Let’s kick off the show with a bit of Scott Sigler trivia: Our first guest shares his name with the main ship in one of Scott’s short story series. Is it BloodCast or The Crypt?

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INTERVIEWS

James Keeling’s Compensating Controls

Bio: James Keeling is a working author located in sometimes frozen tundra of Minnesota. The father of four daughters, he never ceases to be amazed by the magic of life around him. His role of both bedtime and fireside storyteller has led him inexorably into authorhood. His work has been published in the Flying Island Press’ Pirates Cove.

Synopsis:  Nicholas Edgwood rides a wave of good karma–a job he excels at, a new girlfriend, and a bright future. When he gets framed for a cyber-crime he did not commit, he must run for his life while his entire world crumbles around him.
Betrayal and murder replace peace and hope as he finds himself in unfamiliar territory. He may not be the biggest and baddest guy out there, but he has skills, the kind garnered from a career steeped in computers and code. Now he must leverage these skills to their fullest to stay above ground and breathing. It will take all of his talent, and courage he may not have, just to survive.

Get it on Amazon today! for only $3.99

For more information
Website: http://www.jameskeeling.com
Twitter:  http://twitter.com/#!/search/synapticjam
Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/#!/SynapticJam
Google+:  Find him here.

Michael J. Parry’s Elanore and Gurt Tales:
Synopsis: Book one The Spiral Tattoo introduces the reader to Elanore, the eight-foot tall troll, and Gurt, the six-inch tall (don’t you dare call me a fairy) Eleinu, both guardsmen in the city of Delvenport, tackle their most baffling case yet. When they find a dead waitress, naked except for an intricate tattoo in a spiral across her body, they’re launched into an adventure in the seedier side of Delvenport, filled with rogue mages, prostitution, and narcotics. But can they solve the case before madness and riots take over the city?
and Book 2 The Oaks Grove is a fantasy country mystery.

You can get book one in Ebook right now on Amazon for only $.99.

Bio:Fantasy mystery author writes fantasy and science fiction, mixed in with the occasional piece of contemporary fiction. He live on a small block of land in the Tararua district of New Zealand, where he and his partner grow trees and our children. To earn a crust he works in a University library as the Digital Initiatives Librarian. Michael loves social media, and uses it as a tool for the library he works in.
For more information
Website: http://michaeljparry.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/Michael_J_Parry
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Michael-J-Parry/177255755657054

NEWS

3 Podiobooks.com authors topped the charts on Amazon this last week and are still charting now.

Emerian Rich’s Night’s Knights [Kindle Edition]

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Hit #1 in both of these categories and is still at #1 Hit  #1 in Kindle, Store, Kindle eBooks, Fiction, Genre Fiction, Science Fiction

and #2 in KindleStore, Kindle eBooks, Fiction, GenreFiction, Horror, Ghosts


Seth Harwood’s Jack Palms in Triad Death Match (Jack Palms Crime) [Kindle Edition]

Get if from Amazon for free today!

Hit  #1 and is currently #3 in Kindle Store, Kindle eBooks,  Fiction, Genre Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers, Mystery, Hard-Boiled

We also have a special interview with Seth Harwood hitting the feed soon.


And our own Rhonda R Carpenter’s The Mark of a Druid [Kindle Edition]

Get it from Amazon for Free today!

Hit #1 in Kindle store, Kindle eBooks, Fiction, Historic, Fantasy and is currently #2 in Kindle Store, Kindle eBooks, Fiction, Fantasy,  Historical

If you hurry you can still get all 3 of these authors’ works for free at Amazon in the kindle store. That’s right for free!


PRP-Glimpses is Complete on Podiobooks.com
And the eBook is ready for your enjoyment.

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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

Fireside Chat

If you haven’t listened to the Fireside Chats yet don’t miss out on some great Indie author information. Podioracket.com continues to release useful information for author and reader alike in our 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 from fantasy author and indie publisher “White Wolf Press” Brian Rathbone’s.

