Wander Radio

This last couple of weeks have been anything but fun. Mostly personal stuff that I will not divulge here. My intentions here are this:

1. Wander Radio needs a facelift and will be getting one.

2. I have 2 stories in various stages of production – This does not include Dirk Moonfire or the Space Casey project or the other super secret project that I am working on.

3. I am also working on another project that will be important for the Tulsa area….more to come soon.

4. Watching Corporate Radio and the Big Record companies fumble with the new idea of new media…(I have more thoughts on this as well)

So as you can see my plate is a little full, I will be peeking in on various shows and production is not going to stop and who knows I might actually get some words of wisdom to pass on.

Please keep your eye on the site as I keep you informed.

Oh yeah I am also writing my first short story… scroll down I posted the announcement….

Ok So I am not the only podiobook listener going ga ga over Quarter Share.

Go and read what Mur Lafferty has to say. She knows what she’s talking about because she has written a few of her own. Now if only I could get someone like that to review my show… lol yeah right. Mur has a podcast that I have been listening to since the beginning. I Should be Writing is a podcast about writing fiction. Very informative and I still listen to it. You should be to…

That reminds me I need to update my links in the side bar…as well as the site…

Today’s guest is Nathan Lowell, writer of the Share Trilogy and South Coast. All available from Podiobooks.com Nathans Website is http://www.durandus.org/golden

The Share Trilogy

Quarter Share

Half Share

Full Share

National Novel Writing Month

South Coast – The Shaman’s Tales

Scott Sigler

JC Hutchins

Podiobooks

David Weber

David Drake

The List of Podiobooks

Nina Kimberly the Merciless – Christiana Ellis

Brave Men Run – Matthew Wayne Selznick

Earthcore – Scott Sigler

Singularity – Bill DeSmedt

Discovered Country – Nora Fleischer

Amerindian 2192 – J. Scott Garibay

Spherical Tomi – Jack Mangan

The Daily Source Code - Adam Curry’s Podcast. (I dunno know I never listened to it.) Nathan did say The Daily Download but he meant the Daily Source Code.

The Dawn and Drew Show

The Weekly Anime Review Podcast

Podiobooks Community

Mur Lafferty

The Parsec Awards

www.durandus.org/golden

Name Ishmael’s Ship and Logo contest.

Easter Eggs in the Stories

Space Casey

Write 6 Books in a year? My GOD!

Kudos to the support staff!

Promo: The Voices of Babylon

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Being a fan of M.H. Bonham apparently has some perks. Here is an opportunity for writer’s to flex some creative muscle. The only thing I ask is if you do this please let them know where you heard about it.  

Wolfsong Anthology, Volume I, published by WolfSinger Publications; edited by M. H. Bonham

The wolf has been a creature of mythology and legend since humans first told stories.  Feared and reviled, or worshipped and loved, the wolf symbolizes wildness and power.  In the Wolfsong Anthology, we’re hoping to capture the wolf in new stories that celebrate their magic and mysticism.

What we’re looking for are original, well-constructed SFF stories where wolves play a major role.  The story can be fantasy (epic fantasy, mysticism, sword and sorcery, urban fantasy, or heroic fantasy), science fiction, dark fantasy (not quite horror), or slipstream (no pure romance and absolutely no erotica).  Word length 2000 to 7500 maximum.  Will consider reprints IF you own the rights. 

What we’re NOT looking for:

• Conventional, run-of-the-mill werewolf stories.  You can have werewolves, but they better be unusual, captivating and not the typical werewolves we’ve seen in current literature.  Note – werewolf stories may get bumped if we get too many of them, so stick with wolves, if you want a better chance. 
• Stories without a beginning, middle or end – or stories without a plot.
• Erotica – This is PG-13.  Don’t even think about bestiality.  If it’ll embarrass my mother-in-law, I don’t want it.
• Really bloody horror.  Violence is ok if it is necessary for the plot, but splatter and gore isn’t.  You can be dark, but remember the PG-13 rating. 
• Strictly romance, mainstream, or mystery.  You can be almost mainstream or mystery, but you should have a fantastic element in it. 
• Poetry.
• Anything under 2000 words or over 7500 words.
• Simultaneous and multiple submissions.  (We’re striving to have our selections done by August 1^st). 

