Helloooo You Creative Souls!

How are ya? Sarah Golding here - heleau!

This week’s ep is a part two of a chat to the wonderful ALLISON COSSITT on making her first #audiodrama - PARTIAL VEIL.

This is an unmissable journey, charting what happened during and post release, as Allison navigated editing, social media, nurturing fans and creating a creative fam and just finding the momentum to just keep going, and allll the rewards and trials along the way.

We chat all things:

*What happened on release

*Social media wins and not-so-wins

*Briliance of fans

*Brilliance of cast

*Lessons learnt 

*Future plans

And so much more! 

I hope you feel inspired to create, and launch your new audio drama, and that these eps are useful on the landscape of influence (to stop you trying to reinvent the wheel!) If you have feedback please do leave a review or ping me an email:

📬 Email: ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠

Or

🎙️ Leave me a message on Speakpipe:

You might even end up on a future ep with your groovy words of wisdom so hearty thanks for making the void less…echoey! 

I have enjoyed so much putting these eps together - we celebrate YOUR HORROR SHOW

 in our #DISCOVERABILITY section of the show - from RYAN MURPHY.

Listen here:

Apple 

Spotify

And our TRAILER OF THE DAY is from POE EVERMORE from the amazing folks at BLOODY DISGUSTING!

THANK YOU FOR LISTENING!

Now 

GO

MAKE

THE THING!

Sarah🌞

LINKS TO ALLISON'S GROOVINESS

⁠PARTIAL VEIL PODCAST - YLEM MEDIA⁠

⁠INSTA⁠

⁠X⁠

⁠ALLISON BLUSKY⁠

Music for this show is from the wonderous OLIVER MORRIS

Sarah Golding links of audio joy

⁠Patreonshipness of cool⁠

⁠Bluesky⁠

⁠Wireless Theatre⁠

⁠OZ9 Podcast⁠

⁠ADWIT⁠

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR LISTENING

CRACK ONNNNN

YES, AI WROTE MY SHOWNOTES TODAY±

What day think>!?

🎧 INDIE AF – AI in Audio Fiction: Friend, Foe or Fascinating Frontier?

S3E10 – Hosted by the ever-enthusiastic SARAH GOLDING

This episode dives deep into the ever-evolving world of Artificial Intelligence and how it's shaping (or shaking?) the world of audio drama creation.

Joining Sarah for this electric roundtable chat are a panel of brilliant audio fiction minds:
🎙️ LANCE DANN
🎙️ NICHOLAS GLEAN
🎙️ EDDIE LOUISE
🎙️ FLLOYD KENNEDY

• Can AI be your creative buddy?

• Is it a tool or a threat?

• Should we fear the clone of our own voice?

• What are the ethical lines when using AI?

• Can AI do comedy? (…Can it really?)

• Is using AI resourceful or cheap?

• Can it assist neurodiverse creators?

• Will AI take our jobs or just help with the boring bits?

• Is it a passing fad, or a fundamental shift?

  
  

Spoiler alert: Things get philosophical, practical, and a little fired up. 💥

I’d LOVE to hear your take—whether you’re waving the AI flag, firmly in the nope camp, or just watching from the sidelines munching popcorn.

📬 Email: [email protected]
🎙️ Leave me a message on Speakpipe: https://www.speakpipe.com/INDIE_AF

You might even end up on a future ep!

🔎DISCOVERABILITY the HELLSCAPE FEED by Michael Newton + The Custodians - hunt and enjoy!

🎧  TRAILER WHAT WILL BE HERE by the amazing CAROLINE MINCKS
Give it a listen and tell them INDIE AF sent you!

HUUUUGE thanks to my brilliant guests
Lance, Eddie, Nicholas & Flloyd – for bringing fire, curiosity, and heart to this chat.

