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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.

Hey, guys!  While you’re waiting for Part B of Hypersensitive Episode #9 (which should hopefully be up later tonight), go check out my mad co-hosting skillz on Couch Surfing Episode #19!!  John and I talk in-depth about the two most awesome things EVER - Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog and The Dark Knight, with some other random things thrown in for good measure.  Enjoy!

Matthew Wayne Selznick’s amazing podcasted novel “Brave Men Run” will be released in paperback from Swarm Press on Sunday, July 13, 2008!  If everyone buys the book on Sunday, July 13 from Amazon.com, we can push it to the top of the charts and make an explosive impact for “Brave Men Run,” Swarm Press, and the power you, the user, has over new media!

And …

Starting at 10:00 AM Eastern / 7:00 AM Pacific time on Sunday, July 13, join Matthew Wayne Selznick at the top of every hour via live streaming video! He will have updates on the book’s success on the Amazon charts, chat with viewers, and will even have very special Sovereign Era content to share with us: every hour on the hour he will read a new, original work of short fiction set in the Sovereign Era universe and written by some of the biggest names in podcast fiction!

“Brave Men Run” is the story of Nate Charters. Born different, unsure of his origins, he’s an outcast at Abbeque Valley High School, a self-proclaimed “boy freak” with few friends and low self-esteem. When the Sovereign Era dramatically dawns, Nate finds himself in a quest to discover the truth: is he more than he seems, a misfit in a miraculous and powerful new minority… or something else entirely?

You can listen to the full podcast presentation of “Brave Men Run” at Podiobooks.com. http://www.podiobooks.com/title/brave-men-run/

Just in case anyone might have missed the BIG NEWS …

The TEASER TRAILER is up and the air dates have been announced.

Part 1 will be available Tuesday, July 15

Part 2 will be available Thursday, July 17

and

Part 3 will be available Saturday, July 19.

All three parts will be available exclusively at www.drhorrible.com and will stay up only through July 20, but it will be available for downloading shortly thereafter and will ultimately be available on DVD with lots of awesome extras planned!

P.G. Holyfield, author of one of my favorite podcast novels, Murder at Avedon Hill, will be performing a live reading of the next chapter of the book (Ch. 23) at 10:00 PM (EST) Sunday, June 15th, which you can view via live streaming video on the Murder at Avedon Hill website or via the MaAH page at UStream Video.

Even if you’ve never listened to Murder at Avedon Hill before, I highly suggest you check out this event.  P.G. will have an awesome summary of the story so far to get you up to speed so that you can enjoy the chapter as he reads it live.

Listen to the promo below and then visit http://www.pgholyfield.com/maah/archives/205 for full details.

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If you want to hear more of me while you eagerly await the (hopefully soon!) release of Episode 8 of Hypersensitive, go check out the most recent episode (Ep 16) of John Pavlich’s Couch Surfing.  I co-hosted this episode and had the honor of being the first female Couch Surfing co-host - so, Go Go Girl Power!

If you haven’t checked it out, Couch Surfing is an awesome podcast similar to Hypersensitive except that it’s more of a discussion of pop culture rather than just me talking to myself.  It’s one of my favorite podcasts out there right now, and I highly recommend it.  If you do give it a listen, leave a comment over there to let John know what you think - and, of course, leave a comment here to let ME know what you think.  Enjoy!

And for my awesome readers/listeners who write fanfic …

BUFFY BETWEEN THE LINES FANFIC CONTEST!! 

Between Season 1 and Season 2 of Buffy Between the Lines we have a couple months off, but we didn’t want our fans to be wanting so we’ve devised the first Buffy Between the Lines fanfic contest! All accepted submissions will be recorded and featured on the Buffy Between the Lines podcast and the winner will receive a SIGNED copy of “Infected” by Scott Sigler, as well as a limited edition SugarShock poster and some other goodies we have tucked away in the Between the Lines Studios vault.

If you’re interested in participating here’s the rules:

1. Fanfic must be based on Buffy Between the Lines Season 1 and remain true to the TV and audio drama (this rules out non-canonical pairings and AU, we’ll save that for the April Fool’s episodes)
2. Fanfic must not be posted elsewhere until after the contest.
3. Fanfic must be between 1,500 - 3,000 words and must have a clear story (beginning, middle/climax, end)
4. Entries must be received by May 10th, 2008. Winner will be announced at the start of Season 2 (in August).
5. Please email your entry to buffybetweenthelines[at]gmail.com with “Fanfic Contest Submission” as the subject line. Entries can be within the email or attached text/Word files. Please no .docx files.

Winner will be judged on originality, writing skills, capturing the voices of the characters and general “awesomeness”. Please make sure your entry has been proofed before submitting. If you need a beta reader check out: http://community.livejournal.com/beta_search

One of my favorite podcasts is the podcasted audio drama Buffy Between the Lines, which is a serialized audio drama depicting what might have happened between the seasons of my favorite TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  I’ve never really been into fanfiction, so I was a little hesitant to listen to this podcast at first but, once I did actually listen to it, I was hooked.  The writing and acting are so amazing, listening to it always gives me chills.  It’s the next best thing to having new episodes of BtVS on TV!!

Anyway, several weeks ago I answered the Buffy Between the Lines season 2 casting call and submitted auditions for a few of the season 2 characters and — guess what?  I found out this weekend that I will be playing one of my absolutely favorite characters in season 2, Cordelia Chase.

Season 1 of Buffy Between the Lines is still ongoing (they are on episode 9 and there are 12 episodes in the season), and there will be a short hiatus between seasons 1 and 2 to give the S1 crew a bit of a break, so it will be a few months before you get to hear my years-in-the-making Cordelia impression.  But, that gives those of you who may not yet have listened to this fabulous podcast the chance to catch up on season 1.

I’m really really excited to have the opportunity to work on this podcast and hope that I can do justice to the wonderful character of Cordelia!  Yay!!!

Today’s the day!  Go buy your copy of Scott Sigler’s “Infected” in bookstores everywhere or on Amazon.com today!

And be sure to check out this trailer for “Infected.”