Great news!

Magic of Eyri has been nominated for two Parsec Awards!

• Best New Speculative Fiction Podcaster/Team
• Best Speculative Fiction Comedy/Parody Podcast

The Parsec Awards are,

“Dedicated to rewarding excellence in various aspects of Speculative Fiction Podcasting.”

This is a great honor, but–I have to wait and hear if I’m a finalist. That should be next month. I had to turn in a sample containing three segments I thought best showcased the areas I was nominated in. Those segments could only come from the first season (my first year of eligibility).

Winners are picked from the finalists, and the awards are given out at Dragon*Con in September. Winners don’t have to be present to win, and I don’t think they let the winners know ahead of time, so if (if) I were a finalist, I would have to head down there and hope for the best (and I probably would, if I could swing it financially/time off wise).

But even being a finalist would be amazing!

July Break!

There will not be any episodes released during July because I am moving and it could be awhile before I get settled and have Internet again. I decided to play it safe and also to give myself a break. I earned it. After this week’s episode, the next episode will be available August 4th.

If you are hurting for something to listen to in July, check out my other podcast, LansingNext. It is a weekly talk show.

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Today’s episode: Action and adventure on the high seas! Our heroes have a run in with the Gull pirate, Vanderawlt, and the survivors of the Village Formally Known as Uth the Last Human Village.

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Today’s episode: Our Heroes are taken by Mudd the duck to meet his cousin, Alexander the Small,  captain of the ship The Griffin. Mudd claims Alexander will take the party to Dragons Well, but upon meeting the short captain, Steve and the others realize there is something not quite right about him. For starters, he wears an iron pot on his head.

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In our last episode: the Hawk King puts out a reward for Steve’s live capture and sends his second-in-command, U’nala, after the boy with bumbling guards Remmit and Kaz in tow.

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Cast:

Daniel J. Hogan

(Host, Narrator, Characters)

Robin Hudson

(Eira the pelican)

Valeta

(Tuuga the turtle)

Next Time on The Magic of Eyri (05.19.10): “Flight of the Griffin” -  Alexander tells our heroes of the Pixie People and what makes his ship unique.

Ramblings:

This episode, like the last one, features a tip of the hat to the “Everyone? Everyone!” scene in the film The Professional. We are introduced to one of my favorite characters, Alexander the Small (who’s name is an obvious play on Alexander the Great). Despite being small in height, Alexander is a larger than life character, and was always fun to write.

A bit of trivia, the name of the ship, The Griffin, comes from something I read once about a ship named The Griffin being one of the first “ghost ships” on the Great Lakes. Sadly,  I haven’t been able to find that website/article since I wrote the novel, but that’s fine. The ship is not named after Family Guy.

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