What’s the deal…?
I want to thank everyone for being so patient and hanging on. This post is to give you a heads up of where I’ve been, what’s going on, and what my plan is. You all know I’ve been very busy this last month with different projects. Here’s the things I’ve been doing:
- Writing and recording Chapter 1 Guardians
- Setting up GuardiansNovel.com
- Editing previous recorded Interviews to put up on TaleChasing soon
- Organizing all the volunteers for a BDSM festival next weekend
- Scheduling all the security volunteers for said event
- Helping with the scheduling of other events at said event
- Doing a final edit of my friend’s new book being released at said event - The Forked Tongue
- A complete server move for over 25 domains I’m associated with
- Planning and beginning the write of Chapter 2 of Guardians
- Taking Advice, Tarot, and “other” calls to make a little extra green
- Working out like a dog to loose some weight for the event
Whew…I’ve been busy. 
Here’s what my next week and change looks like:
- Finishing placing a few spots left to fill at the event
- Organizing sheets and giving out all my volunteers their final hours for the event
- Finishing up the server move
- Taking a few extra calls for the cash
- Packing for the event
- Dying my hair before the event
- A small shopping trip to Khols before the event
- And then Thursday - Monday running around like mad and hopefully having some fun at THE EVENT!
What am I planning for after the event?
- Doing finishing edits on 3 interviews
- Putting up the PG Holyfield Interview
- Putting up the Mur Lafferty Interview
- Putting up the Tee Morris/Philippa Ballantine Interview (I did today)
- Putting up the first Chapter of Guardians
- Making some cash on phone calls so I can go to DragonCon
- Writing and putting up the 2nd Chapter of Guardians
And there you have it….where I been, what I’m doing, where I’m going. So hopefully you can understand why there has been a delay in not only podcast episodes for here…but for Guardians as well. 
Thank you for your understanding. Peace out
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Forgive me
I know I haven’t updated in a while. I’ve been so swamped with TesFest stuff I’ve just been working away at that. I have everything recorded for Guardians and I’ll be done with the edit of it soon. Half way done. I’m partially done with the second chapter.
I had help editing the PG Holyfield interview and I can get that up very soon. So…it’s coming…thank you all for baring with me.
more cat pictures
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So behind
I want to thank everyone for their patience. I feel so behind on everything. I’ve been spending the last few days helping move all our sites to a new server. It’s not an easy process. I have all the pieces to put the first chapter of Guardians together, I just have to find the time to be able to do it. But my “brother” just came back into my life and he’s always been really good at helping me when I need it. So right now he’s taking a first crack at the Interview with PG Holyfield.
It’s getting down to the wire for the event I’m helping put together so I have all that to deal with and I had no idea how much of a nightmare coordinating so many people was. I’m doing it but part of it makes me want to scream at people or tear my hair out.
I had a post in mind I wanted to write but it requires a bit more thought then these small update posts do so that will have to be put on hold as well. I just wanted to give you an update on all the things happening and tell ya I’m working on it.
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Urban Fantasy LOL Cat: June 11th
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Guardians - Parts and Recording
As you saw from my last post, I am holding auditions for parts in my new podcast novel Guardians. I have slotted several of the parts but have a few more to fill. I’ll post lines for anyone who wants to audition soon.
The good news is, I’ve slotted the parts for everyone in Chapter 1 and I’m getting them recorded this week. My weekend is so packed with a family movie of “The Happening”, a TESFEST meeting on Saturday, and Father’s Day on Sunday I may not make my imposed deadline of July 15th but we won’t be far off! I’m started to get SO excited! I hope you are as well.
So…keep your eyes and ears open and go and subscribe to Guardian’s so you are the first to hear it when it goes live. Please also feel free to download the promo and play it if you’d like!
Next podcast coming, Interview with P.G. Holyfield
Auditions being held for Voice Parts - Guardians
I am seriously considering doing Guardians, with voice actors for the characters other then Raegan. I’m posting a few of the characters here for anyone who wants to audition. Since it’s being written while I podcast it and I will have more parts in the future so if you don’t get one right away there’s still others coming.
Please send your audition to kimi@talechasing.com. Make the file name with your name and the character name.
Erin - (female, 20 something, confident, seems naive sometimes, on a mission, concerned about religious happenings, no concept of time)
“A cathedral was broken into last night. They tore it apart looking for something I guess……. I wonder if they found it.”
“Has it ever occurred to you that the things you’ve been seeing, might really be there?”
Chris Murphy - (male, model, 20 something, laid back and confident)
“You can’t blame them Raegan, you do look good enough to eat in that.”
“Please tell me we can leave soon.”
