The Thirteenth Hour Podcast

Episode #107: Chad Derdowski, Author/Illustrator of Fortune Favors the Bold, Part 1 of 2 https://archive.org/download/Podcast107_201708/Podcast%20107.mp3 In this week’s episode, author and illustrator Chad Derdowski comes on the show for a two part episode to talk about his book, Fortune Favors the Bold: The Saga of the Scissorwulf, a blast to read and even more entertaining…Read more The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #107: Chad Derdowski, Author/Illustrator of Fortune Favors the Bold, Part 1 of 2

Episode #106: Reading of The Twelve Dancing Princesses and The Six Swans https://archive.org/download/Podcast106_20170820/Podcast%20106.mp3 Today's podcast is the double fairy tale reading of "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" and "The Six Swans" (a version of which was featured on episode 97) from The Candlewick Book of Fairy Tales by Sarah Hayes and illustrated by PJ Lynch (see the some of his wonderfully detailed illustrations below):   By the way, there's a new section to the show: if you ever have a question or something you'd like to hear addressed, read, or discussed on the show, just comment in the show notes or email.  Same goes for a guest you'd like to see on. Speaking of which, in the next few week, we'll be hearing from author and illustrator Chad Derdowski as well as musician and now drone pilot Brent Simon, who we first heard about in the interview with Jeff Finley!  Stay tuned!  As always, thanks for listening! ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞  Signup for the mailing list for a free special edition podcast, a demo copy of The Thirteenth Hour, and access to retro 80s soundtrack! Follow The Thirteenth Hour’s instagram pages: @the13thhr [email protected] for your random postings on ninjas, martial arts, archery, flips, breakdancing, fantasy art, 80s music, movies, and pictures or songs from The Thirteenth Hour books. Listen to Long Ago Not So Far Away, the Thirteenth Hour soundtrack online at: https://joshuablum.bandcamp.com/ or Spotify.  Join the mailing list for a digital free copy.  You can also get it on CD or tape. Website: https://13thhr.wordpress.com Book trailer: http://bit.ly/1VhJhXY Interested in reading and reviewing The Thirteenth Hour for a free book?  Just email me at [email protected] for more details! Ask a question or make a suggestion for the show!  Email or comment below.

Episode #105: Author and Illustrator Missy Sheldrake Interview #2 Part 2 of 2 https://archive.org/download/Podcast105_201708/Podcast%20105.mp3 Today, fantasy author Missy Sheldrake returns in part 2 of her interview as we catch up on all the things she's been up to this past year (find her first interview here).   We spend the first part of this episode talking about podcasting, which Missy was thinking about doing.  Indie author Angela Chrysler (who came on the show back on episode #35) has been doing a youtube storytime reading series.  Putting shows on youtube would probably be one of the easiest way to put out a podcast.  If you are interested in learning more, here is also a quick start guide on producing a podcast quickly and without spending a lot of money that I put together here. We also talked about making the transition to doing live events and a recent cover commission Missy did for one of her fellow authors, Christina McMullen.  There is a time lapse video of how she created the picture here.   We talk about our fantasy art influences and bemoan the loss of old-school hand painted covers in favor of the emphasis on hyper realistic, photorealistic digital photo covers that all end up looking the same.   Case in point/aside - take this movie poster/cover for the 80s scifi movie Solarbabies and a more generic photo cover to the right:    Anyway ... follow Missy on Instagram gallery for more pictures and updates on her illustrations.  I'm sure we'll see more as she works on her fifth book in her Keeper of the Wellspring series. There's also a fun little easter egg for those who stick around until the end of this episode! Click on the banner below to learn more about the series on Amazon.  If you haven't read them yet, Missy let me know that this week, on 8/16/17, the first book, Call of Kythshire, is free, so take the chance to grab a copy! Thanks again, Missy, for coming on the show, and good luck writing book #5!

