Awesome story…
( I looked it up) I wasn’t a listener to EP back then, but the vision and imagery were amazing to read. I can’t wait to hear the story and let you bring her voice out futher.
If your interested in more of her work, check out her site:
http://www.rachelswirsky.com
very impressive.
Thanks
Again
Steve!

In the interests of fairness, I’m beginning to moderate comments that are nothing but complaints against other commenters. That sort of thing gets ugly far too quickly. Let’s keep this positive, or at least keep it about the podcast. Thanks very much, and I’m looking forward to April too.

I’ll say this: There is work being done on PodCastle. We have a team of volunteers. As I type this I’m in chat with two other people to nail down some production decisions and draft narrators for the first dozen stories.

When I said there will be an update soon, I meant exactly that. And here it is. The schedule for the first six weeks. It should be posted here to this blog momentarily.

Am I being unnecessarily thin-tempered? Possibly. It’s been a very bad week for me. Literally the worst week of my life. That is not your problem, Spork, and the reasons for it are not related to PodCastle. But being antagonistic here does not serve your interests nor mine. It isn’t going to get you content any faster, and I’m not withholding information just to be peevish.

There have been some personal failures here, and I know very clearly what they are. I didn’t personally fail you, however. Being adversarial about it to this degree is unnecessary and a poor motivational tactic. You’ll get an excellent fantasy podcast as soon as we can deliver one, and we’ll present solid information as we can. I can’t do better than that.

“knowing is half the battle” … thank you for that… thank you so very much.

Good day sir!

I can’t force you to do anything, but I feel personally offended at your attacks at Steve, and general lack of patience, things happen, live happens, reality happens, starting up a podcast takes time. which, as I understand it, is in extremely limited quantity for many people. so I must ask you, in all sincerity, to stop directing personal attacks, you sat that steve is taking it too personally, your the one that made it personal. if you need to point fingers, blame, flame, or troll. yell at me, my podcast is far later than this one. let us wait in peace, I can only speak for myself, but I don’t want to read this kind of crap, I don’t need my computer to fetch me every time you feel the need to yell, blame, troll, or flame at other people.
if we can’t play nice here of all paces, how can we ever consider ourselves civilized at all.

Why is it that you are reacting so hatefully to the very people who are forcing you to respond? Why do you have such a problem being held accountable that you respond with a threat of a ban for no valid reason?

It’s a fact. I do, indeed, know more about your polyamorous love life than I do about the status of this podcast. That’s not an ad-hominem attack, it’s the Xenu’s honest truth.

It’s not an attack to point out that there are two other livejournal weblogs with more information about the status of this podcast, than the site erected specifically FOR this podcast. It is, once again, a fact.

You, sir, are taking this far too personally. I wonder why you have such difficulty with your mistakes being pointed out, and your silence being actively questioned. There’s nothing I’ve written that’s factually inaccurate, or an attack, yet you react with the utmost in defensiveness; threatening a pre-launch ban. I’ve even attempted to assist you with your hacked Wordpress, for cryin’ out loud!

I’m responding to your blatant neglect, sir. Your virtual abandonment, sir. How do you honestly expect to attract new fantasy submissions with a launch “success” like this? How do you expect listeners, who have been deprived of fantasy stories on EP to stick around in the dark, indefinitely? How do you honestly expect people who have been politely requesting information to respond to being IGNORED? With a thank you note and a kiss on the cheek?

You say there’s an announcement, sir. But, I’ll believe it when I hear it, or read it on this site.

Steve, rock on, keep up the great work, and I will enjoy the wait for the duration.

You’ve been warned about taking things personal before. You’re very close to getting banned from this podcast site before it even launches.

Where is the communication about this podcast? You’ve yanked out all the fantasy from EP, but the intended podcast for fantasy has yet to materialize. I pay for this podcast with my time and attention, and quite possibly by buying the products from eventual sponsors.

Either give an update, or put fantasy back in EP.

However, if it were me I would be somewhat flattered that people enjoyed my work so much that so many people were disappointed that their is not more of it.

Eagerly awaiting an update, or at least a good reason for the extremely long delay.

PodCastle isn’t dead. There will be an update soon.

Communication is a basic (see 95).

Think the initial page could be updated periodically? ever?

http://podcastle.livejournal.com/4507.html?thread=12187#t12187

Which is pretty much why I recently mostly gave up on Escape Pod–some of us really weren’t there because we wanted all science fiction, all the time, though apparently we weren’t vocal enough.

It’s the mix that made it work. I’d had hopes that listening to both Escape Pod and Pseudopod I could hang on to something of the feel of that mix … but instead we wound up with a single blander podcast tailored to a much more limited audience.

It’s too bad. I miss Escape-Pod-as-it-was. Escape-Pod-as-it-is is clearly aimed at an audience other than me however. (The same audience, perhaps, that keeps trying to create “pure” science fiction magazines, even though fantasy actually has more readers?)

Regards for the New year and *fingers Crossed* for Podcastle in 08

Come on Steve, please come on, prove to the world that Podcastle is more than just a very nice idea.

If you need some help from your loyal listeners/subscribers then just put the call out on escapepod or pseudopod but please give us something.