LILITH'S LOVE

Starting now and running until January 31, 2012 at 11:59 PM EST, every review of the free serialized audio production of my novel LILITH’S LOVE hosted at Podiobooks.com will be entered into a raffle to give away a FREE signed, inscribed paperback of LILITH’S LOVE!

All reviews posted at Podiobooks.com as a comment will be automatically entered. If you want to earn an extra raffle entry, you may post reviews elsewhere (iTunes, Amazon, Smashwords, etc.) but you will need to leave a comment here on this post to let me know you’ve done so!

Once the contest has ended, I will announce here on the blog the name of the reviewer who has won the book. That user will have to contact me if they wish to receive their book and where I can ship it to.

Good luck, and enjoy!

Hey folks, the Kindle version of LILITH’S LOVE is now only $2.99, and you should soon see this being updated in the other major eBook stores as well. Some of the slow ones might still have it as $3.99 or higher but they will eventually all drop. Of course, you can still set your own price at Smashwords.com for a DRM-free eBook, and the audio version is still free to listen to at Podiobooks.com. This is just my way of saying “Happy Hallowtide”, or Season’s Greetings!  You say you still prefer the paperback? Amazon has it for only $7.49. Of course, if you order it from me directly (same price), I’ll happily sign it for you before I send it your way.

Speaking of signing books, have you heard about Kindlegraph.com? This is a free service that gives authors a way to autograph Kindle (or actually any) books. They way it works is, you visit Kindlegraph.com and search for your favorite author, or just go straight to a link, like let’s say http://kindlegraph.com/authors/DanS42 for example, and you request an autograph for your eBook. The author gets an email and then visits the website to fill out a form with an inscription and then sign it. That then gets emailed to you. If you provide the email address for your Kindle reader, that Kindlegraph goes right to your Kindle and can be viewed anytime. If you don’t have a Kindle, you just provide any email address and a PDF will be emailed to you. So, in all actuality, this can work for paperback and podiobooks, too. Pretty slick, huh? Sure it’s just a virtual bookplate, but it is a cool service that makes it easy for authors and fans to use. I dig it and will be happy to send anyone a Kindlegraph anytime!

Before I go, I’ll humbly ask, if you wouldn’t mind posting a review (on Amazon, Podiobooks, iTunes, Smashwords, or wherever) to spread the word, I’d really appreciate it. Also, don’t forget to visit my new Facebook page at http://facebook.com/Shaurette.Dan.

Thanks, you all rock!

So at long last, the podcast audio adaptation of LILITH’S LOVE is complete! Is it perfect? No, of course not. I may go back and remaster some parts of it. I am always of the mind that a novel, and now any production based on one, is never finished.

I would like to thank Evo Terra for encouraging me to produce a podcast version, giving it a home on Podiobooks.com, as well as providing one of the many voices in the cast.

So what’s next, besides an eventual remastered edition? Well, naturally there’s the sequels. Yes, two. LILITH’S LIGHT and LILITH’S PEACE. Neither is complete. I dare say these projects alone will keep me busy for a while to come.

But that’s not enough; I am also writing prequels. Prequels featuring characters that appear in the sequels but NOT in LILITH’S LOVE. Yes. I’m insane. Certifiable. And you wouldn’t have me any other way.

In the meantime, if you enjoyed the podcast version and feel like donating, please do visit Podiobooks.com and leave the donation there. You’ll be supporting them AND my part of the donation will go directly to the American Cancer Society.

Finally, most of you know, but let me reiterate for those that don’t, Michelle and I host the Out Of The Coffin podcast all about vampires. Free time now means back to more regular episodes there. Huzzah!

I am writing to you all from my phone. This is because my PC has crashed again and I’m in the process of determining what can be salvaged. Beyond my health issues, this has been the largest factor in the many and persistent delays in producing the final episodes of LILITH’S LOVE.

