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!

• 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

This is the first episode where I appear as a regular host. Ep. 77 is an interview with Nathan Nowell, author of the Share Series. We focus on podcasting your fiction, contrasting our styles and explaining the decision process one should take before podcasting their novel.

Later this week I’ll drop ep. 78 of the DRS podcast in this feed. If you want to listen to more of the DRS podcast and/or subscribe (to get future episodes), please visit The Dead Robots’ Society website!

• DYH “Network ID” – Michael Spence
• Intro Bumper – J.F. Lewis
  
• Intro Chatter
  • Episode 41 was a bear! 50+ hours of production. Am I crazy! YES!
  • Thanks again to my assistant producers
  • I will list all the episode info after the chapter… but I must recognize Scott Sigler, the godfather of the podcast novel, (it’s part of the contract that I call him that) and thank him for joining the podcast!

3:40 – “Previously On” Murder at Avedon Hill

• Sarah Tremaine shares how she discovered the power of her singing voice (ep. 27).
• Head Constable Louis tells the legend of the Song of Artus (ep. 28)
• Arrin begins to realize there is truth to the legends of the Children of Az. (ep. 28)
• Constable Ulrich is fooled by the Song of Artus. (ep. 40).

6:30 – Chapter 41: Doppin’s Jest

Intro: Rick Stringer; The battle for Gretta Platt continues. Lives are changed forever.

48:50 – Post-Chapter

• Promo – Staked
• Guest Voices
  • The Chorus (and apologies to those I did not name on the podcast. I will rectify that on the next episode):  Chooch and Viv, Justin Lowmaster, Travis Nelson, Chip Burkhead, Kevin Crosby, Terry Mixon, Kimi Alexandre, Mike Sharpe, Tim White, Kim Stone, Tim Dodge, Jeremiah McCoy, Ivy Reisner, Philippa Ballantine, Synaptic Jam (James Keeling) and his daughter, Petra
  • Tee Morris as Father Jorrus
  • Leann Mabry as Sarah Tremaine
  • Nathan Lowell as Roc
  • MAinPA as Gretta Platt
• Special thanks to Cathy Towns Miller for her interpretation of The Song of Artus
• I am now a regular co-host on The Dead Robots’ Society Podcast.
• “Damn You Holyfield” t-shirts at http://pgholyfield.spreadshirt.com
• Call the Caern Line at 704-315-5884
• Caern Line call – Darren from New Zealand!
• The Goodreads Best Free Audiobook List – Vote for MaAH!
• Promo – Nina Kimberly
• Promo – Adventures in Sci-Fi Publishing
• Promo – Phil Rossi’s Eden

Music in this podcast:

• Shira Kammen – Magnatune.com
  • The Impossible Butterfly – Wild Wood
  • Pasa Viene – Wild Wood
  • Shetland Set – Wild Wood
  • Lullaby Set – Wild Wood
• Kevin McLeod – Anxiety, Classic Horror, Dark Standoff, Feral Chase, Measured Paces, Shamanistic, End of the Era
• David Beard – Imminent Danger, Blacksmith Strings, Chase, Effigy, Hunt Run, Fight Strings, Piano Loop, Ailein Duinn,
• Stellamara – Kereshme
• Shiva in Exile – Hollow Earth, Oriental Distortion
• Solace – Forsaken
• Ruben van Rompaey – Grande Rue De Pera
• Cathy Towns Miller – The Song of Artus
• Warg (Sound Snap) – Middle Earth Drama
• Additional f/x found at Soundsnap.com and The Freesound Project

Original Artwork by Natalie Metzger

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!).