Massive hugs to my Patrons – welcome this month to SALLY, KARI & STEPHANIE!
💖 Your support keeps the mics on, the scripts flowing, and the indie vibes vibin’.
Wanna join them? 👉 https://www.patreon.com/c/QuirkyVoices

Also out this week:
🎧 ADWIT – Audio Drama Writing and Innovation Team-up – hosted by me and LINDSAY HARRIS FRIEL. You love writerly things? You’ll love this too!

GUEST LINKS

Eddie Louise
🌐 Sage and Savant Website
🌈 Eddie on Bluesky

Lance Dann
🌈 Lance on Bluesky
🔗 Lance on LinkedIn

Nicholas Glean
🌐 Nicholas' Website
🔗 Nicholas on LinkedIn

Flloyd Kennedy
🌈 Flloyd on Bluesky
🌐 Flloyd’s Website

PLEASE ALSO LOOK UPPPP>>

• ChatGPT

• ElevenLabs

• Otter.ai

• Canva

• Synthetic Media Research Group

• WGA website

• Synesthesia

• Dr. Alex Connec – AI Media Book

• JUSTINE BATEMAN’s AI views!

  
  

INDIE AF Theme by OLIVER MORRIS – Hire them for your audio wizardry here!

Allison Cossitt returns! 🎙️
Part 2 of the Partial Veil deep dive – releasing, reflecting, and beyond!

GO MAKE THE THING
(…yourself. you. not with AI. 😉)

🧠 In this episode we ask:📢 Want to join the convo?🔥 This week’s featured trailer:🥳 Shoutouts & Thank Yous🔗 Guest Links🧰 Resources to explore:🎶 Music Credit📢 Coming up next week:

AND YES, THIS WAS WRITTEN BY AI

Would love to know your thoughts on this!

[email protected]

Thanks for listening you legends

Welcome to this fun filled interview with ALLISON COSSITT, Recorded just before release of her first show ever produced - PARTIAL VEIL - Links below!

We chat many things setup and sort, and how she went about developing and producing her brilliant audio story from start to pre-release. This is one of two eps - next one coming in a few week's time yayer.

I am ELATED to welcome 2 new Patreon supporters - SALLY SWIFT and KARI SUTCLIFFE - HERYUGE and hearty thanks  to you and alllll of my amazing supporters who have helped fuel QUIRKY works over the years. I am right now concocting an original poem for KARI as a tier reward and hope you enjoy the current, past and future eps! 

Just a reminder that often - as in this week’s case, the Patreon version of indie af is the full interview, and what is released here is a director’s cut, so, you want more Allison? OF COURSE YOU DO! Become a Patreon today for as little as $2 a month…. Fun. Times. 

This week’s trailer is for ADWIT podcast, which I host with LINDSAY-HARRIS-FRIELD (Tha legend) we are releasing our first eo of SEASON THREE NEXT WEEK - Follow and binge all season one and two here! Thank youp

The Discoverability section of today’s show is will the wonderful DAN KOCH and his SUPERB show METROPOLIS. Please do hunt and binge it now as it continues release through the spring of this 2025.

LINKS..HERE!

• WEBSITE:  luxradium.org
• TRAILER: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2397806/episodes/15626700-metropolis-the-audio-drama-trailer.mp3
  
• SOCIALS:
• * INSTAGRAM:
  * TUMBLR:
  * FB: 
  * TIKTOK: 
  * TWITTER:
  * BLUESKY:

Soooo NO EXCUSES not to find it!!

If you want to appear on a future discoverability session, ping [email protected] and reserve a slot as I will start to record S4 of INDIE AF in the summer. Hope you have been finding it useful to find other shows! 

I would LOVE you to review INDIE AF on your pod catcher of choice as shortly I would love to share some of folk’s thoughts on the show and Why it is useful!

I hope you’ll agree that ALLISON is INSPIRATIONAL, IMENSELY TALENTED and we both hope you enjoy her show, PARTIAL VEIL - SEASON ONE!

