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Hey guys!  I bet you all had given up on me, hadn’t you?  [Assuming anyone still even subscribes to this feed or checks the site]

I moved back to New Orleans (from Dallas) this past September and, after getting settled back into the groove of the Big Easy, I think I’m ready to reboot this podcast.  I’m definitely going to go for shorter episodes, hopefully (finally!) get to that weekly schedule I’ve always wanted, and maybe make it more of a “Lisa’s List” type of thing, just hitting the top pop culture media that has captured my attention since the last episode.  I’m still mulling it over, but I figured if I bit the bullet & posted this update to the site, I would be more motivated to just start recording again.

So, what do you guys think?  Good idea?  Bad idea?  Do you even still care?  Please sound off in the comments.  Oh, and if you have any ideas of what you’d like to hear in the podcast, I’m totally open!

~ Lisa

J.C. Hutchins’ new supernatural thriller, Personal Effects: Dark Art is now available in bookstores and for purchase online. A recent starred review by Publisher’s Weekly called the novel a “stellar first.” Library Journal’s review deemed Personal Effects a work that “may herald the future of modern fiction.”

Created by Jordan Weisman and published by St. Martin’s Press, Dark Art combines the experience of a traditional thriller novel with a multimedia-fueled “out of book” narrative. Clues in the novel — and items that come with the novel, such as ID cards and photos — propel readers into an online experience where they become protagonists themselves.

Personal Effects: Dark Art follows the extensive notes of art therapist Zach Taylor’s investigation into the life and madness of Martin Grace, an accused serial killer who claims to have foreseen, but not caused, his victims’ deaths.

Zach’s investigations start with interviews and art sessions, but then take him far from the hospital grounds — and often very far from the reality that we know. The items among Grace’s personal effects are the keys to understanding his haunted past, and finding the terrifying truth Grace hoped to keep buried…

* Call the phone numbers: You’ll get a character’s voicemail. * Google the characters and institutions in the text: You’ll find real websites. * Examine the art and other printed artifacts included inside the cover: If you pay attention, you’ll find more information than the characters themselves discover.

Personal Effects: Dark Art is the ultimate in voyeuristic storytelling, representing a revolutionary step forward in changing the way people interact with novels.

Happy Cinco de Harwood, everybody!! Today is THE DAY - The Three Rivers Press (division of Random House) release of our favorite crime novel podiobook JACK WAKES UP! Sweet!!

What?!?! You haven’t heard JACK WAKES UP??? Well, you should definitely get over to www.sethharwood.com and check out the free podiobook version of the novel!

However, if you’re more of a visual person and you’d like to check out the novel a bit before you buy it, Seth is giving away the first 3 chapters of the book FOR FREE! Click here to download the PDF!!

Additionally, here is a video of Seth explaining how he uses podcasting and social networking, web 2.0, to promote his novel, build a big audience, and get stellar results!

So, check out the JACK WAKES UP promo below and go to Amazon (or your favorite book retailer) and buy your copy (or several copies) of JACK WAKES UP today!!

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April 1, 2009 marks two years since the passing of podcaster, Joe Murphy, after a battle with leiomyosarcoma. In his memory, the Joe Murphy Memorial Fund prepared a Tribute Podcast last year in which some of the most recognizable voices in podcasting shared their thoughts on how Joe touched their lives. Unfortunately, I came too late into the world of podcasting to have known Joe Murphy; but the legacy he left behind ensures that his memory will live on well into the future of podcasting and audio entertainment in general. Please take a few minutes to listen (or re-listen) to this wonderful Tribute Podcast - with a new heartfelt intro by Tee Morris - and experience for yourself the amazing impact Joe had on people’s lives.

For shownotes on this Tribute Podcast, and for more information on leiomyosarcoma and the former Joe Murphy Memorial Fund, please visit joemurphymemorialfund.org.

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John Pavlich and I recorded a fan commentary for the premiere episode of Dollhouse, “Ghost,” which is up over at Sofa Dogs.

