Well, I think it’s exciting anyway.

But before I get to that a quick word about the side stories. Yes, they will be coming back this month as promised. But not until December 14th as I’ve been busy working on the below. I could dash an installment out and toss it to my beta reader but I don’t think it would be as good as it should, so I’m delaying by another week to get it right.

And now the announcement! *drum roll*

January 4th 2012 will be the second anniversary of the first installment of  The Dragon Wars going live. So I’ve been wondering how to celebrate this milestone. Eventually I had an idea…

I will be starting to upload a podcast version of the serial. The first installment will go live on Mon 2nd January and depending how much buffer I have recorded by then I will either post them Monday-Friday or Monday-Wednesday-Friday. I have a number of reasons for doing this:

• For those readers who’ve been meaning to reread now’s your chance to start following the story all over again.
• Some new readers who are intimidated by the sheer size of the archive. Now they can start from scratch without being overwhelmed.
• For people who don’t like reading on the screen there will now be an alternative format to follow the story.
• Those who don’t have time to read can listen on their mp3 play etc while driving etc.

And, of course, text installments of “Dragon Wars Arc Three” and “Haventon Born” will continue to go up as usual.

So, will you be listening to the podcast release?