I have been deleting podcasts that I don’t really need to listen to anymore off of iTunes so I would no longer be behind by 60 podcasts on my iPod. That doesn’t work to well with current event and tech news podcasts. So I had finally trimmed it down to under 20 podcasts.
Then I got hooked on Podcast Novels… I suppose I should blame Scott Sigler because his book, Earthcore, was the first I had listened to from a lovely website called Podiobooks.com. Well as soon as I was 5 episodes into it I knew I was hooked so I went and downloaded his second book, Ancestor, just so it would be ready for me. After I finished that I saw The Rookie and thought that football didn’t really interest me all that much, but I decided to give it a try anyway. All I could keep thinking throughout the whole book was how awesome football would be if it was really like how it was in The Rookie. Needless to say it didn’t take me long to listen to that book. This brought me to Scott’s current novel, Nocturnal. Everything was going so well because I could just listen to each book and move onto the next. Then I caught up to the point that I actually had to wait more than a day for the next episode to come out. This just wouldn’t do, I needed my fix. I realized what Scott Sigler meant when he called his fans “junkies.” Thus began the downward spiral. I decided to branch out and test the waters of some other podcast novels. Nocturnal usually has a promo or two at the end of each episode so I decided to start there. Two in particular caught my interest because I am a big fan of comic books. Black Shadow and Playing for Keeps.
Black Shadow is really neat because it has locals from DC Comics. It is a story of a super hero having to deal with the supernatural. I am excited to see where the story goes. The description of Hell was pretty amazing and does not sound like a fun place at all.
Playing for Keeps is really awesome. I’ve always thought that if super heroes with powers really existed then some people would wind up with some odd or worthless powers. I’ve always thought that it was weird that there was no in between for powers. Either they have some epic really useful power, or they have no power at all. It’s also refreshing to see that the “Heroes” aren’t really as great as they are usually portrayed. I’m also a big fan of the underdog beating the crap out of the favorite. There have even been cameos from people on the SciFi channel. A description of some of the amazing things she has done for her podcast novel can be found here. The podcast is available for free here, or you can buy the finished book from Lulu.com.
I’ve gotten so into this stuff that I find my self joining the Playing for Keeps Street Team to help spread the word. I am also creating a Scott Sigler Mahalo page for people to find stuff about him easily. I would love to make a page for all these new media authors because they are so nice, but I didn’t realize how strict the standards are for Mahalo and how much work is involved in creating a page. I will gladly share links for each of the authors with Mahalo which will create a “stub” page, but I don’t think I can handle creating another full blown SERP for them.
So if you want to find some amazing new content online either in podcast or print then check out those links above. I am just getting into 7th Son by J.C. Hutchins, so I can’t say much about it yet, but the first two episodes that I have listened to have been very intriguing.
