Wednesday, February 13, 2013

That Geek Podcast Episode 7: The Best and Worst of 2012

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Sylvie, Stephanie and Randy return after a hiatus with our likes and dislikes in film and television for 2012.
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s a celebratory episode because there were many great things about 2012, so this episode is l
argely positive.

We've changed to a half hour format, and we'll be back with a new fix every Wednesday, thank you for listening!

Our theme music is provided by Incompetech, and the tune is called Pinball Sprting.

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Monday, February 11, 2013

New Podcasts, Broadcast 8, and Trouble With Amazon.UK

A concept drawing of Ayan The 2nd by Marcus Froment.
On February 13, 2013 That Geek Podcast starts a new season with a new episode on Crewcast Radio. I really enjoy that show, and feel truly fortunate to sit down with Sylvie and Stephanie. I think we're still discovering how to do this, and it's going well.

Meanwhile, I'm starting the real work on Spinward Fringe Broadcast 8, which will lead me right into Broadcast 9. After completing Broadcast 7, seeing what that controversial book has done in the world, taken the critical jabs along with the praise, I feel I've got a great plan for Spinward Fringe Broadcasts 8, 9 and 10.

They're a set. Broadcasts 8 and 9 are made to be written together. I'll be taking a quick break to write something else between Broadcasts 9 and 10 then getting right back to it to finish that trilogy. Broadcast 7: Framework was a very serious book with a lot of character growth and exposition. That's going to pay off in Broadcasts eight through ten, which will be written with a greater focus on adventure.

I'm also very glad to announce that there will be a new Spinward Fringe Podcast episode soon with a few surprises about Spinward Fringe and other projects that are just in the beginning stages. This year I'd like to release three or four books, none of which are complete yet. Two of them will be Spinward Fringe novels, the other one hasn't been chosen. There will be other news in this upcoming podcast, so keep an eye on the Crewcast Radio site.

Before I go, I'd like to point to an issue I'm having with Amazon.co.uk. Without explanation, they've hiked the price of Spinward Fringe: Origins from free to $2.99 US. This is a book that's been free everywhere else for over two years now, and I'd like to keep it that way - but I need your help. They won't listen to me, or allow me to set the price to free myself unless I sell that book exclusively on Amazon - something I'm not willing to do.

I'd like to ask you for your help. If you want to free Origins all you have to do is visit the book page on Amazon.co.uk and scroll down to a link that says "tell us about a lower price?" Click there and enter in the link of any site that is offering the book for free. Here are some examples:
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/spinward-fringe-broadcast/id546099454?mt=11
Sony Ebookstore: https://ebookstore.sony.com/ebook/randolph-lalonde/spinward-fringe-broadcast-0-origins/_/R-400000000000000323771
Smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/3178

Thank you so much for your support in freeing Origins, and in everything else so far. I'm so excited about 2013 and hope to entertain you better than ever.

RL

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

That Geek Podcast Episode 6: The Return Of The Geeks


angelmuppetWe catch up wish Sylvie, Stephanie and Randy as they recover from the various ailments that kept us away from our microphones for so long. We start by talking about what we plugged in to while we were immobilised, and move on to some big news in Geekdom that we missed such as…
 
The Blu-Ray version of Season 1 and 2 of Star Trek The Next Generation, Sherlock BBC season 2 on Blu-Ray and Netflix, The Young Indiana Jones and why you should get your set NOW if you want one.
 
We go into the big shifts in the Science Fiction world recently, like Disney purchasing Lucasfilm (Star Wars, Indiana Jones). We take positive and negative sides of the issue and discuss good and bad points of one of the biggest franchises of all time being bought by the largest children entertainment company in history.
 
Other side-topics include: Geriatric Indiana Jones, errors in Star Wars past (including the 'Han Shot First' issue), ET, National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), I Dark Overlord, and much more…
 

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