Welcome to the Murder at Avedon Hill Website!

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The podcast version of Murder at Avedon Hill started in June of 2007, available through this website and through Podiobooks.com. The production ended after 42 episodes on May 21, 2009. Due to the generous help of family, friends, and members of the tribe, MaAH morphed, skirting the line between straight read and audio drama, with over 45 guests adding their voices to the podcast.

You can download episodes directly or subscribe through your aggregator of choice. If you would like to subscribe, click on the RSS Podcast button or the iTunes button, also found on the left nav. bar. Please email me, post comments, or leave voice comments on The Caern Line!

Enjoy!!

Here is a video promo for the Murder at Avedon Hill Podcast Novel:

Murder at Avedon Hill Q&A on TalkShoe, from 6/6/09

On Saturday, June 6th we had our first live Q&A show on TalkShoe. At least twenty-five people attended the show. It was a lot of fun, and we’ll definitely be doing something like this again in the future.

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

Audio Update – 06/04/09 – TalkShoe Live Show Saturday!

Here are links to stuff I mentioned in the audio update:

Music used in this episode: “Achaidh Cheide” – Kevin MacLeod; “Stardust Serenade” – Marc Gunn

Appearance: BlogTalk Radio – Podioracket.com

I appeared the other evening on the live component of the Podioracket podcast, done through the BlogTalk Radio website. My interview starts at around the 21 minute mark. I also appeared on the regular podioracket.com podcast, found here.


Murder at Avedon Hill Ep. 42 – Chapter 42 and 43

0:00 – Intro

  • 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.

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Personal Effects: Dark Art

J.C. Hutchins is going to take over the world. Meteoric doesn’t begin to describe what’s about to happen. Holy crap. I’m so proud to be one of the first beta clones, one of the first agents of J.C.’s Ministry of Propaganda.

Personal Effects: Dark Art is coming out on June 9th. You can pre-order here. Watch the video below to see why.

I’m in awe. And I get to see J.C. in a week. Huzzah!

Christiana Ellis’s Nina Kimberly the Merciless: Buy it Friday!

Friday marks the release of Christiana Ellis’s debut novel, Nina Kimberly the Merciless. Christiana is a wonderful person and an awesome talent. And for those that don’t know her own work (which you should), you should recognize Christiana from MaAH as the voice of Marrissa, the town herbalist.

Nina Kimberly is being published by Dragon Moon Press, so I’m even more invested in this novel’s success! If you follow me on Twitter, follow along on Friday for an opportunity to have one of the last remaining copies of MaAH (the self-pub version) signed and mailed out to you that same day! (oh, and did I say it would be free?)

Get on board, and defeat those sparkly vampires!!

Appearance: Balticon is nearly here!

Balticon is just over a week away, and I am SO looking forward to it. Last year I tested the waters (I was on three panels…  and learned the hard way that I’m allergic to scallops). This year will be a bit different. I am on six panels, one of which is my first live reading, and I will be on one of my favorite podcasts (Evo at 11).

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Cinco de Harwood!

Jack Wakes Up Cover

Jack Wakes Up Cover

“Jack Wakes Up rocks! It’s a fast, smooth ride on a highway not found on any map.” – Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“Readers who like their hard-boiled crime fiction violent and gritty will cheer Harwood’s debut — taut prose and fast pacing bode well for future entries in the series.” — Publisher’s Weekly

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This may be a glitch…

but I’m going to claim it as the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the TRUTH! :-)

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:

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Appearance: DRS Ep. 80 – The Philippa Ballantine Interview

I know I said to go over to the Dead Robots’ Society website to subscribe, but I had to include this episode in my feed. Last week I had the opporunity to interview Philippa Ballantine, our own Gloria Platt (and oh yeah, an author that just got a publshing deal with Ace Books!).  Enjoy.

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