Hi, I’m P.G. Holyfield. I am a podcaster and wrote a novel called Murder at Avedon Hill. I produced an audio version of an early draft of the novel from 2007-2009, which you can find on iTunes and over at podiobooks.com. If you do not use iTunes or some other ‘podcatcher,’ and would like to just download the audio files  from here (or listen to them directly on this site), here is the best place to start.

If you are interested in the novel, you can read the first few chapters of the novel here, and you can find print and kindle versions of the novel on Amazon.com

After I finished the podcast of the novel, I started producing a short story anthology called Tales of the Children, based in the ‘world’ where Murder at Avedon Hill takes place. These are stories written mostly by other authors, and I will return to that podcast at some point… soon. What was fun about this anthology was it allowed me to delve into video as well. I did live readings of the stories through stickam.com, then followed with podcasted audio versions of the stories. You can find more information on this short story anthology here.

Currently I am one of the hosts of the Beyond the Wall, a Game of Thrones related podcast where we talk about the HBO series and the books by George R.R. Martin. I am a frequent guest at conventions such as Balticon and Dragon*Con, where I am usually on panels around new media, podcasting, and self-promotion.

I live in Charlotte, NC  and have given talks on self-promotion, self-publishing and working with a small publisher, both at local venues and at regional conventions. If you are interested in this or for any other reason, please email me at pgholyfield at gmail dot com

My interview with Dave and Brion is up on the site now and the workshop episode should be released in the next day or so. I hope you enjoy it!

This panel also featured the diverse talents of: Tom Merritt (Sword and Laser, Tech News Today), Veronica Belmont (Qore, Sword and Laser), Len Peralta (Jawbone Radio, Geek a Week), Brian Ibbott (Coverville) and Bobby Blackwolf (The Bobby Blackwolf Show).

Today we have the Tales of the Children short story “Love’s Sacrificial Song,” by Tabitha Grace Smith. This episode was c0-produced by Paulette Jaxton of The Empress Sword podcast and novel.

0:00 – Intro Chatter

• Apologies ;*-)

3:10 – Love’s Sacrificial Song

Daralis is a story-teller. And the people of Bostich need this story to be the best story she’s ever told.

22:00 – Outro

Upcoming events and planned releases.

Promo: SpecFicMedia.com

Extras

• Twitter – http://twitter.com/pgholyfield
• Facebook – http://facebook.com/pgholyfield
• MaAH and Tales of the Children Facebook Group – http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=24571342195
• Call The Caern Line – 704-315-5884
• “Tales of the Children” and SpecFicMecia.com t-shirts at http://pgholyfield.spreadshirt.com – email me and I’ll create a custom t-shirt for you, with whatever “Child” you like best!
• Murder at Avedon Hill wins the John W. Polidori Award for Best Vampire Novel of 2010 – http://outofthecoffin.com

Music in this episode:

• Shira Kammen – Magnatune.com
  • The Impossible Butterfly – Wild Wood
• Kevin McLeod – various cuts
• Ruben van Rompaey – Grande Rue De Pera
• David Beard – various cuts
• Marc Gunn – Stardust Serenade
• Additional f/x found at Soundsnap.com and The Freesound Project

Thanks to everyone that went over and voted last month. This was a people’s choice award and your votes pushed MaAH past a wonderful set of nominees, including books/novellas by Gail Carriger, Charlaine Harris, Stephenie Meyer, and Seth Grahame-Smith. You guys rock!!

From the website:

ForeWord‘s Book of the Year Awards program was created to spotlight distinctive books from independent publishers. What sets the awards apart from others is that final selections are made by real judges—working librarians and booksellers—based on their experiences with patrons and customers.

The awards are given out in June. Wish me luck!

I’d like to say I’ve made great progress on my next novel, but that wouldn’t be true. I have had some personal setbacks that have left me… unfocused, let’s just say. Or, I could say I’m just focused on what’s most important to me, which is my two young daughters code-named Wallflower and Cannonball. They mean the world to me, and sometimes that means not making the time to be creative. And other than feeling guilty for not getting new things out to you guys, it’s worth every minute of it.

Now, that’s not to say I haven’t kept busy with things that might interest you. In November we held the first annual TuacaCon. Head on over to the official website and you’ll find some fun videos from the evening and some created either before or after the event. The evening also included a reading from yours truly, a superhero (or super-villain, rather) short story called Dr. Mercury: Queen of Hearts.

The past month or so I’ve been working on a new website. I was updating my book trailer and did some searches on book trailers and found there really isn’t a good central location for book trailers, specifically for speculative fiction book trailers. Of course there is YouTube, but again unless you are looking at particular publisher channels on YouTube, it’s still a hunt and peck proposition.

So I decided to remedy that. I’ve created a website called SpecFicMedia.com – It’s more than a site for book trailers, though. I’m hoping it will become the first place people go to look for media that touches on speculative fiction in some way. Book trailers, Author Interviews, Movie trailers, comedy, music, and whatever else I can pull into the site. There will also be opportunities for viewer interaction. We’ll host contests and the like to get people to submit videos. I’ll be starting a video podcast in April to highlight the best stuff on the site, news from the world of Speculative Fiction Media, author/podcaster interviews, etc.

The site is up and running, but I’ll be doing an official “launch” on Valentine’s Day. Go check it out, and if you have comments/suggestions, please leave them here or send me an email. Thanks!

