Enjoy!

Promo for The Leviathan Chronicles finale follows the reading.

On March 23, 1775, at St. John’s Henrico Parish Church in Richmond, Patrick Henry spoke to the House of Burgesses. His speech changed the minds and hearts of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and became a beacon of freedom for all of America.

Happy Independence Day, everyone.

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 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.

We talked about storytelling within the medium of ‘sequential art,’ Writing Excuses, pacing within different mediums, and a little about the talk Howard gave at Balticon on education and on becoming a better creator, no matter the medium.

Thanks to Howard for being patient with someone that obviously had less than a good grasp of web-comic terminology (I referred to panels as boxes throughout the interview ).

Promo at the end of the episode is for Prisoners of the Alliance.

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!

Into the Blender is a podcast about blended families, geek culture, and it is a wonderful listen month in and month out. Go check it out!

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.

Special thanks to Ron Earl for the creation of these avatars! And as always, thanks to Jeff Himmelman for the use of his wonderful art piece called “Sophia.”

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

Simply put, we are attempting to push Murder at Avedon Hill up the charts by having as many people purchase it as possible, at the same time, on Amazon.com. By doing so, we can push the book up the charts and increase its exposure in the short term. This has successfully been accomplished in the past by authors like Scott Sigler, Tee Morris, and Philippa Ballantine.

So how does it work?

In my case, on Saturday, May 15th, at noon Eastern time I would love for everyone that wants to own the print version of Murder at Avedon Hill to head on over to Amazon.com (url for the book coming soon) and purchase the novel. Amazon updates their rankings every hour, and they even have a specific page called the Movers and Shakers list.

What else will be going on? And what’s in it for me?

Well, besides owning a damn good book, I’m going to be live streaming on stickam.com starting at noon Eastern. I’ll be reading from the novel, chatting with folks online, and there should be some special guests on hand to celebrate the book’s release. I will also be giving away prizes to several lucky owners of the book. More on that in the days to come… including one special prize that I’m very excited about.

I’ve been creating online content in some capacity for going on five years now. I hope that karma really works, and we can knock this thing right out of the park!

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.

Before we go any further, what can you find here?

• The Murder at Avedon Hill Podcast Novel
• The Tales of the Children Short Story Anthology Podcast
• Information about the upcoming print release of Murder at Avedon Hill (Book Launch Date post)
• Information on my fantasy setting, The Land of Caern.

The Land of Caern is the fantasy setting I’ve been writing and playing RPGs in since 1988.

Back in 2004 I started writing a novel set in The Land of Caern. It began its life as a proposed module for the computer game Neverwinter Nights. I then took the plot from that module and began serializing the story as a text release on the Neverwinter Vault website. After releasing the the first draft of the first half of the novel online, I decided to finish the novel “offline” and try to get it published. I finished the first draft of the novel near the end of 2006.

Early 2006 I discovered podcasting. I began contributing to podcasts in the summer of 2006, and began my own podcast in early 2007. I briefly released Murder at Avedon Hill as a self-published novel through Lulu.com

To learn more about the journey to get Murder at Avedon Hill written in novel form, please visit the page on this site called “The Story Behind the Story.”

I began the podcast version of Murder at Avedon Hill in June of 2007. It is still available on this website, on iTunes, 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.

Murder at Avedon Hill was picked up by Dragon Moon Press and is due to be published in 2010.

In September of 2009 I began producing a second podcast set in The Land of Caern: Tales of The Children. Tales of the Children is a short story anthology podcast, with stories by me and by some of the best authors in podcast fiction.

This podcast also features live readings of stories on stickam.com!

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.

My good friend Patrick McLean over at The Seanachai (How to Succeed in Evil, Flinchy and the Mexican Show Truck) is doing his last episode of his podcast live on Stickam (link to the show will be posted as soon as I get it). The live show will be on Wednesday, March 24, at 9:00 pm Eastern time.

As a good Irishman (at least a 1/4 of me, anyways), I’ll be helping him bring The Seanachai to a fitting end. He’ll be sharing a true story of gun play, injury, and I’m sure he will deliver it with the humor and style that has made The Seanachai one of the best fiction/essay podcasts ever produced.

