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As I post this, my computer is dying and my husband is trying to get me off of it so that he can back up his files before the disk crashes for good.  The podcast hasn’t been field tested, so hopefully it’s all good.  If not, I’ll fix it tomorrow.

Here is the Christmas Episode of the Yard Dog Press Audio Roadshow.  Show notes to follow.

 

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The desktop is finally replaced, and here are the long-promised show notes.

Gloria Oliver’s  short story “Bloody Hell” will be appearing at Four Star Stories in their next issue.

 Her urban fantasy novel “Inner Demons” was recently contracted by Mundania Press and is slated for publication in early 2014! A draft of the cover and a tantalizing blurb can be found at www.gloriaoliver.com/demons.html

Katharine Eliska Kimbriel’s novel Night Calls has been re-released through Book View Cafe.  Her novel Kindred Rites will be re-released in early 2014. You can purchase both books through bookview cafe at http://bookviewcafe.com/bookstore/bvc-author/katharine-eliska-kimbriel/

Laura J. Underwood’s novella Hag of the Wind is available in e-book format from Eggplant Literary Productions.

Richard Dansky’s novel Vaporware was just released as part of Video Game Storybundle 2.0.  You can find the entire bundle at – http://storybundle.com/main

Robin Wayne Bailey writes that:

Earlier this year I sold “King of the Galaxy Knights” to an anthology

of classic-style space opera called THE RAYGUN CHRONICLES.  It debuted a

week ago.I also sold “The Ridenow Nightmare” to STARS OF DARKOVER, edited by

Deborah J. Ross.  That will debut next June.

Robin also says that he has several more exciting projects in the pipeline.  You can find out more about them at http://www.robinwaynebailey.net/

James Dorr’s dark fiction collection The Tears of Isis came out in may of 2013 from Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing in Texas.  He also has stories in Bleed, an anthology with profits supporting the National Children’s Cancer Society, Splatterlands, and in Miseria’s Chorale. James also has stories forthcoming in Bizarro Bizarro  and Daily Science Fiction. 

Tracy S. Morris recently replaced her antique laptop when the computer crashed while producing the Yard Dog Press Audio Roadshow.  Tracy took her own sweet time updating the show notes for the podcast while she learned the ins and outs of a new OS.  Yard Dog Press will release Tracy’s chapbook Medieval Misfits  in an expanded edition in 2014 with new cover art by Sherri Dean and two new stories.  The new book will be titled Medieval Misfits: Renaissance Rejects. 

Also, if you have any trouble downloading or listening to this podcast, contact me!

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November is a time for family. Also a time for applying the seat of your pants to the seat of a chair and trying to bang out a novel (a.k.a. National Novel Writing Month).  If you are participating in either, we have all your podcasting needs covered this month at Yard Dog Press.

Today’s podcast features a chain story made up on the spot by the Yard Dogs during the actual traveling roadshow at Fencon 2013. Thrill at the adventures of a pair of Bubbas on the hunt for Bigfoot as they bump into Yumbies, and their cousin/aunt/sister.  Also, we rechristen the last Bubbas of the Apocalypse anthology as “A Bubba and A Nun Save Time.”

Also, if you have any trouble downloading or listening to this podcast, contact me!

 

 

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If you pay attention to this blog at all, you probably know that the October edition of the audio roadshow was completely messed up.  Then it took a week for me to notice it, by which point my backup files of the finished project were gone.  Yeah, I had a massive meltdown. After which I tried resurrecting the old files, which took longer than it would have taken just to create the whole thing over from the raw files.

So tonight I gave up and did just that.  So here is the podcast you deserve, but not the one you need . . .  Or maybe it’s the podcast you need, but not the one you deserve . . .Or something. I don’t know, I just watched Batman.  

Very shortly (as in the next day or so) I should have the November, NaNoWriMo podcast up.

Also, if you have any trouble downloading or listening to this podcast, contact me!

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Halloween is nigh!  To celebrate, I just put together a ghoulish new episode of the Yard Dog Press Audio Roadshow.  This episode features a reading from Katharine Turski’s anthology It’s the Great Bumpkin, Cletus Brown.  This book is an amazing holiday read, featuring parodies of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, Twilight, and The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.

The artwork is by Sherri Dean.

 

 

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So last weekend was Worldcon, and Yard Dog Press was there. And so was I, which meant, Worldcon Audio Roadshow!

During the Yard Dog Press Panel (which was hard to find, as they hid it behind a line of Game of Thrones fans!) Selina explained the story behind a practical joke that she pulled on Kevin J. Anderson a few years ago, which has since exploded into a whole carrot . . . thingy. So that’s your Worldcon edition of the roadshow: Selina getting Kevin J. Anderson’s goat.

For this, I traveled to Austin San Antonio.

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It’s hard to believe, but I haven’t put out a YDP audio roadshow since April (and that was a rebroadcast).  But I’ll save the excuses, and get down to business.

