if you follow me on twitter or are following the Podiobooks blog, you may have already heard that I’m producing Michael J. Sullivan’s The Crown Conspiracy in podiobook format. That’s not really anything to do with Lammas Wood but, being a rollicking fantasy tale, listeners who’ve enjoyed Ravenwood and Tanyth Fairport might enjoy this first book in Michael’s six-book saga called Riyria Revelations.

The last episode has been posted to the Podiobook servers and we’re just waiting for it to pass their quality control checks to mark the book complete.

For more information see The Crown Conspiracy at Podiobooks.com, Michael Sullivan’s web site or search for The Crown Conspiracy at the iTunes Music store.

That’s really good advice, but in this economy more and more of us are having the day job quit us. My work in academia has come to an end with the expiration of our funding at midnight last night.

What that means is that I’m now a full time author — at least for a while. For more details and some pictures of my first project, see The Trader’s Diary.

Well, the world of Tanyth Fairport has taken a bit of a back seat to putting out the Solar Clipper series but it’s not disappeared.

Those who follow the Trader’s Diary know that the books are being produced by Ridan Publishing. I had a chance to sit down with Robin and Michael after BaltiCon and hammer out a production schedule for ALL my books over the next four years. Yes, you read that right. ALL the books.

For Tanyth Fairport fans that means you’ll be seeing her in print much sooner than you might expect. We’ve tentatively slated Ravenwood for production in November, 2010, — just in time for Yule.

But that’s not all! I’ve got the sequel to Ravenwood (tentatively titled Overton) in the queue for February, 2011.

With a little help from the All Mother, and the creek don’t rise, we’ll be seeing a LOT more content coming out.

Also, fantasy lovers, note that I’ll be producing the podiobook versions of Michael J. Sullivan’s Chronicles of Riyria starting later this summer. I’m almost done reading the first book and it’s really a fun romp. This one sets the stage for an extended six book series and I’m looking forward to producing these in podcast format.

We’re on track for a Podiobooks release tomorrow, but I wanted to give people a sneak peak at what you’re in for.

Ravenwood: Episode 1

Music by: Ivan Chew – MyRightBrain.wordpress.com
http://www.archive.org/details/TheHill2008

Thanks for the music, Ivan. It works really well with the theme of the story I think.

I’ve picked my music. Thanks to Ivan Chew from Singapore and the music he posed on the Internet Archive, I’ve selected “The Hill (2008)”

I didn’t copy it onto the site here, but you can hear it over at Starfish Stories. If you go listen, leave him a comment and thank him for letting me use his work.

It’s coming together! I’m getting excited now.

A Tanyth Fairport Adventure
By Nathan Lowell

Tanyth Fairport makes one last pilgrimage in her quest to learn all she can about the herbs and medicinal plants of the world before settling down to write her magnum opus. Her journey is interrupted when she stops to help a small village and learns that much of what she knows of the world may not be quite as it seems.

This is not another science fiction novel set in the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper, but a fantasy set in a whole new world where magic is madness and adventure isn’t something you seek out.

Coming January 4, 2010 to Podiobooks.com.

Merry meet and welcome to the new home of Tanyth Fairport and the stories from the Lammas Wood.

Most of you know me from the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper, but this foray into fantasy represents a new direction in my writing. My goal was to take the standard ideas in fantasy literature and give them my own twist. The result is the first book in what I anticipate will be an ongoing series of adventures with my heroine Tanyth Fairport.

The text itself was completed during the NaNoWriMo 2009 event and for the month of December I’m polishing and getting it ready for podcasting. Watch for the release on January 4th, 2010 and come back to visit occasionally. I’ll be adding new pages and supplemental content here as time allows. I’ve got maps, lists of the characters, and other background information that I used to create these stories and I’ll be adding here so you can pull back the curtain a bit and take a peek behind the scenes of Lammas Wood.