HAPPY CREATING ALL AND

ENJOY!

Sarah🌞

LINKS TO ALLISON'S GROOVINESS

PARTIAL VEIL PODCAST - YLEM MEDIA

INSTA

X

ALLISON BLUSKY

LINKS MENTIONED IN THE SHOW

PODCORN - ADVERTISEMENTS

IFUNDWOMEN

BUZZSPROUT

INFO ON MAGIC MASTERING

SUBSTACK NEWSLETTERS

FICTION PODCAST NEWS WEEKLY

⁠Talia Augustidis RESOURCES document⁠

⁠FB Audio drama hub⁠ 

DISCORD GROUPS - Hunt em

International voice actors

Voice point

Voice Acting Club

Sarah Golding links of audio joy

Patreonshipness of cool

Bluesky

Wireless Theatre

OZ9 Podcast

ADWIT

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR LISTENING

CRACK ONNNNN

GOOODDDD MORNING!

Short and sweet - thiiisssss is theeeee intro to some ways of doing the dialogue edit

Hit us up if you want to employ us to do yours!

With the fabulous

LOWRI-ANN DAVIES (Rusty Quill and More)

TRAVIS VENGROFF (Fool and Scholar and more!)

And me, Sarah Golding

Hello!

Hope this is a useful Start for you to fathom ways in to the dialogue edit - these gently unsung heroes of the word placement and frankensteiners of takes!

ENJOY!

Trailer isssss WASTELAND from the super folks at ALT STORIES!

YESSS± PROPAH SCI FI MECHA FUNNN

Andddd the discoverability chat is with LINDSAY HARRIS-FRIEL all about the sister show to this one - ADWIT - A show for writers of audio drama, which helps you explore ways in to making better audio drama! WOOHOO

ENJOY!

Links to Lowri

WEBSITE

Links to Travis

WEBSITE

FOOL AND SCHOLAR

SARAH LINKS OF AUDIO JOY

⁠SARAH BLUESKY⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠SARAH LINKTREE⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠QUIRKY VOICES PATREON⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠ADWIT PODCAST⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠WIRELESS THEATRE⁠

Heleauuu you wonderful creative soul!

How are ya?

Here is a fun filled informative chat on the super event happening THIS MONTH OF MARCH in Canterbury UK - 

*****THE INTERNATIONAL RADIO DRAMA FESTIVAL*****

I spoke to Melanie Nock - cake connoisseur and brilliant festival organiser, International Arts / Synchromesh, and Nicholas McInerny, Podcaster, writer, Rainbow mum/dad podcasts creator and more! 

It is such an exciting event which we know you will love -

You can

** Listen to audio dramas

** Vote for your favourite

** Mix with judges and other creatives

** Meet other folks who like you

** Want to make audio gold!

**Explore the beautiful Canterbury!

AND GET INSPIRED TO ENTER NEXT YEAR!

Check the website for details!

Thank you to my superb guests - Melanie Nock who works for the festival and the Synchromesh Project via INTERNATIONAL ARTS - A super initiative to help encourage more folks to make audio drama.

And Nicholas McInerny, instigator of fun things, podcast creator, producer, writer, director, script competition judge and more!

It truly is an international event = scripts have been sent in already for this year, so all you need to do is browse the website, book your place (free) on eventbrite link and go and enjoy yourself in a beautiful place. GET SOCIAL!

If you want to help support this brilliant event, ping Mel - [email protected] and do explore the website. You can volunteer as a judge as discussed !

The two pieces we played are 

Faxes in the storm 

by Emily White and Synchromesh. And

Populist Radio by 

Stefano Gianotti and Deutschlandfunk Culture.

This week's discoverability chat isssss talking all things

MY AMAZING WOMAN by James C Taylor. Find, follow and enjoyyyy!

