The podcast version of Murder at Avedon Hill started in June of 2007, available through this website and through Podiobooks.com. The final product should be around 45 episodes, with production lasting until the end of 2008. Due to the generous help of family, friends, and members of the tribe, MaAH has morphed, skirting the edge between straight read and audio drama, with over 30 guests adding their voices to the podcast.

You can download episodes or play them directly through the player on the left nav. bar. If you would like to subscribe, click on the RSS Podcast button or the iTunes button, also found on the left nav. bar. Please email me, post comments, or leave voice comments on The Caern Line!

Enjoy!!

0:00 - Intro

• Bumper: Dead Robot’s Society Podcast
  
• Intro Chatter
  • Christmas chatter (with Tee Morris)
  • Guest Voices - Rick Stringer, Jay Lynn, Brian Brown, Indiana Jim, Caroline Himmelmann, K.J. Johnson

3:20 - Chapter 38: Kalin’s Work

In this episode: characters die, a building falls, and Arames is left angry.

24:50 - Post-Chapter

• Promo - Mark Kinney’s Arcadian Gate
  
• Caern Line Calls (Kim Fortuner, Thomas Reed, Scott Roche) and Commentary (call the Caern Line at 704-315-5884)
• 2nd Teaser for “Flinchy and the Mexican Show Truck” — an audio drama that has two episode up at The Seanachai

Music in this podcast:

• Shira Kammen - Magnatune.com
  • The Impossible Butterfly - Wild Wood
  • Foggy Tam Set - Wild Wood
  • Pasa Viene - Wild Wood
  • Shetland Set - Wild Wood
  • Lullaby Set - Wild Wood
• Kevin McLeod - Anxiety, Classic Horror,
• David Beard - Imminent Danger, Blacksmith Strings, Hunt Run, various others
• Additional f/x found at Soundsnap.com and The Freesound Project

Thanks for a wonderful 2008, people! Even better things to come in 2009. Just you wait and see!

 

 MaAH Ep. 38 - Ch. 38 [35:39m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2035)

Patrick McLean released Pt. 2 of “Flinchy and the Mexican Show Truck” over on The Seanachai. Flinchy makes his first appearance (the one and only Tee Morris), as does my wife Liza, playing herself (and she has the best line in the whole darn thing).

I don’t want to clutter this feed with more non-MaAH episodes right now, so please head on over and give Pt. 2 a listen on Patrick’s site, or subscribe to The Seanachai. It is one of the best podcasts in production today, so you might as well give it a try!

0:00 - Intro

• Bumper: Paulette Jaxton
• Intro Chatter
  • Contest Continues
  • Guest Voices - Rick Stringer, Rae Lamond, Podcasting’s Rich Sigfrit

3:00 - The Story So Far

Nathan Lowell delivers the SSF this week.

5:30 - Chapter Thirty-seven: The Hunter of Artus

Arames finally realizes what Gloria Platt drew on the carpet in her home. A conversation with Herrjarr leaves Arames even more certain.

24:50 - Post-Chapter

• Promo - Contagious
• Caern Line Calls and Commentary (call the Caern Line at 704-315-5884)
• Contest Update - Qualify by sending me an email after submitting a review on iTunes, by leaving a Caern Line call, and/or by rating MaAH at Podiobooks.com - I’ve had several reviews on iTunes but not so many emails — get those emails in so you can qualify!
• 2nd Teaser for “Flinchy and the Mexican Show Truck” — an audio drama that has two episode up at The Seanachai
• Promo - House of Grey

Music in this podcast:

• Shira Kammen - Magnatune.com
  • The Impossible Butterfly - Wild Wood
  • Foggy Tam Set - Wild Wood
  • Pasa Viene - Wild Wood
  • Shetland Set - Wild Wood
  • Lullaby Set - Wild Wood
• Kevin McLeod - Anxiety, Classic Horror 1
• David Beard - Imminent Danger, Blacksmith Strings,
• Additional f/x found at Soundsnap.com and The Freesound Project

An icon of Artus, the “Child of War”

 

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As mentioned in the last two episodes, I am holding a second contest right now. The contest ends on December 20th. To qualify for the contest:

1. Leave a review for MaAH on iTunes.
2. And/or Rank MaAH at Podiobooks.com
3. And/or Leave a Comment or Question on the Caern Line (704-315-5884).
4. Send me an email (pgholyfield at murderatavedonhill.com) letting me know which of these things you have done.

