Survivor Guilt up at Variant Frequencies

My sci-fi / horror (and I hadn't really noticed how much blood and guts get spilled until I listened to it with my mum!) short story Survivor Guilt is now available to listen to or download at the multiple Parsec Award winning Variant Frequencies. I've gone on so much about this here and particularly here that there really isn't a huge amount left to say, so I'll just add that on a second listen I was even more blown away by what a great job the Variant Frequencies team have done.  I'd really recommend taking a few minutes to give it a listen.

That is unless, like my mum, you get squemish around spilled rat guts.

Sneak Peak of Survivor Guilt

Well, that should be sneak listen I guess, but that doesn't rhyme so well.  I announced back in one of those months last year that I can't be bothered to check that the marvellous people at Variant Frequencies would be podcasting my post-apocalyptic tale Survivor Guilt.  I've just now been lucky enough to hear a draft edit, which seemed to be pretty much complete except for the lack of an intro and outro.  And lo and behold, it's very, very neat.  It has sound effects!  It has background music!  It's has the coolest, creapiest crazed supercomputer voice of all time!

Okay, except maybe for HAL. 

Point is, the Variant Frequencies team have done a fine job, and I for one am giggling like a schoolgirl at the thought of hearing the final edit - which, by the by, should be available sometime next month.  With that and Andromeda Spaceways #43 coming out, not to mention some major but as-yet-undisclosed news that I'll hopefully find time to post over the weekend, March is already looking to be a good month on the writing front.

Variant Frequencies Accept My Survivor Guilt

Lots already happening this month, so much so that I'm going to split it up into a few posts, as and when I have time:

First up, multiple Parsec Award-winning podcasters Variant Frequencies have accepted my post-apocalyptic sci-fi tale Survivor Guilt for adaptation some time next year. Survivor Guilt is another one of my very early stories - so old that the original draft drew heavily on the first Fallout game! - that's been floating around for a long time looking for a comfy doorway to curl up in. That said, the reason I've kept at it is that there were some strong elements worth preserving, and I'd like to think that the trimming of about 3000 words, a change of tense and title and about thirty redrafts have left it tight and polished. I'm very fond of it, it's ideally suited for the podcast medium, and I'm hoping that the kerzillion hours of work I've put into it combined with the efforts of the talented folks at Variant Frequencies will produce something rather special.