Sorry for the extra week, everyone! The Holidays were wonderful, but didn’t allow me time to get the show together. From here on out, I anticipate maintaining the bi-weekly schedule. AND… Peace Lord WILL be an honest-to-gosh paper BOOK in 2010. Current plans call for release in late May. I’ll keep you posted.

In this chapter, Xhylanna marshals her Generals to make a decisive strike against the Aspar. Philip sells his knowledge of the enemy, and Shep tries desperately to broker peace. Meanwhile, Hylas makes a drastic decision.

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Shep awaits his execution, learning he is to die at Hylas’s hands. Then a turn of the tables leaves him with a choice: kill… or let his friend die.

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Shep and Xhylanna become… better acquainted. Shep and Hylas fall back into the clutches of the Aspar.

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Shep and Hylas are caught by the Jentana, a formidable amazon tribe, led by the beautiful Priestess Xhylanna.  As she plans to ransom Hylas to his father, she presents Shep with his greatest moral challenge to date. 

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Aaron, Justin and Bluefist asked me to join them on their show this week.  We talked about the business of podcasting, audio and radio drama, BSG, Trek and Science Fiction at large.  I had a lot of fun.  It’s streaming, not downloadable.

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Some thoughts from listeners, plus some news about the upcoming shows from Prometheus.  We’re going to take a month hiatus while we prepare some new material.

Steve was a Parsec Award judge!  Parsec Awards are being announced this weekend at Dragon*Con.  Best of luck to all competitors!

And Renee is running a marathon to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. She’d love it if some of our listeners helped out with this worthy cause.

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On the run from the authorities in Aspar, Shep discovers something new about himself.  Then he discovers something about the Aspar’s customs and his young ally Hylas that he didn’t really want to know.

Okay, this is the chapter where a certain portion of the listenership is going to become uncomfortable and probably cry out, “Oh, no, he’s going THERE!”

It’s organic and necessary to the story, and, if you know your warrior cultures of earth, historically supported.  Again, no explicit language, but the subject matter is adult.  Interested in your thoughts, but check all amateur psychology at the door.  You don’t want to be in my head.  It’s dark and scary and there are little mice…

The preview is for “The Good Parts” podcast, and does have both explicit language and subject matter.

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My usual editing time got absorbed by work and my son’s Birthday celebrations, so Chapter Five of Peace Lord won’t be ready until tomorrow.  Sorry for the delay!

— Steve

Condemned for treason, Shep awaits execution; but Hylas has a plan to save his new-found friend. 

Still anxious for feedback!  Let us know what you think!

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Shep awakes from a troubled sleep and an eventful night in an alien land — and is catapulted once again into a life and death situation. 

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