You will receive one, two or three entries in the contest, depending on the number of items you do on the above list. If you do not send me an email, you will not be entered into the contest.

On Sunday, December 21st I will hold a drawing. I was going to do it live via Stickam, like I did in June, but I will be traveling so I will be doing semi-live (I will record it with my video camera and upload the video when I get home after Christmas.

The Prizes: two print copies of Murder at Avedon Hill; a Murder at Avedon Hill T-Shirt from spreadshirt.com

I will draw names out of a hat. A person may only win one prize.

Right now (12/12) I am at 71 reviews on iTunes. If I reach 100 reviews on iTunes by 12/20, I will add two more print copies of Murder at Avedon Hill to the prize pool.

Good luck!

Addendum (12/21): I left home for holiday travel and of course my contest entrant emails are all on my computer at home. So, I’m extending the contest until 12/28. Go review and rate, people! Christmas may provide you a late present if you’ve been good.

The first episode of my next online endeavor is up over at Patrick McLean’s The Seanachai website. It’s called Flinchy and the Mexican Show Truck. Patrick did most of the work on this… I’m along for the ride, learning from an award-winning master of short fiction and comedic timing. I’m including the first episode here in my feed. Please subscribe at The Seanachai to hear future episodes.

Flinchy will be a series of short episodes that follow the lives of Patrick McLean, myself, and Patrick’s ‘friend’ Flinchy, after a fateful day of golf… where an errant tee shot could one day bring about the end of the world… maybe. I’m not sure, because this is a ‘true’ story… and the world is still here, so maybe things will turn out okay.

 

 Flinchy Part 1 [6:21m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2165)

0:00 - Intro

• Bumper: Steve Riekeberg
• Intro Chatter
  • News after the chapter.
  • Call the Caern Line - 704-315-5884
  • Guest Voices - Jon Stallard, Rick Stringer, Tee Morris, Matthew Wayne Selznick, Indiana Jim, Liza Holyfield

2:20 - Previously on Murder at Avedon Hill

Scenes from earlier episodes hopefully remind the listener what has come before.

4:30 - Chapter Thirty-six: The Schedule Book

Gretta’s journal is found. Arames begins to understand Avedon Hill’s true role in the history of Caern.

27:20 - Post-Chapter

• Promo - Lost Gods
• I’ve got Help! Thanks to Murder at Avedon Hill’s new assistant producers: Paulette Jaxton, Stewart Boyles, Charles Blanchard, and Scott Roche
• Contest Update - Qualify by sending me an email after submitting a review on iTunes, by leaving a Caern Line call, and/or by rating MaAH at Podiobooks.com - I’ve had several reviews on iTunes but not so many emails — get those emails in so you can qualify!
• Podcast Appearances - Geek Cred and Dead Robots Society
• Caern Line Calls
• Teaser for “Flinchy and the Mexican Show Truck” — an audio drama coming soon from The Seanachai

Music in this podcast:

• Shira Kammen - Magnatune.com
  • The Impossible Butterfly - Wild Wood
  • Foggy Tam Set - Wild Wood
  • Pasa Viene - Wild Wood
  • Shetland Set - Wild Wood
  • Lullaby Set - Wild Wood
• Kevin McLeod - Anxiety, Dark Standoff, Time Passes, Nervous Piano, Classic Horror 1
• David Beard - Imminent Danger, Blacksmith Strings, Effigy, Fight Strings
• Additional f/x found at Soundsnap.com and The Freesound Project

 

 MaAH - Ep. 36 - Ch. 36 [35:02m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2268)

0:00 - Intro

• Bumper: Mae Breakall
• Intro Chatter
  • Long ep. News after the chapter.
  • Call the Caern Line - 704-315-5884
  • Guest Voices - Jon Stallard, Jay Lynn, Podcasting’s Rich Sigfrit, Rick Stringer

3:30 - Previously on Murder at Avedon Hill

(with Mur Lafferty!) Suspects are becoming victims. Arrin’s dream walks are becoming more prescient.

