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One Story, Told Well – 501(c)(3) nonprofit speculative fiction podcasts | Publishers @alasdairstuart & @margueritekenner | 🚀 Escape Pod 🦑 PseudoPod 🐉 PodCastle 🎭 Cast of Wonders 🐈 CatsCast

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It’s me narrating this @castofwonders.org story, and what a fabulous story it is! Have a listen: www.castofwonders.org/2024/07/cast... Also, this means I have now narrated for all the @escapeartists.net podcasts. HOUSE!

Cast of Wonders 592: Flawless | Cast of Wonderswww.castofwonders.org When people stay in hotel rooms, they suddenly turn into toddlers. Weird, creative, screwed-up toddlers. Let’s smear jam on the wall! Let’s leave apple cores in the drawers! Let’s hide used nappies…

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Dear old @escapeartists.net friends together at last! @pseudopodalex.bsky.social

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Happy to announce that my novelette, "Vault," first published in @clarkesworldmagazine.com is forthcoming in @escapepod.org --with new narration! Yay! @escapeartists.net

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We are excited for Storyteller, a Tanith Lee tribute anthology edited by @thisjulieday.bsky.social, Carina Bissett, and @ethereallad.bsky.social Please consider supporting this so we can all get a great book and stretch to support more writers.

“The small island, which lay off the larger island of Daphaeu, obviously contained a secret of some sort” We rummaged in the vault to bring you… The Gorgon, by Tanith Lee Narrators: Scott Campbell & Sharon Moskowitz Host: Julie C. Day Audio: Chelsea Davis pseudopod.org/2024/05/24/p...

PseudoPod 920A: The Gorgon | PseudoPodpseudopod.org The small island, which lay off the larger island of Daphaeu, obviously contained a secret of some sort, and, day by day, and particularly night by night, began to exert an influence on me…

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Absolutely warming my heart seeing how of many of the "writers, post something random from your backlist. don’t think. just do it" memes are @escapeartists.net stories. ❤️

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We will not be following their lead. www.thebookseller.com/news/harperc...

HarperCollins and ElevenLabs AI to create audiobooks for foreign titleswww.thebookseller.com HarperCollins is partnering with audio AI company ElevenLabs to create audiobooks for HarperCollins’s foreign language business.

Absolutely positively not. For shame, Harper Collins! www.thebookseller.com/news/harperc...

OPEN AUDITIONS for narrators! We're expanding our roster of voice actors with open auditions April 15-30. All the details at the submission portal here: escapeartists.moksha.io/publication/...

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Omgosh, Reclaim the Stars also won!!! 😆 So proud to be part of this anthology!!!!

And the winner of the 2023 Ignyte Award for BEST ANTHOLOGY/COLLECTED WORKS... ... is RECLAIM THE STARS: 17 TALES ACROSS REALMS AND SPACE – Zoraida Córdova, ed. (contributors listed in Alt text) @zlikeinzorro.bsky.social

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Once again, Congratulations to everyone on the Ignyte ballot, and thank you to the voters and the SFFH community at large for all of the heart and effort you put into the work you do. We see you. 🖤🔥 @theignyteawards.bsky.social

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Here's what I've been doing all morning! Congratulations to the 2023 Ignyte Award finalists and winners. You continue to be the highlight of my year.

Finalists first! The 2023 Ignyte Award Finalists for BEST NOVEL: ADULT -- BABEL – R. F. Kuang KAIKEYI – Vaishnavi Patel SIREN QUEEN – Nghi Vo THE BLOOD TRIALS – N. E. Davenport THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER – Simon Jimenez

Congratulations to Black Women Are Scary!

And the winner of the 2023 Ignyte Award for BEST FICTION PODCAST... ... is BLACK WOMEN ARE SCARY!

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The Ignyte finalists for BEST FICTION PODCAST are: Beneath Ceaseless Skies Black Women Are Scary Good Morning Antioch PodCastle Pseudopod

And congratulations to Ai Jiang!

And the winner of the 2023 Ignyte Award for BEST IN SPECULATIVE POETRY... ... is WE SMOKE POLLUTION by Ai Jiang! @aijiang.bsky.social

Congratulations, Tobi Ogundiran!

And the winner of the 2023 Ignyte Award for BEST SHORT STORY... ... is THE LADY OF THE YELLOW PAINTED LIBRARY by Tobi Ogundiran! @tobithedreamer.bsky.social

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A reminder of all our pods. Have you heard them all?

On International Podcast Day, don't forget to check out all of the podcasts that make up the Escape Artists family... 🦑 @pseudopod.org (horror) 🚀 @escapepod.org (science fiction) 🐉 @podcastle.org (fantasy) 🎭 @castofwonders.org (speculative YA) 🐈 @catscast.org (cats)

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Horror fans! I narrated The Grave of Angels by Erica Ruppert for @pseudopod.org recently. You can listen to it here https://pseudopod.org/2023/09/29/pseudopod-885-the-grave-of-angels/. The pod is kept alive by donations, so if you enjoyed it then please put a few dollars their way.

PseudoPod 885: The Grave of Angelspseudopod.org The Grave of Angels by Erica Ruppert Corra Martin, last child of her family line, insisted that I bring her home as a condition of our marriage. And home, for Corra, would always be Holyoke where it��...

Happiest of birthdays to @alasdairstuart.bsky.social! 🎈

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SOA members! There are 4 places going on the Management Committee this year (including mine, as my term ends in January). So please, don’t forget to vote before October 25th. We need as many members to vote as possible in order to ensure maximum representation. Your voice matters. Use it!

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Today’s episode mentions St. Jerome, the patron saint of librarians and translators... ... and speaking of translators, the very happiest of birthdays to our own Shawn Garrett!

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#thefulllid - 29th September 2023 - Happy Friday! This week we're in York for @zomblogalypse, at see with Amanda Lee's wonderful ships and in Baldur's Gate for the remake you didn't know you needed. mailchi.mp/e31d12b10452...

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For anyone interested, the Society of Authors management committee candidate statements are here. The AGM is 16th November. If you’re a member, please vote! www2.societyofauthors.org/download/man...

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Voting for the 2023 Hugo awards closes on September 30, 2023, at 23:59 Hawaiian Standard Time (UTC -10). If you're eligible to vote and you haven't yet cast your ballot, please consider our science fiction and fantasy podcasts @escapepod.org and @podcastle.org in the Best Semiprozine category!

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‘In papers filed Tuesday in federal court in New York, the authors alleged “flagrant and harmful infringements of plaintiffs’ registered copyrights” and called the ChatGPT program a “massive commercial enterprise” that is reliant upon “systematic theft on a mass scale.”’

John Grisham, George R.R. Martin and more authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringementapnews.com John Grisham, Jodi Picoult and George R.R. Martin are among 17 authors suing OpenAI for “systematic theft on a mass scale.”

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Premee Mohamed: Submitted for the aproval for the Midnight Society, I call this the tale of the not too distant future Mohamed: in a world ravaged by climate change Mohamed: and covid Mohamed: and microplastics Mohamed: and ocean acidification

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What new SF/F magazines have launched in the last two years? (With all the talk of publications closing, it might be nice to celebrate the newcomers.)