It’s official: the Fallen Cycle fiction podcast is coming.
Maybe you’ve been having prophetic dreams that won’t stop, or hear the spirits of the trees demanding a blood sacrifice whenever they leave their apartment door.
But those are just dreams… right?
Hello everyone. I’ve the past few weeks deep in the artmines determining this is a doable thing.
It’s official, our “bedtime stories for the antichrist” show is happening. This will be a great way to experience these stories, either for the first time, or to return to for those who have read the books.
Although I have yet to set an official launch date beyond that I’m shooting to roll out the first episode sometime this summer, and continue from there weekly for some time.
I’m going to be syndicating an audio edition of the “primary” novels in the Fallen Cycle, (so far). Tales From When I Had A Face, followed by Party at the World’s End. Each chapter will be adapted as an episode.
I’m especially excited to bring Tales to you all, as it has yet to be released beyond the full-color limited edition hardcovers we did for the Kickstarter. (120 were printed, about 10 remain available direct through me.)
Many if not all of these episodes will include an original soundtrack, although I intend to be overall more minimal than the approach I took with the Witch-doctor fiction podcast. I am currently working on that with Dave Bussell as well as several past collaborators, including Jenn E (formerly Johan Ess).
There is also a decent possibility we will return to a sort of redux of the Witch-doctor after completing Party At The World’s End. No final decision on that — there are also a bunch of characters and narratives we could flesh out from the RPGs that we’ve been running for some time now. Many options, supposing there are enough listeners at that point to warrant it.
More on this soon, I’m sure.
I will not be posting every episode to the blog, to keep from crowding out other announcements. If you’d like to follow along, subscribe early on Podbean, or set up the RSS in your favorite podcasting app. (https://feed.podbean.com/fallencycle/feed.xml) Once it goes live, I intend to syndicate it as broadly as possible.
The survival of the podcast, and maybe the Fallen Cycle itself, will ultimately hinge on support such as through the Patreon.
I’m starting the process of retooling it now as the place to offer work in progress, access to RPG playtest documents as they develop, etc. Right now the $1 or $5 tiers probably make the most sense… I do hope to be able to scale it back up to the point where I can go back to sending out materials (art prints, books, pins and stickers etc) for higher tiers. We’ll see.
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