This was so much fun, and we’re going to try to record commentaries for each episode as they air.

Want to participate in a future Dollhouse fan commentary?  Email me at hypersensitive.podcast@gmail.com and join in the fun!

~ Lisa T.

Hey everybody!  Just dropping a quick announcement to let you know that I haven’t pod-faded!

Talk to ya soon!

~ Lisa

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Just wanted to let you guys know the status of the podcast. I am on a temporary hiatus right now due to all the traveling I’ve done in the last couple of months and the computer issues I am currently dealing with. I will try my best to get the second part of Episode 9 edited and up on the feed over the weekend, and I hope to be getting a new laptop in the next few weeks and will be able to resume recording and producing episodes (and hopefully at a faster rate) when that happens.

Thanks for bearing with me - hopefully I’ll be able to get back on a regular podcasting schedule in October!

~ Lisa T.

Email me: hypersensitive.podcast@gmail.com

Skype me @lisa.hypersensitive

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Yay! More of my favorite podcast fiction is being released in print!

Yet again, we’re gonna show Amazon how the small press does it, this time hero-style. Please go to Amazon.com on August 25 and purchase Playing For Keeps. If everyone does it on the same day, strange and wonderful things can happen! Please show your support for small press and podcast fiction on August 25!

August 25 Release Date for Mur Lafferty’s Playing for Keeps

Swarm Press is pleased to announce the upcoming release of breakthrough podcaster and author Mur Lafferty’s newest novel of superheroic action Playing for Keeps. Originally a self-released “podiobook,” this new printed version of Lafferty’s novel is due to hit shelves on August 25, 2008.

Playing for Keeps by Mur Lafferty. Welcome to Seventh City, the birthplace of super powers. The First Wave heroes are jerks, but they have the best gifts: flight, super strength, telepathy, genius, fire. The Third Wavers, like bar-owner Keepsie Branson and her friends, are stuck with the leftovers: the ability to instantly make someone sober, the power to smell the past, absolute control… over elevators. They just aren’t powerful enough to make a difference… at least that’s what they’ve always been told. But when the villain Doodad slips Keepsie a mysterious metal sphere, the Third Wavers become caught in the middle of a battle between egotistical heroes and manipulative villains.

“Playing for Keeps grabbed me and kept me reading straight through when I should have been plotting a new fantasy series for Tor Books. Mur, thank you. Tor, however, does not thank you.” – David Drake, author, Hammer’s Slammers.

Mur Lafferty is an American podcaster and writer based in Durham, North Carolina. She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and graduated with a degree in English. Her nonfiction work has appeared at www.SuicideGirls.com, as well as in the magazines Knights of the Dinner Table, PC Gamer, Computer Games, Scrye, and SciFi Magazine. Her short fiction has appeared in Hub, Escape Pod, and Scrybe. She was, until July, 2007, the host and co-editor of Pseudopod, and is currently the host and creator of the podcasts Geek Fu Action Grip and I Should be Writing. Visit Mur online at www.murverse.com

Once again I’m asking you guys to support the publication of podcasted fiction!

The sequals to two award-nominated podcasted novels of which I am a HUGE fan have been published and are currently available on Amazon and from booksellers everywhere. The novels are: Tee Morris’s Billibub Baddings and the Case of the Pitcher’s Pendent, the sequal to his awesome podcasted novel Billibub Baddings and the Case of the Singing Sword, and Philippa Ballantine’s Digital Magic, the sequal to her recently-concluded, amazing podcasted novel Chasing the Bard.

To make the biggest impact, Tee and Pip are asking everyone to storm Amazon.com tomorrow, August 8, 2008 (08-08-08) on or after 11:00 AM (U.S. Eastern Time - 8:00 AM U.S. Pacific Time) to buy your copy (or copies!) of their books!

For more details, and for the Amazon links to use to help further support this effort, please visit http://www.teemorris.com/billipodcast/double-trouble/.

And thanks again for helping support podcasted fiction. I promise both of these books are worth it!

~ Lisa T.