The CBC Radio One Christmas Day and Boxing Day special I’d mentioned earlier this week is now going to be released on CD! It is already up as a preorder on the CBC Audio website.
The Secret World Of Og
By Pierre Berton; Adapted by Beverley Cooper
1 CD – Approx. 60 Minutes [RADIO DRAMA]
Publisher: CBC Audio
Published: January 19th 2006
Product ID: ERART00165
Podiobooks.com, though still in BETA, is growing like a baby hippo on steroids! More than a dozen podcast novels are currently available and more are on the way. Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror titles still predominate, but a few non-fiction and other genre titles are creeping in, including the delightful geek essays of Mur Lafferty. Here’s a snapshot of the current titles that are official Podiobooks:
Aliens and Satanic Creatures Wanted: Humans Need Not Apply by Tony Ruggiero
AmerIndian 2192 by J. Scott Garibay
Brave Men Run by Matthew Wayne Selznick
Come, Let Me Whisper by Russell L. Burt
Lessons From A Geek-Fu Master by Mur Lafferty
Morevi: The Chronicles of Rafe and Askana by Tee Morris and Lisa Lee
Noggle Stones by Wil Radcliffe
Spherical Tomi: A Novel of Despair by Jack Mangan
The Pocket and the Pendant by Mark Jeffrey
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Our good friend Joe Mahoney has just announced the follow up to last winter’s CBC Radio One post-apocalyptic comedy series Steve The First. It’s called, shockingly, Steve The Second. It’ll start airing on January 7th 2006 at 11:30am and for the subsequent three weeks (January 7th to 28th).
Starring:
Matt Watts as “Steve”
Mark McKinney as “Phil Green”
PART I – (Airs January 7th 2005)
PART II – (Airs January 14th 2005)
PART III – (Airs January 21st 2005)
PART IV – (Airs January 28th 2005)
Tee Morris, Fantasy author and gonzo podcaster has scooped an interview with Robert J. Sawyer for The Survival Guide To Writing Fantasy podcast. This is a great pairing, both Tee and Rob are success oriented authors with great marketing chops. Check it out HERE or subscribe to Tee’s podcast through iTunes. Especially cool is the talk about the marketing of Rob’s first novel, Golden Fleece, one of the best Science Fiction / Mystery novels not available as an audiobook.
Here’s an interesting LINK. A Google Video archived interview with William Shatner done for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation (yep, that’s the Emmys). “Video?!” you ask. Yes, but in the interview Shatner talks for a few minutes about his early Radio Drama career and what it takes to change an Eastern Canadian accent into Federation Standard English accent. The Shat is totally Airwolf!
LibriVox bills itself as “acoustical liberation of books in the public domain”, we bill it as “really cool”! The LibriVox volunteers read and record chapters of books in the public domain using the equipment they have at home, and then release the files as FREE audiobooks. The objective is to eventually make all books in the public domain available in the audio format. Several Science Fiction and Fantasy titles are already under way, and few have already been completed. Here’s a peek:
Completed Novels:
The Road To Oz by L. Frank Baum
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Completed Shorts:
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
Multiple Narrator Forthcoming:
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Dracula by Bram Stoker
A Journey To The Interior Of The Earth by Jules Verne
Single Narrators Forthcoming:
Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson
Sky Island by L. Frank Baum
The Wizard Of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Beowolf
Anthem by Ayn Rand
A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams