Today marks the 2nd podcast of The Once & Future Podcast. This week’s guest is Jim C. Hines, author of The Jig Series (Goblin Quest, Goblin Hero and Goblin War) and The Princess Series (Stepsister’s Scheme, The Mermaid’s Madness, Red Hood’s Revenge, and The Snow Queen’s Shadow.).

Anton is also asking anyone willing to help him design the Once & Future Podcast logo and banner to something similar to Google. The O (or Once) should be stylized in the vein of traditional fantasy, while the F (or Future) should be more futuristic.

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Today is the official release of episode 1 of The Once and Future Podcast featuring Paperback Dolls, Jackie Kessler and NY Times Bestselling author Charlaine Harris.

Get to listening people as there is a giveaway hidden within!
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(USA, NY, NY) September 6, 2011- Speculative fiction author Anton Strout announces the launch of The Once & Future Podcast- a new weekly book-centric podcast focused on all things fantasy and science fiction. Segments will focus on: breaking news in the publishing industry, upcoming release titles, guest authors, book tour info, convention news, and overall general discussion of genre reading for readers and writers alike.

“Parts of the show will be focused on content for readers,” says Strout, host and curator of content for the show, “but there will also be segments coming up for writers, no matter what stage of the process they are at.”

Strout is the author of the Simon Canderous urban fantasy series published by Ace Books and the first book in the Spellmason Chronicles, Alchemystic, to be released in 2012. Strout has been in the publishing industry for over twenty years, fifteen of those as part of Penguin Group USA.

“I’ve always loved books,” says Strout, “and I’ve discovered, thanks to my author capacity at conventions and on panels, that I love talking to my fellow authors. I wanted a place where I could talk about all things happening within my chosen genre and share that with others. I’ll be chatting with New York Times bestsellers, authors just getting their careers started… anyone I find interesting, really, including professionals from within the world of publishing itself- editors, artists, publicists, bloggers. You name it.”

The Once & Future Podcast will debut on Monday, September 12th with new episodes posting every following Monday. Episode One will include interviews with Charlaine Harris (author of the Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire series) and Jackie Kessler (author of the Hell of Earth series and The Rider’s Quartet). Upcoming episodes will feature a variety of authors including Rachel Caine, Amber Benson, Chris Hardwick, Jim C. Hines, Matthew Cody and many others. To find out more, please visit http://antonstrout.com/Once___Future_Podcast.html

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Small list of some upcoming antologies that will have stories by Anton Strout in them:

Human for a Day – “Tumulus” – December 2011
Westward Weird – “Lowstone” – February 2012
The Modern Fae’s Guide to Surviving Humanity – “Hooked” – March 2012

In other news: The first book of the Spell Mason Chronicles is (tentatively) titled Alchemystic.

Will be posting cover art for the new anthologies as soon as I find them. Redesign is also coming as, it’s that time of year again and I think I need to stream line this baby.

Later Days people!

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Hey guys!

Anton Strout has a new anthology coming out this summer. Last year, the authors of the Gen Con Writer’s Symposium put together an anthology for the 2010 Gen Con show called Stalking the Wild Hare. I bought it and it was quite good. It featured a reprint of the Simonverse story The Fourteenth Virtue (originally printed in The Dimension Next Door).

They are at it again this year with the anthology Carnage & Consequences. And here’s the line up:

Jed and the Titanium Turtle by Michael A. Stackpole
By The Rivers by Jean Rabe
The Rider by Mary Louise Eklund
Goblintown Justice by Matt Forbeck
Character Assassination by Kelly Swails
Asta’s Choice by Jennifer Brozek
Day of the Shadows by Donald J. Bingle
‘tique by Anton Strout
Circus di Bella by Wes Nicholson
Vicarious Dreams by Linda P. Barker
Time War:Second Front by Stephen D. Sullivan
The Consequences of Honor by Dylan Birtolo
Of the Seas, I Dream by Maurice Broaddus
Mage Stalker by Marc Tassin

Anton’s story is something very different than what’s been previously published. It seems to be a futuristic cyberpunk technomancy called ‘tique. For those of you going to Gen Con, you can purchase this book there.

For those of us unfortunate enough to go, Anton will be taking pre-orders. Carnage & Consequences is a $16 trade paperback. I think he may even try to get them signed but I’m not 100% sure on this so take it with a large grain of salt. If you are interested, email Anton at anton.strout [at] gmail.com with the subject ‘Carnage & Consequences’.

Later Days!

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