I promise you all that as soon as I can, I will be releasing the episodes here and on the mirror sites. I want to thank you for your patience. Those of you leaving comments, please know that I appreciate your words and know that I would have responded sooner had I the chance.
June has just been a terrible month around here. I am eager to see it gone and move on with the production post haste.
Thank you all,
Dan

Folks, we do apologize for the delay in not only episodes here but over at OutOfTheCoffin.com. Computer problems, summer vacations, and random octopus incursions are keeping us all very busy. We are still planning to release the next episode in June (yes of 2010, thank you very much), with the final episodes to follow in short order in July. Hang with us. We’re getting everything in order, we promise!

Phoenix Comicon 2010

Hey everyone, I wanted to let you all know that I will be attending the Phoenix Comicon this Memorial Day weekend. I am not a guest nor on any panels; I am just attending as a convention-goer. I will definitely be there all day Saturday and Sunday. I may be attending Thursday and Friday nights. Michelle (the voice of Lilith) will be joining me on Sunday.

Furthermore, I have confirmed that other Lilith’s Love voice actors will be attending on various days. Including Dani Cutler (Anna), Jack Mangan (Michael), CJ Feierabend (Mary Jane), Dan Feierabend (The Master), and TD-0013 (the Patrolman).

If you will be attending Phoenix Comicon, please let me know by sending me a Twitter DM (@DanS42) or Facebook msg. I would love to see you there!

By the by, there’s apparently a convention in Baltimore this weekend, too. If you happen to be headed that way, have fun and say Hey to everyone for me. :^)

No matter what you do this weekend, stay safe and have fun, and I’ll be back soon with the next episode!

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I have spent the last couple nights recovering the audio of Chapter 11 for my lines. I still have to edit my audio and then edit everyone else’s in. There is no way this will be done by this weekend. My apologies. I will endeavor to have the episode posted as soon as possible.

In the meantime, enjoy your Walpurgisnacht bonfires, and then have a scone and a large house blend this weekend and I’ll be back ASANP (As Soon As Nocturnally Possible).

Hey everyone, I wanted to take a brief moment and let you all know that I will be attending the AZ Storycasting Meetup & Signing as a guest author. I will be there talking about “fantasy casting” with other local authors, and I will be signing copies of LILITH’S LOVE.

The event will be held next Saturday, March 13th from 6-8PM at Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe, AZ.
Event cost: FREE! includes sodas and snacks!
Signing + talking + snacking = Good time! RSVP here

I hope to see you there. If you are enjoying the podcast and are curious about what actors and actresses I would love to see in a movie based on the novel, then check out this link to StoryCasting.com. Furthermore, why don’t you join the fun and list a cast of you own for my novel and you other favorite stories!

“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
– Douglas Adams

Folks, I must beg of you some more patience. Besides myself being sick, Michelle, my fiancée and voice of Lilith, has also been sick, as has Karl, the voice of Christian. This has put a strain on getting recordings for Episode 7 done, and they still have not been done yet.

However, episode 6 is now being delayed due to technical difficulties. This all started with the storms a couple weeks back, which caused our roof to leak. When contractors arrived to do repairs, I had to hastily move my computer. Since then, I’ve been having issues with my computer, and now have lost some of the audio for episode 6. Luckily I have backups, but these are only of the original audio recordings per character. My Audacity project is corrupted and therefore all of the editing I had done so far is lost and must be done again.

All of my built in lead time has been lost and now I’m up against a time wall. So, like a podcaster, I’m going to time-shift the schedule. Barring any future issue, I should have Episode six up by February 19th. *knock on wood*

I hope you will all forgive me this delay. If I manage to get the audio edited down again sooner, I promise I’ll drop it in before the 19th.

Forever apologizing,
Dan

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Hey everyone, I’m dropping by to deliver our very first promo. It features Donovan in the present giving folks a bit of a tease about what happened back in 1993. You could call it a spoiler, but I hope you are anxious to see how it all unfolds.

The promo is only 60 seconds long. If you have a podcast and would like to play a shorter promo, let me know, and I can whip something up sooner.

Pass it around, far and wide, and maybe share the Out Of The Coffin promos too, if you are feeling very generous.

Thanks, and I’ll be back soon!
-Dan