance with Demons a Trilogy which is in process; what is the tentative title for the new novel?


Special Note- BTR
Seth Harwood and Tyrus Books Release Young Junius in hardcover and trade paperback on the same day — Oct. 18th, YOUNG MONDAY! Join us live to kick it during the Amazon rush for the novel. We will be rocking it in a live Blog Talk Radio-Podioracket show. Books will be given to callers and chat participants and Seth promises a ton of laughs. We can’t wait! When making your order on October 18th go through http://sethharwood.com/youngjunius and click on that sweet little Amazon link. Celebrate YOUNG MONDAY with Podioracket. Publisher’s Weekly says, “Harwood pulls no punches… Junius’s fate is as old as Aeschylus.” Set your reminder today and get in the show!

Now Releasing

The Creating Formula by Barbara Joye Self-Help
The Red Album of Asbury Park Remixedby Alex Austin Fiction

New and Complete

Shall I Pray or Watch TV?by Vic Zarley History
Theme and Variations, opus 2by Michelle M. Welch, editor Science Fiction
Cybrosisby P.C. Haring Science Fiction

Complete

The Spiral Tattooby Michael J. Parry Fantasy

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.

This episode has it all! Two wonderful authors, a contest, news and some killer upcoming content.

Listen to the audio

or download the episode.

INTERVIEWS

Richard Denning

Website: www.richarddenning.co.uk

Twitter: http://twitter.com/RichardDenning

Facebook: http://twitter.com/RichardDenning

Richard Denning works as a family doctor. He is married with two children. He has always been fascinated by historical settings as well as horror and fantasy. His other interests are games of all types. He is the designer of a board game based on the Great Fire of London.

Paulette Jaxton

Podcast: http://empresssword.com/

Website: http://paulettejaxton.com

Twitter & Facebook: PauletteJaxton

Paulette was born in Washington, DC then moved to Annapolis, Maryland when she was four where she still lives today. She began writing prose and poetry in high school, but was encouraged to focus on math and science by well meaning teachers. That led to a long career as a software engineer. She kept her writings to herself until 2008 when she produced Form Letter Rejection Theatre, a podcast anthology of her short speculative fiction. The Empress Sword is her first novel.

NEWS

Congratulations Mike Luoma!

Mike Luoma’s Glow in the Dark Radio Podcast has reached its banner 100th episode. Congratulations, Mike, from Podioracket.com.

Parsec Awards

The Parsec Awards are now open for your nominations. Please visit www.parsecawards.com and nominate your favorite specific podcasts!

LIVE BTR shows

Double the Dragon Moon Press awesomeness with two Blog Talk Radio-Podioracket shows. Join Rhonda for two live shows this week. The 28th for the authors and editor of Dragon Moon Press’s Podthology and the 29th for Associate Publisher at Dragon Moon Press Gabrielle Harbowy. Both shows at 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern. Set a reminder now!
Coming at you on May 5 on Blog Talk Radio-Podioracket it’s Cinco De Harwood! We have some books to give away and Seth Harwood will be there to share his new pre-release kick off for Young Junius from Tyrus Books. Set a reminder now!
Then on May 6th meet the author of Paraffin Winter, Peter Chowney, all the way for England to your ears.

Podioracket Presents-Visionaries

Visionaries continues to release new stories each week. We had a supersized episode from J. Daniel Sawyer and next up is our own H.E. Roulo’s story, Undergrowth. We’ll finish big with an original tale from Phil Rossi.

CONTESTS

Mayday Mayday! E.G Talbot is giving up his shorts! Cover your ears and open your eyes for these to Ebook releases on May 1, 2010, Edward G. Talbot needs your help with his shorts. Short stories, that is. On that day, Talbot will launch two ebook collections of short stories at http://www.edwardgtalbot.com/ and other ebook retailers. How can you say no to Mayday?

NEW

Into the Woods by David Wood Historical Fiction

RELEASED IN FULL

Lost and Not Found – Director’s Cut by Teel McClanahan III Fantasy
The Servant and the Soothsayer by Eugene Fairfield Fiction

COMPLETED

One Fall by Spencer Baum Thriller
Beneath by Jeremy Robinson Fiction
Famous Potatoes by Joe Cottonwood Literature

Why give your shorts away in anthologies?

I’m writer Mike Luoma, with work in two new anthologies: a short with artist Ben Ferrari – “Souverain: Under God” – in Lady Fight: Aggression from Earthbound Comics, and a short story – “Alibi Jones: Vacation” – in Podioracket Presents: Visionaries. But I’m not getting paid directly for either. Podioracket’s Rhonda Carpenter asked me to tell you why a writer would want their work to appear “for free” – Why write a script for Earthbound without getting paid? Why “give away” a short story to Podioracket Presents: Visionaries?

