... are up! And they couldn't be more different, except that they're both very short.

On Big Pulp, there's Lepers, a dark flash-fiction story set in 1970s Bombay (what Mumbai used to be called). It's my third story for this magazine ( Read more... )

Michelle M. Welch is launching her new podcast anthology, Theme and Variations, on October 28th. The stories, read by their authors, are being made available under a Creative Commons License. I believe there's also going to be a CD.

I have a story in there, "She Shall Have Music." It's my first ever podcast recording.  (I blogged about it here, ( Read more... )

It's been sent off! To Michelle!


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A few days ago, I posted that I had no idea how to make an MP3 recording. Well, some twenty hours on the learning curve later, now I know.

1.  Buy Podcasting for Dummies. Read at least some of it.

2.  Download Audacity and LAME.

3.   Follow the advice of tech-savvy friend J and buy a microphone at Best Buy (not Radio Shack). A unidirectional USB mic.  ( Read more... )

I consider myself as tech-savvy as I need to be to survive. I do e-mail. Website. Blog. Facebook. Digital image manipulation.  All the usual stuff.

Yesterday, I was stymied.


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