Dr. Ackerman - (male, professor, religious archeologist, intelligent, not telling everything he knows, 30’s)
“I’d love for you to bring your lovely guest to view the documents I’ve just found. Once I’ve deciphered the script they are written in they promise to set the church on it’s ear.”
“I’m the one paying and you’ll do what I want. I’d tell you to quit, but we both know you won’t….now that your curiosity is piqued.”
Guard - (male, stiff and doesn’t like being pushed around by a woman)
“If you’re a bodyguard, then I wear diapers on my days off.”
“We’re sorry for keeping you waiting. If you’ll follow me, I’ll get you to your table.”
Bob - (male, psychotic, “serial killer”, bad guy)
“Feel free to fight…I like that.”
“It’s not my damn fault you gave me a body that isn’t worth shit!”
Apprentice (female, confident, righteous)
“Take care of this one, will you? I’ll be happy to send you back where you came from and find someone competant.”
“Don’t pretend you have no clue what you did! We both know you are much smarter then that. Sadly you wont be smart enough in the end.” (hushed tones)
Trace – (male, 20 something)
(embarrassed) “Me personally? Twice.” (relieved) “I’m going to be so glad when I hand him back to Ben.”
“Aww, you ruin all the fun. I was hoping you’d run after them and pull that gun from where ever you keep it.”
Ben – (male, experienced, 30 something)
“You owe me, Ragan. I know I don’t have to remind you about Bali.”
“If I thought it would have effected you, you know I would have told you. You’ve known me long enough to know I don’t put anyone willingly endanger if I can take care of it myself.”
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Guardians Promo
Download the Guardians Promo now! Winner @Mrs_Bobcat, created the promo for the upcoming release of my podcast novel, Guardians.
Feel free to download and play on your site or podcast! Help me spread the word. The tentative release date for the first chapter is June 15th!
Runner up in the Guardians Promo contest was @Zen_Jewitch!
Episode 16: Car ride Brainstorming on Guardians Chap 1
Hey everyone. Thanks for the patience. I had to reformat my machine and then we switched servers, so tech difficulty delayed this cast and the ones behind it.
This is a podcast recorded in the car discussing Chapter 1 of Guardians with my boss (S.O.)
NOTE: This contains spoilers. Do not listen if you want to be surprised.
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What’s coming…
Yesterday, on the way over to pick up a friend and go to see Indy 4, the boss and I did a brainstorming discussion in the car. It’s pretty interesting and fairly short. I’ll be posting it shortly. I also recorded an update a few days ago which I’ll be getting up just as soon.
Chapter 1 has 2367 words and I’m finishing up the last scene in it and striving for Chapter 2. The discussion in the car prompted a good thought on how to fix my issue with it so I’m letting the last few paragraphs percalate and then I’ll give it one last beta read then put it up.
I’m fixing up GuardiansNovel.com which will be set to open with the first chapter of the podcast novel. I’ll keep you updated as it and the first chapter are set to be released.
I’ll tell you the truth.
I’m going to talk about the thing that no one wants to talk about. The thing that writers who are trying to help other writers pretend not to have. Fear.
Yesterday, I was not hitting on all cylanders. I attempted a podcast (which will be up shortly) that I wasn’t really happy with. I even gathered a few people together to talk about writing and wasn’t very happy with how that turned out either. Later on, when I was thinking about getting to that re-edit I thought back to my evening and decided that I might be better off getting to it tomorrow since it was clear that I wasn’t really happy with my performance. I was pretty ok with that and sat down with a book that I bought to help spark my creativity. I got so into it that I read for several hours. It even sparked me to want my book to be as good. I read until I got to tired to stay awake.
This morning when I woke up somehow that great spark of hope turned inwards on itself into fear and self-doubt. I contemplated beginning the re-write and nothing I thought about writing seemed like it was going to be good enough. I managed to let my fear take over.
A book I got recently called ‘The War of Art’ by Steven Pressfield, talks about “Resistance” in terms of what keeps people from rising to their potential and fulfilling their desires. You’d think he would tell us that “fear is the mind killer”, which in some cases it is. But his feeling on fear is this:
“Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do….. Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. Therefore the more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul. That’s why we feel so much Resistance. If it meant nothing to us, there would be no Resistance.”
He goes on to talk about other interesting ideas reguarding resistance and how to over come it. I’m not quite through with the book but I find that it has a lot of truth in it. I’m still scared of failing to write something people will like, or not writing it well enough. It’s likely going to be a fight I’ll have to work through until the book is finished and maybe even during the next one. But I do want to write this and I do think it can be really good.
So if you think you’re alone in your fear, if you think you’re alone in your fight against Resistance..y.ou’re not. I’m right there with you. Let’s fight it together.
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