In 2018, the first year I started making audio drama (also known as fiction podcasts) after becoming a fan of the medium myself, I was on an overnight red eye flight back home from visiting a friend. As the dim, cramped, claustrophobic Spirit Airlines cabin rumbled and the hours dragged on, I needed a wayContinueContinue reading “Making Peace With Your Monsters: Comfort Horror and Audio”
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Ditch the Gatekeepers or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Being an Indie Podcaster
The entertainment industry is at a crossroads. With the merger of Discovery+ and HBO Max, the revelations out of the Simon & Schuster/Random House antitrust case, and the purging of stories, especially digital-only materials like streaming services, eBooks, and video games, the old institutions of entertainment appear to be closing ranks. Crypto is crashing the hot commodity of NFTs. VentureContinueContinue reading “Ditch the Gatekeepers or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Being an Indie Podcaster”
Approaching the Event Horizon
On July 17th, 2014, I was at work by 7AM scanning live news feeds to send to global alert lists. I had been at this job for about a year and a half, and had seen my fair share of major breaking news–from the war in Gaza to the Boston bombing manhunt. At around 9AM,ContinueContinue reading “Approaching the Event Horizon”