“Podcast” has been chosen as the Word of the Year by the editors of the New Oxford American Dictionary.
M. J. Rose, international bestselling author of
The Delilah Effect and marketing guru,
blogged: “More than 30 million people in the US have some kind of dedicated MP3 listening device including the almost 10 million iPods that have been sold… Our industry could use this medium to introduce more authors to more readers. Our industry could be proactive and innovative about audio. So why is my iPod still bookless two weeks post Christmas?”
Well, we didn’t make it for Christmas but hackoff.com: an historic murder mystery set in the Internet bubble and rubble is now being serialized free as a podcast as well as in the text editions that many people have been reading.
If you absolutely can’t wait, you can listen to the first episode just by clicking here.
There are lots of ways to listen to the podcast. You can go to www.hackoff.com and choose episodes one at a time from the table of contents. Audio is now available for all the episodes in chapters one and two. More will be available as we make them.
If you use iTunes and want episodes on your iPod, click here to get them free through the Music Store.
You can also subscribe to the podcast and have episodes delivered by email to your mailbox (click here) or by RSS feed to your feedreader (click here). Those of you who subscribe to the text serialization have told us that you like choice so we’ve implemented even more choice than we did with text. Not only can you start with any episode but you can also decide how often you want new episodes delivered, even specify that you want new episodes only when you ask for them. You can pause the serialization at any time if you fall behind or are traveling and resume it when you wish.
We will make these expanded choices available for text subscriptions, too, but haven’t done so yet.
I narrate most episodes. However, just for fun, sometimes other people join me and play some of the characters. In episodes two and three, for example, the very talented Terry White plays Donna Langhorne.
A PDF of the press release describing the release of the podcast edition is here.
Happy listening.
BTW, if you signed up for email delivery of the podcast on before Tuesday, January 10, at 4PM EST, we must ask you to re-sign up. We had a bug we didn’t catch which resulted in these signups being ignored. RSS signups and signups at other times are fine as far as we know. If you do have any problems, please contact info@dothillpress.com.