Theme and Variations, Opus 2 – the second volume of my Theme and Variations podcast anthology – will launch this fall. I’m currently planning on an August 2 launch, although it may be delayed as I wait to hear back from all of my authors.
I’m pleased to announce the following confirmed authors:
Emily Devenport
Robert T. Jeschonek
Jack Mangan
Rick Novy
Lon Prater
Caroline Rhodes
I also have a new promo for Opus 2, which you can find here and in the sidebar. Please play it and share it!
I’d like to announce a second volume of Theme and Variations: another collection of music-themed speculative fiction short stories. I’m still processing submissions, so I don’t yet have a list of authors, but I anticipate some return guests and some new voices. I hope to launch the new set of stories in August. So keep your channel – er, podcatcher – tuned here!
Theme and Variations has been nominated for a Parsec Award. The Parsec Awards are given annually at Dragon*Con, and recognize excellence in podcasting across a number of categories. Theme and Variations was nominated in its entirety in the Best Speculative Fiction Magazine or Anthology Podcast category, but there is also a Best Short Story category.
If there is a story in this collection (or more than one story) that you particularly enjoyed, I encourage you to visit the Parsec Awards nomination page and submit it for consideration. (This stage of the awards process is not voting – nominating the same story or anthology multiple times will not increase its chance of winning. A sample of every nominated podcast will be sent to the judges for voting.)
I have one more request for all our listeners. Alan Middleton at Ohio University is conducting a survey of podcast listeners and their listening habits. If you’re willing to take the survey, please visit www.surveymonkey.com/s/KDCGHDR. Having studied statistics in grad school and attempted to conduct surveys myself, I can tell you how important it is to have good data from as large a sample as possible.
That should be all the non-audio posting I have for a while.
Regards,
Your editor
Theme and Variations is a podcast anthology, featuring speculative fiction stories with music as a theme.
Our first episode will launch on October 28.
Eight episodes will run, once a week until December 16. You may subscribe by pasting the feed into your aggregator, or at Podiobooks.com. Or, check here on Wednesdays to play or download a new episode.
Thanks for visiting,
Michelle M. Welch, editor
