Random Novel Podcasts

Next Christmas in Girouette is a full-length novel for people of all ages—nine to ninety-nine—who want to share a heart-warming literary adventure at Christmastime. Set on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains in Montana, this is the story of a brother and sister—Autry and Oxana Quinn—who find themselves stranded in a Girouette, a virtual ghost town, from Thanksgiving through Christmas when their father is taken ill. Their grandfather, a Marine Captain long retired, plus an eccentric old café owner, a Blackfeet Indian horse trader who was once the town’s mayor, a couple who published the local newspaper and an ancient deaf-mute trapper are the only remaining inhabitants of Girouette. These self-styled “diehards” all seem to have one thing in common. Thanks to a mysterious event 60 years earlier, they still believe in Santa Claus. Next Christmas in Girouette features something for everyone: carefree cowboys who race their horses over snow-covered country roads, a team of wolves trained by a mountain man to pull a sleigh, a stroll that nearly turns tragic on a treacherous buffalo jump, a serialized newspaper story titled “The Adventures of Rocky Mountain Santa,” a desperate attempt to escape from an abandoned copper mine, a night-time journey through the mountains on a frozen river and finally the miracle that delivers wayfaring strangers to Girouette during a white-out on Christmas Eve. The book revels in the solitary beauty of winter in Big Sky Country, the enduring wisdom of the elderly citizens of Girouette, the excitement of frontier history coming to life, the inspiration of a family healing itself and the magic of an old-fashioned western Christmas. Read Next Christmas in Girouette with your family this year, and you’ll want to revisit it for years and years to come at holiday time.

Categories: Uncategorised

Tags: adult, american, christmas, ghost, holiday, novel, Town, west, young

The podcast contains music, mayhem, stories, skits, malarky and tons of zombies! [itunes pic]
The first chapter in The Zombie Wilson Diaries as read by the author.

Categories: Arts

Tags: Arts, Books, Funny, humor, Literature, long, novel, serial, songs, Timothy, zombie-wilson, ZOMBIES

When Raven comes to Redthwen to meet her mentor Orvannon, she encounters a vicious traveler, a hag with an extraordinary Voice of Command, and that hag’s charge, a mysterious little girl. By the time Orvannon arrives, Raven will have learned too much about these strangers, and she will have discovered a dragon with the ability to put people into a swoon. Orvannon’s instructions start Raven off on an epic adventure. She will master the greatest bit of nose-magic in all of her native Ausland. She will face the dragon in combat. And she will have to deal with the hag while totally under control of that woman’s power. These adventures lead to more, as Raven discovers how the great city of Shelton is under attack. She must use all her persuasion to bring a powerful wizard to the city’s aid, and she will find that facing up to the attacking army is not enough. Raven explores the magical caves created by three great wizards, eventually discovering the greatest evil of her time. Victory in the “big boss battle” is not enough. When the evil magic is destroyed, Raven and her friend must avoid starvation, and face the lightning bolts of yet another mage, to have a chance of staying alive in peace. Raven’s Gift is set in a magical, pastoral medieval world. Raven has a strange ability that is as much a curse as a gift. Trouble follows her every step, and danger approaches at every turn. She begins her journey with only her wits and her nose, but though her past haunts her, she finds companions who help her make amends for a terrible mistake. Raven’s Gift is a dramatic fantasy with an unusual heroine and intriguing magic. With Raven’s deep bond to nature and her pragmatic attitude toward the obstacles in her path, she manages to find her place as destiny’s unsung hero in her dangerous world. One reader has said that Raven’s Gift is like South Park mets James Bond meets Dungeons and Dragons. Although there’s combat and even a military campaign in this novel, much of the action occurs in lively conversations. Even today, at the beginning of the 21st century, it is impossible to imagine making Raven’s Gift into a movie — for an unusual reason — but if such a movie could be made, some parts of it might earn an R rating for being a bit earthy.

