Jay Lake is currently holding a caption contest where the winner scores a freebie from Audible.com.
URL: http://jaylake.livejournal.com/1336404.html
Posted by Charles Tan
Audible.com’s Weekly Free Listen: Could Be Worse by James Patrick Kelly
Could Be Worse is an audio exclusive, available for FREE via audible.com. A never-before-published story it is written and narrated by Hugo and Nebula Award-winning SF author James Patrick Kelly. If you like it be sure to check out StoryPod 3.0 his latest batch of 13 stories! You’ll hear the classic Hugo Award-winning novelette, 10 to the 16th to 1; The Best Christmas Ever, a Hugo nominee; Itsy Bitsy Spider, nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula; and more. You can get it in the DRM’d audible AAC format, listen online or download the MP3…
Could Be Worse
By James Patrick Kelly; Read by James Patrick Kelly
1 |MP3| – Approx. 10 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Waiting in a doctor’s office sure can suck the life out of you. Unless…
Posted by Jesse Willis
Several Interviews at The Agony Column
Rick Kleffel of The Agony Column has a couple of interesting interviews:
Charles Stross and his latest book, Halting State: MP3 |Part 1| |Part 2|
Jeremy Lassen of Nightshade Books and the best books of 2007: MP3 |Part 1| |Part 2|
Posted by Charles Tan
Fiction Gets a New Lease with Audiobooks
Belinda Webb of Guardian Unlimited talks about her New Year’s resolution of listening to audio books in her latest column:
The audiobook is perfect for the time impaired. In 2005 and 2006 the UK audiobook market was worth a whopping £71.4m. Audiobooks can seem rather expensive considering they use no paper and don’t have to rely on expensive warehouse storage and distribution, but, for me, it will still work out cheaper than the combined cost of a gym fee and my book-buying habit – and it will do much more for my own sense of achievement.
Posted by Charles Tan
Guardian Book Club Podcast: Philip Pullman
On December 21, 2007, the Guardian Unlimited‘s book club featured Philip Pullman as the author talked about His Dark Materials trilogy and discussed topics like Milton and morality. Get the |MP3| here. Subscribe to the podcast feed for it via this url:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/podcast/0,,329524190,00.xml
Posted by Charles Tan
Jay Lake Podcast: Foolscap IX Panel on Workshops
Over at Lakeshore, Jay Lake along with other writers Kate Schaefer, Edd Vick, and Kara Dalkey hosts a panel for Foolscap IX in which they talk about how workshops have had an impact on them and how it may or may not help writers. Here’s the |MP3|
Subscribe to the podcast via this feed:
http://www.jlake.com/podcasts/lakeshore_audio.xml
Posted by Charles Tan