Sorry I’ve been so quiet lately; I’ve been pretty sick for the last couple of weeks, and I’ve also been working a lot — you know how these things go. Even so, in between the coughing and the writing, I managed to nab Kat for lunch, and I had a good time puttering around Bellevue with Ellen in search of fine paper goods and her freshly repaired sewing machine.
And now I’m interrupting my Friday ritual of housework in order to meet Melly and Neil, who are bopping up from Tacoma for an afternoon investigation of Archie McPhee and maybe lunch. I’ll see if I can’t talk them into Bad Albert’s; it’s been awhile since I’ve had a nibble on one of Seattle’s finest fish sandwiches.
So now I prepare to dash off again, but I leave you with a new site around which you might care to poke: Podiobooks.com. Podiobooks serializes free audio books from a variety of sources, and there’s much to investigate. I don’t have any affiliation with this site or anything, so I can assure you that I’m not “selling something” by linking it … but I do freely admit that my old pal Abigail Hilton is using the site to present her epic modern fantasy novel The Prophet of Panamindorah under a Creative Commons license.
August 22nd, 2008 at 2:39 pm
I have been listening to audio books for years but was a little skeptical about podcast novels. So when I first tried Podiobooks.com I really didn’t have high expectations. I have to admit I have been pleasantly surprised. Don’t get me wrong, there are some spectacularly bad novels on the site, but there some good ones as well. Since it is a donation model, it doesn’t cost any think to try out a new book/author. Thanks for the link, I will give her book a try.
August 23rd, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Thanks for the shout-out, Cherie. I’m glad more authors are discovering our site and helping to spread the word. I really enjoyed reading Wings to the Kindgom. Maybe Tor will take the route that Bantam/Dell did recently with Karen Moning’s Fever series. The first book is now available as a free serialized audiobook on Podiobooks.com.
And thanks to you, Corey, for trying out the site as well. Your observations are spot on and I hope to keep you pleasantly surprised with future releases. :)
E.