Crescent is intended for a mature audience and is not appropriate for listeners under 17 years of age. Listener discretion is strongly advised.
Some places are far darker than deep space. Places where the shadows smile. Where men go mad and lovers go missing. Where reality is stretched thin and something hungry is waiting just outside the corner of your eye.
Turn out the lights, take a deep breath, and dare to visit one of these places.
Crescent is dark science fiction at it's most visceral. Phil Rossi weaves a tale that is reminiscent of old school Stephen King but with a shiny, new set of tricks and an appetite to terrify. There's sex. There's corruption. There's horror. And after you sweat your way through the first chapter, there's plenty more to keep you awake at night.
Find out why Crescent is one of the fastest growing podcast novel sensations to date.
Crescent has been listed as "What's Hot" on the iTunes Music Store Homepage, a featured iTunes Literature podcast, in iTunes Top 25 Literature Podcasts, in the Podiobooks Top 10, as well as appeared in the Loudoun Times, in On Tap Magazine, on Dragon Page Cover to Cover, Scott Sigler's Bloodcast and more.
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Coming soon: By popular demand, Crescent will be available in several, convenient files for download!
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Playing for Keeps.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 25 Release Date for Mur Lafferty’s Playing for Keeps
Swarm Press is pleased to announce the upcoming release of breakthrough podcaster and author Mur Lafferty’s newest novel of superheroic action Playing for Keeps. Originally a self-released “podiobook,” this new printed version of Lafferty’s novel is due to hit shelves on August 25, 2008.
Playing for Keeps by Mur Lafferty.
Welcome to Seventh City, the birthplace of super powers. The First Wave heroes are jerks, but they have the best gifts: flight, super strength, telepathy, genius, fire. The Third Wavers, like bar-owner Keepsie Branson and her friends, are stuck with the leftovers: the ability to instantly make someone sober, the power to smell the past, absolute control… over elevators. They just aren’t powerful enough to make a difference… at least that’s what they’ve always been told. But when the villain Doodad slips Keepsie a mysterious metal sphere, the Third Wavers become caught in the middle of a battle between egotistical heroes and manipulative villains.
“Playing for Keeps grabbed me and kept me reading straight through when I should have been plotting a new fantasy series for Tor Books. Mur, thank you. Tor, however, does not thank you.” – David Drake, author, Hammer’s Slammers.
Mur Lafferty is an American podcaster and writer based in Durham, North Carolina. She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and graduated with a degree in English. Her nonfiction work has appeared at www.SuicideGirls.com, as well as in the magazines Knights of the Dinner Table, PC Gamer, Computer Games, Scrye, and SciFi Magazine. Her short fiction has appeared in Hub, Escape Pod, and Scrybe. She was, until July, 2007, the host and co-editor of Pseudopod, and is currently the host and creator of the podcasts Geek Fu Action Grip and I Should be Writing. Visit Mur online at www.murverse.com
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Media: to schedule an interview with Mur or to request a review copy of Playing for Keeps, contact publicist Matt Staggs at mattormeg@gmail.com.
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It’s with a great deal of joy and enthusiasm that I’m releasing the first volume of the Crescent Soundtrack today. As many of you know, the soundtrack/score for Crescent was composed by me during the production of the Crescent podcast. Many of the songs were written and recorded in complete parallel to the production of the specific episodes where the tunes were featured. It was a pretty fantastic experiment, if not a little much to chew at times. I figured I was getting so little sleep as it was (thanks to Crescent’s demanding production), why not deprive myself entirely and make Crescent a dual experience?
The Crescent Soundtrack represents a departure from the smoky, dark, and slightly Americana vibe that has been the hallmark of my song writing in recent years. (you can get a taste those tunes with an upcoming Spring and Summer releases, for more info go to visit PhilRossi.net).
The Crescent Soundtrack will be released in multiple volumes. Volume one is live today and can be purchased from the following spots:
http://www.myspace.com/crescentstation
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Let's rally it up for Sigler, even though he is a little bitch that smells like flowers. Show Scott a little love. I'm not responsible if he tries for a reach around.
Infected's release is fast approaching, kiddies. April 1st. That's Tuesday. I've preordered my copy. Have you?
I lifted the following from Podiobooks.com.
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Crown Publishing is letting Scott Sigler give away the PDF of INFECTED from March 27 through March 31, leading up to the hardcover in-store release on April 1. So download it! Feel free to email the link to anyone you know.
Please do not email the PDF, email the LINK. This is so Scott can prove to Crown the value in giving away content, and if your friends click on the link, that counts on their server stats - emailing the PDF doesn't count on the stats.
Infected is the first major print release from Internet phenom Scott Sigler, whose podcast-only audiobooks have drawn an immense cult following, with more than three million individual episodes downloaded. Now Sigler storms the bookstore shelves with this cinematic, relentlessly paced novel that mixes and matches genres, combining horror, technothriller, and suspense in a heady mix that is equal parts Chuck Palahniuk, Michael Crichton, and Stephen King.
Infected will crawl beneath your skin and leave fresh blood on every page.
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Christiana Ellis is one of those fantastic people who was (and still is, I hope) a big supporter of Crescent. Prior the Crescent's release, she assembled an all-star cast and made a parody of the Vignettes series that was wholly entertaining. I imagine a lot of you new (er) to the dance might not have had the chance to hear this, as in the end I never got around to finding it a good home--and shame on me.
Croissant Station
Thanks again, Christiana.
If you people haven't checked out Space Casey, what the hell are you waiting for?
-Phil
Many thanks to Podfinder UK for talking up Crescent! If you haven't checked out this great VidCast that really does showcase some of the hottest podcasts out there, you should.
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Date:
Saturday November 10th, 2007
Time:
9:00 pm EST, 6:00 pm PST
Where:
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Call-in: (724) 444-7444 Talkcast ID: 27091
Second Life location (SLURL):
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Saturday November 10th, 2007 6:00pm PST; 9:00 EST
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What's hot?
Apparently, Crescent. Final three episodes start this week! Crescent Second Life/Talk Shoe event on Saturday Nov. 10th. Live QA, Live Music, Live Reading!
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Crescent is featured on the iTunes Podcast front page!
Marisa visits Gerald. Ina and Marisa have a chat. There's a party at Heathens.
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*sorry for the file error! I botched my own naming convention!*
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The serialization of novels, like the ones Charles Dickens used to do, have gone the way of general interest magazines and polio. When one trend dies, another is usually right on its heels. However, in this case it took a few decades.
With the popularity of television came the decline of periodicals and their seemingly endless number of blank pages that needed filling. Then the Internet popped up and provided writers, both rookie and veteran alike, with all the blank pages they could dream of.
Phil Rossi has not gotten his book “Crescent” published, but thousands of people have already listened to it.
Read the full article by following this link.
Thanks to Matt Van Tassel for writing a great article.
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