Oops, almost forgot. Over at the “Out of the Coffin” website there is a set of vampire-centric awards for 2010. Amazingly, Murder at Avedon Hill is up for the award for “Best Vampire Novel” for 2010. While MaAH isn’t a vampire novel at its core, it does have its share of vampiric lore and characters… and the people over at the Out of the Coffin website really seemed to like it. While you’re there, check out Episode 59 of their podcast, where I was interviewed back in May about the release of MaAH. It was a fun interview!

• Thursday, Sept. 2nd, 7:30 pm – Star Party 2010 – This is a special event the day before Dragon*Con officially begins, a charity event for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. The event will be hosted by renowned astronomers and hosts of AstronomyCast, Pamela Gay and Fraser Cain with special appearance by musician George Hrab. (I’m just attending. I’ll be the one looking for extra drink tickets ).
• Friday, Sept. 3rd, 1:00 pm – Podcasting Track Kick-off Panel – I’m honored to be part of the kick-off panel for the track; my primary goal is to remain calm while being at a table with Tom Merritt, Veronica Belmont, Bobby Blackwolf, Len Peralta, and Brian Ibbott. (Did I mention Veronica Belmont?)
• Saturday, Sept. 4th, 10:00 am – Podcast Authors Roundtable – with Scott Sigler, Gail Z. Martin, Michael A. Stackpole, Christiana Ellis, and Gabrielle Harbowy
• Saturday, Sept. 4th, 4:00 pm – 5th Annual Parsec Awards – I’ll be attending and presenting two awards. Gabrielle Harbowy’s Tales of the Children story “Swimming Lessons” is up for the Best Speculative Fiction Story (Short Form), and The Dead Robots’ Society is up for Best Podcast about Speculative Fiction Content Creation.
• Sunday, Sept. 5th, 2:30 pm – Dead Robots’ Society Live!
• Sunday, Sept. 5th, 7:00 pm – Geek Radio Weekly Live! – I’ll be in attendance, but have been known to crash the party…

As always, it is sure to be a blast. If you are attending, please stop me and say hi (and yes, I’ll have books for sale if you have been waiting to buy it at D*C!!).

Enjoy!

Promo for The Leviathan Chronicles finale follows the reading.

Friday, May 28th

Reading – 5 pm – Pimlico Room
Into the Blender Live Show, 11 pm – Chesapeake Suite

Saturday, May 29th

Nanowrimo for Noobs – 3 pm – Chesapeake Suite
Herding Cats – 4 pm – Chesapeake Suite
New Media Author Book Launch event – 8 pm – Chesapeake Suite

Sunday, May 30th

Evo@11 – 10 pm – Chesapeake Suite

In addition to this, I’ll be in the Dealer Room at the Dragon Moon Press table at various times during the weekend.

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!

This is where we are right now:

#1 on the Movers and Shakers List (all books),
#3 in Hot New Releases, Fantasy (General),
#10 in Hot New Releases, Fantasy
#16 Overall, Fantasy (General)
#30 Overall, Fantasy
#274 in Fiction

So far we have 14 reviews on Amazon for the print version of the novel, and five more on the Kindle page. These help out a book’s place on Amazon, so please add a review if you purchased the novel!

Thanks so much for your generosity and support for me, for this novel, and for podcast fiction authors everywhere. I’d love to have one more push tonight, but whatever happens for the rest of the night and tomorrow, this has been a successful launch in my mind, that’s for sure!

We’ve got less than 24 hours until book launch. People are already buying the kindle version, which is awesome to see, but let’s wait until tomorrow at noon eastern so we can make the biggest splash on Amazon!

Are your friends confused about the Amazon Rush?

Can you tell I’m just writing text here so the image below will appear underneath the thumbnail image, and not be pushed out to the right and off the screen?

The attached flyer explains what we’re trying to do on Saturday. Please grab it, post it and/or send it to everyone you can. Spread the word!

The link to Amazon is live. The book CAN be purchased now. But if you can, please wait until Saturday at noon Eastern to buy the ten copies you plan on purchasing.

Tonight, as we approach the book launch of Murder at Avedon Hill, we have a Tales of the Children story written and produced by Dan Absalonson. A few weeks ago Dan asked if he could produce the audio for his own podcast, and knowing I wouldn’t be getting to his story for several months, I said “Go for it!” For a first audio podcast episode, Dan did a wonderful job with the production. Big Axe, Little Hands is a fun story about one of the smaller races of Caern, and an incarnation of one of the Children of Az we haven’t seen in audio form thus far.

I hope you enjoy the story, and check back later today for the release of an interview I did with Jack Mangan over at his Deadpan Podcast.

0:00 – Intro Chatter

• Short intro of Dan Abaslonson’s short story, Big Axe, Small Hands.

2:00 – Big Axe, Small Hands

Join Halvard the Halfling as he journeys to find the way of the warrior, running into trouble along the way, and meeting races he’s only heard tell of in the story told around the community fire in his small village.

Extras

]]> http://www.pgholyfield.com/maah/archives/441/feed 1 http://www.pgholyfield.com/maah/archives/440 http://www.pgholyfield.com/maah/archives/440#comments Sun, 09 May 2010 07:38:37 +0000 http://www.pgholyfield.com/maah/?p=440 Last week Michell Plested interviewed me for his “Get Published” podcast. It was a great conversation, and I hope you enjoy it. The actual interview starts at around the 10 minute mark.

I will be dropping a Tales of the Children story tomorrow, a story written and produced by Dan Absalonson.

This audio update gives some info on what’s going on for the next week leading up to the book release. Enjoy!

Promo: Seth Harwood’s Young Junius Special Edition

Promo/Skit: The Book Launch Promo – The Mercuralia!

If you are a podcaster, help a brother out; grab a promo and play it on your podcast before the 15th!

