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Hi I'm Tal (they/them); I make audio dramas like @re-dracula, @sidequestingpod, @whatwillbehere, @sditepod, and more. I do voice work for Bloody FM and several other podcasts! Feel free to hop into my inbox and ask for podcast recs or about the fiction podcast making process in general.
What a GREAT GREAT honor for MOONBURN to be featured with @sidequestingpod this month, too!! I couldn't be more excited about this collaboration!
If you're looking for another fiction podcast with truly amazing people at the helm, incredible storytelling, and so much of that special sauce and joy to make your heart sing, check out Sidequesting wherever you get your podcasts!!
The official show art for Hit Singles just dropped! Our show's Audible page looks much livelier now! 😅
The more I look at it, the more I think it perfectly captures our show.
Fun. Colorful. Quirky. Bursting at the seams with personality. Showcasing each of our five leads. Even a little musical in and of itself.
I'm so excited for you all to hear this show.
(And if you haven't already, definitely add Hit Singles to your library, or pre-order the show. The first few weeks make or break new releases, and I think we can make this one something really special. 🙏🤩)
We're adapting Frankenstein next year, and we want to cast entirely Trans VAs! All roles are paid $35/hour of recording time. No previous VA experience required! We're using this call to form a roster to cast specific characters from.
The Case of the Party Evening Gone Wrong.
There's mice loose in 224B Baker Street!
[ID: a digital drawing of Madge, James and Hampton from Fawx & Stallion as Mice. Madge is a lilac mouse, wearing a little hat with violets. James is a tri-coloured mouse wearing a green ascot and holding a little walking stick. Hampton is an orange Texel Mouse wearing a blue bowtie. They're sitting around a little map cut out with tacks and red strings arranged on it. Two glasses filled with a drink are in the background. /End ID]
but what of ambrosius
Been seeing a lot of love for audio fiction on my feed lately, (probably because I follow multiple podcasts but that’s beside the point), and I wanted to add my bit.
Audio fiction people please never stop doing what you do, you are amazing.
I grew up listening to audiobooks every night as I fell asleep as far back as I can remember, and even now most nights I’ll listen to a podcast or audiobook as I drift off, it’s such a big part of my life.
I love stories, I struggle to find time to do a lot of reading at the moment but I can listen, I can always listen. I have laughed and cried alongside the characters I love, living their stories in my ears.
Although the stories I personally want to tell are mostly visual, through my comics, I never want there to be a time where audio fiction isn’t so so important to me.
It is a wonderful thing, never stop making it you wonderful people.
Hey! I never talk about this because it's technical and not the most interesting thing in the world, but are you keeping track of your sound effects and leaving proper attributions?
When you're on freesound TUCKED away into the corner is this thing
It's the deed!
Basically this baby comes in 3 flavors (there are more but you'll have to google them)
THIS LAST ONE UP HERE ^^^ Is the reason I can't sell InCo. I have so many of these sounds in there under this agreement!
Some deeds do not allow you to modify sounds, others allow you to modify so long as you leave a detailed description on how it was modified.
An Attribution should look something like this:
Warm acoustic guitar by finnskog -- https://freesound.org/s/795725/ -- License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0
Freesound.org auto generates them for you!! I think ZapSplat might too.
Attributions should be easily accessible wherever you distribute your show. I put mine at the end of my show notes under the transcript link. But I've also put it in my transcript in the past.
A little over a year ago, my friends and I got to start this incredible, amazing, fulfilling audiodrama journey called MOONBURN. It's a celebration of queerness and Chosen Family and growing up and the power of love, friendship and joy.
And now, I feel so endlessly lucky to be working with all of them again to CONTINUE this story, this world, this journey with SEASON TWO!
If you haven't already, check out SEASON ONE of MOONBURN wherever you get your podcasts-- catch up, reach out, and help us get ready for a brand new season of love and joy!
I love trans voices in audio dramas. I love when trans characters are voiced by trans actors and their voice isn't 100% passing. I love that said characters are never misgendered. I love how their voices sound beautiful and authentic. I love that their voces sound like mine our my friend's.
The mods of the AuDIAs are incredibly grateful for the support and enthusiasm we've seen for this event over the last week since opening nominations - you all are absolutely wonderful, we've been amazed at the number of submissions received! That said, we've already had to make some tough calls and wish to be as transparent as possible, along with ensuring that we're all on the same page, going forward.
Within the week, we've had to close five of our seven nomination categories. While we understand this may be frustrating for those who were initially unaware of the event and who may now feel as if they're being disallowed from participating, we want to remind everyone that this is a free awards project created by a team of three, who are working on this in our spare time. The audio drama community is wonderful and dedicated, but we will be adjusting our internal qualifications and culling nominations down to a manageable number, which means not every submitted show will be eligible.
While we know (and agree) that nearly every podcast can qualify as indie, these awards were created hoping to highlight hidden gems specifically within audio drama, and is the reason we're changing our eligibility requirements. We love this community, and we know that everyone is small compared to relative giants in the space, but, first and foremost, we're aiming to uplift the hidden gems and give the shows you've never heard of before a chance to shine.
Thank you again for all the support, and if you have any questions, feel free to reach out anytime at support@audias.org. We hope this event helps you all to find some new shows to check out, and meet our goal of really celebrating the unheard-of shows out there in this community!
From an aspiring writer: are you doing this full time? Is it enough to pay bills? How are you making ends meet? Do you have side jobs or did you start out with them?
I rly wanna do creative work professionally but I just looked up stats for how much authors get paid and it is SO dismal, like I’d make more money part-timing at a coffee store levels of dismal, like unemployment benefits pay more levels of dismal. Ugh.
Also I love you! And Faulkner! Probably more Faulkner! Thank you for giving your cast life!
I'm lucky enough to temporarily and mostly be doing this full time. With multiple caveats - taking on freelance projects on the side, having a partner who still works a real job, being older now and joint homeowners after a couple of decades working real jobs - but that's only been the case for the past year or so, it's not what you'd call a stable income, and we're ready to change back at any point when we have to. And that's still relatively speaking an immensely privileged position for any creative writer and especially for anyone who works in audiodrama.
With regards to "I'd make more money doing X or Y" - well, yeah. You can do both, of course, and for the vast majority of writers in any medium that's the practical reality to make ends meet, and there shouldn't be any stigma involved in that. Bukowski worked in the post office until he was almost 50 and he'd been getting published for half his life before that. Plenty of great writers have been on benefits, plenty of great writers have done quasi-creative work commercially in advertising or copywriting or editing to keep themselves afloat financially while utilising their skills.
Do what you have to do, and remember that there's no expiry date on a creative output - you're not an actor trying to get a starring role in Hollywood before your first wrinkle dooms you to obscurity. You're writing about life, and you're probably going to get better at writing about life as you go on living.
When I was younger I think I imagined there was a hard dividing line between being A Real Professional Artist (it's impossibly hard but it'll all pay off once I'm noticed! It'll prove my worth as a human being and make all of the struggle worthwhile!) and a regular person with a regular job that eats away all my time and energy (sellout, giving up on my dreams, never going to write again) and ultimately that's a narcissist's fantasy built on insecurity. Your goal is to make the time and space to write, but when you can't make the time, that doesn't mean you've failed. You can always come back to it.
TLDR: I am writing full-time right now, sort of. It probably won't last. It's OK if it doesn't last, and it's OK not to be making a full-time living out of writing, temporarily or permanently. Don't let it stop you. The kid from Whiplash probably burnt out six months after that last drum solo.
From now until May 1, 50% of proceeds from sales of the Re: Dracula Audiobook and Re: Carmilla Supercut will be going to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund!
