The House of Grey Blog

Collin and I have been feeling the pressure to finish up The House of Grey for some time now. And while that is well underway, I looked back and realized that we let this pressure get the best of us. The forum has been neglected and lately the blog only has updates on the next episode and the episodes themselves. Don’t get me wrong, I get that The House of Grey is a great story and we’re working on it as fast as we can, but at the same time it is just the beginning of something much larger that we want to share with everyone. So in light of this reinvigoration, here’s what’s going on outside The House of Grey that y’all can look forward to:

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Episode 38 is well on its way to going live. Collin and I ran through the chapter and he is adding some content that will make 38 absolutely killer!!! Hang in there, it’s coming!

Check out out pics from Dragon*Con 09 over at the forum. Crazy costumes, 2 weird guys that look vaguely familiar, and so much more.  While we didn’t come home with the Parsec Award, we met some wonderful podcasters, propagandized The House of Grey, and made some fantabulous connections with folks who can push the book. In short, the weekend was made of awesome!

AND… we have to give a HUGEapology to our fangirl Starla Huchton for us being such giant slackers and not promoting her book sooner.  Starla’s debut book, The Dreamer’s Thread, is up to its 4th episode. Having some  *ahem* personal experience with the book, it too is made of awesome! Be sure to grab the feed here, and catch the promo down below. Let’s show a sister some love and get the word out!!!

And we switched out the poll. Cyann creamed Taris and the monks. This poll is more of a pool…but since the book is free, it’s not like you win much if you guess right. The question is, who will be dead by the end of book one? You can select multiple answers, so have fun and we’ll see who is right in 3 more episodes! 

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One last thing…very soon you will be seeing some more promotional stuff coming out for The House of Grey, Tournament of Blades, and some other stuff we have simmering away. Oh just wait and see…incidentally…it will also be made of awesome!

The Dreamer’s Thread Promo: 

Hi!

My name is Hilary and I am part of The House of Grey team. You may have heard Collin and Chris mention my classroom on the blog a few times or even replied to some of my posts in the forum.

Just to fill you in on who I am, in case you haven’t read much of the blog or are new to HoG, I am a high school English teacher in Las Vegas, NV and a freelance editor. This past school year I used HoG in my junior English III class instead of the traditional novel and the students, for the most part, really seemed to like it! It’s a new approach to teaching fiction which will hopefully catch on. Collin and Chris even came out to visit the class. The students really enjoyed that as well.

I love to read, but due to the hectic schedule of teaching high school literature I found that I had no time to enjoy a good book. I came across HoG on the Zune website and fell in love with the story. Shortly after I logged on to the forum and started talking to Collin and the rest, as they say, is history.

Anyway…

I just got off the phone with “the author” and “the voice,” as I like to call them, and we have decided that we should do a weekly scheduled town hall in the chatroom where you can come and talk with us and other fans about anything including: story, plot, theories, characters, writing, podcasting, publishing, and anything else you may want to discuss.

So please, come and join Collin, Chris, and me in the chatroom on Monday night, June 22 from 7pm-8pm (PST); 8pm-9pm (MTN); 9pm-10pm (CST); 10pm-11pm (EST)

Remember, in order to use the chatroom, you must register/log-in to the forum.

I look forward to talking with you!

Peace,

Hilary

Hey everybody, wanted to share the press release I sent out this morning about Collin’s trip to Valley HS to visit Hilary and her class.  You should see the story pop up in Google and Yahoo news, on Podiobooks.com, and podioracket.com.  Here’s a direct link to download the pdf.  Enjoy!

Las Vegas, NV  March 19 2009 –  If today’s youth are already equipped and able to listen to their iPod’s while riding the bus to school, doing their homework, and even while talking on the phone or to their friends, it seems like a small step for educators to take to supplement those downloads with schoolwork. And in light of the current economy, using free podcast novels seem like an even smarter choice for the already financially stretched education system.

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Here’s a YouTube video of Mr. Earl talking to Ms. Hilary’s class about how he got into writing, podcasting as new media, elements of a story and lots of other stuff.

Here’s another article that promotes podcast novels, the champions of our novel format Sigler, Hutchins, and Lafferty, and Podiobooks.com.  Check it out and let us know what you think.

Podcasting your novel