Categories: Arts, Society & Culture

Tags: fantasy, magic, Nose, novel, Wizard

In a post-plague world where humans, animals, and plants have suffered, a colony of survivors has gathered in a fortified former-luxury condominium complex they call “The Park”. These remnants of humanity are inextricably bound to their domestic cats from which Dose (a temporary plague vaccine) is derived. A forager army is heading toward The Park. The Park people must prepare to defend themselves and all they have worked for. They have made a discovery: not all cats are created equal. While regular Dose staves off plague symptoms, the dose derived from Simon (The Park’s only Siamese cat) can be refined into SHAT, a super-dose that rejuvenates the growth of plant life. . . and which also may hold the secret to a permanent plague-cure. Problem: Simon is a neuter. If he should die, so, too, dies humanity’s hope for survival. Enter Sasha, a purebred female Balinese of breeding age that also produces SHAT. With the increasing militarization in The Park (and sky-rocketing tension), Sasha’s humans want to leave, taking their cat with them. But The Park people won’t let them go. . . .

Categories: Arts

Tags: action, adult, awesome, betrayal, cats, character, Lies, novel, story, Violence

Piers Langland is a mild mannered paint salesman with one burning passion. He aspires to be a famous author. Each November he looks forward to entering The National Novel Writer Month competition. To be a winner in NaNoWriMo he must write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days, a tall order for any writer. Turns out, it is an especially tall order for our hero. Join Piers as he struggles to choose a topic for his novel before he can begin his epic task. Vampires or space opera, romance or pulp fiction, what should he choose? Unfortunately, the greatest object holding him back is Piers himself. Follow this hilarious tale as Piers blunders his way though one genre after another, leaving a trail of wackiness and comical disasters in his wake. Can Piers choose a topic? Can Piers finish his book? Can Piers get even one thing right without bungling it terribly? Read The Prisoner of NaNoWriMo and find out. This whimsical story is written by Craig Robertson, author of the podcast novels Anon Time and The Innerglow Effect, who knows first hand the pain and glory that is NaNoWriMo. Download the free audio version of The Prisoner of NaNoWriMo from iTunes or Podiobooks.com. Absolutely free ebook versions can be found on Smashwords.com. Who doesn’t deserve a good laugh, the harder the better right? Let Piers you feel his pain and show him you have his back. Download your copy of The Prisoner Of NaNoWriMo today!

Categories: Arts

Tags: author, Craig, ebook, fantasy, fiction, free, gypsy, humor, nanowrimo, novel, opera, Podcast, Robertson, science, Space, speculative, Vampires, Whimsical, writing

Comic book discussion, plus The Gutters (journal), The Legion Project (LSH v3), and Center Seat (Star Trek).

Categories: Arts, Leisure

Tags: book, Comic, comicbook, comics, graphic, indie, Journal, novel, startrek, superhero

It is no secret that we, the human race, live in a broken world. Greed, corruption, and hatred surround us, hinder us, cripple us. It is easy to cry about the state of things; to rant and rave against the injustices of life, and weakly hope for a brighter tomorrow. … But what if that hope was no longer your wish… But was now… your duty. For officer Kevin Lahzur, that very struggle has just begun… Along the way… Kevin must face the tests of the Concordium, proving himself… and humanity as a whole… to be worth saving from total annihilation. Political corruption, corporate greed, hatred and fear all stand in his way… And Kevin must discover if he is strong enough to face the challenges ahead… Before it’s too late. Paladin Corps. – Book 1 follows Kevin on his reluctant journey from disheartened local cop, to chosen savior of the human race.

Categories: Arts

Tags: novel, Podcast, scifi

The Perfect Bound Podcast is a weekly show about anything and everything comic books and comics related, brought to you by Ben Laurance and Cole Hornaday of The Panel Jumper, and Chris Casos and Nicole Lamb from Comics Dungeon.

