It’s never too early to plan for Balticon 44. Now’s the time to take a peek at our first flyer for Balticon 44 and think about what you want to be doing on Memorial Day Weekend, 2010.
We are proud to announce that Tanya Huff will be the Balticon 44 Guest of Honor. More information will be available as we get closer to the convention.
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We look forward to seeing you there.
That’s right! The schedule is now available online.
Balticon 41 (yes I made another mistake in the audio credits) Filk Guest of Honor, Maya Bonhoff reads a wonderful story about a magical detective agency.
Christiana Ellis has a new book available today. It’s her very first book. Nina Kimberly, The Merciless is available today on Amazon.com.
Ms. Ellis has released this free PDF. If you like it, head over to Amazon or your local book store and buy it.
It is also available for the Kindle, Nina Kimberly the Merciless: Kindle Edition
Thanks to Viv and Chooch from Into the Blender and the CoH Podcast for all their hard work.
Want to be in the next episode of Stranger Things? Send an email to: PutMeInTheShow@StrangerThings.tv
Get your email in soon! The Singularity approaches!
The Singularity will happen live at Balticon 43.
[ Correction: In the intro I say that Ms. Novik is reading from His Majesty's Dragon. This is incorrect. The reading is from Empire of Ivory. - Paul ]
This episode’s main feature is the author reading by Naomi Novik. Ms. Novik is the author of 5 books in the Temeraire
series.
Balticon 43 is coming up and the New Media track is going to be awesome. Listen to the intro to find out some of the highlights. Just some of the ground covered: The I Should Be Writing, Writer’s Workshop; Escape Pod Live, Stranger Things Singularity, and many many more.
Promo: The Seanachai – a podcast by Patrick E. McLean
Stoked for Balticon 43 yet? No? Where have you been?
Not only do we have Scott Sigler as a Guest of Honor. But now we’re pleased to announce the addition of two more of Podcasting’s greats to the Balticon 43 line up. Dave Slusher of the Evil Genius Chronicles and Evo Tera co-author of Podcasting for Dummies and host of Evo @ 11 have both joined the roster of new media stars coming to Balticon.
And if that doesn’t rock your world how about this new promo from Scott Sigler!
Get ready for Balticon and get book your room early before they’re all gone. Details for hotel rooms are available at the Balticon website.
Web Comic’s rock star Bryan Prindiville has created a series of web badges for Balticon 43. Get one for your website or blog. Or you can make your own.
Alien
art, author, filk, make your own, podcasting, science, web comics
Spaceman
art, author, filk, make your own, podcasting, science, web comics
Here’s the new promo. Feel free to play it on your podcast.
We are exceptionally proud to announce that we have added New York Times Best Selling Author, Scott Sigler to Balticon 43 as Special Guest of Honor. Junkies, if you don’t have your room yet for Balticon, now is the time to book, before all the good rooms are gone.
Balticon will be held at Marriott’s Hunt Valley Inn in Hunt Valley Maryland. You can reach them by phone at 410-785-7000 or toll free at 800-228-9290.
If you go to the Hunt Valley Marriott Web site, http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/bwihv-baltimore-marriott-hunt-valley-inn/ then, on the right side of the page there is a “Group code” box down near the bottom of the “check rates and availability” area (you may need to expand this area).
–> enter BCNBCNA (upper/lower case doesn’t matter) for a two double bed room
–> enter BCNBCNB for a king sized room
This works for the nights of THURSDAY MAY 21 thru MONDAY MAY 25. This covers the main convention nights plus a night before and after.
Cost per night per room (USD) – $132.00
Estimated government taxes and fees – $18.48 per night
Podcast listeners will delight in the Special Guest of Honor. You may have heard of him. His name is Scott Sigler.
Here is our first promo for Balticon 43. Balticon takes place Memorial Day weekend in the Hunt Valley Marriott. See the official Balticon website for more info.
A higher quality version of this promo is available in AIF format as well.
This episode’s intro from Jon “The Vicar” Stallard, host of Geek Radio Daily.
Jeri Smith-Ready reads excerpts from her new vampire novel, Wicked Game
.
Book Blurb:
Recovering con artist Ciara Griffin is trying to live the straight life, even if it means finding a (shudder!) real job. She takes an internship at a local radio station, whose late-night time-warp format features 1940s blues, 60s psychedelia, 80s Goth, and more, all with an uncannily authentic flair. Ciara soon discovers how the DJs maintain their cred: they’re vampires, stuck forever in the eras in which they were turned.
Ciara’s first instinct, as always, is to cut and run. But communications giant Skywave wants to buy WMMP and turn it into just another hit-playing clone. Without the station—and the link it provides to their original Life Times—the vampires would “fade,” becoming little more than mindless ghosts of the past. Suddenly a routine corporate takeover becomes a matter of life and un-death.
To boost ratings and save the lives of her strange new friends, Ciara re-brands the station as “WVMP, the Lifeblood of Rock ’n’ Roll.” In the ultimate con, she hides the DJs’ vampire nature in plain sight, disguising the bloody truth as a marketing gimmick. WVMP becomes the hottest thing around—next to Ciara’s complicated affair with grunge vamp Shane McAllister. But the “gimmick” enrages a posse of ancient and powerful vampires who aren’t so eager to be brought into the light. Soon the stakes are higher-and the perils graver-than any con game Ciara’s ever played…
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