For me it’s the value of exposure – letting people know my work exists. With both Visionaries and Lady Fight  I benefit from the combined promotional muscle of all involved, as my work appears alongside the work of more established creators. Their audiences have a chance to sample my stuff, and vice versa.

The Vatican Assassin Trilogy (Vatican Assassin, Vatican Ambassador and Vatican Abdicator), my Synthetic Marmalade and Alibi Jones are available free at Podiobooks, and I’ve seen listening translate into sales. In theory, new people hear the “Alibi Jones” short story and go on to listen to or read my other books and buy them in some form… in theory. And I haven’t actually “given away” the “Alibi Jones” story. All rights belong to me – Podioracket has non-exclusive rights to feature my work. The story’s not yet in print anywhere – so I am thinking of other ways to use the work and “monetize” it.

I benefit from the exposure Earthbound Comics generates – Lady Fight was a 2009 Project Fanboy Award Nominee – and I get books at cost to sell at retail price myself, a creator’s agreement that isn’t much different from putting out my own books. The exposure should help promote my new comics: the drama Everybody Lies with artist Juan Carlos Quattordio and the first issue of the graphic novel adaptation of Vatican Assassin with artist Cristian Navarro. Writing for Earthbound also establishes me as a comic book writer, gets reviewers familiar with my work and so more likely to review my own releases, and that in turn should encourage more people to buy my books.

Lots of hoping and guessing… and luck, timing… and inspiration. Wrote a short that didn’t have a home – and then Podioracket put out the call for Visionaries. Read Ben Ferrari’s “Souverain” story in the first issue of Lady Fight and an entire mini-trilogy of stories for her exploded into my mind. I pitched the ideas to Ben and he loved them! There were sublime coincidences which led to my work appearing in each collection. There’s also a trust factor involved – and in repeated cases thus far both Podioracket and Earthbound have proven trustworthy. This makes the potential promotional value of including my work in their books worth exploring.

The ultimate goal is to get people to buy my books. Hope you’ll do some exploring – links follow:

Find all of Mike’s books’ links at Glow-in-the-Dark Radio – Mike Luoma’s Website:

http://mikeluoma.com

http://glowinthedarkradio.com

Lady Fight: Aggression from Earthbound Comics:

http://www.indyplanet.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=3352

http://earthboundcomics.com 

Podioracket Presents – Visionaries:

http://www.podiobooks.com/title/podioracket-presents-visionaries

http://podioracket.com

 From Mike’s Glow-in-the-Dark Radio Comics:

Everybody Lies:

http://www.indyplanet.com/index.php?id=3264

Vatican Assassin #1:

http://www.indyplanet.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=3144

Podioracket Presents-Visionaries First 8

The first half of Podioracket Presents-Visionaries has aired. Eight stories from eight experienced Podiobooks.com authors, J.C. Hutchins, Brian Holts, Patrick McLean, Paul Cooley, Seth Harwood, Ron Vitale, E.G. Talbot, and John Mierau. To celebrate, we’re inviting them all to a huge Podioracket Blog Talk Radio LIVE interview on Thursday, March 25th at 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern. Set a reminder now!

Story #9 from Mike Luoma

Time for another Podioracket Presents-Visionaries short story! The adventures of the title character of his novel Alibi Jones continue in this short story sequel. In Mike Luoma’s sci-fi story, “Alibi Jones: Vacation”, Alibi and Katie head to the planet Paradise for a vacation getaway. Unfortunately, Paradise doesn’t exactly live up to its name. The coup attempting to overthrow the planetary government isn’t helping, either.

It’s been a good week for Mike. As he explains:

“The guys at Earthbound Comics are debuting the new issue of their “Lady Fight” anthology series at this weekend’s “MegaCon” in Orlando, Florida. Lady Fight: Aggression features my 6 page comic book story Souverain: Under God. Souverain’s creator Ben Ferrari is on the art duties along with Matt Grant. If you’re like me and can’t make it to Orlando, you can pick up the issue online at Indy Planet: http://www.indyplanet.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=3352

“Souverain: Under God” sees our heroine continuing her mission of vigilante justice in Afghanistan. This is the second Souverain story I’ve written with Ben. The first appeared last fall in Lady Fight: Escalation. We’ve got a third yet to come. There’s more about the books at the Earthbound site: http://www.earthboundcomics.com. Be sure to check out the cover, featuring some beautiful art by Rob Nix!” 

And this week his story also came out in the Podioracket Presents-Visionaries anthology on Podiobooks.com. Check it out!

Listen

or download episode 24.

