posted by admin on Jun 28
Two more weeks until the drawing on July 12th! Write a review and email me at hilton at fauness dot com for a chance to win a short story about the character of your voice. I also announce that Cowry Catchers will be launching on December 12th. I have a wonderful set of voice actors for that story, and I’m excited about it!
posted by admin on Jun 8
I realize that I have some readers who don’t like to listen, so here is the PDF of the 1000 word Gabalon short story.
posted by admin on May 29
I finished the contest prize for Alex! Granted, it did take me a month instead of two weeks, but still not too long, and I produced it with a guest reader, music, and sound effects. Contributors include:
Guest reader: Ryan Stevenson of the Dead Robots’ Society Podcast
Music for the story: Kevin MacLeod, specifically the titles “Interloper” and “One of Them.”
Music for the intro and outro: Allan Alexander and Jessica Walsh
The image I’m using is one of the many beautiful illustrations created by Sarah Cloutier for Cowry Catchers, which is on track to launch in December.
This was so much fun that I’ve decided to have another contest! People who entered the last contest will be entered into this one by default. If you didn’t enter last time, and you’d like a chance to choose a character from Prophet for a short story, write a review in some public place. Email me at hilton at fauness dot com and tell me it’s a contest entry. I’ll hold the drawing (and chat with Hughes about book stuff) on July 12.
posted by admin on May 22
Hi, guys! As I warned you, I’m living at a distant clinical site, where I work about 60 hours per week. I haven’t written the Gabalon story yet, nor would I have been able to podcast it if I had, but I do have the idea for it. I might find time to type it out this week-end; we’ll see. In the meantime, if you just want to hear my voice in something, I’ve done a lot of voice work for the Dunesteef in the last month. I’m in the following episodes. They’re rated about PG13.
In Absence Of Mind Wiping Thingies by Derek J. Goodman
A Better Teleportation Theory by Michael Anthony
Freelanga by Jason Sanford
I’ll try to get the story done soon, and I have gotten a lot of work done on the Cowry Catchers podcast, so that’s on track.
posted by admin on May 5
1. Prophet made the iTunes featured list (podcast > arts > literature) and has been oscillating between pages 3 and 5 for the last few days. 
2. A story I sold to the Greatest Uncommon Denominator (GUD) just came out in print! The story is called Forests of the Night, and it’s about a very old woman who arrives in a nursing home and is more than she appears. You can buy my story all by itself as a PDF for $1.33, a PDF of the entire issue for $3.50, or the paper magazine for $10.
3. I made a tentative video trailer for Cowry Catchers. It’s not the final version, but you can have a look.
posted by admin on May 1
Hi, guys! I’m sorry that it took me the better part of a week to get this edited. Hughes and I rambled a lot, but at least it’s now under an hour. You can listen and find out who the winner is. I won’t spoil it for you. The drawing is at the beginning, so if you don’t want to listen to us babble, you can shut it off after that.
Characters mentioned by people who sent me email were:
Gabalon
Dance
Fenrah
Sevn
Corry
Stuff Hughes and I mentioned included:
posted by admin on Apr 26
The drawing is done, and we have a winner! But you will not know who until I have time to clean up the audio later this week. Whahaha!
posted by admin on Apr 24
The contest is closed (or will be in 30 minutes)! The names will go into a hat, and Hughes and I will podcast the drawing on Sunday. Thanks to all who participated!
posted by admin on Apr 18
One week left to get your entry in!
posted by admin on Apr 11
If no one enters, everyone loses…
posted by admin on Apr 3
Hi, guys!
I’m having a contest. It’s for people who’ve listened to the books, and it will run over the next 3 weeks until April 24th. The contest works like this: you review Prophet somewhere (iTunes, Podiobooks, Goodreads, your own blog). The review must contain at least a sentence or two of actual text (not just stars) and then send me an email at hilton at fauness dot com, telling me where you reviewed the book and that your review was an entry into the contest. This is retro-active, so anyone who has ever reviewed the books can email me, telling me where you reviewed them and that you want your review considered an entry.
You can also enter the contest by displaying one of the banners below on your website. Again, you need to email me and let me know.
The prize is a vignette, written by me, about a character of your choice. It can be any character in Prophet. I will write a little story (at least 1000 words) describing something from that character’s backstory or some event that happened off-screen in Prophet. I’ll podcast the story on the feed, so everyone will get to enjoy it, but the winner gets to pick the character.
Promo:
Acts of Desperation by Tim Dodge
Other stuff I mentioned:
posted by admin on Mar 12
The Dunesteef Audiofiction podcast bought a Panamindorah short story a while back and podcast it yesterday. This is part of Lexis’s backstory, and I think they did a great job. If you like short fiction podcasts, I recommend this one. While they are a speculative ficiton podcast, they also produce magical realism stories, ghost stories, and some mild paranormal literary fiction, which is are not well-represented by other short fiction podcasts. Rish and Big will also be voicing a couple of characters for Cowry Catchers.
For reasons I cannot understand, the Dunesteef audio files do not play well with streaming players. The sound is all funny and bubbly, both on my streaming player and theirs. However, if you actually download the file and listen to it on your computer or MP3 player, it should sound fine. Or perhaps it’s just a fluke of my computer. Anyway, if you’re listening right off the website and it doesn’t work, try downloading it.
