Unquiet Desperation

A week ago, I asked for people to submit some topics that they’d like to hear me write about. Some of my comrades in the Cleveland Programming Wasteland chimed in, wanting to know how I wound up working for Mahalo.

In a word, podcasting.

No, really.

Desperation, Quiet to Unquiet

When the podcasting community started to form [...]

Congratulations to author/podcaster Matthew Wayne Selznick!

On the twenty third anniversary of Declaration Day, April 18, 2008, I applied my signature to an agreement with Swarm Press to re-issue the paperback edition of “Brave Men Run - A Novel of the Sovereign Era.” Swarm is a new imprint of Permuted Press, a small independent publisher in [...]

photo credit: paulgormanThere may be no place quieter than a con on a Saturday morning.

Still, I’m up. And this is the Penguicon Update: Day 1.

The con itself is good size…it’s pretty much taken over the Troy Hilton, which is not a small hotel. Like all Sci-Fi/Tech conventions, the glasses to non-glasses ratio is pretty [...]

Authors are now publishing their own books without a publisher. And some artists are releasing free audiobooks online, making money just like Radiohead or shareware software authors: via that old standby, The Tip Jar. You, the consumer, pay what you think is fair. The artist keeps every cent (or the vast majority of it) without [...]

It’s now time to help Seth Harwood to climb up the charts on Amazon.com. The official release day is upon us, and it’s time to concentrate our efforts.

When: Today. Palm Sunday. March 16th, 2008.

But when specifically: Depends on your time zone. 1PM EST, 10AM PST, 6pm GMT.

What: Buy Jack Wakes Up in print from Amazon.com.

How [...]

7th Son scheduled for 2009 print release

J.C. Hutchins, author of the successful “7th Son” podcast novel trilogy, has accepted a book deal to publish “7th Son: Descent,” the series’ debut novel. The thriller is scheduled for a 2009 U.S. spring/summer release by St. Martin’s Press.

“7th Son” is the story of seven strangers who have been [...]

It’s a big day in the world of free audiobooks (or podiobooks, as we like to call them). Podiobooks superstars Scott Sigler and Mur Lafferty both have new works available today.

Mur Lafferty’s long awaited novel Playing For Keeps is a free novel delivered via podcast in audio and PDF form. It tells the story [...]