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elhamghoreishi · 6 months

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Audiobook The Courage to Love by Elham Ghoreishi

#youtube #audiobook #LGBTQ #shortstories #fiction audio book #carouge

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sabworks · 4 months

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Nureyev dresses like an 80s Star Trek alien

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podcast-bookclub · 1 month

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I made this poster for an art market this week & thought I'd share! Maybe we'll recruit some new folks to the AD scene?

#podcast book club #yes the graphics are better yes you'll have to pry the stars out of my cold dead hands #audio drama #fiction podcast

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aclickbaittitle · 5 months

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*Which of this mediums IS more queer tm for you?

Please reblog for a bigger sample and put in the tags why.

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podcastjam · 5 days

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Podcast Jam Listening Party!

Join us in the Podcast Book Club Discord server on June 1st for the Jam Marathon! We'll be listening to all of the pilots, as well as chatting with the cast & crew of each show, answering questions submitted through this form.

After the event, the recordings of the live questions will be available for PBC Ko-fi supporters, so if you're interested in having access to that, be sure to join here!

Hope to see you there 🍊

#podcast jam #pbc podcast jam #audio drama #fiction podcast #podcast book club

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so-many-ocs · 8 months

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yo!

i don't make dedicated posts about my own work on here a ton, however comma!

RADIO APOCALYPSE is FREE in ebook format from october 16 (tomorrow) until october 20th (friday)!!!

my birthday is coming up, and For My Birthday, i would like it very much if more people got to read my writing!

so, if you like:

post-apocalyptic science fiction

cosmic/eldritch horror

radios

lesbians (plural)

eye motifs

audio dramas of Most Kinds

cool book covers (in my unbiased opinion)

crushing existential loneliness. the fundamental, ever-lurking, and unchanging sense of isolation at the pit of your being; the feeling that, no matter what, you will never be closer to those around you, and you can laugh about it, and you can reach out, but the silence is impenetrable. it will outlast you in every way that matters

knitting!

here's how to get RADIO APOCALYPSE for free!!

go to the amazon site for your location

search "radio apocalypse kayleigh gallagher" or something to that effect

go to "ebook"

DO NOT: do not select "read now for free." that will take you to the page for kindle unlimited, which you have to Pay For

instead select the option that says something along the lines of "buy now for $0"

enjoy your free book!

#🌿 radio apocalypse #radio apocalypse #radio apocalypse kayleigh gallagher #lesbian fiction #lesbian book recs #lesbian books #sapphic books #sapphic book recs #sapphic fiction #wlw books #audio drama

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xanyiaz · 2 months

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ok so this is random but i wrote a screenplay (basically a script) for a short film for my coursework a while ago and whilst i unfortunately lost it 😭 i really liked the idea/concept of it as like a short story and at the time when i wrote it, i wanted to make it even longer but i didn't bc my film teacher said it was too complicated 💀💀

but ANYWAYS i'm thinking of rewriting it and posting it for people to read 🤭 i tried writing a blurb for it below lol‼️

it wouldn't be a book or anything, just a veryvery short story- like maybe a few chapters.

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thelaurenshippen · 6 months

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this is a genuine question not at all meant as a rude gotcha, but I feel like I've seen lots of people cite the relatively low barrier of entry as a huge advantage of podcasts as a medium, "if you have access to decent audio tech you can make a podcast" etc etc. So where does the need to sell a script come in? Is it a financial thing, and IP thing, something else?

this doesn't read like a rude gotcha at all, it's a really good question! there is a much lower barrier to entry when it comes to podcasts compared to tv, film, theater, etc. (though not as low as writing a book if we're talking about hard resources - you can technically write a book with just a laptop and a dream and then self publish! though as a writer who has written a lot of scripts and four books (3 published) writing a book is a much bigger psychological burden imo lol).

the need to sell a script, for me, is entirely a financial thing. if I had the money to produce podcasts at the level I want to entirely independently, I would! I know how to do it! but, unfortunately, I really only have the funds to produce something like @breakerwhiskey - a single narrator daily podcast that I make entirely on my own.

and that show is actually a great example of just how low the barrier is: I actually record the whole thing on a CB radio I got off of ebay for 30 bucks, my editing software is $50/month (I do a lot of editing, so this is an expense that isn't just for that show) and there are no hosting costs for it. the only thing it truly costs me is time and effort.

not every show I want to make is single narrator. a lot of the shows I've made involve large casts, full sound design, other writers, studio recording, scoring, and sometimes full cast albums (my first show, The Bright Sessions had all of those). I've worked on shows that have had budgets of 100 dollars and worked on shows that cost nearly half a million dollars. if anyone is curious about the nitty gritty of budgets, I made a huge amount of public, free resources about making audio drama earlier this year that has example budgets in these ranges!