Interviews

Spencer Baum

Website: www.spencerbaum.net and http://thedemonqueen.com/

Email: spencerbaum75@gmail.com

A facebook fan page is in the works! Search for The Daemon Queen and the Locksmith

Starla Huchton

Website: www.thedreamsthreadnovel.com

Email: threaded.dreamer@gmail.com

Twitter: riznphnx

A facebook fan page is in the works! Search for The Dreamer’s Thread

Tim Dodge

Website: www.timdodgestories.com and www.purgatorynovel.com

Email: tim@timdodgestories.com

Twitter: tdog4494

New Releases

Time Crystal 2 by Wyken Seagrave

Beneath by Jeremy Robinson Fiction

Paraffin Winter by Peter Chowney

Podioracket Presents – Visionaries H.E. Roulo and Brian Holtz Fiction

 

Completed

Purgatory by Tim Dodge Magical Realism

Time Crystal by Wyken Seagrave

Alibi Jones by Mike Luoma Science Fiction

 Released in Full

The HeavenField – Book Two by I G Hulme Science Fiction

Regenis 4 Chronicles Book 2 – The Invisible Foe by Steve Simons Science Fiction

Listen

or download the ep.

INTERVIEWS

Mike Luoma

Alibi Jones

Mike Luoma’s Website: http://glowinthedarkradio.com/

Email: glowinthedarkradio@gmail.com

Twitter ID: MikeLuoma

Michelle M. Walsh

Theme and Variations Anthology
Music Themed Speculative Fiction

Website: http://www.themeandvariationsanthology.com/

Here is a tease about the new release:

“BERNARD CAMPION’S friends call him “BC”. Not that he has a lot of friends. You don’t make a lot of friends when you’re an assassin. His mission: eliminate the governor of Luna Prime, Meredith McEntyre. His bosses, The Office of Papal Operations: The OPO, tell him she’s been sympathizing with the enemy, the Universal Islamic Nation (UIN). His boss? BC works for the Pope. It’s 2109, a time of war. BC is ‘officially’ assigned as PR man to the Vatican Mission on Luna Prime, the major city on The Moon, as his cover. Just a mild mannered, young, twenty-something priest working for the New catholic Church on public relations. But he’s really a weapon pointed at the UIN by the NcC and their Earth based allies, the Universal Trade Zone, the UTZ.”

Listen to Mike ‘Raise a Racket’! Set a reminder.

And stay tuned for this week’s other BTR show with J.D. Sawyer and his new contest announcement! Thursday, August 20th at 6pm Pacific/9pm Easter. Set a reminder.

As you probably know by now, Podioracket’s Blog Talk Radio Extension continues to move at a mad pace, and brings you extended LIVE interviews and give-aways with some of your favorite authors.

In this episode, we’re going to grab a clip from a recent BTR show. Rhonda interviewed Tee Morris, the author of Billibub Baddings & MOREVI about his new book, All A Twitter. 

Rhonda also sat down with Arlene Radasky to talk about one aspect of Podiobooks 2.0 — getting rights to the music that accompanies an audio book.

Listen now:
[audiohttp://media.podiobooks.com/podioracket/Podioracket-Ep15.mp3]
or download Podioracket-Ep15.

All our past Blog Talk Radio interviews are available in archive at blogtalkradio.com/podioracket, and we have a player on our website.

Tee Morris

Follow Tee @teemonster

Website: allatwitterbook.com

Show: birdhouserules.com

Arlene Radasky on music rights

Twitter: @aradasky

Website: www.radasky.com

Email: Click here

Music by Steve McDonnald

CONTESTS

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 now until the interview on August 31, 2:30 pm PST/5:30 pm EST. He is gaving away a free book for the best BTR question and allowed a listener to name a character. Here are the details.


Philippa Ballantine will announce the winner of her New Zealand Basket on Friday, August 14th on our Blog Talk Radio Extension.


 
Paul J. Joseph, the independant filmmaker and author of Homesick and Marker Stone, will award an signed, original draft manuscript for Homesick. How do you win this memorobilia? Simply leave a comment for Paul at Podiobooks.com, Itunes or on his website and then shoot him an email.


Rhonda Carpenter is starting her contest #10! Give her a review and email her.


Listen to the episode to hear one of the submissions for the Podioracket.com contest seeking Podiobooks.com’s Perfect Promo! Hope it inspires you to enter!

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.

News

Podiobooks has just made an agreement with Smashwords. This is going to allow the two sites to link to each other so that users can get their audio and, if they just want more, the text versions of authors who participate. Watch for your favorite author to put their book out there!

In further news, Podiobooks is continuing to move toward that 2.0 release that we’ve been telling you about. Rumor has it, we’re just a couple weeks from testing.

New Releases

Vatican Assassin – Remastered by Mike Luoma Science Fiction

Completed Works

Weather Child by Philippa Ballantine Historical Fantasy

How to Succeed in Evil The Novel by Patrick McLean Fiction

The Inner Chapters, Volume 1 by Thomas Gideon Non-Fiction