J.C. Hutchins has released the first episode of his shared-world short story anthology 7th Son: Obsidian. In addition to the first story (”Miles to Go Before I Sleep,” a hell of a leadoff by Tee Morris), Hutch finally fills us in on the real title of Code Phantom, and I’m more excited about it than ever. There is also an exclusive instrumental version of the podcast’s theme song, Celldweller’s Birthright, at the end of this first episode. Chock full o’ goodness. There’s even a couple of cliffhangers, just for old time’s sake.
This is great stuff, so subscribe now. Race ‘em and trade ‘em.
Crack dealer Podcast author J.C. Hutchins has unleashed a scavenger hunt on us in anticipation of his latest project, 7th Son: Obsidian. Fourteen beautiful propaganda posters are scattered across the Internet, and your life will never be everything it could be unless you collect each and every one of them. Not only that, but if you call the number for the National Blackout Hotline found at the bottom of each poster, you have a chance to become part of the story.
All this builds to the May 31 release of 7th Son: Obsidian, stories set during the nationwide blackout that comes near the end of Hutchins’ 7th Son trilogy. That gives you just enough time to listen to all three novels before Obsidian launches with stories by Michael Stackpole, Mur Lafferty, Tee Morris, Scott Sigler, Christiana Ellis, and many, many, many (well, nine) more.
This video posted on Common Craft is hands-down the best explanation of podcasting I’ve seen. It really is this simple. Don’t be afraid of the unknown, people.
J.C. Hutchins kept all of us on the edge of our collective iPods with his 7th Son trilogy. Now he’s invited more authors to play in his blast crater of a sandbox. Find out more about 7th Son: Obsidianhere.
For those of you not devoting the next month of your lives to NaNoWriMo (or, if you are, for those of you who need a well-deserved break), two excellent authors are launching new podcast novels this week.
Mur Lafferty’s Playing for Keeps launches November 1 (though the first chapter is available a little early … Happy Halloween).
Keepsie Branson is a bar owner in the shining metropolis of Seventh City: birthplace of super powers. Keepsie and her friends live among egotistical heroes and manipulative villains, and manage to fall directly in the middle as people with powers, but who just aren’t strong enough to make a difference. Or that’s what they’ve been told. As the city begins to melt down, it’s hard to tell who are the good guys and who are the bad.
Mur is offering several subscription options for this podcast. You can get just the novel, either through her feed or through Podiobooks.com, or you can subscribe to the Playing for Keeps Experience, which offers each chapter in PDF as well as audio, and a supplemental podcast called Stories of the Third Wave.
Something lives deep beneath the streets of San Francsico. Something that has been there for centuries, something that comes out at night … to feed on the dregs of society. A sub-culture, with its own myths, its own legends of leader named The King that will lead them out of bondage, and their own demon, a hunting shadow known only as Savior.
But the legends of Savior’s brutality have faded, the fear passed into stories told to frighten the young ones. When The King finally appears, just as foretold, the Nocturnals know their time has time — the time to come out from under the streets and hunt humanity in the open.
Scott’s new novel Nocturnal is scheduled for a print release in 2010, but at the stroke of midnight tonight, the podcast launches. If you’ve heard any of Sigler’s other podcast novels, you know what you’re in for. If you haven’t, I encourage you to subscribe on an empty stomach.
Dave on May 31st, 2008
