2 posts tagged “podcast”

So I recently had one of my short stories, Woman Called Witch, turned into a podcast by the folks at The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine (http://dunesteef.com/). Okay, some of this is just bragging, but it also brings up the conversation of where podcasting fits in the bigger scheme of publication.

I’m a pretty big fan of podcasts, at least in the form of short stories and serialized novels. I regularly listen to Pseudopod (http://pseudopod.org/), Drabblecast (http://web.mac.com/normsherman/Site/Podcast/Podcast.html), and Scott Sigler (http://www.scottsigler.com/).

I also believe that the publishing industry is a little behind the times. I remember an agent telling me in 2007 that she just got a book deal for one of her authors and that it would be published in 2012. That’s 5-6 years out. Holy cow!

Now, I may be wrong, but an industry that’s locked in 5-6 years out in this fast-paced, Internet-rich society seems to be a little out of touch. At the speed technology is growing, in 5-6 years we will have solved problems we don’t even know will exist yet.

Now that’s not to say that podcasts will replace the publishing industry. I don’t think it will, at least not for some time, but it is an interesting niche. You see, podcasts aren’t just like audio books. They’re more like the old radio broadcasts of the thirties and forties. They incorporate some sound effects, like gunshots or footsteps.

So what’s the answer? I don’t know. What I do know is that the Internet and technology will play a much larger role than they do today. What that will turn into is anybodies guess, but I think it’s an exciting time to live and help formulate.

~Doug

Last night I checked my email and discovered that one of my short stories, Woman Called Witch, had been accepted for publication by The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine. Rather than publish in print, the magazine creates Podcasts of the stories they buy, which means that my story is going to be turned into a Podcast.

I have to admit that I’m thrilled by that. I’ve been listening to serialized novels and short stories in Podcast form now for almost a year and I think that Podcasts are one of the up-and-coming methods of publication in the future. I’m ready to embrace that technology!

The Dunesteef Team even asked me to record an introduction to the story. I’m thrilled about that too! I mean, what an opportunity! I know that marketing my writing is going to be a lot of work, but they just gave me a little help!

Then, to top it off, I received word from The Monsters Next Door Magazine that they want to publish my story, Number Two for Brains, in their fifth issue that comes out in mid-November 2008.

I can hardly believe it! I’ve been sending out short stories since early March 2008 and now, finally, magazines are starting to accept them. Now all I need to do is find an agent to represent the book I’m trying to sell.