Today it kind of snuck up on me, if your a fan of Mur Lafferty, you are no doubt familiar with her audio book, Playing For Keeps. After not being able to originally to find a publisher for the book, she offered it as an audio book on podiobooks.com and as a published book through Lulu.
The same publisher, who published Matthew Wayne Selznick’s Brave Men Run, Swarm Press, decided to pick up Playing For Keeps. You can purchase it today, from Amazon.com!
So you may have heard that this year, there was a concert in conjunction with the New Media Expo? It was the Coverville 500 concert. I didn’t stay for the whole thing, however I did see, The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd (funny as always!), Natalie Gelman (not bad), and of course the star for the night: Jonathan Coulton.
So recently, I started a new work. Today I was going to start writing more to it, when I decided that being only into it for 719 words, I decided to start it over, after re-working it dramatically.
I think I’ll be able to keep some of the first few paragraphs, but we will see.
See More Ender’s Game Various at IGN.com
Yesterday I went to a local comic book store, to see if they had any Steampunk comics. While there seems to be a lot of movement toward Steampunk being the next big thing in publishing, comics don’t seem to have this yet.
However, I did find something of possible interest. Orson Scot Card, has agreed to a Ender’s Game comic book. At first I was wondering, “What will the comic cover?” the one page ad I saw for it didn’t give much information. My original thinking was it could be a seralized version of the novel.
However, there are many sections of the book which I think would be difficult to do. In the novel, there are several sections in which nudity of the young main characters is considered to be a non-issue. Of course none of the nudity is an actual plot point, and having some kind of underclothes on the characters wouldn’t really change anything. Another idea, which one of my podcasting friend’s suggested was they could also just have creative blocking for the few scenes that would require it.
However, after doing some searching online, I found that IGN had written an article at: IGN: Ender’s Game Hits Comics, that explains the comic series will start toward the end of novel, when he had became the Govenor of the planet.
Hey all, today I try something a little different. This is a short video recording I made with my iMac, using iMovieHD 06, I have previously tried to do something like this with iMovie 08, but wasn’t happy with the results.
I may have to learn more about the different versions of iMovie, but currently I see it would be easy to out grow what both iMovie 06 and 08 allow you to do, at least as far as podcasting is concerned.
Questions or comments? e-mail me: chris [at] chrismoody [dot] net
Lately, I have been working with a published author I know on a new story idea. I won’t give much about the plot for this story, except to say I don’t think its been done, or if it has its not done to death like many of the ideas out there.
Found a new cartoon to add to my site that will help you see how this idea is progressing. For the purpose of this blog, I am calling this the Zeta 1 Project. Although while that has something to do with the book, it probably won’t be that important.
Hopefully with the continued support of an author friend that I can actually meet with face to face, this one will go somewhere.
Status upon Writing this Blog Entry
As some of you probably know, I do an interview podcast with authors of books that have been podcasted. Several of my friend’s have recently got book deals:
Soon though (on August 8th 2008) the sequels of the following books will be released:
If you wish, you can listen to these books before you purchase them, by checking out Podiobooks.com.
In an upcoming episode of PodioMedia Chat, I will be playing an interview with Nathan Lowell, who is the fabulous podio author the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper series of books.
His newest book, DoubleShare has been picked up by iTunes, on their front page in the New Releases section:
Nathan Lowell on iTunes front page
Congratulations Nathan! If you want to check out my interview with this wonderful author, you will be able to find it on the PodioMedia Chat blog.
As you probably know dear reader, I’ve been unemployed for a brief while now. Yesterday I decided to put up an ad on craigslist.com to see what would happen, and I responded to some ads.
To my utter amazement, I have already made money helping people with their computers. I figured this would wind up being as unproductive as the small distribution I tried.
General business rule, is it takes money to make money, now while I did have to pay for the gas to get to where I was going, I didn’t have to actually pay for the advertisement. So perhaps it doesn’t always take money to make money.
If you need some computer help, and your local to the Beach communities of Los Angeles, or you have a problem I can help you with via telecommutting, then let me know! E-mail me at: chris [at] chrismoody.net!
As many people know, who follow me on places other than this, I had been a Dreamhost employee for almost a year, and even though its now over, I still feel this is one of the best places I have worked at for a number of years.
To my credit, both the main TS manager and my direct supervisor they were sorry to have to let me go. While most people they let go is because either they screwed over the company, or did something seriously wrong to hurt the company, I just wasn’t picking up stuff fast enough for them.
“This job is kind of hard, one of the thing we expect out of people is to be a Jr. Unix Admin,” is a paraphrase of what one or both of them had to say about it.
This has overall been one of the most gracious company’s I have ever worked for, they have a profit sharing with the employees, and even though I wasn’t there for an entire year yet, they included what I would have gotten as part of my last check from them.
My overview of Dreamhost? They are a great company to have for your average hosting needs, however even though with their low prices they made podcasting possible for a great majority of people, they don’t really get podcasting.
With on hand knowledge of how the servers are built, and what I’ve seen happened to fellow podcasters while I was working their this is very obvious.
I really do hope that someday, they will embrace what they helped to create.
So what am I going to do now? This I don’t know, my previous boss, told me that many former Dreamhost employees go and work for Media Temple, so perhaps I will look at them. Or perhaps I will give up living on the coast and look seriously again at moving to Arizona.