We hope you all had a safe Thanksgiving! And you guys tell us, do you miss the New Release list and Now Complete list we used to put in the blog posts? We would like to hear from you.

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INTERVIEWS

Charles Souby

Contact Info:
Website: http://www.charlesrsouby.com
Email address, csoub(at)live.com
Winifred is on Podiobooks.com: http://www.podiobooks.com/title/winifred

Biography:

Charles Souby was born in 1957 and raised on the Chicago North Shore.
In 1975 he graduated with a BA in English Literature from SF State University. Charles currently resides in San Rafael, California where he is the founding member of the Improvisational theater troupe, MarinProv.

Mark Coggins

Contact Info:
Website – http://www.markcoggins.com
Blog – http://riordansdesk.markcoggins.com
Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/mark.coggins
The Immortal Game is on Podiobooks.com – http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/search.php?keyword=coggin

Bio – Mark Coggins’ work has been nominated for the Shamus and the Barry crime fiction awards and selected for best of the year lists compiled by the San Francisco Chronicle, the Detroit Free Press and Amazon.com, among others.

Photos of real world locations in the book: http://www.markcoggins.com/book/immortalphotos.html

NEWS & CONTESTS

Toothless

The print edition of Toothless has just been named a finalist in the ForeWord
Reviews Book of the Year contest (Horror category) for 2010.

Podioracket Presents- Glimpses

We’re so excited at the volume of submissions. It’s going to be a great anthology. Acceptance slips will be sent in the next few weeks. The anthology is not CLOSED to submissions.

The Ladies of Podioracket Climb the Charts

This week Rhonda R Carpenter’s The Mark of the Druid hit the #2 spot on Amazon.uk for the in Historical Fantasy on the Kindle.
For the first time H.E. Roulo made text available outside magazines and anthologies. Her sci-fi/horror short story Undergrowth is now available on Amazon Kindle for $0.99. This week another short story was sold to The Library of the Living Dead Press for their upcoming zombie anthology. Expect more information in August. 

NEW & COMPLETED RELEASES

Now Releasing

Deciphering the Golden Flower One Secret at a Time by JJ Semple Non-Fiction
Every Photo Tells… Book 2 by Katharina Maimer and Mick Bordet Fiction

Released Complete

Steve’s SciFi Shorts Vol 1 by Steve Simons Science Fiction
Africa, O Africa by Louise Robinson Chapman Non-Fiction FAMILY FRIENDLY: Safe for family listening
Walking In Faith by Tim Greenwood Non-Fiction

Now Complete

Digital Magic by Philippa Ballantine Fantasy

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INTERVIEWS

Keith Hughes

Blurb: What if by simply writing a word you could build a wall, light a fire, or cloud someone’s mind? In an environment like this Alan Porter struggles to use his talents to overthrow a totalitarian government that controls the masses by controlling Words. Access to Writing materials is restricted, and creating Verse without a license is severely punished. Raised in this environment of systematic censorship, Alan heeds the irresistible call of Words to create a better world.

Now Alan gathers people who will fight with him to bring about a society based on freedom. In a war where the weapons are stylus, paper, and Words, he is the only one who can lead the battle and show the way to victory, a fight that Alan Porter wages even long after his death, because he is The Guerrilla Poet.

Author of Borrowed Time, a time travel, action adventure story
E-book: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/9495
FREE Podiobook: http://www.penslinger.com/

Website: www.Penslinger.com
E-Mail: khughes@penslinger.com
Twitter: EdGizmo
Host of The Time Out! Podcast
 

P.C. Harring

Blurb: For Agent Ciris, the mission should have been simple: get in, apprehend the target, get out. But when the simple snatch and grab goes horribly awry, the worlds first cyborg finds herself backed into a corner. At odds with her superiors, she becomes embroiled in two conspiracies — one intended to destroy her with a cybernetic virus that will neutralize the technology that keeps her alive, the other intended to keep hidden the untold secrets of her origin. With the walls closing in around her, Ciris becomes a rogue agent with no one to trust and only one objective — unravel the shrouds of secrecy before time runs out.

