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Schedule Update

06.18.2009 by Starla Huchton // Leave a Comment

Okay, so July first might have been a touch overzealous as a launch date. I knew that when I said it. It might have been doable if it was just me doing the reading, but since it’s become a full cast recording, it was inevitable that the schedules of others would not allow for such a close deadline. Right now, the summer con season has artist Cheyenne Wright caught up in commissions, not to mention actual travel, so recording for his lines will not be able to start until the week of July 1st. And since his part is so integral to the story, we are setting the schedule around him. With luck, we can still launch in July, but I’d rather do it right and later than crappy and quickly.

And, all this is fine, as it turns out I’m actually going out of town for a few weeks myself. Hopefully by the time I get back I’l have lots of audio and promo stuff to work on.

So that is how it stands. Things are starting to come together and I am very happy with the progress.

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More WIN!

06.16.2009 by Starla Huchton // Leave a Comment

Okay, I can officially officially say it now! Dr. James D. Priest, author and narrator of Kirins: The Spell of No’an is a part of The Dreamer’s Thread cast! I have thusly added him to the links list to the left there, under CAST WEBSITES. Some of the folks involved here don’t have websites as yet, but when they do, rest assured, they will also be included here.

I am so thankful for the wonderful people who are stepping up to help me out. I sincerely thank you all from the bottom of my heart.

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A Productive Monday…WTF?

06.15.2009 by Starla Huchton // Leave a Comment

So, yours truly was quite productive today. This morning I obtained coffee in a timely manner and immediately set to work…and was then ordered to put on real clothes and make myself presentable…but then I got right back to work.

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Cover Art FTW!

06.13.2009 by Starla Huchton // Leave a Comment

Okies, so, I am SUPER excited right now.

After hemming and hawing over asking someone to create the cover art for The Dreamer’s Thread, I sat down last night in a fit of inspiration and started drawing.

Yes, you read that right. I drew something.

Haven’t really put pencil to paper since circa fall ’06 when I took Perspective and Drawing I from Art Institute Online. I thought then maybe I was okay at it, but any other passing attempts since then deflated the small bit of confidence I had there.

So imagine my overwhelming feeling of WIN when I churned out a bit of hand-drawn awesome in about an hour and a half or so last night. I scanned the awesome, worked my digital design magic and just finished what I think might be something good enough to call the official cover art of The Dreamer’s Thread Podcast.

Okay, so there’s folks out there that will take a look at this and go “uh, it’s fine I guess”, but to them I say “so show me something better ***hole”. LOL. Well, maybe not quite that way, but if you think you can do better I challenge thee! If you are full of more awesome than I am, by all means feel free to one-up me.

Without further ado, I hereby present to you…

THE OFFICIAL ARTWORK FOR THE DREAMER’S THREAD PODCAST!

Alright, you may now bow down in the pressence of my awesome and bask in the glow of my WIN.

And did I mention… SQUUUUEEEEEEEE!!!!!

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Off topic, but…

06.12.2009 by Starla Huchton // Leave a Comment

I’ve been asked for my song list by the twitter folks who listen to my shows that aren’t in Second Life to get this, so I am posting this list of tunes here as I can’t think of any other place for it to go at the moment. You can get me on Skype or Twitter during my shows and put in a request if you like. Here it is…*takes a deep breath*

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Let the excited squeals begin!

06.12.2009 by Starla Huchton // Leave a Comment

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG

*ahem*

So yes, I twittered yesterday about the great news I had about TDT, and said I would blog about it today. I hate to be called a liar, so here’s my news of WIN:

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Visible Progress

06.09.2009 by Starla Huchton // Leave a Comment

First, the biggest news…

THE DREAMER’S THREAD PROMO IS LIVE!

That’s right, the first ever promo is hot and ready for your consumption on the novel website. Grab it, play it, share it, make everyone you know listen to it.

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Frazzled nerves

06.06.2009 by Starla Huchton // Leave a Comment

One bad thing about being a procrastinating overachiever is that your ideas often are much, much larger than what you are actually capable of doing. This is especially true when you have grand ideas of a collaborative project that requires the compliance of other people. The hardest thing to do is ask someone who knows nothing about you for help in furthering your dreams. More so when those strangers are already leagues ahead of you on the road to success. You want their name attached to your project to help promote it, but since you’re nobody, it’s very very hard to convince them they should acquiesce to your request. Thus, you end up feeling like it’s a very private club that they won’t let you in. Sort of like high school, only actually important.

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What are YOU listening to?

06.04.2009 by Starla Huchton // Leave a Comment

Another doc visit, another prescription. The Cold That Wouldn’t Die continues to…well, not die.

But enough about my health FAIL. Today I would like to talk about some of the authors that I like to listen to. Maybe give you all some recommendations. The first one I have to mention is Mur Lafferty’s Playing for Keeps. This was the first podiobook I ever heard and is officially responsible for getting me hooked on podiobooks. I downloaded it on the advice of Jamie Jordan, as he wanted me to hear what he wanted to do with my book. If you have even the slightest interest in superheroes or comedy or just a damn good story, this is a book you must listen to.

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Website Work

06.03.2009 by Starla Huchton // Leave a Comment

So, I’m doing some more work on the website for TDT, which is going to include putting a link to this blog there, instead of creating a whole new one. I’ve gone through the layout here on blogger and added some stuff like my Twitter feed (follow me!) and a whole ton of links at the bottom of the main page. These links take you to a bunch of other author/podcasters, and, of course, a link to Jamie Jordan’s website. Without Jamie, none of this would have happened. The podcast of TDT was his idea after he read the novel, and without his knowledge and experience, this dream would have faded long ago. So please check him out! He does other work with other podcasts including Gaming Uncensored as well as Mur Lafferty’s Playing For Keeps. He’s all busy with E3 this week (fooey on that!) so he’s not been around to bug me about working on stuff. He also pimps me in Second Life for my other part-time job as a live internet radio diva! That’s neither here nor there as far as this blog is concerned, but should your curiosity be roused, you can check out that facet of me here.

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