For those of you not devoting the next month of your lives to NaNoWriMo (or, if you are, for those of you who need a well-deserved break), two excellent authors are launching new podcast novels this week.
Mur Lafferty's Playing for Keeps launches November 1 (though the first chapter is available a little early ... Happy Halloween).
Keepsie Branson is a bar owner in the shining metropolis of Seventh City: birthplace of super powers. Keepsie and her friends live among egotistical heroes and manipulative villains, and manage to fall directly in the middle as people with powers, but who just aren't strong enough to make a difference. Or that's what they've been told. As the city begins to melt down, it's hard to tell who are the good guys and who are the bad.
Mur is offering several subscription options for this podcast. You can get just the novel, either through her feed or through Podiobooks.com, or you can subscribe to the Playing for Keeps Experience, which offers each chapter in PDF as well as audio, and a supplemental podcast called Stories of the Third Wave.
Scott Sigler, meanwhile, wants to kill you.
Something lives deep beneath the streets of San Francsico. Something that has been there for centuries, something that comes out at night ... to feed on the dregs of society. A sub-culture, with its own myths, its own legends of leader named The King that will lead them out of bondage, and their own demon, a hunting shadow known only as Savior.
But the legends of Savior's brutality have faded, the fear passed into stories told to frighten the young ones. When The King finally appears, just as foretold, the Nocturnals know their time has time -- the time to come out from under the streets and hunt humanity in the open.
Scott's new novel Nocturnal is scheduled for a print release in 2010, but at the stroke of midnight tonight, the podcast launches. If you've heard any of Sigler's other podcast novels, you know what you're in for. If you haven't, I encourage you to subscribe on an empty stomach.
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