back in the beginning of my career, I asked actors to work for free or sound designers to work for a tiny fee, because I was doing it all for free and we were all starting out. I don't like doing that anymore. so even if I'm making a show with only a few actors and a single sound designer...well, if you want an experienced sound designer and to pay everyone fairly (which I do!), it's going to cost you at least a few thousand dollars. when you're already writing something for free, it can be hard to justify spending that kind of money. I've sound designed in the past - and will be doing so again in the near future for another indie show of mine - but I'm not very good at it. that's usually the biggest expense that I want to have covered by an outside budget.

but if I'm being really honest, I want to be paid to write! while I do a lot of things - direct, produce, act, consult, etc. - writing is my main love and I want it to be the majority of my income. I'm really fortunate to be a full-time creative and I still do a lot of work independently for no money, but when I have a show that would be too expensive to produce on my own, ideally I want someone else footing the bill and paying me to write the scripts.

I love that audio fiction has the low barrier to entry it does, because I think hobbyists are incredible - it is a beautiful and generous thing to provide your labor freely to something creative and then share it with the world - but the barrier to being a professional audio drama writer is certainly higher. I'm very lucky to already be there, but, as every creative will tell you, even after you've had several successes and established yourself in the field, it can still be hard to make a living!

anyway, I hope this answers your question! I love talking about this stuff, so if anyone else is curious about this kind of thing, please ask away.

#lauren writes things #audio fiction #producing #also I say I don't like doing it anymore #but that's exactly what briggon andrew and I are working on #it's gonna be a show where we just split profits equally bc I can't afford to pay them lol #and I'll be sound designing it myself #so apologies in advance #also my GOD lauren can you be succinct once in your GODDAMN LIFE #why are all my posts so long i'm so sorry #also I don't get into it in this post #but using my book example as a jumping off point #obviously it is MUCH more complicated than that #bc self publishing/promoting/etc.#and writing the book in the first place!#is an ENORMOUS effort #as is making an audio drama!#also the grand irony in this #is that the show i was referencing in my original post is a show i first came up with to do independently lol #a two person show for briggon and andrew in fact #and then I happened to mention it to some producers I know and they liked it #so that's a show I COULD make for no money!#but they want to pitch it out and there's no harm in asking around #and in the meantime i just came up with another show for briggon and andrew haha #lauren answers things

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smallsies · 1 month

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Happy Audio Drama Sunday! ✨

I've never done one of these before, but there's no time like the present, right?

This week, I've been caught between relistening to The Silt Verses and also trying to catch up to the latest episodes of WOE.BEGONE at the same time, so those shows have been on rotation & keeping me company while I'm in the midst of packing to move again soon and/or chipping away at the seemingly endless slew of projects! For the coming week, I've already heard Episode 1 of Wanderer's Journal, but I'm definitely looking forward to a relisten after the show's public release in a couple of days.

In SPACE SPECKS @spacespeckspod news this week, we're finalizing the script for our pilot episode, editing a new show teaser, keeping up with our crew call, and our lovely artist is finishing up some character art for our casting announcements soon!

And in the Podcast Book Club @podcast-bookclub realm, we're celebrating our 1 year anniversary this upcoming weekend with a Marathon event. Alongside this, we've got a trio of new shows about to start in the server, so this is a great time to join in with us.

Tangentially, the end of Podcast Jam @podcastjam is finally on the horizon! We've just passed the halfway point of scriptwriting et al, with the weekend after next being Jam Weekend, where everyone might begin to regret the "edit and record everything within a few days" part of the event. Then it'll be a little over a month from now (May 25!) until those pilots will be publicly available for everyone's ears :)

Have a great week, friends!

#audio drama sunday #finch chirps #audio drama #fiction podcast #space specks #podcast book club

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mxbadluckpod · 2 months

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HAPPY TRANS DAY OF VISIBILITY

Here's your preview of our trans characters and their trans voice actors in season 2!! * Micah Oak Dyslexic, Aromantic-Asexual Nonbinary, they/them ~ voiced by Luka Miller (they/he) * Charlie King Straight Transgender Man, he/they ~ voiced by Victor Hua (he/they) * Salem Alice ADD, Bisexual Agender, she/they to they/them/she ~ voiced by Teu M Shin (they/xe) * Violet Lucian Achillean-Asexual Genderfluid, he/she ~ voiced by Kris Allison (any) * Rue Alice Lesbian-Asexual Transgender Woman, she/her ~ voiced by Kiki Ash (she/her)

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hephaestuscrew · 1 year

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A book asks the reader to imagine any sensory input of the story, whereas a film or TV show provides both sound and visuals. Audio fiction lives in the space between these two approaches. I think there's a unique power to that middle ground. I love how audio drama asks the listener to co-construct their sensory experience of the story.

