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Would you like to host Escape Pod?

Posted on: by Jeremiah Tolbert

Hello, every­one.  I’m look­ing for peo­ple who are inter­ested in guest host­ing the occa­sional episode of Escape Pod.  As any reg­u­lar lis­ten­ers have heard, Steve’s time is mostly ded­i­cated to his day job right now, and while we have Norm com­ing on as a reg­u­lar cohost, he’s not going to be able to do it weekly.  I’m hop­ing to build a pool of peo­ple who are inter­ested in record­ing intro/​outro pieces.

I would pre­fer to use peo­ple who have worked with pod­cast­ing before and have an ear for good sound qual­ity. Bonus points to any­one with a mic that isn’t a stan­dard crappy PC mic.

I can’t pay any­one, but I can give you the free reign to plug your own projects as part of your guest host spot.

Drop me an email or a com­ment if you’re interested.

(This also goes for folks inter­ested in nar­rat­ing sto­ries.  I’m always look­ing for more tal­ented narrators).

Questions about Podcasts, Some Escape Pod News

Posted on: by Jeremiah Tolbert

I need to under­stand more about how peo­ple inter­act with pod­casts, now that I’m edit­ing for one.  I have some ques­tions that I’d like to ask you all.

  • Do you lis­ten to pod­casts? If so, which ones?  (If no, please do say so, and you can ignore the rest of the questions.)
  • How do you lis­ten to them?  At your com­puter, in the car, while jog­ging, etc?
  • Do you just sub­scribe in iTunes or another pod­catcher and for­get, or do you read the web­sites asso­ci­ated with them too?
  • What kinds of prod­ucts adver­tised in a pod­cast via spon­sor­ships would you actu­ally find interesting?
  • What are the traits of a good pod­cast episode in your opinion?

I’m just try­ing to under­stand how peo­ple inte­act with pod­casts a lit­tle more.  I have my own pre-​​formed the­o­ries, but they’re not based on anyone’s real­ity except my own.  Ostensibly, answers to these ques­tions will help me make Escape Pod an even bet­ter pod­cast than it already is.

By they way, let me just say, we’re a pay­ing mar­ket, but we can’t pay with­out the sup­port of our lis­ten­ers.  If you reg­u­larly lis­ten to Escape Pod and enjoy its con­tent, please con­sider mak­ing a dona­tion via PayPal.  Much like NPR, we’re funded by the listeners.

And of course, if you’re a writer, I want to see your sto­ries.  Read our sub­mis­sion guide­lines and send your work along!

This week, I pur­chased sto­ries by:  Kameron Hurley, Merrie Fuller, Ian Creasey, David Rivera, Ian McHugh, Tina Connolly, and more.  As an edi­tor, I don’t have any agenda other than to find sto­ries that I think are good that will also make good audio pro­duc­tions.   I think we have some great sto­ries com­ing up for the lis­ten­ers.  I hope they and you will agree.

Escape Pod » EP192: Sumo21

Posted on: by Jeremiah Tolbert

Escape Pod » EP192: Sumo21.

The lat­est Escape Pod is live with Daniel Braum’s story, Sumo21.  This is one of my first selec­tions from the slush pile.  I pub­lished a lot of Dan’s work over at the Fortean Bureau, but this is one I passed on because it didn’t fit our pub­li­ca­tion. It felt good to accept it  on the sec­ond time around.  This week, the story is read by Mr. Eley himself:

“Oh great Emperor,” the gyoji said, con­tin­u­ing the rit­ual. “These two hon­or­able war­riors can not agree who will step aside, and who will join the sacred bat­tle to return you to us. We would gladly send all our sons, but the Council of Infinite Japans says there may be only twenty-​​one. So now they must fight to decide.”

“May the best war­rior join the fight,” the crowd answered in uni­son with the gyoji.

The gyoji stepped back. Asashoryu stared into Takanasuro’s expres­sion­less brown eyes. The match would begin upon a tacit agree­ment between them. He kept Takanasuro’s mid sec­tion in his field of vision while focus­ing on keep­ing his own face blank. He knew the beginner’s les­son as if it were part of him; faces deceive and betray, but all move­ment starts at the hips.

I hope you enjoy it.

Escape Pod » EP190: Origin Story

Posted on: by Jeremiah Tolbert

The lat­est episode of Escape Pod has been posted.  “Origin Story” by Tim Pratt, nar­rated by our very own Steve Eley.  Steve says some embar­rass­ingly nice things about me at the end of the episode, so this is  the episode in which I am offi­cially announced to the Escape Pod com­mu­nity as being on board the staff.  Tim’s story is a great super­hero piece, and I think you should all lis­ten to it.  You can’t read it any­where else, as it’s an Escape Pod original!

Escape Pod » EP190: Origin Story.