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Back again after a typical period of absence with a new podcast - SOMETIMES 20!

Now if you've been listening to me for years, you may recall that I read a story for Pseudopod back in 2010 called Spirit of Nationalism by Richard Marsden. However, I know that I've picked up a lot of new listeners since then, and so, since I've always liked the story and my reading of it, I thought I'd recycle it for Sometimes. I contacted Richard Marsden, and he gave his blessing, so here it is, gracing the audio pages of Sometimes 20!

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Richard has another story on Pseudopod called Grave of Ships, and has a number of books and stories available from his website, including an ongoing sci-fi humour saga called The Traveling Tyrant.

Also in the podcast, there's the return of the One Among the Sleepless podcast, news about the Salvation and Other Stories 3 Day Giveaway from Amazon. For 3 days from 00.01 am Thursday 28th Feb to 11.59 Saturday 3rd March, this ebook will be available for free from Amazon stores around the world. All I ask in return is that you leave 5 stars and a few kind words. Many thanks.

There's also news on the ebook and print releases of Underwood and Flinch, and news about the sequel, Blood and Smoke. And, besides a trip to the fridge and a song from Lene Lovich, you'll also hear about the new German editions of Salvation (Erlösung) and Night Crossing (Nachtfahrt), as translated by Martje Salje. You can get those from my page at Smashwords.

So all in all, it's quite a bumper slice of podcastery, and I hope you enjoy it

Music on the podcast

Lene Lovich
"Bird Song" (mp3)
from "Lucky Number (The Best Of)"
(Oval Music)

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Back in October 2010, I released a huge special edition Sometimes podcast especially for Halloween. The featured story was E. Nesbit's classic spookster, Man-Size in Marble.

I also had the reading of Man-Size available on YouTube, but back when I uploaded it, YouTube was only taking videos of about 15 minutes in length, so it was broken up into three separate videos. This - as anyone who's ever tried to follow a segmented video on YouTube can testify - was a pain in the a*se. Part One got viewed a million times but the other parts barely got a look in.

However, today I'm happy to announce that as YouTube now permits much longer videos, I've restored and uploaded the full-length recording of Man-Size in Marble in all its creepy glory. You can get it here.

It's a bit early for Halloween, but it works just as well on any dark winter's night, and by gosh, we're certainly getting those lately (or at least we are in my part of the world)

For a playlist of all my readings of classic short stories on YouTube, click here.

I've been meaning to do this for ages and I've finally done it; I've taken all my readings of classic short stories from 'Sometimes' and released them as a stand-alone podcast with the help of the good people at Podiobooks.com.

It's interesting for me to listen to these again as I can hear the room I was in and the mic I was using when I recorded them. For example, 'The Cold Embrace' was recorded in a huge sitting room with an open kitchen attached (inc. the original fridge), and using the same mic I used for One Among the Sleepless, while 'Dagon' for example, was recorded in a small room with my current mic. I could go on about good and bad rooms and microphones all day, but I won't bore you. To cut a long story short, the podcaster who rents apartments and houses has to use whatever four walls come to hand, and some lodgings give rise to better podcast audio than others. There see, I'm already boring myself. I'll shut up.

The podcast is available here at Podiobooks

And here at iTunes.

Any kind words or reviews you feel like leaving will be very gratefully received. My thanks in advance :-)