Episode #104: Author and Illustrator Missy Sheldrake Interview #2 Part 1 of 2 https://archive.org/download/Podcast104_201708/Podcast%20104.mp3 In this week’s episode, fantasy author Missy Sheldrake comes back to the show to catch us up on all the things she’s been up to this past year (find her first interview here).  We spend much of this episode talking about…Read more The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #104: Author/Illustrator Missy Sheldrake Returns Part 1 of 2

Episode #103: Reading of The Tinder Box Fairy Tale Today's podcast is the reading of a fairy tale "The Tinder Box" from The Fairy Tale Book by Marie Ponsot (translator) and Adrienne Segur (illustrator) from The Golden Book of Fairy Tales. One of the illustrations from the tale: By the way, there's a new section to the show: if you ever have a question or something you'd like to hear addressed, read, or discussed on the show, just comment in the show notes or email. As always, thanks for listening! ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞  Signup for the mailing list for a free special edition podcast, a demo copy of The Thirteenth Hour, and access to retro 80s soundtrack! Follow The Thirteenth Hour’s instagram pages: @the13thhr [email protected] for your random postings on ninjas, martial arts, archery, flips, breakdancing, fantasy art, 80s music, movies, and pictures or songs from The Thirteenth Hour books. Listen to Long Ago Not So Far Away, the Thirteenth Hour soundtrack online at: https://joshuablum.bandcamp.com/ or Spotify.  Join the mailing list for a digital free copy.  You can also get it on CD or tape. Website: https://13thhr.wordpress.com Book trailer: http://bit.ly/1VhJhXY Interested in reading and reviewing The Thirteenth Hour for a free book?  Just email me at [email protected] for more details!

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #100: A Trip Down Memory Lane with an Old Ideas Notebook and New EP https://archive.org/download/Podcast100_201707/Podcast%20100.mp3 I recently uncovered an old notebook that had ideas for a Thirteenth Hour game (which I wrote about here). Since I was trying to do it from the ground up, I wrote a number of songs (or at least tried to, anyway). I also found an old animation sequence of Logan flying Lightning through a rising sun cloudscape. img_1143 img_1144 img_1145 Those images must have inspired these ones: [gallery ids="2123,736" type="rectangular"] Episode 100 also marks somewhat of an occasion. Podcast listeners will get access to a new upcoming EP, called Between Two Worlds, the sequel to Long Ago Not So Far Away. Podcast listeners get first dibs! The album will be available for one month (7/10-8/10/17). The access code is on the podcast (skip to 31:30 for the code). Coming next week, we'll have artist, musician, and filmmaker: Jeff Finley. His documentary about his friend Brent Simon, who sang songs about Spacecamp, means that there's only one thing to be done sometime in the near future: rewatch the 1986 film, Spacecamp, and do an episode on it. And if that happens will Howard the Duck be far behind? Until then, we'll be hearing from Jeff soon. Stay tuned. Follow along on Spotify! There is also a growing extended Thirteenth Hour playlist on Spotify with a growing number of retro 80s songs. Check it out! [spotify id="spotify:user:jsblum:playlist:0UEHg7euO45dtmZTbH1akD" width="300" height="380" /] As always, thanks for listening! ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ QR code email signup Signup for the mailing list for a free special edition podcast, a demo copy of The Thirteenth Hour, and access to retro 80s soundtrack! Follow The Thirteenth Hour’s Instagram pages: @the13thhr for your random postings on ninjas, martial arts, archery, flips, breakdancing, fantasy art and and @the13thhr.ost for more 80s music, movies, and songs from The Thirteenth Hour books and soundtrack. Listen to Long Ago Not So Far Away, the Thirteenth Hour soundtrack online at: https://joshuablum.bandcamp.com/ or Spotify. Join the mailing list for a digital free copy. You can also get it on CD or tape. Website: https://13thhr.wordpress.com Book trailer: http://bit.ly/1VhJhXY Interested in reading and reviewing The Thirteenth Hour for a free book? Just email me at [email protected] for more details!