Shorter promo (1 min. 30 sec.) – plot info and amazon rush info – http://bit.ly/aLyir0

Longer promo (2 min. 15 sec.) – longer plot info and amazon rush info – http://bit.ly/9WS9Rq

Promo/Skit (3 minutes) – more of a funny skit than a book promo, written by Morgan Elektra. Christiana Ellis appears in the promo with me: http://bit.ly/dCxXaJ

The shorter promo is attached here so it will drop in my feed.

Murder at Avedon Hill Casting Page at Storycasting.com

The site is addicting (if you are a book/film buff), so WATCH out!

If you have a podcast, a blog, or even just friends that you’d like to share info about Murder at Avedon Hill with, please send me an email (pgholyfield at murderatavedonhill dot com) or ping me on Twitter @pgholyfield. I’m setting up interviews and will send out promotional materials to anyone that might want them.

An audio update will be released in the next couple of days about this, and about a contest I’ll be doing for those purchasing the novel day 1.

This is actually happening! Woo Hoo! (wait, I’m supposed to be the reserved author… ).

Thanks for your continued support…. (yay!)

Sometimes I don’t know about this whole publishing thing. I mean, I can make a wood chipper work, but nobody in Caern has light blue socks!?

Sigh.

Well, hopefully you understand why I’m excited.

It feels more real every day. Thanks for coming by to see the cover, and get ready for the push… you’re going to be flooded with content over the next two months.

I’ll be interviewing Alex again as we approach the book’s release, to talk with him about the process we went through, and also about his own journey finishing up The Gearheart.

• a signed copy of Murder at Avedon Hill (when it is released in May)
• a custom t-shirt with one of the Children of Az on the front, and whatever text you’d like (approved by me, of course ) on the back.
• a one of a kind DVD with two of the live episodes of Tales of the Children, pop up video and text, audio commentary, and a special video message just for the buyer.

Please visit The Boom Effect for more information on this ‘lot.’ ( http://www.theboomeffect.org/?p=251 )

If you cannot attend the live show, you can make a proxy bid.

And if you are not blown away by this package (I am), then look over the other awesome contributions that will be auctioned off during the show.

Excuse the low sound quality of this episode. We recorded in a room at the Atlanta Hilton during Dragon*Con and there was a lot of noise that didn’t clean up very well. But it is listenable, and the interview itself turned out great.

Be sure to join in the fun on Wednesday evening, 9:30 pm Eastern, for the next vidcast on Stickam.com

Enjoy!

Blurb – Me chatting about 7th Son: Descent

Promo – J.C. Hutchins – 7th Son: Descent.

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

Excuse the low sound quality of this episode. We recorded in a room at the Atlanta Hilton during Dragon*Con and there was a lot of noise that didn’t clean up very well. But it is listenable, and the interview itself turned out great.

Part 2 of the interview will be released on Monday.

Enjoy!

Promo – This new podcast called 7th Son: Descent. I hear it’s okay.

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

To make the video a little more fun, especially since Patrick’s story was a bit of a comedy, I’ve added some pop-up elements that hopefully add some humor to the video, and it also helps those watching the video understand what was going on in the Stickam chat room before the reading and during the Q&A.

This video is Pt. 2 (the Q&A). I tried to include something for everyone in this video. Give it a watch and see what I mean.

For those that want separate feeds for audio and video, that is coming soon, along with a site redesign.

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On October 7th Patrick McLean and I did a live reading of his Tales of the Children short story, “The Old God and the Sea.” After the reading we did a Q&A with Chooch (Chooch was on skype).

To make the video a little more fun, especially since Patrick’s story was a bit of a comedy, I’ve added some pop-up elements that hopefully add some humor to the video, and it also helps those watching the video understand what was going on in the Stickam chat room before the reading and during the Q&A.

This video is Pt. 1 (the intro and the reading). Pt. 2 will be released in the feed tomorrow.

For those that want separate feeds for audio and video, that is coming soon, along with a site redesign.

Here we are once again. While I did meet my 9/09/09 start date for Tales of the Children (a live reading of this same story on Stickam), it did take me until now to finish the audio production of that same episode. At least you know what you get with me. Late, but hopefully worth it.

0:00 – Intro Chatter

• Our first story is “Swimming Lessons” by Gabrielle Harbowy
• Every other Wednesday we’ll be doing a Live Video Reading of a new Tales story over at Stickam.com
• Welcome to the first episode of Tales of the Children!

5:30 – Swimming Lessons – Gabrielle Harbowy

Joren, a craftsman jailed for the suspected use of non-clerical magic, learns what The River of Magic is all about.

24:50 – Outro Chatter

A few updates, and then an addendum because I finished editing two weeks after recording the original outro.

• Twitter – http://twitter.com/pgholyfield
• Facebook – http://facebook.com/pgholyfield
• MaAH and Tales of the Children Facebook Group – http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=24571342195
• Call The Caern Line – 704-315-5884
• “Tales of the Children” t-shirts at http://pgholyfield.spreadshirt.com – email me and I’ll create a custom t-shirt for you, with whatever “Child” you like best!

Music in this episode:

• Shira Kammen – Magnatune.com
  • The Impossible Butterfly – Wild Wood
• Kevin McLeod – Achaidh Cheide
• Ruben van Rompaey – Grande Rue De Pera
• Additional f/x found at Soundsnap.com and The Freesound Project

Special thanks to Scott Roche for his audio editing help with this episode!