The trailer is for THE BLOODY LIFE OF R.M.RENFIELD - A wireless theatre original by MARTY ROSS - Released on the Wireless feed this weekend. I have had the privilege of Producing, Directing and Dialogue editing this gem, performed by the astoundingly brilliant Harry Myers and Sarah Whitehouse. 

Sound design lead - Fiona Thraille

with sound design also by Oliver Morris. 

Exciting times! 

Thank you for listening!

Enjoy!

Links to the event

Radio festival website

Email address [email protected]

X @radiodramafest

Links to Nicholas' works

 Rainbow Mums - Stories of Gay and Bisexual Mums. 

How to have a perfect marriage

Website

Facebook

Literary Associate - Script6

Links to Melanie

Melanie email [email protected] 

SARAH LINKS OF AUDIO JOY

⁠SARAH BLUESKY⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠SARAH LINKTREE⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠QUIRKY VOICES PATREON⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠ADWIT PODCAST⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠WIRELESS THEATRE⁠

INDIE AF THEME BY OLIVER MORRIS -⁠ FIND THEM HERE ⁠ AND EMPLOY THEM FORTWITH FOR ALL MUSIC, SD, EDIT NEEDS!

*HAPPY CREATING ALL*

And don’t forget to request your cakes!

Hello!

**HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2025!**

Oh let’s joyously celebrate some women of the world - not just aNy women - BRILLLIANT, CREATIVE WOMEN OF AUDIO FICTION

Namely Allison Cossit, Stephanie Elie, Daisy McNamara, Francesca Mylod-Ford, Helen Quigley!

YES! THEY. ARE. ALL. WONDERFUL***** 5 stars!

We chat creative women who have inspired us

Why we love audio fiction creation

How we can lift other women in the medium

What advice Francesca heard through an open door

Why perhaps you should ask you pals of colour or disabled folks for recs of people for roles and jobs

How joining a writer’s group might help you get inspired and so you don’t write in a vacuum 

AND SO

MUCH

MMMMORE

Hearty thanks for listening!

If you want to support my endeavours to give voices to indie creatives, and help me get through these trying times please do join my Patreon - a few dollars month will make a huge difference to me and I HUGELY AND HEARTILY THANK ALL OF MY CURRENT PATREONS and anyone who has supported me in the past - thank you. It has helped build Hubfest and my works and more!

Please do listen to not just this ep but ALLL! So many amazing folks to listen to - and pass it on doo!

Happy listening

Happy creating

If you want to/can, Please do rate and review this podcast - or share it to places where folks can benefit and enjoy!

Thank you

Sarah :)

Links. To

Allison Cossitt

YLEM

 HOWL

INSTA

ALLISON BLUESKY

Stephanie Elie

Listen to the show

Bluesky

Instagram  

Daisy McNamara

WEBSITE

EELERS CHOICE

GOSPEL OF HAVEN

Francesca Mylod-Ford

Bluesky

Tumblr: starstrider-productions

Twitter: @StarstriderPods

Helen Quigley

HOT FLASHES: MENOPAUSE MONOLOGUES podcast

WIP Website

Bluesky -  @soundliness

HELEN WEBSITE

LINKS MENTIONED IN THE SHOW

DISCORD GROUP INTERNATIONAL VAS

BLACK AUDIO DRAMAS EXIST

⁠Bombs always beep Resource for Audio Drama Production⁠

SARAH LINKS OF AUDIO JOY

⁠SARAH BLUESKY⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠SARAH LINKTREE⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠QUIRKY VOICES PATREON⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠ADWIT PODCAST⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠WIRELESS THEATRE

Hello you hard working, brilliant creatives you! Here's a supercharged INDIE AF fun ep...

>>>... a highly useful chat with EMILY INKPEN and CHRIS GREGORY of ALT STORIES about the first part of their production process from the moment WASTELAND was written to casting and table read. There are 2 more eps in this gentle dive into how their Spinoff sci fi mech tech was developed, cast, recorded, edited and hyped!