Categories: Arts, Comedy, Education, Kids & Family

Tags: Books, Comic, comics, DC, family, gender, graphic, IDW, Image, Intersectional, lgbt, Marvel, novel, queer, Superheroes, trans

Long ago in a hidden kingdom, Mtilan the Unborn King pledges his life to Legion, the fallen spirit from beyond the veil of time. Learning dark and forbidden magic, the new sorcerer gains both immortality and incredible power— but sacrifices his soul. Over a millennium later, siblings Pekra and Lely reluctantly journey with their father’s killer across their island of peril. They seek the mythical cottonwood tree, the first child of their god Ura, hoping to defend its sacred life from both Mtilan and his itinerant Master. But the brave siblings are children of the deer-folk known as the Gaewyn, a persecuted people. They voyage toward an uncertain fate unaware mainlanders have crashed on their island, bringing those who would enslave them a new, deadly technology— the gun. Written by William J. Meyer. Read by Steve Rudolph. Music by William Seegers. FIRE ON THE MOUND contains scenes of violence.

Categories: Arts, Fiction

Tags: Adventure, audiobook, Clockwork, epicfantasy, fantasy, myth, novel, romance, steampunk, supernatural

Storefronts busted, businesses destroyed, accounts frozen. No one knows who’s behind the rash of vandalism in the virtual world, Marionette City, or how to protect themselves from becoming the next victim. A free SF/detective podcast novel from two-time Parsec Award finalist M. Darusha Wehm.

Categories: Arts

Tags: detective, fiction, MYSTERY, novel, science

In Bram Stoker’s timeless classic, “Dracula,” an unsuspecting English solicitor named Jonathan Harker embarks on a fateful journey to the eerie castle of the Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula. As Harker discovers the truth about the enigmatic count’s vampiric nature, a thrilling tale unfolds. With a small band led by the astute Abraham Van Helsing, the race is on to hunt down and destroy Dracula before his sinister influence engulfs the world.

Filled with suspense, horror, and unforgettable characters, “Dracula” is a chilling masterpiece that has captivated readers for generations.

This is a complete and unabridged reading by award-winning podcast author, Mike Bennett.

Categories: Arts, Fiction

Tags: dracula, novel, stoker, unabridged

Novel Conversations is a podcast summarizing the world’s greatest works of classic literature: you get the whole story from cover to cover. If CliffsNotes had an audio-bestfriend, it would be us! Each episode, Frank Lavallo hosts two readers, and the three of them share their reactions to the story and read their favorite passages along the way. If you’re looking for a good story, you’re in the right place. *This podcast is a production of the Ohio Film Tax Credit.

Categories: Arts, Education

Tags: american, audio, austen, bibliophile, bookish, Books, Brit, british, bronte, classic, cliffnotes, conversations, dystopian, fitzgerald, hemingway, lewis, lit, literary, Literature, novel, orwell, Podcast, sparknotes, steinbeck, storytelling, summary

Self-proclaimed gods have quietly ruled the multiverse of Mebar for over 800 years. But the one founding member of their order that condemned their methods has just been set loose from prison.

Categories: Arts

Tags: Adventure, alternate, book, fantasy, fi, fiction, multi, MYSTERY, novel, reality, SCI, science, verse, writing

AAWW Radio is the podcast of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, an NYC literary arts space at the intersection of migration, race, and social justice. Listen to AAWW Radio and you’ll hear selected audio from our current and past events, as well as occasional original episodes. We’ve hosted established writers like Claudia Rankine, Maxine Hong Kingston, Roxane Gay, Amitav Ghosh, Ocean Vuong, Solmaz Sharif, and Jenny Zhang. Our events are intimate and intellectual, quirky yet curated, and dedicated to social justice. We curate our events to juxtapose novelists and activists, poets and intellectuals, and bring together people who usually wouldn’t be in the same room. We’ve got it all: from avant-garde poetry to post-colonial politics, feminist comics to lyric verse, literary fiction to dispatches from the left. A sanctuary for the immigrant imagination, we believe Asian American stories deserve to be told. Learn more by visiting aaww.org Produced by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop.

