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What’s up this week?

So the exciting thing is, I’m doing my first studio book narration! However, I’m doing it in a very short amount of time, so I’m in Raleigh for most of the day, and rushing around trying to do everything else in the time I am not in front of the mic. And recording for five hours straight is a bit different than recording a chapter a week. My voice is raw and I’m pounding the lemon and honey as if it were gin. Well. Even moreso.

So Rapid Fire and Fabulist Ramblings are on hold until I can get a little bit of time to record and upload.

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In personal news, I have new glasses and new hairstyle. I’m like a whole new Mur, only without a voice.

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I’ve seen the near-final cover for Book 2 of The Shambling Guides, and OMG it’s gorgeous. I can’t wait to show you all! The minute I’m allowed to, I’ll be uploading the hell out of that thing.

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Lastly, it’s now announced that I’ll be joining the Torment: Tides of Numenera team! The Kickstarter is already at nearly $2,000,000 on Day 2 of the campaign — O_o — and I’m thrilled to be on the team! Check it out, and pledge if it looks cool to you!

Podcasts, Projects

ISBW #275 – Rapid Fire – The Great Agent Hunt

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So I’m very embarrassed, as one commenter mentioned, I kind of skipped three episodes. So in an effort to make numbers completely meaningless (actually to not confuse people in the archives) here is episode 275.

We talk about the Agent HUnt and great sites like Agent Query, Writer’s Market, and Absolute Write.

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Random thoughts – Podcast reach, missing files, and 2013 events/appearances

I was looking at my stats today. I don’t like looking at my numbers, as they haven’t really done much in the past several years. I hit a plateau of listeners and didn’t really budge.

And yeah, “Do more regular shows,” is the clear answer. I know. I know.

But I decided to peek at them today. January had a noted increase from December, and Feb looks like it might just outpace January. So that was cool. Then I found out Libsyn gives a neato map of your podcast reach. So here are the people listening to ISBW:

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Click on image to embiggen.

I was delighted with all of the listeners in the Southern Hemisphere, I usually hear from Australia and New Zealand, I didn’t know I had listeners in South America and most of Africa. Of course, now I’m looking at the little white countries and wondering if anyone knows anyone in Greenland, or Suriname, or Ethiopia to spread the message of I Should Be Writing?

People are bringing to my attention that there were files on the poor departed website that died in the destruction of the site. One of the things was a critique sheet given to me by, I believe, my producer Patrick Hester. I’ve found a copy and am uploading it again, you can find it here. Critique Template Word

I’ll be including my appearances this year on a permanent page shortly, but I wanted to mention now that I have the following cons/appearances coming up:

Books, Projects

Playing For Keeps in the Bundle of Holding!

I’m in a bundle! I’m in a bundle! Since we’re writers and stuff, many of us who have written in RPGs have also written fiction (me*, Matt Forbeck, Chuck Wendig, and others). So Allen Varney got a group of books together and decided to call it the Bundle of Holding and offer the ebooks, DRM free, for a “choose what you pay” price. While not an official “Humble Bundle” it works in the same way: The authors get a cut, a charity (in this case, Childs Play or Reading is Fundamental) gets a cut, and the site upkeep gets a cut. You choose what you pay, you choose what percentage goes to to the three recipients, and you get a bunch of awesome, DRM-free ebooks. Win-win-win. So go check it out!

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FYI- when the rights to Playing For Keeps reverted back to me, the publisher said they had the rights to the Superman-homage cover and I was no longer allowed to use it, so we’re back to the 2007 cover. Don’t get confused- it’s the same book!

*I do know that the fact that I wrote RPG fiction will be the news flash for some of you (instead of me writing fiction), but I did do RPGs first, then fiction. You can find my stuff in older Mage, Vampire, Exalted, and WoW RPGs.

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