Join us for the fun.

• 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

• 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

Music – David Beard – Jack’s Anger

Here is the last of my four interviews, this one with the creator, writer and producer of The Metamor City Podcast, Chris Lester. Chris and I chat about Metamor City, our battles as nemesises… nemeses… whatever… about what he is doing next… and focus on his unfortunate arrest in Amsterdam last year. ;-P

Enjoy!

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

Promo: The Parsec Awards

I love it, and look forward to capturing more of Dragon*Con this year.

Here’s my first attempt at recording video. Don’t worry, I’ll be sure to look at the camera more next time.

What I say is important, though I need your help. Any suggestions around what video content I should create in preparation for Murder at Avedon Hill’s print release would be awesome!

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 second of my four interviews, this one with Mur Lafferty creator and writer of The Takeover. (Yes, I kn0w at the beginning of the interview I say this is the LAST interview. I’ll be releasing more interviews between now and Dragon*Con).

Mur Lafferty is one of my heroes, as you know, and we talk about The Takeover, about Her Side (the fiction/photography collaboration with the incomparable J.R. Blackwell), the Heaven Series, World Con, and The Parsec Awards.

Enjoy!

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

Promo: The Takeover

Promo: Tales of the Children

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

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

Seth and I talk about his podcast novels, his journey to having Jack Wakes Up published (twice), his former job on the floor of the stock market in NYC, his teaching career, Author Bootcamp, HotTub Cast… and much much more!

Enjoy, and look for my first of four interviews with the other Parsec finalists in the category of Best Audio Drama Long Form, posting tomorrow.

Music in this podcast episode: Celtic Impulse, Kevin McLeod, Incompetech.com

It’s a live interview, with a chat area for people to ask questions, and a call in number if you want to be on the show.

Come on out and hear me chat about Tales of the Children, about the Parsec Award nomination, about the upcoming book release, etc.

Rhonda Carpenter does a great job interviewing her guests. It should be a lot of fun!

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!!

But more importantly, we talk about the next fiction podcast project I’ll be working on, called Tales of the Children.

It’s going to be a lot of fun… with a lot of great friends coming along for the ride!

• Call the Caern Line! – 704-315-5884
• If you haven’t reviewed MaAH on iTunes, please do!
• Balticon Rocks!
• I’m still on the Dead Robots’ Society podcast (not every week, but often!)
• Flinchy is coming… really it is!
• I’ll be podcasting some interviews/discussions with my editor Gabrielle Harbowy
• the promo for Tales of the Children
• closing thoughts
• Bloopers from the past

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

This is the second and last episode I’ll be posting in my feed. Ep. 78 is a discussion of point of view in fiction. Please visit the The Dead Robots’ Society website for more info (and to get the .pdf I created for the discussion) on this episode and to subscribe!

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

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

• DYH “Network ID” -  Michael Spence
• Intro Bumper – Phil Rossi
• Intro Chatter
  • The Job Hunt Continues
  • Computer issues
  • Guest Voices – Thanks to Indiana Jim in ep. 38

4:00 – The Story So Far – Nathan Lowell

After the recent deaths of some of Avedon Hill’s townspeople, Arames Kragen has had enough.

6:20 – Chapter 39: The Temple of Artus

Arames and Arrin pay a visit to Marrissa, and then move to the long-abandoned Temple of Artus.

31:40 – Post-Chapter

• Bumper – Kim and Tim from The Return to Northmoor podcast
• Promo – Movie Mantras
• Guest Voices – Rick Stringer, Christiana Ellis, K.J. Johnson, MAinPA, Tee Morris
  
• Contest Winners – Mildred Cady, Bethany Holtry, Adam Teece
• 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!
• MaAH has had over 300,000 total downloads so far!
• Promo -  The Seanachai

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, Interloper, Measured Paces, Shamanistic, Zombie Hoodoo
• David Beard – Imminent Danger, Blacksmith Strings, Hunt Run, Fight Strings,
• Warg (Sound Snap) – Middle Earth Drama
• Additional f/x found at Soundsnap.com and The Freesound Project

Three more to go! Thanks for everything!