• Discussions on cover art and creativity
• The state of the publishing industry
• What is The Gearheart?
• not a fan of Blade Runner, other than the “style” of it?
• Fonts and genres?
• Glenfiddich
• Oil rigs

Is that it? … Oh yeah… there was Tears for Fears.

Listen in on my interview with Alex White, creator of The Gearheart podcast novel, Art Director at Dragon Moon Press… and in his spare time he’ll be doing the cover of Murder at Avedon Hill.

This is the first in a series of interviews leading up to the print release of Murder at Avedon Hill I hope you will enjoy this behind the scenes look at the journey I’m taking to get MaAH into print.

Enjoy!

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

Promo: The Gearheart

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

Promo: Tales of the Children

Here is the third of my four interviews, this one with Podcasting’s Rich Sigfrit, master of voices, producer of the Parsec Finalist Podcast Pulp Adventures Starring Mr. Adventure.

Rich Sigfrit and I chat about Mister Adventure, his wonderful voice acting on Murder at Avedon Hill, the Parsecs, his pre- and post-Parsec interviews, etc.

Enjoy!

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

Promo: The Parsec Awards

Here is the first of my four interviews, this one with Christof Laputka, creator and writer of The Leviathan Chronicles.

Christof is a world traveler, a former finance expert, a Highlander fan, a production whore… and his commitment to his audio drama, in terms of both time and money, is awe-inspiring.

One of the many things I’m looking foward to at Dragon*Con this year is meeting Christof and drinking a beer (or three).

Enjoy!

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

Promo: The Leviathan Chronicles

Promo: Tales of the Children

From the Parsec Awards website:

The Parsec Awards are dedicated to rewarding excellence in various aspects of Speculative Fiction Podcasting. The Parsec Award is available for Sci-fi & Fantasy Original Content, podiobooks and a variety of other categories dealing with the new frontiers of Portable Media. The 4th annual Parsec Awards will be held at the Dragon*con convention held September 4 through September 7, 2009.

Before I started this project I attended the first Parsec Awards at D*C in 2006. From that moment it became one of my goals… to one day be a Parsec Awards finalist.  To have MaAH as a finalist in the Audio Drama category is a great validation of the hard work that I and so many other people put into this podcast.

Thanks to the fans that nominated Murder at Avedon Hill in the first place, and thanks to the awards committee and others that felt MaAH belonged on the short list of podcasts in this category. The other nominees:

• Amazing Pulp Adventures Starring Mr. Adventure
• The Metamor City Podcast – Making the Cut
• The Leviathan Chronicles
• Mur Lafferty’s The Takeover

As you know I love Chris Lester’s work on the MCP podcast (damn him), and Rich Sigfrit, the driving force behind Mr. Adventure, played two roles in MaAH (Herrjarr and Kell). Mr. Adventure is a lot of fun and you should check it out.

And Mur… she is simply the best.

The only nominee I am not familiar with is The Leviathan Chronicles (other than their great promo I believe I played on my podcast). But if nothing else, check out their website. It’s frakkin’ awesome! I’ll be listening to it before D*C, to be sure.

A lot of my friends in the podcasting world are Parsec finalists this year as well. Too many to list here, but I’m really looking forward to the ceremony to see who wins!

In the next few weeks I’ll be adding audio content in the feed. Interviews mostly, with Patrick McLean, Seth Harwood, and my editor, Gabrielle Harbowy. I also plan on contacting all of my fellow nominees for something prior to September.

Thanks again, people!!

Here are links to some of the things mentioned during the show:

• Michael Spence – Brother Osric’s Scriptorium
• Michael is now my official biographer. He must attend any future appearance I have and do a two minute introduction to whatever room we enter.
• The Red Box! – (I was wrong. From the screenshots of the different printngs, I must have gotten it in 1981)
• Neverwinter Nights
• Neverwinter Vault – You can still see the first draft of the first half of the novel deep within this site
• Caern Short Stories still on Lulu (free) – Seeker and Roh-Kin
• Christiana Ellis joins us for a Nina Kimberly Update!
• Short discussion on the planned sequel, tentatively titled “The House that Time Forgot”
• Question from Mae Breakall
• Sneak Attacked by Chris Lesssssster
• Tales of the Children – Short Story Anthology – More info will be posted soon!
• The Caern Line – 704-315-5884
• Mailing Lists/Fan Pages!
  • MaAH Facebook Group – http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=24571342195
  • Facebook: Fans of P.G. Holyfield – http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=34095009985
  • Google Group – http://groups.google.com/group/fans-of-murder-at-avedon-hill?hl=en

What do you mean, you haven’t written a review for MaAH on iTunes? Get to it! One more and I hit 100 reviews!

Music used in this episode: “Achaidh Cheide” – Kevin MacLeod

One thing I finished recently that I’ve been working on here and there for over a year is a video promo. I can do a few things in Flash but nothing I was putting together for MaAH was appealing to me. Enter the website Animoto.com. With animoto you upload your photos, drawings, etc., add text, add music, and then it spits out a video for you. The only drawback is you have no real control over the transitions used, so your only recourse if you don’t like how something looks is to re-render the whole thing and see if it turns out the way you want it.

After a lot of tries I came up with the video you see here.  If you like it, please embed it, promote it, put the file on your site or in your podcast feed, etc. I’d be honored.

If you want to embed it, please let me know and I’ll send you the code. If you don’t want to email me, I have a version of the video on youtube that you can grab, but the video doesn’t look as good on youtube (you can make the video look better when embedding though by changing the resolution of the video).

This is the first time I’m placing a video in my feed. Hopefully no one will have issues.