Author Bio: P.C. Haring is the author of Cybrosis and the producer of Cybrosis and a lover of all things Science Fiction. He earns his keep as an accountant for a private corporation in suburban Chicago in order to pay the bills while he works on building his writing career.

Contact info:
Website: www.cybrosisnovel.com
Twitter: www.twitter.com/pcharing
Facebook Fan site: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=134623253236611

NEWS AND CONTESTS

NanoWriMo

You just heard that Keith Hughes will be participating in NaNoWrimo. How can you get in on National Novel Writing Month? Simply go to nanowrimo.org and sign up then set a time of day where you commit to yourself to write every day for a month. All the details at Nanowrimo.org.

Wicked Women Writers- Most Wicked 2010

Heather Roulo, Most Wicked 2009, is helping host this year’s contest. 6 horror short stories by the lovely but cruel Wicked Women Writers will appear on HorrorAddicts.net for listeners to vote on. Contest rules are at the end of each story. You could win prizes donated by each of the women! Vote by November 16th.
Hosted by H.E. Roulo & Emerian Rich.

NEW AND COMPLETED WORKS

New Releases

The Guerrilla Poet by Keith Hughes Science Fiction
Scouts by Nobilis Reed Erotica ADULT: Adult oriented themes, language and situations. Content not suitable for minors.
Vulture Capital by Mark Coggins Thriller

Completed Works

The Sorcerer’s Secret by J.A. Areces Fantasy

Released Complete

All That Can Be Shaken by Essie Collins Non-Fiction
Gibbous Moon by Michael Bannister Humor

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John Lenahan

The Podiobooks.com charts tell listener opinions of the podiobooks that are out there. Check it out! Then marvel at the success of John Lenahan’s Shadowmagic. Now, the sequel to the top rated Podiobooks.com book Shadowmagic is here! Listen to The Prince of Hazel & Oak.

Website:  http://www.shadowmagic.co.uk/

Ron Vitale

Website:  http://www.ronvitale.com/

Twitter: @ronvitale

Vic Zarley

Website: http://www.thefinalharvest.org

Contests

Jeff Offringa and PJ VanderKooij announce the dead tree release of A Dance With Demons. To celebrate, they are inviting you, the fans, to win. Talented or not, get your Fan Art in by October 31st to win. Details at the book site http://www.aromathus.com/.

Fan art not up your alley? Then here is your second chance to win. Join us on BTR-PR September 23rd, 2010 6pm PST/8pm CST / 9pm EST when Jeff and P.J. join us live.  Set your reminder today! And call into the show (347) 399-3319 or join us in the live chat.

New Releases

The Spiral Tattoo by Michael J. ParryFantasy

The Arwen, Season 4: The Water Planet by Timothy P. Callahan Science Fiction FAMILY FRIENDLY: Safe for family listening

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

Released Completed

The Leviathan Chronicles by Christof Laputka Science Fiction

Time for another Podioracket Presents-Visionaries short story.

If you haven’t heard it already, check out the short story anthology Podioracket Presents-Visionaries on Podiobooks.com.

Also:

Rhonda R Carpenter just celebrated a birthday! Drop her good wishes here or on twitter.

The story, Scotland Burns, will be available in the online feed at HorrorAddicts.net later in the week.

HorrorAddicts.net is running a season of classic horror story inspired episodes. This week’s theme is ‘Sea Monster’.

H.E. Roulo’s LIVE Short Story Reading by P.G. Holyfield

The fantasy short story Feverfew, written by Fractured Horizon author H.E. Roulo, will be read LIVE on Wednesday, December 30th 2009 at 6:30 pm Pacific by P.G. Holyfield on video at http://www.stickam.com/pgholyfield.