UPDATE: People are receiving multiple copies of this episode. We have identified the issue and are taking steps to fix it. Thanks for your patience!

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.

• Bumper: Dead Robot’s Society Podcast
  
• Intro Chatter
  • Christmas chatter (with Tee Morris)
  • Guest Voices – Rick Stringer, Jay Lynn, Brian Brown, Indiana Jim, Caroline Himmelmann, K.J. Johnson

3:20 – Chapter 38: Kalin’s Work

In this episode: characters die, a building falls, and Arames is left angry.

24:50 – Post-Chapter

• Promo – Mark Kinney’s Arcadian Gate
  
• Caern Line Calls (Kim Fortuner, Thomas Reed, Scott Roche) and Commentary (call the Caern Line at 704-315-5884)
• 2nd Teaser for “Flinchy and the Mexican Show Truck” — an audio drama that has two episode up at The Seanachai

Music in this podcast:

• Shira Kammen – Magnatune.com
  • The Impossible Butterfly – Wild Wood
  • Foggy Tam Set – Wild Wood
  • Pasa Viene – Wild Wood
  • Shetland Set – Wild Wood
  • Lullaby Set – Wild Wood
• Kevin McLeod – Anxiety, Classic Horror,
• David Beard – Imminent Danger, Blacksmith Strings, Hunt Run, various others
• Additional f/x found at Soundsnap.com and The Freesound Project

Thanks for a wonderful 2008, people! Even better things to come in 2009. Just you wait and see!

• Bumper: Paulette Jaxton
• Intro Chatter
  • Contest Continues
  • Guest Voices – Rick Stringer, Rae Lamond, Podcasting’s Rich Sigfrit

3:00 – The Story So Far

Nathan Lowell delivers the SSF this week.

5:30 – Chapter Thirty-seven: The Hunter of Artus

Arames finally realizes what Gloria Platt drew on the carpet in her home. A conversation with Herrjarr leaves Arames even more certain.

24:50 – Post-Chapter

• Promo – Contagious
• Caern Line Calls and Commentary (call the Caern Line at 704-315-5884)
• Contest Update – Qualify by sending me an email after submitting a review on iTunes, by leaving a Caern Line call, and/or by rating MaAH at Podiobooks.com – I’ve had several reviews on iTunes but not so many emails — get those emails in so you can qualify!
• 2nd Teaser for “Flinchy and the Mexican Show Truck” — an audio drama that has two episode up at The Seanachai
• Promo – House of Grey

Music in this podcast:

• Shira Kammen – Magnatune.com
  • The Impossible Butterfly – Wild Wood
  • Foggy Tam Set – Wild Wood
  • Pasa Viene – Wild Wood
  • Shetland Set – Wild Wood
  • Lullaby Set – Wild Wood
• Kevin McLeod – Anxiety, Classic Horror 1
• David Beard – Imminent Danger, Blacksmith Strings,
• Additional f/x found at Soundsnap.com and The Freesound Project

An icon of Artus, the “Child of War”

• Bumper: Steve Riekeberg
• Intro Chatter
  • News after the chapter.
  • Call the Caern Line – 704-315-5884
  • Guest Voices – Jon Stallard, Rick Stringer, Tee Morris, Matthew Wayne Selznick, Indiana Jim, Liza Holyfield

2:20 – Previously on Murder at Avedon Hill

Scenes from earlier episodes hopefully remind the listener what has come before.

4:30 – Chapter Thirty-six: The Schedule Book

Gretta’s journal is found. Arames begins to understand Avedon Hill’s true role in the history of Caern.