Attributions:

Most of the art in this video and information on those artists can be found on the Art page of the site, including work by Ron Holyfield, Natalie Metzger, Jeff Himmelman, and Devin Night. One image of wolves seen in the video courtesy of Eggybird through a creative commons license associated with the image on Flickr. The music in the promo is Oj Jabuko by Stellamara, courtesy of Magnatune.com. More information on this artist can be found on the Music page of the site.

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!

Episode 15 – Chapter 14, Part 1 – For Love Or Money

00:00 – Intro

• Bumper: J.C. Hutchins – 7th Son Trilogy
• Intro Chatter
  • Nearing the 3,000 mark with early episodes
  • The Podiobooks Community Website
  • Call the Caern Line! 704-315-5884
• Guest Voices (Some mentioned do not appear until Ep. 16)
  • Matt and Denise Lynch
  • Jon Stallard (The Vicar) – Geeklabel Radio
  • Billy Flynn – Geeklabel Radio
  • Chris Miller – The Secret Lair
  • Dani Cutler – The TruthSeekers Podcast, The Audio Addicts
  • Chris Moody – Podio Media Chat
  • Liza Holyfield
  • Rick Stringer – Variant Frequencies podcast

05:20 – Previously on Murder at Avedon Hill

Various clips featuring Lord Avedon, Jon Avedon, Head Constable Louis, and Father Jorrus

09:00 – Chapter Fourteen (Part 1): For Love or Money

Arrin visits with Shane Olivet and with his friend Cletus. Arames spends some time at Avedon Manor.

33:15 – Promos

• Stranger Things
• 7th Son: Book 3
• Buffy Between the Lines

Music in this podcast:

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

• recording – 1.5 hours
• editing my audio – 8 hours
• editing and splicing in Tee and MWS’s audio – 3 hours
• foley work (including searching for certain effects I didn’t have) – 4.5 hours
• mixing down, listening for errors, uploading, etc. – 2 hours

I’m not whining about time spent. I love doing this. I just wonder sometimes what possessed me to do this as an audio drama instead of as a straight read.

Episode 14 – Chapter 13, Part 2 – To Sleep

00:00 – Intro

• Bumper: Nathan Lowell – South Coast
  
• Short chatter
  • Call the Caern Line 704-315-5884
• Guest Voices
  • Tee Morris – Morevi Remastered
  • Matthew Wayne Selznick

02:40 – Chapter Thirteen (Part 2): To Sleep

Arames accompanies Father Jorrus on a hunt outside of town.

21:15 – Promo

• South Coast – Nathan Lowell’s new podcast novel on Podiobooks.com

Music in this podcast:

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

14 Days… dangit, I didn’t make my 10 day goal. The good news: Part 2 of Episode 13 will be released on Sunday night.

00:00 – Intro

• Bumper: Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff – Word Sushi
• Late Thanks to Tabz and others
• Guest Voices
  • Tee Morris – Morevi Remastered
  • The Vicar – Geeklabel Radio
  • James Ziesel
  • Glenn Webber
  • Chris Miller – The Secret Lair

04:00 – Previously on Murder at Avedon Hill

Clips from previous episodes, including meeting Talik Bore, the warning of Father Jorrus, and the torture of… the woman yet to be identified in the novel.

06:55 – Chapter Thirteen: To Sleep

Arames learns new information from Cletus, and Arrin dreams.

33:35 – Outro

34:10 – Promos

• Transistor Rodeo – the new podcast novel by Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff
• Playing for Keeps
  – the podcast novel by Mur Lafferty
• The Secret Lair – the new podcast from Chris Miller and Kris Johnson

Music in this podcast:

• Shira Kammen – Magnatune.com
  • Shetland Set – Wild Wood
  • The Impossible Butterfly – Wild Wood
  • Pasa Viene – Wild Wood
  • Girl’s Night Out – Wild Wood
  • Foggy Tam Set – Wild Wood
• Additional Background Music by Kevin McLeod, available at Incompetech.com
  • songs used – Measured Paces, Dark Standoff

Caern Vocabulary

• cyke – unit of time. There are 20 cykes in a day.
• lunas – unit of time. There are forty days in one lunas. A year is made up of ten lunas. Lunas is used as both singular and plural.
• Caern has a 40 day lunar month. The year is 400 days. Once every six years the Caern calendar adds an additional day, called the Festival of Tears (named for the tears Az shed creating his ten Children). There are ten months in the year, called lunas. There are four seasons, each lasting 100 days.

Ok, first of all, I must learn that I can’t record my intro before I even start editing. Yes, I know, I know… it’s the 27th and not the 24th. Still, ten days meets my 7-10 day release schedule.

00:00 – Intro

• Bumper: Christiana Ellis – Space Casey
• Thanks for the subscriptions at Podiobooks.com!
• Guest Voices
  • MA in PA – Better Late Than Never podcast
  • Tee Morris – Morevi Remastered
  • Rae Lamond
• Confused by the end of the episode? Hint: Relisten to the end of the Prologue in Ep. 1, and hopefully all will be clear… as muck.

04:26 – Previously on Murder at Avedon Hill

Clips from previous episodes, including meeting Father Jorrus and Richard Avedon.

07:36 – Chapter Twelve: The End of the Day

Arames speaks to Father Jorrus before returning to the inn. Arames visits with his cousin before heading to bed… and the episode ends with unpleasantness.

