Podiobooks
If you think about it, a Podcast is a little like an audio magazine with one article. Yes, the simile is relevant, I promise. In any case, magazines often publish stories in installments; in fact, some magazines exist solely for this purpose. A while back, some guy named Tee Morris came up with a bright idea: why not take the serialized publishing approach and apply it to podcasting? You wouldn't need to get published; just read your book aloud into a mic, and release an episode on a regular schedule. Or not. The point was that the concept of Podiobooks had been born; audiobooks distributed via podcast.
Now, a large number of books are available on Podiobooks.com, and it's growing every day. There are also a great deal of independently podcast books on the Net, as well. Following is a list of some notable Podiobook authors and stories.
- Blake M. Petit
- Other People's Heroes
- Patrick E Mc Lean
- How to Succeed In Evil
- Unkillable
- Philippa Ballantine
- Chasing the Bard (full cast)
- Digital Magic (full cast)
- Weather Child (full cast)
- Weavers Web
- Robert J Defendi
- Death By Cliche
- James Durham
- The FETIDUS series (full cast)
- The author writes his own soundtrack, too.
- The FETIDUS series (full cast)
- Christiana Ellis
- Nina Kimberly The Merciless
- Space Casey (audiodrama)
- Brand Gamblin
- Tumbler
- Graydancer
- Nawashi and the sequel Jujun
- PC Haring
- Cybrosis (full cast)
- Seth Harwood
- Jack Wakes Up
- A Long Way From Disney
- This Is Life
- Young Junius
- Abigail Hilton
- The Prophet Of Panamindorah
- Guild Of The Cowry Catchers (full cast, from the same universe)
- PG Holyfield
- Murder At Avedon Hill (full cast)
- Tales Of The Children (short stories from the same universe)
- Starla Huchton
- The Dreamers Thread (full cast, also available in print form)
- JC Hutchins
- The 7th Son trilogy
- Along with the 7th Son: Obsidian series where other authors play in his universe.
- The 7th Son trilogy
- Paulette Jaxton
- The Empress Sword (full cast)
- Mur Lafferty
- The Heaven series
- The Takeover (audiodrama)
- Playing for Keeps
- Along with the "Stories from the Third Wave" series where other authors play in her universe.
- Chris Lester
- Metamor City (full cast) (novels and short stories in the universe)
- The Leviathan Chronicles (full cast)
- Nathan Lowell
- The Golden Age Of The Solar Clipper series
- Ravenwood
- Tee Morris
- Morevi: The Chronicles of Rafe and Askana (full cast)
- The first podiobook (it had previously been published in print).
- Legacy of Morevi is the sequel, not yet a podiobook.
- The Case of the Singing Sword (A Billibub Baddings Mystery) (full cast)
- The Case of the Pitcher's Pendant (A Billibub Baddings Mystery) is the sequel, not yet a podiobook.
- Morevi: The Chronicles of Rafe and Askana (full cast)
- Nobilis Reed
- Pieces, a group audio fiction project with authors such as Philippa Ballantine, Chris Lester, and Graydancer.
- Scouts
- Phil Rossi
- Crescent
- Eden
- Harvey
- Notes from the Vault (short stories from the Crescent universe and others)
- J Daniel Sawyer
- The Antithesis Progression (full cast)
- Down From Ten
- Sculpting God (short story collection)
- Matthew Wayne Selznick
- Brave Men Run
- Scott Sigler
- Ancestor
- Earthcore
- The first original podiobook; it was later released in print form too.
- Infected and its bestselling sequel Contagious
- Nocturnal
- The Rookie
- James Melzer's podiobooks:
- The Zombie Chronicles: Escape- Melzer's first (finished) podiobook