Please do give them a listen and, well hey, a review for WASTELAND would be lovely!

We talk all things

* Casting - decision making

* Casting character prep materials

*Casting - audition materials

*Collaboration

and

so

much

more

*****

ENJOY our Discoverability section of the pod which looks at finding out about Sean Mulligan'sTHIS HOUSE WILL DEVOUR YOU

And the trailer at the end is for MERONA GRANT AND THE LOST TOMB OF GOLGOTHA!

Hunt it! Enjoyyy

Thanks for listening and, if you like this show and find it useful, or just fun, or it really helps you in your creative endeavours, we'd love a review. I know we are a niche pod but some folks still haven' tfound it yet, and sharing some love for the interviews would be much appreciated

HEARTY THANKS AND HAPPY CREATING!

Sarah🌞

Chris and Emily links / WASTELAND

WASTELAND POD - LISTEN HERE

Emily BLUESKY

Chris - Alt Stories BLUE SKY

Alt Stories website

Sarah Links of audio joy

⁠SARAH BLUESKY⁠⁠

⁠⁠SARAH LINKTREE⁠⁠

⁠⁠QUIRKY VOICES PATREON⁠⁠

⁠⁠ADWIT PODCAST⁠⁠

⁠⁠WIRELESS THEATRE

The very brilliant JEN & CHRIS - Team Victoriocity - are here to talk making one of the very best comedies EVER EVER MADE - Honestly - dive in and you will fund the best EXACT amount of joy needed to escape the realities of this crazy life we lead.  It's witty, clever and character fuelled and has a cracking cast and superb quality production values - and I feel it all starts with amazing writing!

Jen and Chris Sugden are hugely talented writers, performers and general al round awesome folks, and herein describe and explore aspects of making their comedy Victoriocity.

We explore

Thanks to the truly wonderful Chris and Jen for sharing their wonderful experience and tips for you to level up your creative skills too!

Thanks for listening and PLEASE DO SHARE, RATE AND REVIEW THIS NEW SEASON -would be super to have some fun words of wisdom to share.

Sarah🌞

Links to their works

Victoriocity website 

Buy the book - HIGH VAULTAGE - here!

Jen Blue Sky

Chris Blue Sky

Any sound effects were taken from the wonderful FREESOUND.ORG 

Our DISCOVERABILITY 5 MINS was with the super amazing CRYSTAL STORM of talesoftheforgotten.com

And our trailer at the end was for CIRCE podcast - Season 2 coming soon!

Links to Sarah’s socials

⁠SARAH BLUESKY⁠

⁠SARAH LINKTREE⁠

⁠QUIRKY VOICES PATREON⁠

⁠ADWIT PODCAST⁠

⁠WIRELESS THEATRE

Welcome to EPISODE 303 of this joyous chatty pod on all aspects of audio drama creation! 

This week - the wonderful and riDICulously talented LINDSAY SHARMAN

& 

LAURENCE OWEN

Talk all things LONG CAT PRODUCTIONS with emphasis on exploring GHOSTED! Their true moody, atmospheric horror podcast, how MAGENTA & BERNARD came about, and why they are so fun as comedy inspiration, and being a part of the brilliant FABLE AND FOLLY NETWORK. 

They're honestly legends of the audio drama space and I FOR ONE CANNOT WAIT to see / hear / play / experience what they come up with next!

Please do hire Laurence for all your music and sound design character grooviness needs and pay Lindsay handsomely to write and star in more amazing groovy things!

Also not mentioned here is the fact that they are making a MOCKERY MANOR GAME! YES! It had a kickstarter - find more details to back it here!

Our guest show today on the DISCOVERABILITY part of the pod is the wonderous show fronted by SIR ROBERT OF CRIGHTON - Beyond Shakespeare -  which you can find…here! 