31:15 – Promos

• Morevi Remastered
• Space Casey
• Better Late Than Never

34:48 – Outro

Music in this podcast:

• Shira Kammen – Magnatune.com
  • Shetland Set – Wild Wood
  • The Impossible Butterfly – Wild Wood
  • Pasa Viene – Wild Wood
  • Girl’s Night Out – Wild Wood
• Additional Background Music by Kevin McLeod, available at Incompetech.com
  • songs used – Measured Paces, Anxiety, Apprehension, and Nervous Piano

NOTE: In my haste to get this out, I forgot to audibly thank Tabitha Smith and some of the cast of Buffy: Between the Lines for their ‘chorus’ help at the end of the episode. There was also some last minute voicework help from some friends from Twitter, and I’ll thank everyone personally in Episode 13.

• Bumper: Evo Terra – Podiobooks.com
• Chatter-free episode
• Guest Voices
  • Natalie Metzger – The Fuzzy Slug
  • Mistress Jett – Jett Show
  • John Cmar
  • Indiana Jim – Things are Looking Up
  • Billy Flynn – Geeklabel Radio
  • Chris Dickey – The Stealth Geek Podcast
  • Chris Miller – Podiobooks.com, Unquiet Desperation

02:50 – Previously on Murder at Avedon Hill

Arames and Arrin explore more of town, and meet more, ah, suspects.

07:50 – Chapter Eleven: Avedon Manor Revisited

Our heroes return to Avedon Manor. They speak to several members of the manor staff, and then meet Richard Avedon, the oldest son of Lord Avedon.

35:30 – Promos

• Metamor City: Making the Cut
• Mike’s Hot Dish

39:30 – Outro

Music in this podcast:

• Shira Kammen – Magnatune.com
  • Shetland Set – Wild Wood
  • The Impossible Butterfly – Wild Wood
  • Pasa Viene – Wild Wood
  • Girl’s Night Out – Wild Wood
• Additional Background Music by Kevin McLeod, available at Incompetech.com
  • songs used – Measured Paces, Unrelenting

Episode 10: Chapter 10 – The Investigation Begins

00:00 – Intro

• Bumper: Seth Harwood – Seth Harwood’s Website
• Chatter
  • Murder at Avedon Hill on Podiobooks
  • Flickr photos
• Guest Voices
  • Rich Sigfrit – Requiem of the Outcast, et. al.
  • Philippa Ballantine – Author Website
  • Glenn Webber
  • Leann Mabry – Tag in the Seam
  • Sam Chupp – Heart of the Hunter podcast novel

04:50 – Previously on Murder at Avedon Hill

Arames and Arrin meet Gloria Platt, Gretta’s mother. A discovery is made.

06:50 – Chapter Ten: The Investigation Begins

Arames and Arrin explore more of town, and meet more, ah, suspects.

39:00 – Promos

• Morevi Remastered
• Playing for Keeps
• Jack Palms 2: This is Life

42:00 – Outro

Music in this podcast:

• Shira Kammen – Magnatune.com
  • Shetland Set – Wild Wood
  • The Impossible Butterfly – Wild Wood
  • Pasa Viene – Wild Wood
  • Girl’s Night Out – Wild Wood
  • Lullaby Set – Wild Wood
• Additional Background Music by Kevin McLeod, available at Incompetech.com
  • songs used – Measured Paces, Unrelenting

• Bumper: Chris Lester – The Metamor City Podcast
• Chatter
• Guest Voices
  • K.J. Johnson – Volcanicast
  • Rich Sigfrit – Requiem of the Outcast, et. al.
  • Philippa Ballantine – Author Website

06:30 – Previously on Murder at Avedon Hill

Arames and Arrin pay a visit to the Avedon Manor Courtyard, and spend some quality time with the head constable.

09:15 – Chapter Nine: The Avedon Family Plot

Arames and Arrin meet Gloria Platt, Gretta’s mother. A discovery is made.

32:40 – Promos

• Nocturnal/BBTL Promo
• Whispers at the Edge
• The Metamor City Podcast
  

36:25 – Outro

Music in this podcast:

• Shira Kammen – Magnatune.com
  • Shetland Set – Wild Wood
  • The Impossible Butterfly – Wild Wood
  • Pasa Viene – Wild Wood
  • Girl’s Night Out – Wild Wood

00:00 – Intro

• Bumper: Mur Lafferty- Heaven Podcast Novels, This Day in Alternate History, GeekFu Morning Show
• Chatter
• Guest Voices
  • Jon Stallard (The Vicar) – Geeklabel Radio
  • Chris Miller – Podiobooks, The Round Table, Volcanicast
  • K.J. Johnson – The Round Table, Volcanicast

01:56 – The Story So Far

Our heroes manage to anger several townspeople, including Head Constable Louis, Blake Weathertop, and Lord Avedon; in the end, however, they are asked to investigate the murder of Gretta Platt.

03:00 – Chapter Eight:The Courtyard

Arames and Arrin pay a visit to the Avedon Manor Courtyard, and spend some quality time with the head constable.

23:10 – Promos

• Scott Sigler’s Nocturnal
• Christiana Ellis’s Seekrit Project
• Seth Harwood’s Jack Palms II

27:00 – Outro

Music in this podcast:

• Shira Kammen – Magnatune.com
  • Shetland Set – Wild Wood
  • The Impossible Butterfly – Wild Wood
  • Pasa Viene – Wild Wood
  • Girl’s Night Out

Episode 7: Chapter 7 – Avedon Manor

00:00 – Intro

• Bumper: Jason Adams – Random Signal, This Day in Alternate History
• Chatter
• Guest Voices
  • Jon Stallard (The Vicar) – Geeklabel Radio
  • Billy Flynn – Geeklabel Radio
  • John Cmar
  • Chris Miller – Podiobooks, The Round Table, Volcanicast
  • Indiana Jim – Things are Looking Up

02:50 – The Story So Far

Arames and Arrin obtained a letter of introduction, which they hope will allow them to meet Lord Avedon.