Categories: Arts, Society & Culture

Tags: aaww, APA, arab, arabamerican, art, Asian, asianamerican, asianamericanwritersworkshop, author, Bangladesh, book, Chinese, conversation, creativewriting, Culture, Desi, diaspora, experimentalpoetry, feminism, feminist, fiction, filipino, filipinx, Identity, indian, interview, islamophobia, Korean, lgbtq, Literature, margins, maxinehongkingston, muslim, newyork, nonfiction, novel, opencity, pacificislander, poetry, postcolonial, prose, queer, race, racialjustice, radical, radio, socialjustice, southasian, syrian, Vietnamese, Writer

Hello. This is John Rhodes. I’ve decided to attempt to make this a free podcast novel again with the free podomatic hosting although it will be sort of telephone quality sound. I will test it and maybe boost the quality. For full quality sound go to: http://littlebirdtoldme.blip.tv. That site will eventually have all my 23 chapters posted there for free. Please consider buying my book though as a donation to the author. This is a far-out hip, San Francisco audio book and podcast novel by John Rhodes that takes place in San Francisco, in the Haight called, “Little Bird Told Me”. It is an Avant Garde story told in the 90’s. Peace and love are main topics in the book just like with the hippies. I also live in the Haight and have an audio/video Haight Street open mike poetry podcast called: Mystic Babylon at http://mysticbabylon.podomatic.com , which is also run as a free local TV show on the cable access Comcast channels. Please listen in, but just as people support Public Broadcasting, You can buy my 3 books in text from www.authorhouse.com and one book from audible.com .Please tell a friend! Note: also visit: http://www.rhodespoetry.com . Note: There was some glitches the 29th of April or so because I was hasty and was redirecting you in audio to my poetry site instead of my podcast novel site. I have since corrected this error. [itunes pic]
This is the first chapter of the Audiobook and Podcast Novel, Little Bird Told Me. I, John Rhodes, started producing this podcast almost back to when the first podcast novel came out produced by Scott Sigler. We would go to the same Podcast Meetup. This first chapter is entitled, Leaving Home. It deals with parental control much like it is portrayed in its watered down version in the characters of Edith and Archie Bunker. I make you ask the question…if a parent isn’t a mentor or a guide, are they actually holding their child hostage to an unfriendly world, almost as if kidnapped? You be the judge. I hope you enjoy this first chapter. Please visit my poetry podcast/tv show too, at http://mysticbabylon.podomatic.com . It is beginning to run nationally on Public access channels all over the U.S. Enjoy.

Categories: Arts

Tags: book, john, me, novel, Podcast, rhodes

Do you wish you could spend half your day sitting around talking about comics, movies and other fun stuff? Fear not, citizen! Now that SuperHeroStuff.com has a podcast you can listen in on our conversations about the world of superheroes, sci-fi and lots more!

Categories: Arts

Tags: avengers, Batman, book, Comic, comics, DC, fi, Flash, graphic, Man, Marvel, men, novel, SCI, Spider, superhero, Superman, X

The podcast for in-depth discussion on film adaptations and the original material they’re based on.

Categories: Arts, TV & Film

Tags: adaptation, book, booktofilm, booktomovie, film, movie, novel, pagetoscreen, remake, television, tv

Tom Grayson returns home from a quick errand to discover that his family and guests have all mysteriously disappeared. Prior to this chilling discovery, he has been tormented with guilt by a secret that only he and a former lover share: the two have witnessed a brutal crime that Tom has refused to report. He knows that alerting the authorities would jeopardize all that he holds dear in life: his family and career. In a desperate search to find his missing family, Tom embarks on a journey that can only be described as nightmarish and surreal. When it becomes increasingly clear that Tom may lose something even more precious than his comfortable existence, his priorities in life shift dramatically as he becomes an unwitting detective with a mission. But will it be too late for him to set the record straight?

Categories: Arts

Tags: 101, audiobook, book, day, fiction, Literature, may, murders, MYSTERY, novel, photography, scott, thriller, wittenburg