27:20 – Post-Chapter

• Promo – Lost Gods
• I’ve got Help! Thanks to Murder at Avedon Hill’s new assistant producers: Paulette Jaxton, Stewart Boyles, Charles Blanchard, and Scott Roche
• Contest Update – Qualify by sending me an email after submitting a review on iTunes, by leaving a Caern Line call, and/or by rating MaAH at Podiobooks.com – I’ve had several reviews on iTunes but not so many emails — get those emails in so you can qualify!
• Podcast Appearances – Geek Cred and Dead Robots Society
• Caern Line Calls
• Teaser for “Flinchy and the Mexican Show Truck” — an audio drama coming soon from The Seanachai

Music in this podcast:

• Shira Kammen – Magnatune.com
  • The Impossible Butterfly – Wild Wood
  • Foggy Tam Set – Wild Wood
  • Pasa Viene – Wild Wood
  • Shetland Set – Wild Wood
  • Lullaby Set – Wild Wood
• Kevin McLeod – Anxiety, Dark Standoff, Time Passes, Nervous Piano, Classic Horror 1
• David Beard – Imminent Danger, Blacksmith Strings, Effigy, Fight Strings
• Additional f/x found at Soundsnap.com and The Freesound Project

• Bumper: Mae Breakall
• Intro Chatter
  • Long ep. News after the chapter.
  • Call the Caern Line – 704-315-5884
  • Guest Voices – Jon Stallard, Jay Lynn, Podcasting’s Rich Sigfrit, Rick Stringer

3:30 – Previously on Murder at Avedon Hill

(with Mur Lafferty!) Suspects are becoming victims. Arrin’s dream walks are becoming more prescient.

5:05 – Chapter Thirty-five: Death at the Theater

Arames continues his investigation at the town theater, and then visits the Platt home.

32:00 – Author Chatter

• New contest – Qualify by sending me an email after submitting a review on iTunes, by leaving a Caern Line call, and/or by rating MaAH at Podiobooks.com – More info will appear on the site soon.
• New Promo for MaAH (the Clean version). Links to this and the Explicit version of the promo are on the sidebar under “Promotions.”
• I’m working on something really good with Patrick McLean. Golf, the Apocalypse, margaritas… it’s a comedy, of course!
• The Geek Radio Daily Pub Crawl
  

Music in this podcast:

• Shira Kammen – Magnatune.com
  • The Impossible Butterfly – Wild Wood
  • Foggy Tam Set – Wild Wood
  • Pasa Viene – Wild Wood
  • Shetland Set – Wild Wood
  • Lullaby Set – Wild Wood
• Kevin McLeod – Anxiety, Dark Standoff, Time Passes, Asian Drums, Nervous Piano, Classic Horror 1
• David Beard – Imminent Danger, Blacksmith Strings
• Additional f/x found at Soundsnap.com and The Freesound Project

Arames imagines Gloria’s last moments…

Arames’s drawing of the bloody carpet.

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!

• Bumper: Kim Fortuner
• Intro Chatter
  • Ep. 34 is short (because chapter 34 is short), but worth it. I could not combine it with Chapter 35, because ch. 35 is already very long.
  • Call the Caern Line – 704-315-5884
  • Guest Voices – Rick Stringer, Matthew Wayne Selznick, Jon Stallard, James Ziesel, Philippa Ballantine, Chris Miller, K.J. Johnson
  • Not mentioned, but I hope you dig the new podcast icon, courtesy of J.C. Hutchins!

Previously on Murder at Avedon Hill

Our heroes battle Rondellus Marx; Arames shares a legend of Ursala with Arrin.

3:05 – Chapter Thirty-four: Bells of Dawn

Arames and Arrin both dream.

14:00 – Promos, Caern-Line calls, and a song…

• Dead Robot’s Society First Chapter Contest
• Caern Line Calls from Thomas Reed
• An unfortunate aural misunderstanding (Matt from Portland) “It’s Corinhold!”
• Evo at 11
  
• The “Damn You Holyfield” song by Kim Fortuner

Music in this podcast:

• Shira Kammen – Magnatune.com
  • The Impossible Butterfly – Wild Wood
  • Foggy Tam Set – Wild Wood
  • Pasa Viene – Wild Wood
  • Shetland Set – Wild Wood
  • Lullaby Set – Wild Wood
• Kevin McLeod – Anxiety, Dark Standoff,
• David Beard – “Imminent Danger”
• Additional f/x found at Soundsnap.com and The Freesound Project

• Bumper: Jay Lynn
  
• Intro Chatter
  • Thanks for all the positive feedback about Ep. 32!
  • Call the Caern Line – 704-315-5884
  • Two new promos coming soon – with help from Michael Spence
  • Guest Voices – J.C. Hutchins!