03:58 – Chapter Seven: Avedon Manor

Our heroes manage to anger several townspeople, including Head Constable Louis, Blake Weathertop, and Lord Avedon.

24:50 – Promos

• This Day in Alternate History
  
• Random Signal
• Gamer the Podcasting
  

27:22 – Outro

Music in this podcast:

• Shira Kammen – Magnatune.com
  • Shetland Set – Wild Wood
  • The Impossible Butterfly – Wild Wood
  • Pasa Viene – Wild Wood
  • Girl’s Night Out

00:00 – Intro

• Bumper: Tee Morris
• A shorter episode this week
• Guest Voices
  • Christiana Ellis (Nina Kimberly the Merciless) as Marrissa, the town herbalist
  • Caroline (Gamer the Podcasting) as Lane Niccols, the town librarian.

02:40 – The Story So Far

We meet Marrissa, the town herbalist. An unlikely quest is undertaken. A most unlikely friend stops in for a visit.

04:00 – Chapter Six: Metamorphosis

The library is visited. A goal is achieved, in a manner of speaking.

20:00 – Promo

• Morevi: Remastered
  

20:55 – Post-Comments

• Parsec Finalists for The Nanomonkeys… holy crapbaskets!

24:30 – Promos

• Nina Kimberly the Merciless
• Heaven Season 3: Earth

27:30 – Outro

Music in this podcast:

• Shira Kammen – Magnatune.com
  • Shetland Set – Wild Wood
  • The Impossible Butterfly – Wild Wood
  • Girl’s Night Out – Wild Wood
  • Lullaby Set – Wild Wood
  • Pasa Viene – Wild Wood

I hope you are enjoying the novel. Next time, we have a guest voice extravanganza! Geeklabel Radio, The Round Table, and CMARRRR! Oh my!

Episode 5: Chapter 5 – The Trouble with Moths

00:00 – Intro

• Bumper: J.C. Hutchins (7th Son)
• Opening Theme: Shetland Set – Shira Kammen
• Guest Voices
  • Christiana Ellis (Nina Kimberly the Merciless) as Marrissa, the town herbalist
  • Matthew Wayne Selznick (Brave Men Run, Writers Talking) as Gareth Beckwin

04:00 – The Story So Far

Our two heroes visit with some Avedon Hill townspeople, and get no closer to obtaining an audience with Lord Avedon. They discuss Artus, the Child of Az that is no more.

05:10 – Chapter Five: The Trouble with Moths

We meet Marrissa, the town herbalist. An unlikely quest is undertaken. A most unlikely friend stops in for a visit.

• Closing Theme: The Impossible Butterfly – Shira Kammen

39:45 – Promo

• 7th Son: Book Three – Destruction

41:50 – Post-Comments

• Guest Voices announced!

44:00 – Promos

• Nina Kimberly the Merciless
  
• Writers Talking

47:30 – Outro

Music in this podcast:

• Shira Kammen – Magnatune.com
  • Shetland Set – Wild Wood
  • The Impossible Butterfly – Wild Wood
  • Girl’s Night Out – Wild Wood
  • Pasa Viene – Wild Wood

Listening? Thank you!

• Bumper: Steve Riekeberg (Geek Cred)
• Opening Theme: Shetland Set – Shira Kammen
• Guest Voices
  • Jack Hosley (Wander Radio) as Holt Livasdawn, temple priest
  • Jeff Greiner (The Tome Show) as Caasz
  • Matt Lynch as Hemming, the Baker
  • Denise Lynch as Dally
• Murder at Avedon Hill now has over 20 guest voices… more on this later

03:00 – The Story So Far

Arames Kragen and Arrin Perti set themselves up at the inn. They meet a few townspeople, and learn they will need help from the citizenry in order to meet Lord Avedon.

04:20 – Chapter Four: Gods and the Undead

A discussion of Artus, the Child of Az that is no more. Our heroes meet several townspeople.

• Closing Theme: The Impossible Butterfly – Shira Kammen

26:40 – Promo

• Geek Cred Podcast

32:30 – Post-Comments

• I’m looking forward to Ep. 5 – We’re kicking it up a notch
• Nominated for a Parsec Award, along with Mur Lafferty, Chris Miller, and K.J. Johnson, for The Nanomonkeys Podcast

29:30 – Promos

• The Tome Show
• Podiobook Chat

32:15 – Outro

Music in this podcast:

• Shira Kammen – Magnatune.com
  • Shetland Set – Wild Wood
  • The Impossible Butterfly – Wild Wood
  • Girl’s Night Out – Wild Wood
  • Pasa Viene – Wild Wood

Yeah, you got it… thanks for listening!

I had hoped to release Ep. 7 before leaving for Dragon*Con. Alas, this must sate your hunger until next week. Ep. 7 is now scheduled for release on Wednesday, Sept. 5.

Episode 3: Chapter 3 – Warm Welcomes
00:00 – Intro

• Opening Theme: Shetland Set – Shira Kammen
• Guest Voices
  • James Ziesel as Talik Bore, innkeeper
  • Rae Lamond as Leilah, the jill-of-all-trades at the inn
  • Tee Morris, of too many podcasts to list here…
  • Jon Stallard (The Vicar) – Geeklabel Radio

02:50 – The Story So Far

Arames Kragen and Arrin Perti arrive at Avedon Hill, only to find the town has closed it gate to visitors. In Episode 2, Arames convinces Cletus, the town’s gatekeeper, to allow them entry into Avedon Hill.

