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Award-winning Author of fantasy, science fiction, and steampunk

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Archives for February 2009

Touch my cheek…

…or alternatively touch the bard and the dark goddess. There is something extra cool about seeing your work on the new shiny devices. (I admit I am a gadget-head)

Digital Magic should be the next month or so, but until then, get the bard and the dark goddess in your pocket. Purchase Chasing the Bard for the iphone or the ipod touch.

I’m going to build a room that echoes

When I started out working on Erotica a la Carte and thinking how I would manage it I knew there was one issue. Weather Child.

A lot of podcasters make the mistake of working too damn hard- or piling their plates too high. So after doing Chasing the Bard I knew approximately how much work is involved in producing a podiobook on time. It’s hard. And even though Weather Child is a smaller production (mostly due to the lack of lots of kiwi accents) I knew it was going to take a lot of effort.

And yet I am loving doing EalC- so I came up with the idea of having guest chefs in the kitchen. Susan Z of Steampunk Spectacular, J D Sawyer of Antithesis and my main collaborator, Tee Morris, have all offered their talents to me.

This three month break away from EalC means I can concentrate on Weather Child, but also means that other people will have a shot at the fun I’ve been having.

Susan has already got the results from her post, but go to Erotica a la Carte and vote on Dan’s. I love so many parts of this community, and am very excited to be sharing EalC with some of the brightest, best people in it.

You always take the Weather with you

Weather Child, my latest podiobook offering is now out in the wild. This is a very personal story for me, including many characters and stories based on my family. It is set the alternate history, where New Zealand is home to magicians- magicians that rely on a symbiote called a seraphim to give them their magic. Yet some one is planning to use the Awakened for their own purposes.

This is the book New York publishing houses said Americans wouldn’t be interested in reading, set as it is in New Zealand. Let’s see if that is true.  New chapters drop every Sunday.

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