Wegfo Here’s the full list. Here’s the official press release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Escape Artists Make The British Fantasy Award Finals Award-winning genre fiction podcasts PseudoPod and PodCastle have made the shortlist for the British Fantasy Society Best Audio award. The award, debuting last year, went to the audio adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Anansi Boys. …
WorldCon 76 is imminent! And I will be appearing in several capacities at several places, many of them on Friday. You can find my official schedule link here but I know you’re all busy people, so here it is: FRIDAY 11:00AM Kaffeeklatsch: Alasdair Stuart San Jose Convention Center – 211B (Me! A small group of people! …
Hello authors, this post’s for you. There are a lot of misconceptions floating around genre fiction about audio publication in general, and EA in specific. Let me walk you through some of them and show you the significantly more awesome truth. Onward! EA only buys reprints Not true! When Escape Pod was launched in 2005 its goal …
A couple of weeks ago I was asked to be part of the Real Creatives series Ghostwoods Books are doing. Ghostwoods do amazing work with short fiction and as a means of spotlighting that work and us, they asked a few people to take over their twitter feed for an afternoon. It was great fun, and …
Storify of my Real Creatives Twitter takeover for Ghostwoods Books
Here we go! After months of planning and design, it gives us HUGE pleasure to formally announce the Pseudopod 10th Anniversary Kickstarter! 2016 marks Pseudopod’s 10th Halloween. Just about this time in 2013, we were weeks from shutting our doors and turning the lights off. Thanks to contributors like you, we were able to not …
Episode 500 of Pseudopod went live today. It’s a Fritz Leiber story and one of a ten part series Shawn and Alex have put together highlighting the best horror from every decade of the 20th century. This one’s free, and massive at 13,000 words. The rest will be released monthly to subscribers and the link to …
Hello everyone! I’m Alasdair. I’m a podcaster, voice actor, RPG designer, columnist, critic and fiction writer. My big job is as the owner of Escape Artists,. What’s Escape Artists? I’m glad you asked! We publish the longest running short genre fiction podcasts on the planet. Started over a decade ago, we produce weekly podcasts that …
Artemis Rising is the month-long celebration of female and non-binary authors in genre fiction run across three Escape Artists podcasts PodCastle for fantasy, EscapePod for science fiction, and PseudoPod for horror. This year we have commissioned a special art print by legendary illustrator Galen Dara. Galen likes monsters, mystics, and dead things. She has created …
On New Year’s Eve, Kameron Hurley put up Team Hurley’s goals for 2016. It’s a great idea, especially the hope that writing goals like this down somewhere means you’re far more likely to meet them. So, with that in mind, and grateful thanks to Kameron for the format I’m blatantly stealing, here are my goals …
Cast of Wonders, Marguerite’s award winning YA podcast and the fourth arm of the Escape Artists fleet, has just reopened to submissions! The new guidelines tell you everything you need to know and are here. And the Christmas episode, Marley and Cratchit by David Steffen and read by my dad, Ian Stuart, is available here.