Last weekend Yard Dog Press was at Glich Con in Bentonville, where the house did very well.  Especially considering that this convention is more anime, cosplay and gaming focused. We met a few readers, and sold a few books.

Also? During opening ceremonies, I was seated next to DJ Steve Downes, who does the voice for one of the best known characters in the Halo series. And my daughter kept looking over and smiling at him in her cute, toddler way.

That’s right, my daughter was flirting with Master Chief.

At any rate, if you come to Worldcon next week, please come see us at the Yard Dog Press panel from 11:00 to 12:00 on Saturday.  Then come see us in the dealer’s room.  We’ve got several new titles, including our newest release, Lee Killough’s Ancient Enemy.

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If you like movies, you probably already know that the wizard is back! Oz the Great and Powerful is in movie theaters right now.  This movie tells the story of Oscar (with a long name), nicknamed Oz, a carnival magician who lands in the powerful land of Oz and is automatically assumed to be a powerful wizard in his own right.

 

We at Yard Dog Press don’t see what the fuss is all about.  After all, we certainly don’t have any interest in Oz.  Or do we?

 

At any rate, to cash in on celebrate the release of Oz the Great and powerful, we are going back into the vault and dusting off our podcast from when I should have stayed in Oz was released.  We hope you enjoy it.

 

 

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I’ve been producing the Roadshow for nearly two years now. But I’ve never read one of my own stories for the podcast (that I recall).  That all changes today. This episode, I read from Yumbies of the Carribbean, which can be found in International House of Bubbas.

Also, News from the Yard:

Tim Frayser’s new book, Memoirs of an Ex Zombie is available in eBook format from Damnation Books and Amazon.com.  Tim tells us that the print version of the book should be out within a week or two.

Yard Dog Press will be at Midsouthcon this year. Our newest titles include the perfect bound edition of The Four Redheads of the Apocalypse, Death Under the Crescent Moon, Some Distant Shore and The Fantastikon: Tales of Wonder.

See you there!

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It’s February! It’s the month of Romance! Everywhere except here. Join us for the Yard Dog Press Audio Roadshow where our themes this month sound more like it should be Thanksgiving. We’ve got a big fat bird for dinner as Katherine Eliska Kimbriel reads her short story Ducks from the chapbook Wings of Morning. Then get your commercial groove on just like Black Friday with a very special Yard Dog Press commercial. Finally, Robert Brown shows us what it’s like to spend time with the weird relatives in Savin’ Ned.

In addition, we have a little bit of news from the yard:

Yard Dog Press and Dusty Rainbolt will be launching their newest title “Death Under the Crescent Moon” at Con DFW. Mention that you saw it here and get $.50 off the cover price at the convention.

YDP has also re-released the popular “The Four Redheads of the Apocalypse” chapbook with a new, perfect-bound cover. The cover price is $6.00, but you will also receive a $.50 discount at Con DFW if you mention that you saw it here.

William Ledbetter has a Non-Fiction article up at the Baen Website (www.baen.com) entitled “Family Therapy: Learning to Love Mercury and Pluto.” The article discusses the probes that have been sent to those two planets (or one planet and one whatever they’re calling Pluto these days).

Melanie Fletcher just sold a paranormal Erotic Romance Novellette titled “A Boon by Moonlight” to Evernight Publishing for their Romance on the Go line. Look for it under her pseudonym Nicola Cameron.

Tracy S. Morris just launched a second podcast along with longtime Yard Dog fan Rosemary Johnson, which they call Lunch on Fridays. Two geek girls talking about geek things. The first podcast is up at www.lunchonfridays.com.

If you are going to Con DFW, we hope you’ll download this podcast and listen to it in your playlist on the way there.

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We’re only two months late, but it was the holidays. Can you blame us?

This edition of the Roadshow has a Funny story from Katherine Eliska Kimbriel that starts out “We were drunk and we had this dynamite.”   The story is entitled “That Exploding Toilet Myth, and is available from Flush Fiction: Stories to be read in one sitting.

How do you follow something like that?  Julia Mandala has just the thing with an excerpt from her novel House of Doors.

Then we have some news from the yard:

Jody Lynn Nye has a new book in the Myth Adventures series out. The book, entitled Myth Quoted, is available from Ace Books.  You can find it in all major book stores, and on Amazon.

 

Robin Wayne Bailey  Has a new release through Yard Dog Press called The Fantastikon: Tales of Wonder.  Robin wI’ll be signing books at the new Prospero’s Bookstore location in the Valentine Shopping Center on February 15, and if everything can be worked out, he plans to also film a couple of new “Zombie Poetry” videos for youtube. presentation.  You can find three of his zombie poetry videos already on youtube.

Robin will also be at Conquest May 24-26 and is a special guest at A-Kon May 31st through June 2nd.

Gary Jonas’  The Night Marshal is available on Amazon In E-Book Format and dead tree editon.

Yard Dog Press will be at Con DFW inDallas February 15-17.

 

 

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