The New Dr. Roundbottom Podcast is Live
Filed Under: My Writing, Podcast, SF Podcasting, Speculative Fiction, Top Post
Hi Folks. After a ton of work on the part of myself, Sarah, and my sound engineer and good friend Nate Periat, we’ve finished and posted our first Dr. Roundbottom Field Sounds podcast. It’s only 5 minutes long, so don’t hesitate to just go to the site and hit play. Please let me know what you think. We’re very pleased with the results for our first try, and we can’t wait to do more. I spent today getting ahead on next week’s entry as well. Tomrorow, after some site updates I need to get done, I will start writing the next podcast episode.
Let me know what you think!
New Roundbottom: The Carrier Snail (And Desktops!)
Filed Under: Photography, Speculative Fiction
Good morning! It’s Monday, and that means Dr. Roundbottom has updated his website with yet another scientific discovery. I’m particularly happy with the work on this entry, photographically speaking. The Carrier Snail is quite a nice photonic capture if I do say so myself.
As a teaser for the kind of thing you can expect to receive as a member of the Roundbottom Society, I’ve created a set of desktop backgrounds of this week’s capture.
Desktop Backgrounds
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If you have a resolution that isn’t listed, drop me a line and I’ll make you one in your desktop resolution.
In other Roundbottom news, we had a recording session over the weekend for the first Roundbottom podcast. Thanks to the help of our friend Nate Periat, this thing is going to sound about 100x better than I ever expected it to. You can most likely look forward to hearing that next week!
New Roundbottom Live
Filed Under: My Writing, Photography, Speculative Fiction
The concluding chapter of the Case of the Steam Wraith is now live on the Dr. Rounbottom website.
This four-part story has had some bumps, and if I wasn’t writing without a net, I can see some edits that I would make. I’m going to try to write these things farther in advance of posting in the future so that I can smooth out some of the inconsistencies that develop. It’s far easier to write one-shot observational posts than the storyline based posts. I made some strides towards that goal of getting ahead this weekend, designing a new capture and we’ll hopefully get a podcast made this week as well.
One problem with writing the posts in advance is that I like having Roundbottom being responsive to the comments. one of the things that sets this project aside from the usual fiction serial is this aspect of involving the input of the audience. If you weren’t aware of that–Roundbottom does interact with his readers, so if you want to jump into the story, you’re perfectly able to do so. Just start posting comments. Make up a character for yourself if you like. I’m not sure who my commenters are because of the aliases, and it’s a blast to read what they have to say on things.
I hope you enjoy!
New Roundbottom: To Bind a Steam Wraith
Filed Under: Costuming, My Writing, Photography, Speculative Fiction
Another Monday, and another Roundbottom post has gone live over at clockpunk.com. This week, the good Doctor formulates a plan to recapture the dangerous wraith.
We’re hard at work around here on more Roundbottom content. The first podcast might very well be ready in the next week or two. My sound engineer Nate sent me a couple of files over the weekend that were great. The podcast is going to have fantastic engineering. Episodes will be short, running only 2-3 minutes most likely. But those 2-3 minutes will be packed with aural delights, I tell you.
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