A.D.D. Cast

You’re intrepid ADDers, Paul and Martha, get together with Grailwolf’s Geek Life hosts Marc and Heather to geekout over babies, TV, movies, and beer. Lazy show notes. It’s a Merry Christmas geek roundup. We catch up on our lives and the things we’ve been enjoying. Big changes ahead for all four of us.

I found a new site recently through my pals on Twitter. Here’s one example of why it’s so awesome.

Mur Lafferty has released her novel Playing for Keeps for free as a PDF. 

A free book? There’s no such thing as a free book! What’s the catch?

No catch. It’s free. But, Mur asks that if you like it you purchase it from Amazon.com on August 25. She’s making a run on Amazon and really needs us all to pitch in and help her get noticed. She, like so many others, has a book contract now. But podcasting novels are still a new medium for delivery and we need to show the publishing industry that this makes a difference. 

Martha and I have read the PDF version multiple time. We help Mur by making the PDFs and doing layout and formatting. We also did a little editing. All of this was to help Mur make the best product possible. We bought the first version of Playing for Keeps when it was self-published on Lulu.com. And now we’re joining her for her run on Amazon and we’ll be buying multiple copies of Playing for Keeps as published by Swarm Press.

Mur has delivered countless hours of enjoyment and encouragement to the pod-o-sphere. She has also inspired and rallied people including me. It is not an exaggeration to say that if Mur wasn’t here I wouldn’t be either. I wonder how many other people to whom you listen, read, and watch are here because they were inspired by Mur Lafferty. I’m guessing the number is larger than you think.

So be ready to place your order from Amazon.com for Playing for Keeps on Monday August 25. Be there! Aloha.

 

This week the mighty Mur Lafferty and her beloved vintage Jim Van Verth join us to talk books, writing, publishing, and more.

• Dogfish Head 90-minute IPA for Paul
• Brooklyn Brewery Black Chocolate Stout for Jim
• Ravenswood Cabernet for Mur
• Essential Mathematics for Games and Interactive Applications, Second Edition: A Programmer’s Guide at Amazon.com
• It was funnier the first time
• Mur’s first fiction novel is coming out from Swarm Press on 8/25
• Playing for Keeps at Amazon.com
• This week we experiment with asking questions from our followers on Twitter
• PROMO: Astral Audio Experience
• Jim’s Essential Math website
• Favorite TV Shows: for Mur, The Office and for Jim The Closer. Together: Heroes or Battlestar Galactica
• Heroes, feh
• Favorite books from childhood
• Dr. Horrible vs Playing for Keeps
• The News from Poughkeepsie
• The Piddler
• The games Jim would bring back from obscurity if he could: Liubo, Shuanglu, and Magic Realm
• MUSIC: Playing for Keeps by The Beatnik Turtle
• PROMO: Playing For Keeps experience. Join us on 8/25 to help Mur make her run on Amazon.com

The force of nature known as Tee Morris and the irrepressible Philippa “The Killer Librarian” Ballantine join us for their last and best Double Trouble interview. Martha and I interview Tee and Pip about writing, life, and all sorts of things.

• Beverage roundup
• Black Adder
• Quantum Leap
• Don’t mess with the librarians
• PROMO: Christiana’s Shallow Thoughts
• PROMO: I Should Be Writing
• Cataloging duels of librarians
• Fear the weeding policy
• Kitties!
• I AM Survivor Dad!
• “The dark goddess must dine on tears!”
• PROMO: Metamor City
• PROMO: Reality Break
• Tee Morris in a barrel
• Double Trouble (links galore)
• Free PDFs have over 50,000 downloads!
• Why haven’t they been Boing Boing‘d?
• Don’t whine Tee
• If you want me to post your PDFs you have to ask me
• If you’re going to buy, please do so on 8/8/08 on Amazon.com
• Getting voice parts for future podcasts of Digital Magic and Pitcher’s Pendant
• Tee and Pip talk about the plots of their upcoming books
• Pip and Tee trapped in the same body
• Erotica a la Carte
• Tee will be organizing live events at Balticon 43
• MUSIC: Girls, Skirts, Boots, Bikes by The Buck Brothers

Due to a problem with iTunes I have to put the link to Tee Morris’s book in a separate post. Please see the previous post for all the relevant info.

