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A Good Story is Hard to Find Podcast

SFFaudio News

The Reapers Are the Angels by Alden BellJulie and I (both frequent contributors to the SFFaudio site and podcast) have a lot in common, one thing being that we are both practicing Catholics. After an SFFaudio podcast one week (the Readalong about The Stars My Destination), we realized that there was a lot to say about some of these books from a Catholic perspective, and we were leaving much of it unsaid. This led to the idea of a podcast where we talk about books and movies “as Catholics”.

So we did it! We just posted the first episode – where we discuss Alden Bell’s excellent zombie novel The Reapers Are the Angels. The podcast is called A Good Story is Hard to Find.
 
 
So if you are interested:
Here’s the link to the show: |LINK|

And here’s the feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/AGoodStoryIsHardToFind

The Reapers Are the Angels is a great book and audiobook – here is Julie’s review of the audio.

Posted by Scott D. Danielson

Me And Orson Welles

SFFaudio News

I just watched a fun audio drama related movie, based on a YA novel, based on a historic incident. It’s called Me And Orson Welles. Though it bills itself as a romantic comedy it’s actually a very good theater drama. And after watching it I now know what a Zac Efron is!

Here’s the history (from MercuryTheatre.info):

The beginnings of The Mercury Theatre on the Air actually go back to the formation of The Mercury Theatre itself. Having successfully produced Marc Blitzstein’s controversial labor union opera, The Cradle Will Rock, for the Federal Theatre Project in June of 1937, John Houseman and the 21-year-old “boy wonder” of the theatre, Orson Welles, decided to form their own theatrical producing company. In August of that same year The Mercury Theatre was born, starting off with total monetary assets of $100 (about $1150 in modern funds). Their first production, Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, adapted by Mr. Welles (and set in fascist Italy), opened in New York on November 11 and created as much controversy as the young producers had hoped; The Mercury Theatre (along with the widespread public recognition of Orson Welles) was off and running.

Film trailer:

About the YA novel:

Posted by Jesse Willis

In The Gloaming: How NOT to make a podcast

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In The GloamingIn The Gloaming, an anthology podcast “in the vein of Tales of The Unexpected and Hammer House of Horror” has a very useful post up entitled: How NOT to make an award-winning podcast. Writes Nathaniel Tapley:

There were lots of reasons that we hadn’t been able to do as many episodes as we’d hoped. People’s schedules clashed, they got work or didn’t get work at the wrong times, we weren’t getting as many downloads as we might have hoped (the episodes had been listened to about 6,500 times at that point). However, most of the reasons we weren’t able to churn them out on a monthly basis were self-inflicted, and could have been avoided with a little thought early on in the process.

In the full post Tapley talks about the errors In The Gloaming made with regard to promos (audio trailers), format, monetizing methods, software and scheduling. It reads like the best advice column for would be podcasters ever. It comes from someone who knows exactly what he’s talking about – because he NOW knows exactly what he’d do differently next time. I wish more bloggers and podcasters would write posts like it. Check it out HERE.

Posted by Jesse Willis

Audio-Drama.com – an AUDIO DRAMA wiki-encyclopedia/directory

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Audio-Drama.comFrom a recent email:

Audio-Drama.com is a wiki of audio drama websites, with category tags, and a search function, so you can focus on the type of audio drama that you’re looking for. There are also links to resources for creating audio drama, as well. Some of the articles have only basic information at the moment, but like any wiki, the content will only expand and improve with time.

Right now, Audio-Drama.com has over 1200 entries, and anyone can add or edit the articles. The more people that know about it, the greater a resource it will be.

And here’s the wiki-description from its “about” page:

Audio-Drama.com is a wiki project to compile a list of all things related to audio drama. It began as a list of audio drama-related news items and links in 2003. It was relaunched as a wiki in September of 2008. It was open to the public on July 15, 2010.

And, as you can see, by the entry someone put up for SFFaudio, the site is in its infancy. Someone should go beef that baby-up!

Posted by Jesse Willis