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Jason Cosmo Podcast Audiobook to Come

Greetings, Loyal Reader!

Just a quick update. Despite my best intentions, the conclusion of Rainy Daze remains unwritten. I have been sidetracked by other obligations and continue to be. I hope to see daylight and finish the story soon. I don’t think I’ll have time to squeeze in a Halloween story before Halloween either.

Once I do wrap up Rainy Daze it will be time for the final push on the manuscript of the next Jason Cosmo novel, Noble Cause. I pretty much suspended work on Noble Cause at the beginning of 2009 to focus on getting Hero Wanted finished, edited, produced and on sale now wherever fine fantasy novels are sold.  That doesn’t mean the story hasn’t been percolating in my head. I will probably do some significant revising once I get back to it. I’ll have to see how the existing text has aged these last few months.  My back of envelope calculation is to be ready for editing and proofreading by early next year (January/February) and looking at a summer release. I’ll keep you updated as those plans gel. This is, after all, the Jason Cosmo Update.

In the meantime, I’ve decided it is long past time I got on the podcast audiobook train. After studying the examples of podiobook pioneers like Scott Sigler and Seth Harwood, I’m convinced this is something I need to do. My plan will be to record the full text of Hero Wanted, as read by me, and release it in a series of free weekly podcasts. I am persuaded that this will help me connect with many more potential new Loyal Readers (or, Loyal Listeners, I guess they’ll be), perk up my print book sales, and have fun doing it.

Obviously that is two major projects on the horizon: write and publish Noble Cause, record and produce Hero Wanted. I do not know yet what the time frame for the podiobook will be. I just bought a pro-quality microphone and a copy of Podcasting For Dummies and I’ve got a good bit of learning to do before I launch that project in earnest.  For now, writing Noble Cause will be the first priority, but stay tuned!

Best regards,

Dan McGirt

3 thoughts on “Jason Cosmo Podcast Audiobook to Come”

    • Seth Harwood, everyone! Thanks for stopping by, Seth. Appreciate your encouragement. (I feel like the host of one of those cheesy Christmas special variety shows … look who just randomly wandered in to the studio! Let’s spontaneously sing Silver Bells, complete with choreographed dancers!)

      Loyal Readers, Seth is one of the authors I mentioned above. I just listened to his first novel, Jack Wakes Up, over the last couple of weeks. Jack Wakes Up is hard-hitting crime fiction, i.e. nothing like the Jason Cosmo stories, except that it is fast-moving, action-packed, and awesome. The physical printed-on-paper edition of Jack Wakes Up is available now from Three River Press. So if you like blazing guns, strippers, and foul-mouthed felons — and really, who doesn’t? — check it out!

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