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!!

I added a new section to the site - “Bitstrips.” It’ll hold the comics I’ve done over at the Bitstrips.com site. One of the strips I did was a finalist in the first annual “Bistrips Best Of” Awards (under Tech). It didn’t win, but it was nice to be recognized! If you would like to subscribe to a separate RSS feed for my bitstrips.com stuff, click here.

Murder at Avedon Hill has been recognized by my podcast peers and is a finalist in two categories (Best Podcast Novel and Best Production) at the 5th Podcast Peer Awards (Fall ‘08). I am so honored to be in the same group with J.C. Hutchins, Scott Sigler, Tee Morris, Mur Lafferty, Phil Rossi (Production)… and my nemesis, Chris Lester. Thanks to everyone that voted for me during the nomination round. While I knew about the Best Podcast Novel category, I had no idea that I was in the running for Best Production. Wow!

EDIT: More on the PPAs, from Podiobooks.

Episode 26 - Chapter 25 - On the Trail

00:00 - Intro

• Bumper: The Vicar - Geek Radio Daily
• Intro Chatter
  • The break was great. Wii Fit is brutally honest.
  • The Brave men Run event was awesome!
  • Guest voices: Glenn Webber, Liza Holyfield, Rae Lamond (so sorry, I forgot to give her a shout out in the intro chatter, a wonderful fill-in by Indiana Jim, and Rick Stringer

02:45 - Chapter Twenty-Five: On the Trail

Events from Arrin’s dream send our heroes in different directions.

21:00 - Promo

• Movie Mantras

Outro Babble

• Contest Aftermath
• Signed copies of MaAH available
• Parsec Awards - we made the first cut

Promo

• New World Order

Music in this podcast:

• Shira Kammen - Magnatune.com
  • Shetland Set - Wild Wood
  • The Impossible Butterfly - Wild Wood
  • Pasa Viene - Wild Wood

 

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Wow, what an event! Matthew Wayne Selznick ran his show like a champ, and even though my 7,000 word story almost killed him, he survived and kicked major butt!

Right now, Brave Men Run is at #65 overall on Amazon.com, and while we were listening it rose to #3 in Action and Adventure! Holy crap!!

The stories by the podcast authors were all wonderful. For those that missed it, there is a rumor that these stories will make an appearance in some form… soon.

And then, as a surprise, Matthew read the first chapter of his next novel, Pilgrimage.

I was very proud of the event, how my story was received, and how gracious Matthew is as human being. Thanks to everyone that attended, and that showed support for independent fiction!

Now, go buy Brave Men Run and let’s take BMR to #1!

A map of Avedon Hill - Ever wonder where some of the businesses and homes are in Avedon Hill?

Here is a .pdf of a map of the town. It was created by snikle, one of the founders of Four Ugly Monsters, a site dedicated to virtual gaming tables such as Fantasy Grounds, Battlegrounds: RPG Edition, and MapTool.

The map was created for an RPG supplement that I was working on with snikle and devinnight (the artist that created the icons of the Children seen in the novel and on this site). I stepped away from Four Ugly Monsters (I was a founder as well) to concentrate on writing (and on the podcast). These are two great guys, and some of the extra content you’ll see over the next few weeks will be all thanks to their hard work.

A couple of areas previously mentioned and/or visited in the novel but not marked on the map: the Circle is the group of yellow buildings in the center of town; the Estates are the yellow buildings on the right side of the map.

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I’ve decided to cancel the live show I had planned for tomorrow at 2 pm. I’ve been having some issues with the sound card on my laptop and need to figure it out before doing any more stickam videos.

I’ll be releasing the listener appreciation show as a special episode in the normal audio feed. If you have any MaAH or general questions for me to answer during the episode’s Q&A, please email me, send me an .mp3, or call the Caern Line (704) 315-5884.

On March 23, 1775, at St. John’s Henrico Parish Church in Richmond, Patrick Henry spoke to the House of Burgesses. His speech changed the minds and hearts of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and became a beacon of freedom for all of America.

Happy Independence Day, everyone.

This re-enactment was recorded in February for a project still in the planning stages over at Podiobooks.com community website. I decided to release it here because… well, because I wanted to

Thank you to Nathan Lowell for his introduction at the beginning of this audio file. Be sure to check out his Golden Age of the Solar Clipper novels over at Podiobooks.com.

The image you see in iTunes is a cropped image from Peter F. Rothermel’s “Patrick Henry Before the Virginia House of Burgesses,” from 1851. The photograph of this painting is released on Wikimedia Commons as a public domain work.

I will be doing a live listener appreciation show on Sunday, July 6th. Please check out my page on stickam for more information on this show (and add me as a friend while you are at it!).

 

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This feed is mine… cue evil laugh

My name is… well, that doesn’t matter, now does it? What does matter is that you are listening (or should listen) to this…

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P.G. writes,

We are going to rush the Amazon charts on July 13th– not to help a podcast author land a choice book deal, but to show that the publishing industry continues to change… to show that a previously published DIY work, released in audio, print, and e-book formats, can find a new audience when released by an independent publisher. And that a new imprint such as Swarm Press can utilize this new model and reach heights on Amazon usually reserved for Crown, Scholastic and Bantam Books.

I mean, why the hell not?

Matthew Wayne Selznick’s Brave Men Run (the first podcast novel I ever listened to, and the reason I decided to podcast MaAH) is being published by Swarm Press and hits Amazon on Sunday, July 13th. Matthew is doing something very frakkin cool on that day. He is going to be doing a live webathon from 10 am - 5 pm Eastern time. Not only will he be talking about Brave Men Run, Amazon numbers, and generally losing his voice; he will also be reading new fiction set in his Sovereign Era universe… including a story by yours truly. In addition, you will hear stories by:

• J.C. Hutchins (The “7th Son” trilogy)
• Mur Lafferty (”Playing For Keeps”)
• Nathan Lowell (The “Golden Age of the Solar Clipper” novels)
• Matt Wallace (”The Next Fix”)
• J.R. Blackwell (Voices of Tomorrow)
• Jared Axelrod (The Voice of Free Planet X)

This is a podcasting first. This is going to be awesome. Be there.

More about this next week.

 

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I recorded the drawing. You can watch the drawing (with some additional news) on the Stickam Video page.

I have emailed all the contest winners. For privacy purposes I won’t post their names here without their permission (although if you are wondering if you won, cannot access your email but can watch video, go watch the recording  ).

Thanks to everyone that participated. The feedback at iTunes has helped push MaAH up Featured Chart in the Literature section of iTunes. The voicemail left on the Caern line is going to allow me to have a fun time on Sunday’s Listener Appreciation event (2 pm Eastern time - more on this tomorrow).

Episode 25 - Chapter 24 - One Man’s Quest

00:00 - Intro

• Bumper: Chris Lester - Metamor City Podcast
• Intro Chatter
  • Thanks for those that attended the live event last Sunday
    
  • Contest continues until end of June
  • Guest voices: Tee Morris, Rick Stringer

05:10 - Chapter Twenty-Four: One Man’s Quest

Arames has a discussion with Father Jorrus, and continues a discussion of magic with Arrin.

21:15 - Promo

• Matthew Wayne Selznick teaser promo for live BMR event on July 13th.

Music in this podcast:

• Shira Kammen - Magnatune.com
  • Shetland Set - Wild Wood
  • The Impossible Butterfly - Wild Wood
  • Pasa Viene - Wild Wood

 

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