4:00 – The Story So Far

The Story So Far for this episode: read by Michael Spence

Arames and Arrin follow Talik Bore and find themselves in deep trouble in the caves outside of Avedon Hill.

5:15 – Chapter Thirty-three:Ursala’s Lament

Our heroes battle Rondellus Marx; Arames shares a legend of Ursala with Arrin.

22:10 – Promo, Caern-Line calls, and Bloopers

• Metamediocrity – an audio comic podcast
• Caern Line Calls from Shara, Scott Roche,
• The Tee Morris Audio Roast
• Adam Teece, Nick Robinson, Quonundrum, Andy Cross, sinspired
• Outro
• Bloopers

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 – Unrelenting, Asian Drums, Anxiety, Interloper
• David Beard – various bed music, including “Chase” and “Imminent Danger”
• Stellamara – Magnatune.com
  • Oj Jabuko
• Additional f/x found at Soundsnap.com and The Freesound Project

• Bumper: Patrick McLean
• Intro Chatter
  • This is the big one! Jam Packed with production goodness! (Please let me know if I’ve gone too far!)
  • Call the Caern Line – 704-315-5884
  • Don’t let Tabz push me around! Nominate MaAH at the Podcast Awards website – http://podcastawards.com
  • Guest Voices – James Ziesel, Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff

4:00 – The Story So Far

The Story So Far for this episode: read by Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff.

Arames and Arrin return to the inn for the evening. Arames has a long talk with Talik, and Arrin dreams… of wolves.

5:30 – Chapter Thirty-two: Rondellus Marx (Part 2)

Arames and Arrin search for Talik and discover the truth about Rondellus Marx and his Carnival of Stars.

Music in this podcast:

• Shira Kammen – Magnatune.com
  • The Impossible Butterfly – Wild Wood
  • Pasa Viene – Wild Wood
  • Shetland Set – Wild Wood
• Kevin McLeod – Unrelenting, Asian Drums, Anxiety, Dark Pad, Interloper
• David Beard – various bed music, including “Chase” and “Imminent Danger”
• Additional f/x found at Soundsnap.com and The Freesound Project

• Bumper: David and Talli Van Sunder
  
• Intro Chatter
  • the ‘damn you HOLYFIELD’ meme seems to be taking off
  • Another shout-out to The Devil’s Panties webcomic
  • Fifty Reviews on iTunes! 40 Votes on Podiobooks.com! I hate Twilight Podcasts!
  • Please nominate MaAH at the Podcast Awards website – http://podcastawards.com
  • Guest Voices – Rick Stringer, James Ziesel

4:21 – The Story So Far

The Story So Far for this episode: read by Nobilis.

Following the flight of the vampire master, Arames Kragen faced the wrath of Lord Avedon. He convinced Lord Avedon that his actions were meant to keep Edvard’s condition a secret.

05:30 – Chapter Thirty-one: Talik

Arames and Arrin return to the inn for the evening. Arames has a long talk with Talik, and Arrin dreams… of wolves.

24:30 – Chapter Thirty-two: Rondellus Marx (Part 1)

Arrin comes to understand that sleep is not in the plans once again.

28:20 – Promos

• Seth Harwood: Young Junius
  
• Being Healthy for Busy People
  

Music in this podcast:

• Shira Kammen – Magnatune.com
  • Shetland Set – Wild Wood
  • The Impossible Butterfly – Wild Wood
  • Pasa Viene – Wild Wood
  • Foggy Tam Set – Wild Wood
• Kevin McLeod – Dark Standoff, Asian Drums, and Anxiety
• Additional f/x found at Soundsnap.com and The Freesound Project

00:00 – Intro

• Bumper: Chris Lester
  
• Intro Chatter
  • Dragon*Con was awesome!
  • Cannonball makes her first appearance on the podcast
  • Guest Voices – Rick Stringer, The Vicar, Kris Johnson, Tee Morris, Chris Miller

3:45 – The Story So Far

The Story So Far for this episode: read by Seth Harwood.