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #100: A Trip Down Memory Lane with an Old Ideas Notebook and New EP https://archive.org/download/Podcast100_201707/Podcast%20100.mp3 I recently uncovered an old notebook that had ideas for a Thirteenth Hour game (which I wrote about here). Since I was trying to do it from the ground up, I wrote a number of songs (or at least tried to, anyway). I also found an old animation sequence of Logan flying Lightning through a rising sun cloudscape. img_1143 img_1144 img_1145 Those images must have inspired these ones: [gallery ids="2123,736" type="rectangular"] Episode 100 also marks somewhat of an occasion. Podcast listeners will get access to a new upcoming EP, called Between Two Worlds, the sequel to Long Ago Not So Far Away. Podcast listeners get first dibs! The album will be available for one month (7/10-8/10/17). The access code is on the podcast (skip to 31:30 for the code). Coming next week, we'll have artist, musician, and filmmaker: Jeff Finley. His documentary about his friend Brent Simon, who sang songs about Spacecamp, means that there's only one thing to be done sometime in the near future: rewatch the 1986 film, Spacecamp, and do an episode on it. And if that happens will Howard the Duck be far behind? Until then, we'll be hearing from Jeff soon. Stay tuned. Follow along on Spotify! There is also a growing extended Thirteenth Hour playlist on Spotify with a growing number of retro 80s songs. Check it out! [spotify id="spotify:user:jsblum:playlist:0UEHg7euO45dtmZTbH1akD" width="300" height="380" /] As always, thanks for listening! ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ QR code email signup Signup for the mailing list for a free special edition podcast, a demo copy of The Thirteenth Hour, and access to retro 80s soundtrack! Follow The Thirteenth Hour’s Instagram pages: @the13thhr for your random postings on ninjas, martial arts, archery, flips, breakdancing, fantasy art and and @the13thhr.ost for more 80s music, movies, and songs from The Thirteenth Hour books and soundtrack. Listen to Long Ago Not So Far Away, the Thirteenth Hour soundtrack online at: https://joshuablum.bandcamp.com/ or Spotify. Join the mailing list for a digital free copy. You can also get it on CD or tape. Website: https://13thhr.wordpress.com Book trailer: http://bit.ly/1VhJhXY Interested in reading and reviewing The Thirteenth Hour for a free book? Just email me at [email protected] for more details!

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #100: A Trip Down Memory Lane with an Old Ideas Notebook and New EP https://archive.org/download/Podcast100_201707/Podcast%20100.mp3 I recently uncovered an old notebook that had ideas for a Thirteenth Hour game (which I wrote about here). Since I was trying to do it from the ground up, I wrote a number of songs (or at least tried to, anyway). I also found an old animation sequence of Logan flying Lightning through a rising sun cloudscape. img_1143 img_1144 img_1145 Those images must have inspired these ones: [gallery ids="2123,736" type="rectangular"] Episode 100 also marks somewhat of an occasion. Podcast listeners will get access to a new upcoming EP, called Between Two Worlds, the sequel to Long Ago Not So Far Away. Podcast listeners get first dibs! The album will be available for one month (7/10-8/10/17). The access code is on the podcast (skip to 31:30 for the code). Coming next week, we'll have artist, musician, and filmmaker: Jeff Finley. His documentary about his friend Brent Simon, who sang songs about Spacecamp, means that there's only one thing to be done sometime in the near future: rewatch the 1986 film, Spacecamp, and do an episode on it. And if that happens will Howard the Duck be far behind? Until then, we'll be hearing from Jeff soon. Stay tuned. Follow along on Spotify! There is also a growing extended Thirteenth Hour playlist on Spotify with a growing number of retro 80s songs. Check it out! [spotify id="spotify:user:jsblum:playlist:0UEHg7euO45dtmZTbH1akD" width="300" height="380" /] As always, thanks for listening! ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ QR code email signup Signup for the mailing list for a free special edition podcast, a demo copy of The Thirteenth Hour, and access to retro 80s soundtrack! Follow The Thirteenth Hour’s Instagram pages: @the13thhr for your random postings on ninjas, martial arts, archery, flips, breakdancing, fantasy art and and @the13thhr.ost for more 80s music, movies, and songs from The Thirteenth Hour books and soundtrack. Listen to Long Ago Not So Far Away, the Thirteenth Hour soundtrack online at: https://joshuablum.bandcamp.com/ or Spotify. Join the mailing list for a digital free copy. You can also get it on CD or tape. Website: https://13thhr.wordpress.com Book trailer: http://bit.ly/1VhJhXY Interested in reading and reviewing The Thirteenth Hour for a free book? Just email me at [email protected] for more details!

