Check out my buddy Jake Bible's blog today to read the first four chapters ofVatican Assassin! Jake has a feature called "Sample Saturday" where he posts free tastes of folks' work for your reading pleasure:
TheUniversal Islamic Nation (UIN)brings the war from Mars back to the Moon and Earth Orbit in chapter seven of my science fiction adventure VATICAN ASSASSIN!And part one of the audio adaptation of my short story"Souverain: The Kid"!
Back in September of 2006, I began podcasting "Vatican
Assassin" as part of my "Glow-in-the-Dark Radio" Podcast.
Learning about digital audio and podcasting as I went along,
the recordings were good, but in retrospect could have been
better. In a misguided attempt at "tightening" the audio was
also severely edited throughout the book. These recordings
turned into "Vatican Assassin" on Podiobooks in 2007, and
they've been downloaded over 106,000 times now. But when I
finished the third book in my trilogy "Vatican Abdicator"
earlier this year, and as I began to go through my files for
upcoming downloadable audiobooks coming from Podiobooks (more
info on that later), it became clear I'd learned a lot in the
intervening three years since I'd recorded "Vatican Assassin"
- it was time for a new edition!
I rerecorded the first ten chapters of the book - coming from
a radio advertising background where you try to fit as much as
you can into 30 seconds, my early reads were just too fast.
The rest of the reads were fine, but the editing reflected my
commercial background as well, there was no breathing room, no
spaces! So I went back to the original source files for the
rest of the book and re-edited them, restoring and/or adding
"breathing room" to the reads. My noise reduction techniques
have also improved over the years, so the entire book has been
redone with improved (less harsh, more accurate) noise
reduction as well.
If you haven't read or listened to Vatican Assassin, it's a
science fiction adventure set in 2109. Bernard Campion (aka
“BC”)is an assassin for the Pope of the New catholic Church –
he struggles with his work's inherent contradictions while
trying to take care of “business” during an out of control
interplanetary religious war!
“Vatican Assassin” is available as a free downloadable
audiobook through Podiobooks.com. What is a Podiobook? As
described on the Podiobooks.com website, “The term podiobook
was coined by (site co-founder) Evo Terra to describe
serialized audiobooks which are distributed via RSS, much like
a podcast. Listeners to Podiobooks.com can choose to receive
the episodes of their books via an RSS feed or by listening to
episodes by directly downloading episodes from this site. Some
listeners keep the audio files on their computers, some
transfer the book to CD, but most transfer the file on to
their MP3 player so they can listen no matter where they are.”
Podiobooks.com will soon be offering their audiobooks in
traditional downloadable forms as well.
One other note: The Vatican Assassin Trilogy is now available
in ebook form at Smashwords.com – choose your own price, or
get the books FREE!
Previously only available in the 3-in-1 Omnibus Hardcover, the Vatican Assassin Trilogy Appendix is now available as a 100 page trade paperback for $9.99, just a 99 cent download!
NOW AVAILABLE! The Office of Papal Operations T-Shirt store is now open - dress in the gear BC wears when he's off duty! All kinds of styles and colors!
Head on over to Podiobooks.com or Itunes to download the entire "Vatican Assassin" Trilogy as free downloadable, podcast audiobooks! The final episode of Vatican Abdicator just went up over the weekend:
Speaking with the enemy? Alibi Jones is on the line with Nikko Constantine trying to find out where Alibi's Aunt Anita has disappeared to – on a mission Constantine sent her on! Chapter Twenty-Nine of Alibi Jones and the Hornet's Nest - The Adventures ofAlibi Jonescontinue! Mike Luoma,your host, the author and narrator brings you free audio science fiction every week on Glow-in-the-Dark Radio!
Get quickly caught up on the story – then get into the next chapter of Alibi Jones and The Sunrise of Hur! Chapter Twenty-Two of this free science fiction audiobook adventure, on a new episode of Glow-in-the-Dark Radio. Crime Lord Rene Laveillur who owns the planet Kismet has two of Alibi's friends captive. Alibi is determined to get them out – his plan is about to get underway! Alibi is sneaking around disguised as a Dakhur. He's been warned – if he's discovered on Kismet, he's a dead man!
