Star Trek Books As A Podcast

[Man of Steel]

Yeah, I had auditioned for like 5 different parts with Pendant Audio, and Darker Projects, but only got the one with temporal investigations. Also in the 3rd episode from Pendant of Martian Manhunter.....with one...count em....one line LOL

The one liner I have is the character of Neutron, towards the end of the 3rd episode, which comes out later this month, like May 21st or something.

As far as Scott Sigler goes....yeah, he's the man as far as podcast novels go. My favorite, is The Rookie, which is kind of like Star Wars meets Any Given Sunday meets the Sopranos or something along that line.

Crown books, which is a division of Random House Publishing gave him a 3 book deal after his success in podcasting, by self-promoting his books, when his book Ancestor came out by an independant publisher, he was able to be #7 overall on Amazon behind Harry Potter and Oprah and #1 in Sci-Fi and Horror. For example a great first run for an indy publisher is around 2500 books, Scott hit around 15,000 or something outragous like that. A major publisher threatened to pull their books from Amazon if they sold Scott's books and Amazon then made all their pre-orders go through hoops to get their book. But he previaled and won that battle.

After that the Crown Book deal happened, and his podcast Infection became the book Infected, and then his sequal Contagious came out, and the third is Pandemic (I think), after that....he's got enough sales to continue his deal with Crown. There was such a buzz around Contagious that they pushed his deadline up by 6 months, they wanted it before Christmas, or at least the end of the year of 2008.

JC Hutchins and Seth Harwood are two others that got book deals based off their podcast novels.

How did you get the part on Pendant?

 

[jhempel24]

I just auditioned for it. They post auditions all the time for their shows, but they have a ton of people audition for everything, so if you don't get a part, just keep at it, I think I've auditioned for like 50-60 different roles, but only got the one part, except for Mis-Adventures of Travis and Dean, I played Dean, but the producer got depressed and didn't want to do it anymore, so it was cancelled after 4 shows and never saw the light of day

Their website has all the info on how to audition and stuff.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I would simply be happy with UNABRIDGED audiobooks of the existing novels out there. Only a couple are out there that are unabridged.

There are unabridged titles, yes, but not from Simon & Schuster Audioworks:

"Star Trek Nemesis" by J.M. Dillard, read by Grover Gardner, Sound Library/BBC Audiobooks America, 2002, 347 min. (This one rivals Simon & Schuster Audioworks' version, which was read by Boyd Gaines, 2002, 180 min. Abridged by George Truett.)

"Vulcan's Soul, Book 1: Exodus" by Josepha Sherman and Susan Shwartz, read by Richard Poe, Recorded Books, 2004, 510 min. (This one rivals Simon & Schuster Audioworks' version, which was read by Boyd Gaines, 2004, 240 min. Abridged by George Truett.)

"Vulcan's Soul, Book 2: Exiles" by Josepha Sherman and Susan Shwartz, read by Richard Poe, Recorded Books, 2006, 630 min.

"Vulcan's Soul, Book 3: Epiphany" by Josepha Sherman and Susan Shwartz, read by Richard Poe, Recorded Books, 2007, 694 min.

Are there any vision impaired ST fans out there? IIRC, vision impaired fans can access unlicensed unabridged readings that have been made by volunteers for a special library, but I don't think they can be lent beyond that community. (I was once asked to narrate one of my fan stories onto audio for some vision impaired local ST fans, but it was very "cottage industry". I used soundtrack music in the background and a licensed Star Trek "sound effects key chain" to add noises such as doors opening, phasers firing, tricorders beeping, and ships going to warp.)