The story is set in the world of Murder at Avedon Hill (available now on Podiobooks.com, and in print in 2010). The Tales of the Children anthology explores the stories of the Children of Az. These gods are born into the world as men, unaware of their own origins and with their powers dormant until someone or something awakens them.

Here’s a quick look at the opening to Feverfew:

Feverfew Flowers

In a land of magic where gods are born to men the concerns of both must mingle.

The five curved peaks of Darsun’s Claws, beyond the mountains of Anarin, marked the boundary of man’s reach. Though an adventurous few sometimes risked the steaming vents and climbed among the rainbow hued pools to trade across the mountains, no one called it home. When the winter storms blew from Drakesmont, the tallest of all the Claws, strange-smelling mists hid beasts that stalked man’s tenuous claims.

The fury of one such blizzard echoed the storm that raged in Rondac Whitestaff’s heart. He leaned into the whipping winds. His feet crunched through layers of blowing snow. His breath puffed out in icy crystals that the wind greedily snatched away. On his back lay his son Alastair. The boy’s whining and crying had stopped and he had become so quiet that not even shivers disturbed him any longer. Rondac, the mighty warrior, was afraid to look back.
. . .
 

Join P.G. Holyfield for the rest of the tale. Wed, Dec 30th at 6:30pm Pacific at http://www.stickam.com/pgholyfield. Mark your calendar!

If you would like more information, visit H.E. Roulo’s Fractured Horizon website.

The Mark of a Druid Contest Reminder!

Contest Time!

Rhonda R Carpenter, the author of The Mark of a Druid and co-host of Podioracket.com, has conducted an ongoing stream of contests. But this is it. This is the big one. This is the month where she awards the ultimate prize–the original oil on canvas artwork used as the cover for The Mark of the Druid. Painted by Amie Perry-Reavis this work was titled Through The Void. Amie painted this astounding piece complete with hidden symbols and images from the book. The artwork will be awarded to one lucky contest participant.

The artist would not even tell Rhonda where all the hidden images were. So that is your job. Find and identify the symbols, images, people, and places from the book in the art. This is like gazing at clouds. I have found 10. How many will you find?

Then email info@themarkofadruid.com with your entry by Midnight Pacific time December 31, 2009. On January 1, 2010 one lucky winner will be getting an email telling them they are the proud owner of an original Amie Perry-Reavis. You can find more of Amie’s works on her website Goddessprints.com, including a series of works she did for the book The Mark of a Druid. As a matter of fact, she is already working on a new piece for the next book When Ethers Descend. Please support Amie by buying her products from her Zazzle store.

See Rhonda’s website for more details.

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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

Her interview is on December 20th at 5pm Pacific time. Set a reminder now!

Artwork by Amie Perry-Reavis

You could win the original cover art!

Contest Time!

Rhonda R Carpenter, the author of The Mark of a Druid and co-host of Podioracket.com, has conducted an ongoing stream of contests. But this is it. This is the big one. This is the month where she awards the ultimate prize–the original oil on canvas artwork used as the cover for The Mark of the Druid. Painted by Amie Perry-Reavis this work was titled Through The Void. Amie painted this astounding piece complete with hidden symbols and images from the book. The artwork will be awarded to one lucky contest participant.

The artist would not even tell Rhonda where all the hidden images were. So that is your job. Find and identify the symbols, images, people, and places from the book in the art. This is like gazing at clouds. I have found 10. How many will you find?

Then email info@themarkofadruid.com with your entry by Midnight Pacific time December 31, 2009. On January 1, 2010 one lucky winner will be getting an email telling them they are the proud owner of an original Amie Perry-Reavis. You can find more of Amie’s works on her website Goddessprints.com, including a series of works she did for the book The Mark of a Druid. As a matter of fact, she is already working on a new piece for the next book When Ethers Descend. Please support Amie by buying her products from her Zazzle store.

See Rhonda’s website for more details.

See www.goddessprints.com for more work by the artist Amie Perry-Reavis.