5:05 - Chapter Thirty-five: Death at the Theater

Arames continues his investigation at the town theater, and then visits the Platt home.

32:00 - Author Chatter

• New contest - Qualify by sending me an email after submitting a review on iTunes, by leaving a Caern Line call, and/or by rating MaAH at Podiobooks.com - More info will appear on the site soon.
• New Promo for MaAH (the Clean version). Links to this and the Explicit version of the promo are on the sidebar under “Promotions.”
• I’m working on something really good with Patrick McLean. Golf, the Apocalypse, margaritas… it’s a comedy, of course!
• The Geek Radio Daily Pub Crawl
  

Music in this podcast:

• Shira Kammen - Magnatune.com
  • The Impossible Butterfly - Wild Wood
  • Foggy Tam Set - Wild Wood
  • Pasa Viene - Wild Wood
  • Shetland Set - Wild Wood
  • Lullaby Set - Wild Wood
• Kevin McLeod - Anxiety, Dark Standoff, Time Passes, Asian Drums, Nervous Piano, Classic Horror 1
• David Beard - Imminent Danger, Blacksmith Strings
• Additional f/x found at Soundsnap.com and The Freesound Project

Arames imagines Gloria’s last moments…

Arames’s drawing of the bloody carpet.

 

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Here’s a new promo for Murder at Avedon Hill, focusing on the fact that we’re currently on the home stretch. Thanks to Michael Spence for doing the primary writing on this, and to Patrick McLean for recording the audio.

This is the clean version of the promo. There is an explicit version of the promo (I just couldn’t pass up Patrick McLean dropping an f-bomb).  It can be found on the sidebar on the home page of the site.

If you use one of these promos in your podcast, please let me know so I can return the favor. Thanks!

 

 The Home Stretch Promo - Clean Version [2:02m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1609)

0:00 - Intro

• Bumper: Kim Fortuner
• Intro Chatter
  • Ep. 34 is short (because chapter 34 is short), but worth it. I could not combine it with Chapter 35, because ch. 35 is already very long.
  • Call the Caern Line - 704-315-5884
  • Guest Voices - Rick Stringer, Matthew Wayne Selznick, Jon Stallard, James Ziesel, Philippa Ballantine, Chris Miller, K.J. Johnson
  • Not mentioned, but I hope you dig the new podcast icon, courtesy of J.C. Hutchins!

Previously on Murder at Avedon Hill

Our heroes battle Rondellus Marx; Arames shares a legend of Ursala with Arrin.

3:05 - Chapter Thirty-four: Bells of Dawn

Arames and Arrin both dream.

14:00 - Promos, Caern-Line calls, and a song…

• Dead Robot’s Society First Chapter Contest
• Caern Line Calls from Thomas Reed
• An unfortunate aural misunderstanding (Matt from Portland) “It’s Corinhold!”
• Evo at 11
  
• The “Damn You Holyfield” song by Kim Fortuner

Music in this podcast:

• Shira Kammen - Magnatune.com
  • The Impossible Butterfly - Wild Wood
  • Foggy Tam Set - Wild Wood
  • Pasa Viene - Wild Wood
  • Shetland Set - Wild Wood
  • Lullaby Set - Wild Wood
• Kevin McLeod - Anxiety, Dark Standoff,
• David Beard - “Imminent Danger”
• Additional f/x found at Soundsnap.com and The Freesound Project

 

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