The endlessly talented and prolific Jennifer Brozek just launched her first podcast and it’s great. Five Minute Stories adapts some of her numerous flash pieces into audio fiction, and the first two episodes released are classic examples of why she’s so good at what she does. Cassandra’s Younger Brother is a quietly heroic story about …
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 …
So it’s 1990 and I’m sitting in the back of a car in Castletown. My parents are in the bank, I later realize negotiating with the bank so they can continue to slowly dig their way out of debt and carry on with our more than slightly odd existence on the Isle of Man. I am …
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 …
Morning everyone! Welcome to the first Artemis Rising 2 roundup! It’s been an amazing month of stories and one I’ve loved listening to. To get you caught up, I’ll be running a round up of each show’s stories for the month here every day this week. First up, Podcastle! The Color of Regret by Carrie Patel, …
It’s a huge week at Escape Artists this week, so let’s jump straight in. With a new section! Teaser image! We’ve commissioned a special piece of art for the upcoming Artemis Rising 2 season. It’s stunning work from a Hugo-nominated artist. We’ll be offering prints for a limited time. Much more on this soon… Episode …
It’s a busy week at Escape Artists Central, as usual. We’ve got new episodes for you from three shows, a festive treat from a fourth and a reminder that Mothership Zeta Issue 1 is still available with issue 2 coming soon too. The Winter Festival by Evan Berkow, read by Kate Baker Originally intended for …