The podcast version of Murder at Avedon Hill started in June of 2007, available through this website and through Podiobooks.com. The final product should be around 45 episodes, with production lasting until the end of 2008. Due to the generous help of family, friends, and members of the tribe, MaAH has morphed, skirting the edge between straight read and audio drama, with over 30 guests adding their voices to the podcast.

You can download episodes or play them directly through the player on the left nav. bar. 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 with comments, post comments here, or leave voice comments on The Caern Line!

Enjoy!!

I’ve decided to cancel the live show I had planned for tomorrow at 2 pm. I’ve been having some issues with the sound card on my laptop and need to figure it out before doing any more stickam videos.

I’ll be releasing the listener appreciation show as a special episode in the normal audio feed. If you have any MaAH or general questions for me to answer during the episode’s Q&A, please email me, send me an .mp3, or call the Caern Line (704) 315-5884.

I will be dropping some of that new media I was talking about tomorrow and Monday. And then we’ll be back to the regular podcast. I’m waiting on some audio, but as long as I get that we should be ready to roll on the 10th.

On episode 22 I mentioned that I’m running a contest. The details are below, but there is one major change: the contest will run until the end of June, not the end of May.

What do you do?

Between now and June 30, submit a review at iTunes and/or leave a comment on The Caern Line (the voice line at 704-315-5884). If you do one or the other, you get one entry into the contest. If you do both, you get two entries.

Anyone that has previously left a review on iTunes or left me a voice mail is grandfathered into the contest.

But in either case (grandfathered or new), you only be officially entered if you send me an email with the subject line MaAH Contest #1, with your name and email address, plus a description of what you did (name on the review or date you left a voice mail). That way I can contact you if you win.

What do you get?

On July 1st, 2008 I will take all the entries and draw a winner (on video). That person will win a t-shirt of their choice from the official MaAH Spreadshirt store. Also, if I get more than 20 reviews on iTunes before the end of June, I will give away schwag to multiple entrants (prizes T.B.A.).

I’m late with this, but better late then never. On Sunday Joe Murphy passed away after only a four month battle against Leiomyosarcoma Carcinoma (LMS). For the very few that might be listening to this that do not know who I’m talking about: Joe Murphy was one of the hosts of Kick Ass Mystic Ninjas and appeared on many Farpoint Media shows, including Cover to Cover and Michael and Evo’s Wingin’ It.

I wasn’t close to Joe Murphy, but I had the pleasure of meeting and chatting with Joe at Dragon*Con:

I first spotted Joe attending one of the podcast sessions at Dragon Con and I sat down near him and introduced myself when the session was over. I had written him an email about their podcast discussion of Dune, and and he remembered my email and we chatted for fifteen minutes about the Kick Ass Mystic Ninjas, how they came up with their topics, etc. The next session started and I moved up to the front of the room to listen in.

And then later that night at a party Joe came up to me and began our conversation anew. It was just how Joe Murphy was. If you were a listener, you were part of his extended family, immediately, no questions asked.

The audio included in this post is from Leann Mabry, speaking about the website that has been started in Joe’s honor. Please visit the site and learn more about Joe and the insidious disease known as LMS.

http://joemurphymemorialfund.org

Thank you.

 

 Joe Murphy Memorial Fund [1:54m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3337)

I’ve had my first blowup in Adobe Audition… hooray!!! Argh. I had the episode edited and ready to go, but a crash now prevents me from accessing the session file.

The file edits are done. I just have to rebuild the session. I hope to post T-Minus 2 tonight.

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On a side note, here’s an article from the N.Y. Times about podcasting fiction and the success stories that are already being written. (You might have to register **for free** in order to see the article). Scott Sigler, J.C. Hutchins, Tee Morris, Evo Terra, Mark Jeffries, and others are featured/mentioned in the article.

I went to Atlanta last week to deliver training to a group I support at my full-time job. It mainly was an excuse to visit Leann and Clair. Leann Mabry is the host of one of my favorite podcasts, Tag in the Seam. We had fun recording nothing in particular, working up a skit for one of her future episodes, and it gave me the opportunity to pick Clair’s brain a bit on using a mixer.