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #99: Reflection on Rewatching Back to the Future In today’s show, I’m talking about something I've been meaning to do for a long time - rewatch Back to the Future, one of my favorite movies of all time. As I've mentioned before, sometimes I've deferred rewatching the films I loved as a kid in the event time rendered them in a more negative light. "I'd rather remember you the way you were back then," I'd rationalize to myself, not without some melodrama, and put the movie back on the shelf. Which is, of course, ridiculous, since part of the draw of any good story is its ability to be appreciated on multiple levels, by multiple ages. And despite knowing this, I still sometimes wanted to protect my childhood favorites. I need not have worried with Back to the Future. If anything, rewatching BTTF was like tasting a fine wine that's been left to age a few more decades in the casket. One taste reminds you of everything you've missed, sweeted by time. And you think to yourself, "Why did I wait so long?" Truth be told, BTTF has had over thirty years to let the embers of time add to its flavor. So there were a number of layers to the film that I couldn't have appreciated as a child of 8 or 9. The teenage mix of independence, idealism, and bravado to hide the yearning for unconditional love and acceptance. The wall of middle age, with its inevitable disappointments and losses, that has dulled the keen blade of adolescence to a blunted, beveled edge. The lonely journey of the scientist, plodding away amid failure after failure with only the glimmer of rare success to guide the way. The social commentary on gender roles and racial stereotypes. The multigenerational themes that get passed from parent to child. It's all there, though I missed it the first few times around. I also was surprised to see how much the Marty McFly character influenced the creation of Logan from The Thirteenth Hour. I initially thought he was kind of like a young Indiana Jones type (like the character portrayed by Patrick Flannery). Then after rewatching The Rocketeer, I was impressed how much Cliff Secord there was in him. And now, after rewatching BTTF, I can't help but recognize how much Marty there is in his DNA. Not surprising since The Thirteenth Hour paid homage to these films in various ways. But I just forget all the myriad ways the films permeated the fabric of the manuscript from the very beginning. In any event, speaking of beginnings, episode 100 is coming next week, and shortly thereafter, we'll have artist, musician, and filmmaker: Jeff Finley. His documentary about his friend Brent Simon, who sang songs about Spacecamp, means that there's only one thing to be done sometime in the near future: rewatch the 1986 film, Spacecamp, and do an episode on it. And if that happens will Howard the Duck be far behind? Until then, we'll be hearing from Jeff soon. Episode 100 will have more details about an upcoming EP, the sequel to Long Ago Not So Far Away. Podcast listeners get first dibs! Stay tuned. Follow along on Spotify! There is also a growing extended Thirteenth Hour playlist on Spotify with a growing number of retro 80s songs. Check it out! [spotify id="spotify%3Auser%3Ajsblum%3Aplaylist%3A0UEHg7euO45dtmZTbH1akD" width="300" height="150" /] Starving Artist Section: Rewardable TV This app for iOS and Android is a remarkably stable but passive way to earn some cash online by viewing short videos or animated gifs. Check out the link below for more info: http://dl.rewardable.com/ As always, thanks for listening! ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ QR code email signup Signup for the mailing list for a free special edition podcast, a demo copy of The Thirteenth Hour, and access to retro 80s soundtrack! Follow The Thirteenth Hour’s instagram pages: @the13thhr and @the13thhr.ost for your random postings on ninjas, martial arts, archery, flips, breakdancing, fantasy art, 80s music, movies, and pictures or songs from The Thirteenth Hour books. Listen to Long A

Episode #91: Forgotten Realms “The Bargain” by Elaine Cunningham Part 1 of 2 https://ia601503.us.archive.org/18/items/Podcast91_201705/Podcast%2091.mp3 Today’s episode continues the theme of the last two weeks – reading aloud a fantasy short story from the TSR Forgotten Realms anthology Realms of Valor. This one is called “The Bargain” by Elaine Cunningham and centers around a half elf character called Arilyn Moonblade and her companion, Danilo Thann. Here a pic of the two striking heroic poses, painting by Fred Fields: So, like the last two weeks, listen along as I continue to butcher the names left and right and try to avoid putting in running commentary when I don’t understand something. I’m getting a bit better. I think if I had started with stories like these when I was a kid instead of books that just had cool covers, I might have made out better with fantasy in general. To be continued next week! The first page of the story had this title illustration by Ned Dameron, which makes a little more sense this week than it did last week. He did a number of illustrations for the Dark Tower books if that name rings a bell. As always, thanks for listening! ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ QR code email signup Signup for the mailing list for a free special edition podcast, a demo copy of The Thirteenth Hour, and access to retro 80s soundtrack! Follow The Thirteenth Hour’s instagram pages: @the13thhr [email protected] for your random postings on ninjas, martial arts, archery, flips, breakdancing, fantasy art, 80s music, movies, and pictures or songs from The Thirteenth Hour books. Listen to Long Ago Not So Far Away, the Thirteenth Hour soundtrack online at: https://joshuablum.bandcamp.com/ Join the mailing list for a digital free copy. You can also get it on CD or tape. Website: https://13thhr.wordpress.com Book trailer: http://bit.ly/1VhJhXY Interested in reading and reviewing The Thirteenth Hour for a free book? Just email me at [email protected] for more details!