Audio drama allows me to simultaneously experience 'This character feels real to me because I've heard their voice' and 'This character feels real to me because I've pictured them myself'.

What the characters are experiencing is both directly presented to me and left to my imagination. There's no page or screen between me and the story. It's there in my ears. It's there in my mind's eye.

There's a strange sense of intimacy to that, the intimacy of feeling like a fly on the wall during a conversation or of hearing a character speaking as if directly to me. Perhaps it sounds contradictory to say that experiencing a story only through sound allows me to feel uniquely connected to that story, but that's one of the reasons why I love audio fiction so much.

#I am conscious that this is very much the perspective of a sighted and hearing person #and I hope that doesn't come across weirdly #I'm just trying to articulate how I feel about it #This is no shade to books/films/TV btw #They are also excellent mediums with their own strengths #Honestly the main reason why podcasts are my primary form of media consumption #is probs that I'm bad at setting aside time to read/watch things #rather than necessarily because of the specific power of audio fiction #but the particular magic of audio fiction is a nice bonus #I don't really buy into the idea that reading is 'active' while watching video is inherently 'passive'#but under that way of thinking audio fiction is kind of between passive and active in an interesting way #podcasts #audio drama #audio fiction #the empty man posteth #I'd be interested to know if this resonates with anyone else or if it's just me #Also another element to this which makes it weirder is that I have a pretty weak visual imagination #so when I say 'mind's eye' that tends to mean vague concepts for me rather than actual images #but it still helps me feel connected to the story in a unique way. Idk

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bun-fish · 11 months

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"they worked like there was no tomorrow-" bro if there was no tomorrow I wouldn't even be working. I would go find my best friend I made within the 15 years I spent wandering about on this round-blue little fucker, take them to a bar, casually mention said little fucker is gonna blow up in a matter of minutes, gulp down my beer, scare the bartender to half-death, and before the half-death becomes a full-death, grab my buddy and fucking bail onto a spaceship steered by the green goopy aliens that happen to write the wrost poetry imaginable that blew up my home planet when I was a small child all while I attempt to do my job as a Universal Wikipedia Editor

#the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy #ford prefect #listening to the audio book bc i can't get the English version without spending money and my bookshelf is beyond full #science fiction #douglas adams #mostly harmless #bunfish blahs

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podcast-bookclub · 8 months

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The Hallowoods is coming to the Book Club!

Beginning October 9th, we're introducing a new category of shows to the bookclub called Listener's Picks. These are shows that maintain a more centralized fanbase here on Tumblr, and will (hopefully!) encourage listeners to become more involved in show discussions with other fans, alongside introducing then to some lesser-known audio dramas we run in the bookclub.

We chose @hellofromthehallowoods as this first show due to the rather excellent timing of their upcoming break between seasons. For listeners, this is a great opportunity for you to get caught up with the show, or jump into a full relisten, right alongside other folks doing the same thing! Livescreaming, as William so aptly calls it, is welcome & encouraged over in the Discord server.

Any and all questions can be directed to our inbox, messages, or Finch @smallsies. Looking forward to walking through the black pines with y'all 🌲

#hfth #hello from the hallowoods #podcast book club #audio drama #fiction podcasts #audio fiction #Moderator Finch

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vestaclinicpod · 1 year

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Love audio drama?

Also: secrets and spreading positivity??

Send your favourite indie audio drama a secret confession of love this valentines! 💌

See below for an example of what I’m hoping to send out to some of the best and most beloved podcasters on 14th Feb!

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crowleyssakesnow · 3 days

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Oh, to have the type of banter found in an Emily Henry novel.

#books #Emily Henry #romance #romance novels #fiction #realistic #not my reality but someone’s reality #book lovers #people we meet on vacation #happy place #funny story #beach read #also the narrator for the audio books 🥵#julia whelan #my favourite #honestly will listen to any book she narrates #i’m a peasant and she is my queen 🙇 🙏

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podcastjam · 3 days

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Jam episodes are going live now! We're hanging out in the Discord now for a little launch party, stop by and say hi!

#podcast jam #pbc podcast jam #audio drama #fiction podcast #podcast book club

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