Submissions are open from February 1^st to May 1^st.  Format your work to standard manuscript format: double-spaced type, Times New Roman 12 or something similar, and include your name, address, phone number and email.  Please use italics for italics and bold for bold.  Lastly, send us only RTF files.  No exceptions.  That means save your word document as an RTF. 

Send us your full manuscript (in RTF format) via email to editor@wolfsingerpubs.com.  Please put “Wolfsong Submission: your story title” in the subject line. Don’t bother with queries.  If the story fits the guidelines, we’re interested in looking at it.  In your email, tell us what you’ve had published, or if you haven’t been published, tell us that too.  Your lack of credentials doesn’t preclude you from being accepted.   If the story is a reprint, tell us that too, and tell us where it was first published. 

We pay $5 advance and 50% royalty split between authors.    Good luck!!!

I was looking on the internet doing research for some ideas when I cam across a very interesting stat. In 1997 the average number of hours listened to the radio in a week was 22 hours and 15 min. In 2007, that number was 19 hours even. Now the Radio Marketing Guide and Fact book 2007-2008, claims this as 85% Total listener retention. I see this stat and I am seeing something very different. I see that as a decrease in time that people are listening to the radio. People are either moving closer to where they work or they are finding alternatives to radio. Such as CDs, Tapes, TV, movies, or even (dare I say) podcasts in all the various forms.

So why would people want to find something different to listen to? Well, I can only speak for myself. I stopped listening to the radio with any regularity over 2 years ago. It just so happened that was also the time I discovered ‘podcasts’, but even before that I was tired of the same old diatribe. I liked the music the first 30 times but often got tired of it very quickly. So I started making my own cds. Rebuilding what I had done in the Navy. Wander Radio was re-born thanks to CD burning technology. I believe that I 10 CDs made in a rotation. With those 10 cds I discovered that I had more variety in those cds than what was played on the radio. So there is one strike against radio more repetitive than a 10 CD rotation.

Plus the market I am currently in (The Tulsa Market) One station is playing reruns of old radio dramas from the Golden Age of Radio. Now granted I love the old stuff if it wasn’t for all of that in the 30s and 40s, there is no telling where audio ‘cinema’ would be today. It is a viable form of entertainment. I enjoy it. There is not enough of it on the radio plus there is plenty of great stories currently being produced that is very air worthy but can only be found on the net. So strike two for radio, they missed the boat on audio drama and its rebirth. Stop before you say it, I know that Jack Ward and Shannon Hilchie over at The Sonic Society are played on the Canadian airwaves, but if it wasn’t for the internet I wouldn’t even know about them. They are not played here in

Something else that radio does not offer me on my current one hour commute to work, audio books. That is just not heard on the radio. Radio wants things short or something that can be broken up into small bite size bits, except there are times when I want a meal. I believe that at one time Scott Sigler was on XM radio or was it Sirius with his podcast novel “Earthcore”. This just isn’t offered on the radio. I have at least 40 hours a week to fill my ears with and although it would be great to listen to the radio. I get tired of hearing the same 8 hour tape everyday and I haven’t even talked about the annoying ‘DJs’

I understand that not all of my reasons are the fault of corporate radio. Their job is to make money. Bring together an audience that is in itself convenient for commercial which pays for the DJs and other operating costs…

I don’t think that radio is going to die completely no more than TV totally killing the movies. I do think is that having more choices of what I want to listen to and choosing from content created by the many talented people all over the world. Yes Podcasting is global. Radio is afraid of the change.

More to come on this topic later…

This was a surprise treat for me. I had the opportunity to talk with 2 of the creators of Variant Frequencies Rick and Anne Stringer. It was great to talk with both of them and I am so looking forward to hearing more stories. I recommend that you go and look into the stories. Warning the stories at Variant Frequencies is not work or child safe. Screen the episodes before you allow the kiddos to listen.

Items mentioned in the interview:

Escape Pod

The Failed Cities Monologues – (Yes Matt I know it is plural)

The Parsec Awards

Pseudopod

Farpoint Media

Murky Depths

Matt Wallace

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