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

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).

• 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

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

• 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

MaAH has been sitting on Page 2 of the iTunes Literature Featured Chart for around a year now. Today I open up iTunes and I see this:

iTunes Lit. Featured Chart, Page 1

Yeah, that’s page one, my bitches (as Seth Harwood would say). Seems MaAH has moved up to #13 on the Featured List (and up to page 2 of the “Arts” Featured Chart (an even larger category that Literature is underneath)).

As for you Metamorphs… yes, I see my nemesis is above me at #7. grrrrrr.

Good days, though, people. Good days.

Episode 42, the last episode of MaAH, will be released next week at some point. I’m looking forward to putting this baby to bed.

00:00 – Announcement

Dragon Moon Press will be publishing Murder at Avedon Hill. No set date at this time, but we’re looking at late ’09.

03:30 – Spread the Word!

Press Releases can be found on the Media Kit Page.  Please send to your local paper or media outlet… any entity that might be interested in the story of an unpublished author using ‘new media’ to land a publishing deal. Send me an email and let me know what you’ve done… we’re going to take this to the next level. Thanks, people!!

Last thing (not mentioned in the audio announcement). If you have a website or blog, please add a quick post about the publishing deal and link to the Press Page at http://pgholyfield.com/the-book/press – It will definitely help!

Music – “Sunset Serenade” – From Marc Gunn’s new CD, Heart’s Ease.

• DYH “Network ID” – Michael Spence
• Intro Bumper – Felicia Day
• Intro Chatter
  • Please visit Felicia Day’s “The Guild” video web series
  • Feed issues fixed
  • Two more eps. after this one, and then we’ll do a post-podcast novel Q&A show

3:30 – “Previously On” Murder at Avedon Hill

Audio clips from previous episodes.

6:00 – Chapter 40: Epiphany

Arames and Arrin face Father Jorrus in the temple of Artus; unwelcome (and welcome) guests soon arrive.

26:20 – Post-Chapter

• Promo – Buffy Between the Lines
• Guest Voices – Rick Stringer, K.J. Johnson, Jay Lynn, Tee Morris, Leann Mabry
• Special thanks to Cathy Towns Miller for her vocal in this episode.
• New “Damn You Holyfield” t-shirts at http://pgholyfield.spreadshirt.com
• Call the Caern Line at 704-315-5884
• Please promote the Murder at Avedon Hill Video Promo!
• The Goodreads Best Free Audiobook List – Vote for MaAH!
• Promo – The Prisoner Podcast – Broken Sea Audio Productions
• Promo – The Leviathan Chronicles

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
• David Beard – Imminent Danger, Blacksmith Strings, Chase, Effigy, Hunt Run, Fight Strings, Piano Loop
• Cathy Towns Miller – The Song of Artus
• Warg (Sound Snap) – Middle Earth Drama
• Additional f/x found at Soundsnap.com and The Freesound Project

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

00:00 – Intro

• Bumper: Billy Flynn – Geek Radio Daily
• Intro Chatter, from Panera’s
  • Parsec Award page
  • Contest continues until end of June
  • Guest voices: Rae Lamond, James Ziesel

03:30 – Chapter Twenty-Three: Back at the Inn

Arames and Arrin return to the inn, hoping to get some sleep. Events never seem to work out as planned for our heroes, do they?

24:35 – Promo

• My second response to Tee’s Uber-Nemesis Challenge (with Matthew Wayne Selznick and the great sport Tee Morris).

Music in this podcast:

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

00:00 – Intro

• Bumper: Mark Jeffrey – The Max Quick Novels
• Intro Chatter

03:15 – Chapter Twenty-One: Lord Avedon’s Gambit

Arames and Arrin finally meet the final Avedon child.