Authors Tee Morris and Philippa Ballantine have released their latest novels as free PDFs.

Tee Morris is the author of the novels Morevi: The Chronicles of Raif and Askana and The Case of the Singing Sword: A Billibub Baddings Mystery. He is also the co-author of the non-fiction works Podcasting for Dummies and Expert Podcasting Practices for Dummies. He has podcasts for the above mention fiction as well as a companion podcast for the Dummies books.

Philippa Ballantine is the author of the novels Weaver’s Web and Chasing the Bard. These novels are also available as podcasts. Her free PDF novel is Digital Magic, the follow up to Chasing the Bard.

Tee’s free PDF novel is The Case of the Pitcher’s Pendant: A Billibub Baddings Mystery. If you couldn’t tell by the title this is the second in his Billi Baddings series.

Both authors say that these books can be read and enjoyed without having read the earlier novels. We hope you enjoy them too.

Please join Tee and Philippa as they make their run on the Amazon.com charts on Aug 8, 2008. If you enjoy Pitcher’s Pendant and Digital Magic, please support the authors by buying their books from Amazon.com on 8/8/08. They need your help to show the publishing world that podcast listeners matter. This is your chance to show the world what we can do.

Tee Morris joins us for snails and and impromptu review of 7th Son Obsidian.

• Cat vs Wookie
• Kraken’s Quest
• Le Canard for snails
• Norm’s Beer
• PROMO: Double Share by Nathan Lowell
• PROMO: Pieces podcast anthology
• Catching up on older podcast fiction
• The review of 7th Son Obsidian
• Unicorns
• PROMO: Murder at Avadon Hill by PG Holyfield
• Review of the story’s released as of the date of this recording
• The opening up of an author’s universe to become a shared universe
• New voicemail line is 1-206-666-2843
• The Morevi anthology?
• Soccergirl’s Obsidian video was awesome
• The easter egg we did for Mur Lafferty’s Playing for Keeps based on a real story
• Hating on weathermen
• Aug 25, 2008 Playing for Keeps is being released by Swarm Press
• Aug 8, 2008 Digital Magic by Philippa Ballantine and The Case of the Pitcher’s Pendant by Tee Morris will be released by Dragon Moon Press
• MUSIC: Playing for Keeps by The Beatnick Turtle

All Books available from Amazon.com

 

Ronnie Blackwell, Lin Harper, Martha Holloway, and Paul Fischer join Stephen Kilbride on a great episode of Tea and Chat.

We discuss writing, podcasting, producing audio books, and Ronnie’s newly released novel Spite.

We review the new movie, The Incredible Hulk. Not to be confused with lesser movies of a similar title.

Lazy show notes:

John Cmar

Sci-Fi Laura

Commandline

Andrea

Heather Welliver

Marcus Grailwolf Bailey

Greg Wright

Martha Holloway

Paul Fischer

Paul got interviewed on Stephen Euin Cobb’s awesome podcast, The Future and You.

We talk about Balticon, public safety, wireless broadband, attention deficit disorder, and much more.

Recorded at RavenCon.

A special appearance on Jared Axelrod’s Voice of Free Planet X podcast. Jared has gone daily now. It blows me away to see how he maintains awesome quality every day. I loves me some Free Planet X.

Today: Voices from the Future

*Opening: Tim Robbins Keynote Address Clip
*There’s some sort of election going on, right?
*Headlines!
–Democracy Now
–Mic Check Radio
–AZ Central
–New York Times
*Promo: On The Podcast
*There’s some sort of election going on, right?
*Why should Clinton quit? Well, she shouldn’t.
*Here’s a question for ya.. and yes, it is about gender.
*The big damn gun interview- finally!
*All right, more of a chat, really…
*Paul Fischer visits the spiderhole
*ADD Cast
*Balticon Cast
*Wildlife Photos
*What I’ve Been Listening To:
-Democracy Now on paid military analysts
-CBC Ideas on Excuses
–Metamor City
–Chasing The Bard
-Voicemail(s) from Andy
-enjoy my new outtro- well, it’s the same, but now it has bed music!
-keep listening… you might hear something else! 😉

email: tsdiva@gmail.com
voicemail: 206-337-1026
forum: http://truthseekerscast.ning.com

This episode stars Sonic Boom, who’s real name has been bleeped many times because her father was too drunk to remember not to say her real name.

