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?

Thanks to everyone that has waited patiently (or at least subscribed and haven’t deleted it yet) for the start of the Murder at Avedon Hill Podcast. I finished my 2nd edit of the novel and recently received my first proof copy from Lulu.com.

I’m going through another round of edits (much less this time, thank the Children); I’m around 50% through that at the moment. We’ve also changed the text on both the front and back cover; I hope to be finished with this round of edits by June 1st.

I have been multi-tasking, too. Audio has been recorded. I’ll have Episode 1 ready to go soon after June 1st.

Thanks again for your patience. MaAH will begin… soon.

I posted the Prologue of my novel, Murder at Avedon Hill, on this site. Comments would be greatly appreciated!

Several events will take place over the next few weeks that will be very important for the book and the upcoming podcast. First we (my one website and the many my wife has created and maintains) will be moving to a new hosting company, one with a LOT of bandwidth (yeah!). Because of this I will be moving from blogger to wordpress (and podpress). While this means leaving blogger, which I have enjoyed, I will be moving to a blog that integrates so much better with podcasts. Along with this I will be revamping my website. I will most likely be taking a page from Lonnie Ezell’s website, as he does a good job of meshing Book and Podcast within his site.

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.