People who purchased a print version, a Kindle version, and/or wrote reviews on Amazon and sent me an email about it were entered. Here are the winners (and what they won), based on numbers called out by my Vanna White in the Chatroom, Mistress Jett!

Rob Stauffer – MaAH Mousepad
Joe Mieczkowski – MaAH Mousepad
Kristin Mayo – Signed copy of Murder at Avedon Hill
Tim Dodge – The Rookie signed by Scott Sigler
Shawn Murphy – POD version of Mur Lafferty’s Playing for Keeps
Beth Case – MaAH Mousepad
Cathy Monblatt – MaAH Mousepad
Cliff Lowe – POD version of Mur Lafferty’s Playing for Keeps
Kevin Crosby – Signed copy of Murder at Avedon Hill
Michell Plested – Samson CH700 Headphones
Paul Fischer – MaAH Mousepad
Scott Roche – MaAH Mousepad
Terri Flynstress – Signed copy of Murder at Avedon Hill
Ed Parrot – Matthew Wayne Selznick prize pack – BMR, The Sovereign Era- Year One, Anyman: The John Smith EP from CD Baby.
Michael Spence – Framed Study, acrylic/water color, the initial painting that was a test for the original POD cover of Murder at Avedon Hill.

A lot of these folks will be at Balticon, so they’ll get their prizes there. The rest will have their prizes sent to them through the mail. Congrats to those that won prizes; you made this weekend an unforgettable one for me, that’s for sure!

I edited it down to 5-6K, I believe. It was definitely the longest story in the web-a-thon (Matt read seven stories I believe during his live show). I was very happy with the response I received from people about the story.

Flash forward to Friday, April 10th. The text that follows if from Matt’s website:

I’m very pleased to announce the release of “The Sovereign Era: Year One,” an anthology of seven tales written by authors who are pretty well known in certain circles — folks like J. C. Hutchins, Mur Lafferty, P. G. Holyfield, Nathan Lowell, Matt Wallace, J. R. Blackwell and Jared Axelrod!

This collection has its origin in the all-day web-a-thon I produced on the occasion of the Swarm Press release of “Brave Men Run — A Novel of the Sovereign Era.” On that day, I read each of these stories live on streaming video… but they’ve never been seen in print until now.

As of right now, the collection is available on this site in a bundle of eight DRM-free e-book formats and from Amazon.com for the Kindle. Soon enough, it will also be available in paperback in every online bookstore you’d care to patronize. To be honest, if you like e-books, I encourage you to purchase it in that format, since the authors involved stand to earn more of a percentage from each e-book sale.

In “Hazy Days and Cloudy Nights,” we’re seeing a little of what happened in the months before the Sovereign Era began. The Sovereign Era’s beginnings are depicted in “Brave Men Run — A Novel of the Sovereign Era.” I hope you’ll purchase “The Sovereign Era: Year One” and take in seven different glimpses into how things went in the months that followed. On behalf of the authors and cover artist Jeffrey Himmelman, I thank you very much!

For those of you that haven’t read Brave Men Run, it feels like a teen movie mixed with a superhero novel… The Breakfast Club and X-Men all rolled into one. Please go check out the anthology, and listen to or read Brave Men Run.

As for The Sovereign Era: Year One – electronic versions are already available for the book, and the print version should be out in a few days!

Here is the second of my four interviews, this one with Mur Lafferty creator and writer of The Takeover. (Yes, I kn0w at the beginning of the interview I say this is the LAST interview. I’ll be releasing more interviews between now and Dragon*Con).

Mur Lafferty is one of my heroes, as you know, and we talk about The Takeover, about Her Side (the fiction/photography collaboration with the incomparable J.R. Blackwell), the Heaven Series, World Con, and The Parsec Awards.

Enjoy!

Music: Grande Rue De Pera – Ruben van Rompaey, courtesy of Magnatune.com

Promo: The Takeover

Promo: Tales of the Children

• DYH “Network ID” – Michael Spence
• Intro Chatter
  • Welcome to the final episode of the MaAH podcast novel!
  • We’re jumping right into the narrative. You’ve waited long enough.

1:45 – Chapter 42: Ruler of the Known World, Revisited

Intro: Rick Stringer; Arames and Arrin must survive one more encounter, this time at Avedon Manor.

29:30 – Chapter 43: Endings

Intro: Rick Stringer; As the survivor(s) leave Avedon Hill, a flashback explains some of Arames’s decisions.

36:40 – The End

• Congrats – Evo Terra
• Promo – Parsec Awards
• Congrats – Mur Lafferty
• Congrats – Nathan Lowell
• Promo – Balticon
• Congrats – Pip Ballantine
• Chatter:
  • Guest Voices
    • Leann  Mabry as Sarah Tremaine
    • Chris Miller as Lord Avedon
    • Indiana Jim as Richard Avedon
    • Mur Lafferty as Serena Perti
  • After 2 years and nearly 50 guest voices, I finally get to Mur’s cameo!
  • Come see me at Balticon – my schedule
• Congrats – Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff
• Caern Line Call – Tim Dodge
• Chatter Continued
  • “Damn You Holyfield” t-shirts at http://pgholyfield.spreadshirt.com
  • Info for the Live Q&A show will be dropped in the feed after Balticon
    • If you want to send me questions, either send me an email at pgholyfield at murderatavedonhill dot com…
    • Or, call the Caern Line at 704-315-5884
• To end the MaAH podcast novel, we have a song from James Durham.
• Thanks so much for listening!

Music in this episode:

• Shira Kammen – Magnatune.com
  • The Impossible Butterfly – Wild Wood
  • Pasa Viene – Wild Wood
  • Shetland Set – Wild Wood
  • Lullaby Set – Wild Wood
  • Foggy Tam Set – Wild Wood
• Kevin McLeod – End of the Era, On the Passing of Time, Time Passes
• David Beard – Imminent Danger, Blacksmith Strings, Effigy, Ailein Duinn,
• Shiva in Exile – Hollow Earth
• Ruben van Rompaey – Grande Rue De Pera
• Warg (Sound Snap) – Middle Earth Drama
• Additional f/x found at Soundsnap.com and The Freesound Project