Podioracket Presents-Visionaries

Brought together by H.E. Roulo and Brian Holtz, this 16 story collection of short stories brings you some of the best Podiobooks.com has to offer. Each week of we will feature a new short story from one of the talented Podiobooks.com authors. The stories will be of many genres and told in the voices of the authors themselves. The anthology debuts on Podiobooks.com on Friday, February 12. Welcome to Podioracket Presents- Visionaries

 Five stories are available now!

The first story in the anthology, one of several prequel tales for J.C. Hutchins‘ thriller novel 7th Son: Descent, stars Kilroy2.0, a deranged Washington DC-based computer hacker. Incensed by recent federal scrutiny, Kilroy2.0 declares to his followers that today is a day of … ruination.

Listen to Brian Holtz’s award-winning, never before aired in audio, short story Jeremy’s Potential. This slipstream short story brings us Jeremy, who learns that his life is much bigger than he’d ever imagined. He finds himself spiraling from one reality to the next, searching for his daughter. To stop the nightmare he’ll need determination, quick reflexes and…a teddy bear. If you enjoy it, try one of Brian’s other Podiobooks.com novels.

Writer Patrick McLean won a “Best Fiction (Non-speculative)” Parsec Award  for this humorous piece, Death of a Dishwasher! Find more of Patrick’s work on Podiobooks.com, including How to Succeed in Evil.

Paul E. Cooley, the author of Tattoo, brings his horror short, Canvas, in which an artist discusses his philosophy of painting with a captive audience.

Seth Harwood’s thriller Junius, is the precursor to his novel Young Junius, which was just picked up for publication. Junius Ponds came up on tough streets outside Boston way back in the day. In the middle of drugs, gang violence, and the toughest set of tower-projects you ever knew, he seeks to avenge his brother. Learn more in the novel based on this short story, Young Junius.

Coming next week . . . . Ron Vitale!

So check out Podioracket Presents- Visionaries.

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INTERVIEWS

JP O’Donnell

Fatal Gamble is complete on Podiobooks.com.

Dr. Joseph P. O’Donnell is a board-certified pediatric dentist who has been involved in clinical practice and dental education for more than thirty-five years. Dr. O’Donnell is an Associate Clinical Professor at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine.

Dr. O’Donnell has authored a number of scientific articles pertaining to pediatric dentistry and special needs patients. However, for the past several years, he has pursued his long-time interest in creative writing. Under the pen name of JP O’Donnell, he has written two mystery novels, Fatal Gamble and the sequel, Deadly Codes: A Gallagher Novel. Both books have been awarded the distinction of Editor’s Choice and Reader’s Choice by his publisher, iUniverse.

For more information about the books of JP O’Donnell, please visit his website: www.jpodonnell.com.

Michael Thomas Cunningham

Christy is complete on Podiobooks.com.

Michael Thomas Cunningham resides in Bristol Tennessee.  He holds a BA in English as well as a Master’s in Business Administration.  When he is not writing or podcasting, he spends most of his time worrying about why he’s not writing or podcasting.  

Website for the book is ChristyNovel.com.

Feedback line is 877-50-NOVEL.

Email address is author@christynovel.com

Erin O’Briant

Glitter Girl is complete on Podiobooks.com.

Erin O’Briant is a San Francisco Bay Area writer and the author of the novel Glitter Girl. She is a writing teacher and has an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College.

Contact Erin at e_obriant@yahoo.com

Check out her site at www.erinobriant.com

News

The Boom Effect

The auction to raise funds for Sonic Boom was started by a group of podcasters and writers as a way for these communities to show support for the Morris family. Tee Morris is a beloved founding father of the podcasting community; co-creator of Podiobooks.com, writer of four social media books, and the first novelist to serialise his novel. On the 5th of January 2010 Tee found himself facing raising his daughter (with the alias of Sonic Boom) alone, after the sudden, shocking death of his wife Natalie. Check out http://www.theboomeffect.org/ for auction items to raise funds for Sonic Boom. All items will be auctioned on the webathon on 27th of February

Blog Talk Radio

Blog Talk Radio returns. Every other Thursday at 6pm Pacific time you can catch Rhonda and one of our great authors LIVE. The new season kicks off with voice talent Jeffrey Kafer on Thursday, February 11 at 6pm Pacific. Set a reminder now.

Podioracket Presents- Visionaries

We have gathered together 16 fabulous short stories by Podiobooks.com authors. The anthology debuts on Podiobooks.com on February 12.