Leann is the voice of Gretta in my promo, and will be reading two parts (Gretta and one of the two vital female characters later in the book) in my podcast novel.

It was great to meet Leann and Clair (we were at the same parties and podcast sessions at Dragon*Con, but we never officially met) and it simply reinforced what I have been telling people ever since Dragon*Con… podcasters are simply the best group of people you will every hope to meet.

Some photos…

We moved our (my wife is a web designer who maintains several websites for customers) websites to DreamHost.com last night. Um… how about 2 TB of bandwidth, and we paid less than $100.00 for two years? Hell yeah!

My first order of business was installing WordPress and Podpress. I’m trying out different themes until I find one we’ll further modify to make it relate to the novel.

For those of you just learning about me, I’ve written a novel that I will be podcasting here. I’m performing final edits of the novel, which will be available through Lulu.com. Once I’ve uploaded the novel, I’ll begin the podcast here. My main site for the book itself is http://pgholyfield.com (EDIT: Since yesterday I’ve decided to use this site for everything… both for the novel and the podcast).

I’m contemplating whether or not I want to move over my blogs from blogger. I’m leaning towards no… although if the process is as simple as it appears, I might move posts over and then delete most of the ones I don’t want/need here.

For the last six months I’ve been learning the ins and outs of podcasting. I’ve contributed several promos, skits, and short stories to several podcasts out there, in order to learn Adobe Audition and get my name out there. I’ve made a lot of friends along the way and will post about them here from time to time.

I will be recording two or three T-Minus podcasts and posting them here before the podcast novel begins. I want to make sure the feed is correct and things are moving before starting the novel. Plus I’m still waiting on some sound equipment before I start recording the novel chapters.

More later. Welcome and I hope you make Murder at Avedon Hill an oft-visited site!

I wrote a review of 7th Son: Book 1 - Descent a few months back. J.C. Hutchins, the author, is one hell of a guy and has helped me more than he will ever know along my journey… whereever the hell I end up. Anyways, I love me some t-shirts… so here I am in my beta clone shirt!

If you haven’t already… get the hell over to jchutchins.net and give his podcast novel a try.

I didn’t quite make it, but I have 30,000 words to work with once I finish editing my first novel. Congratulations to everyone that participated and especially to those that made it. I for one am really proud of the work we did over at the Nanomonkeys podcast.

It started as a suggestion I made over at the HHM website (first to do a support group there, and then to combine forces with the ISBW website). Chris Miller, K.J. Johnson, and Mur ran with it and prodcue something pretty special. 34 podcasts in 30 days.

You can’t beat that with a stick. As for the novel edit, I’m getting there, slowly but surely. I’ve got around 95 pages left, plus I’ve got a map that’s around 60% complete.

Just throwing out (or up) all the stuff I’ve been working on (in no particular oder):

1. Novel final edits: what I had hoped to have done by November 1st is still taking place. I’m around 60% done. If the family ever mends, I’ll plow through the rest and upload to Lulu.

2. Map for novel: Starting to shape up. I’ve got a few more mountains to do, and then rivers, forests, cities, and roads.

3. The Nanomonkeys Podcast - I’ve done most of what I need to do for this. I’ve got a mid-month update sound file to edit and send to Chris Miller today. I had wanted to do interviews with the nano participants I interviewed at the beginning of the month, but it ain’t gonna happen.

4. NaNoWriMo - behind in my word count, but happy with what I’ve done so far. While the novel is a murder mystery set in a fantasy world, this is a ghost story set in that same world.

5. Podcast short story - I have a short story that will be podcast soon on a popular podcast. I have a guest voice that will appear on the story that is going to make this even better! I can’t wait to get it done and share what this is all about… soon.

6. Tag in the Seam - I did a promo for Leann Mabry with the Tag in the Seam podcast. I’ll point a link to it once it starts getting played.

7. My T-minus podcasts - As soon as I’m done with #1, I’ll be doing three or four “T-Minus” podcasts leading up to the start of the Murder at Avedon Hill podcast novel. More on this soon. Once the crud leaves our family alone, I’ll be very happy. BELIEVE me.