Arames Kragen has been hired to discover who murdered Gretta Platt. During this investigation he discovers that a certain townsperson is a vampire. Arames confronts this vampire, only to have her escape.

06:10 – Chapter Thirty: Flight

Father Jorrus follows the vampire’s trail. Lord Avedon wants answers.

23:12 – Promos

• ARISE Biology Fund
  
• Star Wars: Codename – Starkeepers

26:50 – Caern Line

A call this week, from Adam Teece. If you would like to leave a voice mail, please call the Caern Line at 704-315-5884

Music in this podcast:

• Shira Kammen – Magnatune.com
  • Shetland Set – Wild Wood
  • The Impossible Butterfly – Wild Wood
  • Pasa Viene – Wild Wood
• Kevin McLeod – Interloper and Anxiety

Long story short: Caroline (the voice of Lane Niccols) is married to a wonderful artist, Jeff Himmelman. Jeff is the same artist that produced the awesome art used by Chris Lester over at the Metamor City podcast. I went to look at Jeff’s art site and came upon the image seen above… and about hurt myself trying to get Outlook open so I could email Caroline and Jeff to see if I could post the image on this site.

So here is Lane Niccols, recently revealed as– wait, I can’t spoil that for new listeners. I’ll shut up now.

]]> http://www.pgholyfield.com/maah/archives/242/feed 2 http://www.pgholyfield.com/maah/archives/240 http://www.pgholyfield.com/maah/archives/240#comments Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:52:38 +0000 P.G. Holyfield http://www.pgholyfield.com/maah/?p=240 I am one of those guys that always says “Support your local independent bookstore.” Now I have even more of a reason to say it!

Constellation Books, near Baltimore, MD, is an awesome bookstore. How do I know this? Because at the recommendation of scifilaura, the wonderful voice of Julienne Avedon, Constellation Books purchased two copies of the novel from Lulu.com. Right now they are sitting on the shelf in the Mystery section of the bookstore, just waiting to be picked up by unsuspecting customers… muwahahaha!!!

Thanks to Laura for the photo, and if you are in the area, why don’t you go in and buy the book! Hell, I’ve got to get my rep started as an author that can move books through a brick and mortar store, right?

00:00 – Intro

• Bumper: Brian Brown
  
• Intro Chatter
  • Dragon*Con coming!
  • I am a horrible nemesis
  • Did not win a Podcast Peer Award, but got some votes!
  • Guest Voices – Rick Stringer, The Vicar, Caroline Murphy-Himmelman

3:55 – The Story So Far

Arames Kragen has been hired to discover who murdered Gretta Platt. His investigation leads him to examine the corpse of a murdered book dealer a few leagues from Avedon Hill. Evidence confirms that there is a vampire master living in Avedon Hill.

06:00 – Chapter Twenty-nine: Lane Niccols

Arames confronts Lane Niccols.

19:00 – Promos

• Mur Lafferty’s Playing For Keeps Book Release
• Radio Isopod podcast

Music in this podcast:

• Shira Kammen – Magnatune.com
  • Shetland Set – Wild Wood
  • The Impossible Butterfly – Wild Wood
  • Pasa Viene – Wild Wood
• Kevin McLeod – Apprehension and Anxiety

I’ll be doing listener feedback at the end of each episode from now on. If you want to leave a voicemail, please call 704-315-5884; my email is pgholyfield @ murderatavedonhill.com (sans spaces of course).

Special Thanks

Thanks to Thomas Reed, Scott Roche, and Selganor for joining me on stickam the last two days to watch me record these episodes.

Music in this podcast:

• Shira Kammen – Magnatune.com
  • Shetland Set – Wild Wood
  • Lullaby Set – Wild Wood
  • Rafe’s Waltz – The Castle of the Holly King
  • Laride – Wild Wood