We’re setting things into high gear right off the bat with five amazing authors.

J.C. Hutchins brings us Day 3 from his the world of 7th Son:Descent, followed by Brian Holtz‘s never before aired short story Jeremy’s Potential, then we add a dash of humor to lighten things up with Patrick McLean‘s Parsec Winning Death of a Dishwasher. Paul E. Cooley, a master at the short story, swoops in with Canvas. He’s followed by crowd favorite Seth Harwood with Junius, the precursor to his novel Young Junius, which was just picked up for publication.  Whew!

New Releases

Bundle of Trouble: A Maternal Instincts Mystery by Diana Orgain Mystery

The Secret World Chronicle, Book Three: World Well Lost by Mercedes Lackey and Steve Libbey Science Fiction

Now Complete

Griffin’s Daughter by Leslie Ann Moore Fantasy

The Dreamer’s Thread by Starla Huchton Fantasy

Released in Full

Due to the recent wave of authors releasing their full work all at once we are adding this new category.
 

The Crypt Book 01: The Crew by Scott Sigler Science Fiction

The Innerglow Effect by Craig Robertson Fiction

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

Episode 2: Philippa Ballantine & Patrick McLean

SHOW NOTES – Supporting links & details

Philippa Ballantine Weather Child Interview 

Philippa Ballantine discusses her newest novel Weather Child just released on Podiobooks.com.

Listen to the promo:

Or download the Weather Child Promo. 

Contests

Philippa Ballantine‘s exciting Weather Child  contest requests that you listen to the book and give it a review. Send Philippa an email at pip@pjballantine.com and you will be entered to win a signed copy of Chasing the Bard, Digital Magic and a ‘hamper of New Zealand goodies!”

If you haven’t entered yet don’t miss Drew Beatty’s one of a kind contest for Lost Gods, James Melzer’s blurb The Zombie Chronicles  and the Mark of a Druid 2009 contest series. 

Patrick McLean How to Succeed in Evil Interview

Patrick McLean, podcaster of The Seanachai, discusses his newest Podiobooks.com release How to Succeed in Evil: The Novel.

 Listen to the promo:

Or download the How to Succeed in Evil Promo. 

The News

 . . .or at the very least trying to make it into the news; this plan is just crazy enough to work! Melzer is at it again. Find out about Operation @thehour on his website and help Zombie Boy get the attention of his favorite nightly news/talk show The Hour, a CBC Canada show. Melzer is a big fan and wants to be on the show talking about podcasting, writing, social media and of course his book The Zombie Chronicles. How can we help him make another dream come true? Check out his site to find out. It could be a tweet thing to do!

Did you know Evo Terra was doing Emergency Intervention? About a month ago I received a message from Evo Terra about a new group called Social Media Triage (SMT). I was interested as I’m involved in a number of social media sites and, lets face it, I always wanted to pick Evo’s brain. He has engaged in social media networking from the beginning of the concept. Do your marketing plan a favor and join Evo Terra at Ustream.TV  Saturday mornings at 9:00 am MST. Join the SMT Facebook Group so that you can get the updates. Tell him Podioracket sent you!

See how podcasted novels are changing the face of education. Collin Earl, author of The House of Grey, has something to say about helping students learn English.

 Completed works

Here are a few newly completed works you can now get in full.

• Intercast Season One By Edward G Talbot
• Nephilm Push by Brain Holtz
• Jabez Conceived in Pain, Delivered in Victory by Bob Rench
• Nameless by D.C Woods

 New Releases

All of these titles are also linked in the blog roll (alphabetically) for your convenience.

• Marker Stone 3-11-09 by Paul J. Joseph
• Blood Witness 3-18-09 by Dave Hitt 
• The Takeover 3-23-09  by Mur Lafferty
• Nina Kimberly the Merciless by Christiana Ellis is a re-mastered podiobook released 3-25-09 for its upcoming print release on 5-15-09. [Note: Nina Kimberly's unreasonable demands will not be met by Podioracket.com and we will continue our opposition of her takeover of the internet.]
• Wild Animals I Have Known 3-31-09: Public domain written by Ernest Thompson Seton. Performed and produced by David Grizzly Smith.

 In the next show!

We will have an interview with Michael McGee author of Theater of the Midnight Sun; an audio article from David Grizzly Smith on Public Domain; plus tips from Edward G. Talbot and Michael McGee.

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