by Kris Rusch | Dec 26, 2013 | Podcast
If you could invent a time travel machine, would you? A no-DeLoreans-required gizmo that actually worked?
Our final story podcast for 2013 introduces Bonnie and Duster Kendal who did just that–constructed a time machine–only theirs is tucked safely inside a mountain in Idaho.
Of course, complications ensue, but Duster and Bonnie’s story doesn’t end here. The creative couple appear in Thunder Mountain, a novel you can read in Smith’s Monthly #2 and which will be released on its own in January, and in Monumental Summit, a subsequent novel that will appear in the upcoming Smith’s Monthly #4 and will be released on its own in March.
We hope you have a safe and happy New Year. We’ll be back next year with a new slate of stories.
This podcast is no longer available. You can listen to the current podcast here.
You can read “Last Car for this Time,” a Duster Kendal story here.
by Kris Rusch | Dec 25, 2013 | blog, Podcast
MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM ALL OF US AT WMG. And for those of you who don’t celebrate Christmas–Happy Holidays, or, failing that, Happy Wednesday.
Regardless of your day’s plans, we have a gift for you. One that we think will just plain make you merry.
It has been a busy year in the audio department. Here are a few of the lessons we’ve learned:
- Accents can be tricky.
- Narrators like to make up new words.
- Starting over is easy to do…again…and again…and…
- Spit happens.
- SSSs are even more tricky than accents.
- Punctuation?
- Narration is harder than it looks…or sounds.
We hope you enjoy listening to our goofs, blunders and audio missteps of 2013.
(NSFW: language)
by Kris Rusch | Dec 19, 2013 | Podcast
WHILE THE REST OF US ARE BUSY with lists and the 7,843 things that absolutely must be accomplished during the holidays, for police officers it’s Nutball Season.
According to Officer Nick Mantino, the weeks of insanity run from Halloween to Christmas, and this year, his “Nutball Season,” written by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, is our story podcast for the week.
Happy Holidays from everyone at WMG Publishing.
This podcast is no longer available. You can listen to the current podcast here.
“Nutball Season” is included in the collection, Silent Night, available in ebook and trade paperback, and can also be found as a stand alone story in ebook format at your favorite retailer.
by Kris Rusch | Dec 12, 2013 | blog, Podcast
EVER HAVE ONE OF THOSE DAYS where perfectly serviceable vampires are replaced by medieval nuns? And modern-day Portland, Oregon, disappears only to be replaced by an English village?
No?
That’s probably for the best because that whole where-the-heck-did-Portland-go chain of events would be disconcerting. However, the nun v. vampire thing might be interesting (and my money would be on the nuns).
I think I need a nap.
So does Carol. She might only be five-years-old, but she’s got big problems (although no vanishing vampires) in “Advisors at Naptime,” our story podcast for this week, written by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
This podcast is no longer available. To listen to the current podcast, please click here.
“Advisors at Naptime” is available in ebook and trade paperback at your favorite retailer.
by Kris Rusch | Nov 28, 2013 | Podcast
HAPPY THANKSGIVING from everyone at WMG Publishing!
Wherever you are in the world and whether or not you celebrate this particular holiday, we hope you enjoy a wonderful meal. Kick back afterwards for a story about a turkey, a chef from Idaho, a princess and one very focused cat: “Pudgygate,” written by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
This podcast was available for one week only. If you missed this one, our current free story podcast is linked in the sidebar on the right above. We post a new story every week.
by Kris Rusch | Nov 14, 2013 | Podcast
ART IS MESSY
Sometimes it goes like this:
1. Inspiration strikes: We fall in love with a cool idea.
2. Implementation: This phase can take a minute or years, but if we love the idea, the story or the business venture enough, we make it work. Eventually.
3. Complications ensue: Fact of life — nothing ever goes smoothly. We all have way too much experience in this phase. In fact, sometimes it seems as if we never get OUT of this phase.
4. The way out: It’s always there even if it takes a whack upside the head to see it.
5. New landscape: Things look different on the other side.
So you have this cool idea: be a photographer.
Great. Make it happen.
Complications ensue when:
A. You live in the Old West.
B. You must convince the town fathers that it’s your husband who is the photographer because who would believe that a woman could deal with all those nasty chemicals. Ick!
C. Your darling husband is one big bundle of complications all on his own. But he is so adorable…
Meet Rosalind in Artistic Photographs by Kristine Grayson.
This podcast was available for one week only. If you missed this one, our current free story podcast is linked in the sidebar on the right above. We’ll have a new free story for your listening pleasure every week.
Our final story podcast for 2013 introduces Bonnie and Duster Kendal who did just that–constructed a time machine–only theirs is tucked safely inside a mountain in Idaho.