Guests include Tee Morris, Marc “Grailwolf” Bailey, Heather Welliver, Brand Gamblin and his girlfriend Allison

• Plug galore – It’s so annoying I’m not giving anyone links, so there!
•  I Will Swallow Your Soul
• A little review of Farpoint Convention
• Erin Gray
• Sonic Boom thinks the studio has a revolving door
• Marc’s convenience store sickness
• Burger King chip
• PROMO: Stranger Things
• PROMO: Aliens You Will Meet
• Scott Sigler needs antibiotics: help him with his Infection
• Pimpage/Bell abuse
• More questions for Cthulhu
• Thank you for your service to your country
• Live Calls for Cthulhu at Balticon
• Would you want to see a live Hey! Want To Watch A Movie?
• Stop The Noise!
• Morevi spoiler alert
• Be on the lookout for J.C. Hutchin’s Obsidian

MUSIC: Shoot Him Down by Babylon Bombs

Joe Murphy touched our lives. We remember him on this, the one year anniversary of his death.

Show notes and original post.

UPDATE: [1/8/2011] The original file is gone. I’m sad. I’ll try to track it down later. We still miss you Joe.

This week I am joined by Podcast fans Meagan and Scott Breakall, Chooch from the podcasts Into The Blender & City of Heroes, and Paulette Jaxton. We discuss the impending launch of Scott Sigler’s novel Infected and the opening of Con Season 2008.

Lazy Show Notes

Music: Shoot Him Down by Jenny Beck (@Music.Podshow.com)

<The free download period has expired. Get your copy of Scott Sigler’s Infected on line or at your local bookstore. Thank you!>

We did it before and we are doing it again.

Scott Sigler’s new print version of Infected gets released on April 1st, 2008. Over the next few days, his publisher has allowed him to give away copies of the PDF version of the book for free.

We are helping him do just that.

For more information on Scott and Infected, visit www.scottsigler.com

If you want share the file with friends, get them to download it from this page or from:

randomhouse.com/crown/infected/downloads/infected_novel.pdf

By getting the file from that link, it’s proving to the big publishers that we podcasters have a clue about what we are doing.

This file will only be active for a few days, at which time the link will become inactive and you’ll have to go to the bookstore to read the story. Which you should do anyway.

Part 2 – Dr. Michael Shermer reads from and talks about his new book The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics. Mr. Shermer discuss’ how economic and evolutionary theory speak the same language, and how our hardwired human biology affects modern economics.

www.michaelshermer.com Those of you familiar with the Skeptics movement may know Mr. Shermer as a founder of the Skeptics Society, a frequent guest on Skepticality, and the author of other non-fiction works including: Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design, Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time, and Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown as well as many more titles.This Podcast recorded live at the National Science Foundation at an event hosted by the National Capitol Area Skeptics (NCAS).Dr. Shermer’s Books Available at Amazon.comMusic: Evolution by Nick Murray ( @Music.Podshow.com, @MySpace, Website )Promo: Metamor City

Promo: The Commandline

Dr. Michael Shermer reads from and talks about his new book The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics. Mr. Shermer discuss’ how economic and evolutionary theory speak the same language, and how our hardwired human biology affects modern economics.

www.michaelshermer.com Those of you familiar with the Skeptics movement may know Mr. Shermer as a founder of the Skeptics Society, a frequent guest on Skepticality, and the author of other non-fiction works including: Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design, Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time, and Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown as well as many more titles.This Podcast recorded live at the National Science Foundation at an event hosted by the National Capitol Area Skeptics (NCAS).

Dr. Shermer’s Books Available at Amazon.com

Music: Think For Yourself by George Hrab ( music, podcast, concerts in your home, Balticon )

Promo: Morevi Remastered

Promo: Stranger Things

I shot a few off hand videos during the awesome New Year’s Party at Cmdln and Andrea’s house. It is our pleasure to give you the song styling of Heather Welliver and Tee Morris.

Tee Morris does an improv version of Dennis Leary’s Asshole song.

Heather Welliver sings. We’re glad someone in this group has a real voice.