29:00 – Exit Chatter

• Guest Voices
  • Rick Stringer – Variant Frequencies podcast
  • Chris Miller – Unquiet Desperation
  • Indiana Jim – Things are Looking Up
• Quail Ridge Books New Media Panel – success!
  • see photos at http://flickr.com/photos/pgholyfield/
  • Video and/or Audio will be released soon
• Balticon

36:15 – Promos

• Max Quick Series
• 7th Son: Obsidian
• Zombinc.
• The Parsecs

Music in this podcast:

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

00:00 – Intro

• Bumper: Heather Welliver – The Shillas, Grailwolf’s Geek Life
• Intro Chatter

1:35 – The Story So Far

After a long day of investigation, Arames realizes that every answer points them back to Avedon Manor.

The Story So Far was performed by dedicated listener treed and his very talented daughter, Abby.

03:15 – Chapter Twenty: The Manor Calls

Arames and Arrin encounter Father Jorrus, and then head to the manor… uninvited.

29:00 – Exit Chatter

• Guest Voices
  • Rick Stringer – Variant Frequencies podcast
  • Tee Morris – Morevi Remastered
  • Jay Lynn – Geeklabel.com
• Appearances
  • May 17th – Raleigh, NC – Quail Ridge Books, 6:30 pm – New Media Panel (with Mur Lafferty)
  • May 23-26th – Balticon
• New Site Page – Photos
• Nick Robinson – Bike Ride for Alzheimer’s Society

36:15 – Promo

• May 17th – Raleigh, NC – Quail Ridge Books, 6:30 pm – New Media Panel (with Mur Lafferty) – this promo can be downloaded from the sidebar on the MaAH website.

Music in this podcast:

• Shira Kammen – Magnatune.com
  • Shetland Set – Wild Wood
  • The Impossible Butterfly – Wild Wood
  • Pasa Viene – Wild Wood
  • Lord May’s Set – Wild Wood
• The Shillas – Faithful

00:00 – Intro

• Bumper: Philippa Ballantine
• Intro Chatter

The Story So Far

Arames and Arrin spend time with Caasz and Brianna Ray. They learn more about Carin Avedon’s new hobby.

03:30 – Chapter Eighteen: The Mark of Az

Arames and Arrin spend time at Avedon Manor, again disappointing Lord Avedon with their progress.

18:00 – Chapter Nineteen: The King’s Crown

Arames and Arrin head back to the town library, researching the possible use of a King’s Head moth.

32:15 – Guest Voices / Promos

• Guest Voices
  • Rick Stringer – Variant Frequencies podcast
  • Laura Burns
  • John Cmar
  • Jon Stallard (The Vicar) – Geek Radio Daily
  • Caroline Murphy-Himmelman
  • Chris Dickey – The Stealth Geek podcast
  • Chris Miller – The Secret Lair

• Chasing the Bard
• Infected
• Tale Chasing

Music in this podcast:

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

00:00 – Intro

• Bumper/Rant: Scott Sigler
• Intro Chatter

The Story So Far

Arrin and Arames discover more about the townspeople of Avedon Hill.

04:45 – Chapter Seventeen: Hart’s Blood

Arames and Arrin speak to Caasz and Brianna Ray about… blood.

18:45 – Outro Chatter

• Short Chapter – next time we’ll have chapters 18 and 19.
• Video Chat Event – oovoo.com
  • March 24-27, 9:00 pm – 12:00 am Eastern
  • Ping me and we can chat on ooVoo. We can talk about the book, the podcast, or anything else you want!
  • If you have a podcast, I’ll probably end up interviewing you!
  • Video podcast episode will be created based on these video chats!
• Guest Voices
  • Natalie Metzger
  • Jeff Greiner – The Tome Show
  • Rick Stringer – Variant Frequencies podcast

21:00 – Promos

• Scott Sigler’s Infected
• Matt Wallace’s The Next Fix

25:45 – Bloopers

Rich Sigfrit adlibs like the pro he is, Sigler rants like the pro he is, and I make mistakes like the pro I am.

Music in this podcast:

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

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