04:15 – Chapter Three: Warm Welcomes

We meet several townspeople: the innkeeper, Talik Bore; Leilah; Father Jorrus, a retired cleric; and Head Constable Louis.

• Closing Theme: The Impossible Butterfly – Shira Kammen

32:10 – Promos

• Geeklabel Radio
• Number One with a Bullet
• Crescent

34:50 – Outro

Music in this podcast:

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

• Opening Theme: Shetland Set – Shira Kammen
• Guest Voices
  • James Ziesel as Talik Bore, innkeeper
  • Rae Lamond as Leilah, the jill-of-all-trades at the inn

01:45 – The Story So Far

Arames Kragen and Arrin Perti arrive at Avedon Hill, only to find the town has closed it gate to visitors. In Episode 2, Arames convinces Cletus, the town’s gatekeeper, to allow them entry into Avedon Hill.

03:15 – Chapter Three: Warm Welcomes

We meet several townspeople: the innkeeper, Talik Bore; Leilah; Father Jorrus, a retired cleric; and Head Constable Louis.

• Closing Theme: The Impossible Butterfly – Shira Kammen

31:15 – Promo

• Geeklabel Radio
  

32:30 – Post-Comments

• Guest Voices
• Website Updates soon

33:50 – Promos

• Number One with a Bullet
• Crescent

35:30 – Outro

Music in this podcast:

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

One last time… thanks for listening!

So here is Episode 2: Chapter 2 – Ruler of the Known World

00:00 – Intro

• Opening Theme: Shetland Set – Shira Kammen
• Welcome Back
• Thanks for the feedback
• Bad News/Good News

02:20 – The Story So Far

We are introduced to Gretta Platt, Housemistress of Avedon Manor. She didn’t make it to the end of the episode, I’m afraid. We then met our two heroes, Arames Kragen and Arrin Perti.

04:15 – Chapter Two: Ruler of the Known World

We are introduced Cletus, gatekeeper. Our heroes negotiate with Cletus.

• Closing Theme: The Impossible Butterfly – Shira Kammen

20:50 – Promo

• Heaven, Season 3: Earth – Podiobooks.com page

22:15 – Post-Comments

• Interested in adding your voice to the podcast? Let me know!
• Magnatune.com
• Self-promotion
  • Podcast Pickle – http://www.podcastpickle.com/casts/19157
  • Digg podcast at digg.com
  • Review at iTunes

33:50 – Promos

• Clone Line Live – July 5, 2007 – 9 PM Eastern
• 2007 Parsec Awards – Nominate your favorite podcasts!

27:00 – Outro

Music in this podcast:

• Shira Kammen – Magnatune.com
  • Shetland Set – Wild Wood
  • The Impossible Butterfly – Wild Wood
  • Girl’s Night Out – Wild Wood
  • Pasa Viene – Wild Wood

One last time… thanks for listening!

For your listening pleasure (I sure hope), here is the premiere of Murder at Avedon Hill:

00:00 – Intro

• Opening Theme: Shetland Set – Shira Kammen
• Welcome
• Thanks to Leann Mabry, voice of Gretta Platt
• Dedication – Debbie Scott, teacher

04:20 – Prologue: Gretta

We are introduced to Gretta Platt, Housemistress of Avedon Manor. Don’t get too used to her. Remember the title of the novel?

13:58 – Chapter One: Arrival

We are introduced to Arames Kragen, monk and former Aarronic Advisor, and his student, Arrin Perti. Our two heroes have reached Avedon Hill, gateway to the Olviaran Pass. But they have arrived only to discover a town that has closed its doors to travelers.

• Closing Theme: The Impossible Butterfly – Shira Kammen

32:30 – Post-Comments

• Interested in doing the voice of one of the characters in the podcast? Let me know!
• Thanks again to Leann Mabry from the Tag in the Seam podcast
• Comments so appreciated!
  • email – pgholyfield (at) murderatavedonhill (dot) com
  • skype (pgholyfield)

33:50 – Promos

• Give Us a Minute – the podcast of hope
• Wander Radio – 109.9 Almost on your Radio Dial

35:55 – Outro

Music in this podcast:

• Shira Kammen – Magnatune.com
  • Shetland Set – Wild Wood
  • The Impossible Butterfly – Wild Wood
  • Rafe’s Waltz – Castle of the Holly King
  • Pasa Viene – Wild Wood
• Additional Background Music by Kevin McLeod, available at Incompetech.com
  • songs used – Measured Paces, Unrelenting

One last time… thanks for listening!

I hope the sound quality of this episode is considerably better than previous episodes. I’m trying to decide whether I want to encode at a 96 or 128 bitrate. This file is at 96 kbps. Any feedback on the sound quality of this episode would be greatly appreciated!

Show Notes:

• Intro
  • Scott Sigler’s .pdf release of Ancestor: you can download it directly from this location.
• 3:30 – Seeker
• 28:50 – Closing thoughts
• 30:40 – Promo – Phil Rossi’s Crescent

Music in this podcast:

• Shira Kammen – Magnatune.com
  • Shetland Set – Wild Wood
  • Rafe’s Waltz – Castle of the Holly King
  • Pasa Viene – Wild Wood
• Additional Background Music by Kevin McLeod, available at Incompetech.com
  • songs used – Anxiety, Measured Paces, Unrelenting

Thanks to the following podcasts that have recently played the Murder at Avedon Hill promo:

• Leann Mabry’s Tag in the Seam podcast
• the Dragon’s Landing Inn podcast
• Wander Radio