Welcome from TIME.com!
A couple of weeks ago I was interviewed by TIME.com and lo and behold, the article just went live! So if you’ve found me through TIME, please take a look around and enjoy yourselves. The article includes excellent comments from authors Scott Sigler and JC Hutchins, podiobooks.com founder Evo Terra, and editor David Moldawer. Well worth reading.
I’m Mur Lafferty, and I’ve been a podcaster since December ’04. I was one of the first podcasters, probably the first to podcast original essays in my podcast Geek Fu Action Grip, and probably the first to serialize a novel in PDF via podcast.
I am host of the award winning podcast for writers, I Should Be Writing. My fiction includes the Heaven series, a story of adventures in the afterlife, and Playing For Keeps, a book about superheroes and not-so-superheroes. PFK is available via audio podcast, free PDF, Kindle, iPhone, and print. I’m a strong believer in Creative Commons, the way of licensing digital content to allow creators to give their works away while still retaining copyright. By giving my work away, I’ve built an audience of over 30,000.
I am also the writer and producer behind the hit audio drama, The Takeover, which essentially the bastard child of The Office and Shaun of the Dead. It’s 10 episodes long, and ends this week!
I’m also the co-author of Tricks of the Podcasting Masters, a book that made Amazon.com’s Top 10 References Books of 2006.
Needless to say, I always have a lot of projects going on, and you can find out about all of them at the Murverse. Thanks for dropping by!
In other news:
- I recently guest starred in another episode of FEEDBACK: A Hero’s Calling. If you were a fan of Who Wants To Be A Superhero, you will love this audiodrama staring Feedback!
- Mark your calendars! I have a Playing For Keeps event at Chapel Hill Comics on February 28 at 6pm! Not sure what we’ll be doing, but rest assured it’ll be a ton of fun, come on by and say hi! Stay tuned to the blog (or twitter) for more updates as we get closer!
- I attended the first Triangle Tweetup of this year and had a blast. I’m looking forward to attending more, so if you are in the Triangle area and like Twitter, then be sure to drop by and say hi!
Category: Personal
Just a few comments.
“Playing for Keeps” by Mur Lafferty was the first podiobook that I had ever listened to.
Novels like “7th Son” by JC Hutchins, “Infected” by Scott Siglar, and “Brave Men Run” by Matthew Wayne Selznick, have allowed me to enjoy new authors that I would have probably not come across in my own library.
To these authors, I am grateful. They help my work day pass by and continue to follow them and their projects.
I constantly recommend these stories to people that I know will enjoy them.
“It seems a ripe time for novel podcasting to grow. Traditional book publishers are struggling. Book sales are down; … has laid off employees,… has suspended the purchase of most new manuscripts.”
Like a lot of industries – they are also feeling the crunch.
The downside for us readers is that we can only have “new” Stephen King, John Grisham, and Neil Gaiman novels coming out ( don’t get me wrong, I love their work too, I’ve probably read every single book they’ve written so far).
I look forward to reading different styles and content from all over.
I love chocolate ice cream – but sometimes I like to have “Tiger” ice cream too.
Howard Hendrix also said, “In the long run, what you may end up with is a vast digital slush pile” and “a mass of novels written by 15-year-olds.”)
If a 15 year old can write- let the people decide. If it’s good – it will gain popularity.
I often wonder how many great stories remain unpublished due to the whim of an Publisher deciding on how many copies it would sell, rather than the story it self.