BeyondShakespeare.org 

The trailer at the end of the show is for TEN APOCALYPSES from CITEOF PODS - I met and enjoyed the fine company of Sean - a creator of this super show, on the inaugural INCOGNITO 42 WRITER RETREAT that me and Shannon created for last year and are currently planning the next! Ping me on [email protected] to be first to know when and where to be!

Please do hunt it down on the link above and enjoy a listen…

Please also feel free to support Laurence and Lindsay on their KO-FI ACCOUNT -linked below

Ah

Gwan! 

Thank you so so much for listening = please do share it to your socials to help inspire other creatives!

HAPPYYY CREATING YA LEDGE

NOW, hopefully inspired by Lindsay and Laurence today, please do…

GO

MAKE

THE THING!

Sarah x

Links to LINDSAY & LAURENCE’S WORKS & BEYOND

KO-FI.COM_LONGCATMEDIA - Support them!

UVI WALKER - recommended by Laurence

Laurence’s telephone mic link! Doit!

Have a listen to GEEZER BIRD - Sarah Produced this for WIRELESS THEATRE and used Laurence’s phone mics for audio recording fun!

Check out this website for links to:>>>

Ballad of Anne and Mary - Piratical musical!

Mockery Manor - Horror Comedy

Magenta Presents - Horror Anthology inc GHOSTED

Sonos Mystica 

WHAM - We Have A Movie!

And more

Links to Sarah’s socials

⁠SARAH BLUESKY⁠

⁠SARAH LINKTREE⁠

⁠QUIRKY VOICES PATREON⁠

⁠ADWIT PODCAST⁠

⁠WIRELESS THEATRE

‘We just follow our curiosity’ - Lindsay Sharman

Oh yeah, and do watch Ghost Shark, it’s truly ridiculous funnnn! 

HELLO and Happy Holidays!

However you celebrate, whoever you celebrate and whatever you are doing on or around this 25th DECEMBER 2024 I truly hope you enjoy this wonderful SECRET GUEST filled episode! 

WE TALK ALL THINGS>>>

*** State of audio fiction today

*** Champions in the space

*** Why we need funding opportunities

*** Why community is important

*** Karim’s fave table read - doh - gave a guest away!

*** What genres we need more of In the space

*** Emailing mic companies for financial support

*** Audio only installations

AND SO MUCH MORE!

The DISCOVERABILITY chat today is with ⁠SHANNON PERRY OF OZ9⁠

AND

The Trailer at the end is for ⁠THE HOLMWOOD FOUNDATION⁠

Thank you for listening!

⁠⁠Support my QUIRKY VOICES WORKS here!⁠⁠

Apologues to the lovely ANDI who I over excitedly called ANDI WALKER in reference to their amazing THE WALKER MYSTERY works instead of ANDI WHITE which is their actual name! Oh my....Also the legend helping to edit some of these shows into shape ! Huzzahs for ANDI WHITE!

WITH HEARTY THANKS TO ALLLLL OF THE CONTRIBUTORS TO TODAY'S SHOW X

And HAPPY LISTENING!

Sarahx

EP 302 INDIE AF LINKS

⁠⁠Modern Day It’s a Wonderful Life – Madison On The Air⁠⁠

⁠⁠11th Hour Audio Podcast⁠⁠

⁠⁠APPS FLORA⁠⁠

⁠⁠APPS  FORES⁠T ⁠

⁠⁠LLAMA LIFE - TO DO LIST AP HELP⁠⁠

⁠⁠Sarahs sister heist show - HEIST ⁠⁠

⁠⁠Long Cat Media Game Kickstarter⁠⁠

OSBCURE THINGS MENTIONED IN THE SHOW YOU SHOULD HUNT DOWN AND ENJOY

OBSERVER PICTURES 

GIRL IN SPACE

A VOICE ACTOR’S WEBSITE WHO PLAYED DRACULA IN RE:DRACULA

THE WALKER MYSTERIES

THE HOLMWOOD FOUNDATION