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8 Podcasts to Get You Ready for NaNo

(This article was originally published on the Simplecast blog on October 4, 2022) National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, is a program that encourages participants to write a fifty thousand word novel over the course of November. I did my first NaNoWriMo ten years ago, but didn’t truly devote myself to the challenge until NaNoWriMo […]

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Is Podcasting Right for my Local Business?

(This article was originally published on the Simplecast blog on October 5, 2023) Local business owners need to have a strong marketing plan if they want to succeed. As you study different ways of marketing your business, you’re going to see a lot of suggestions that you start a podcast. Podcasts are fun! Podcasts are […]

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Self-Editing Your Fiction Podcast Script

(This article was originally published on the Simplecast blog on November 7, 2023) As an independent fiction podcast creator, you’re probably working on a tight budget. (If you have a budget at all, that is.) What money you have disappears quickly, and sometimes you have to sacrifice certain aspects of your planned production process. A […]

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A Quick Guide to Researching with Podcasts

(This article was originally published to Simplecast on December 18, 2023) When someone begins a research project, podcasts usually aren’t the first resource they consider. However, podcasts can be exceptionally useful for students, professors, and general researchers. With so many podcasts created by a vast array of organizations, there is bound to be a show […]

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New Winslow Thank You Letter

New Winslow started as the first words of an audio drama script, typed into my phone in November 2018 in the attic waiting room of my son’s Early Intervention playgroup. It was snowing outside, and I had about forty minutes to write as much as I could. So first came the scene with a cheerful […]

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New Winslow S8E63 – Series Finale

It turned out that the ocean did sound just a little different than he thought it did. But after over twenty years of only hearing it on TV, Roman had to figure he couldn’t blame himself too badly for his surprise as he stepped out onto the beach. The tide was out and the waves […]

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New Winslow S8E62

There were customers in Iris’s shop again. Once she’d finished the repairs and reopened, it had been so quiet for so long that she was afraid the damage was done. To the point where she’d been considering whether it was worth selling everything and trying again somewhere else. She had options, even if it didn’t […]

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New Winslow S8E61

Cleo hadn’t even thought about how things were different now when she accepted the invite to play at Club Apex on Friday night. All she’d been focused on was how she didn’t have to work that night and had the new album, so it’d be nice to play live again. And with the support she’d […]

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The Northern Worcester County branch of the Foundation for Paranormal Research is one of the organization’s top investigation and cleanup teams. So when a case comes in involving a century of mysterious disappearances, they figure they’ll be done before their lunch break is supposed to end. Investigators James and Amelia go to the site while their coworkers remain behind. But in seconds, Amelia vanishes in the cursed house and the others are forced to find her with no help from their bosses. Will they be able to get her back or will the house claim one final victim?

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