SnowplainPodcastProject

Introduction

Nathan is a good friend of mine. By day he works as a civil engineer for a Lubbock Texas planning and zoning office, but by night he's a fantasy fiction writer, and a damn good one too. He already has 10 fiction novels under his belt, one of which is a 7 book series about reincarnated mythical warriors. I don't know all the details, but I do know that he's been trying to get his books published for years now, and he's even mailed a few copies to people.

The other day, I was listening to a novel on Podiobooks, and I realized that Nathan's stories were better than the book I was listening to. These were heavy hitters in the Podiobook world, people who already had earned book deals from their podcasts. At that moment, a thought occurred to me: Why not make a podcast for Nathan? He's got the material, and I've got the technical know-how. With a bit of work, we could post his series on Podiobooks and see if he develops a following.

Project Proposal

• Create all the scripts necessary to post-process MP3s Nathan sends me in order to publish to Podiobooks
  • I need to add images,
  • descriptions,
  • proper Genre tags, etc.
• I will create an easily updated valid RSS feed that people can use to download the podcast.
• I will estimate the bandwidth needed to support a mirrored copy of the podcast here.
• I will figure out everything I need to figure out in order to submit the podcast to the iTunes Store.
• I will make Nathan a barebones web-page before releasing anything.

Build Notes

• http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302199 - instructions on how to submit to Apple.
• http://www.podcast411.com/ - help and info on podcasting
• http://podiobooks.com/authors/PBAuthoringGuide.pdf - guide on all of podiobooks's requirements for podcasts.
• http://www.tdscripts.com/webmaster_utilities/podcast-generator.php - Something to generate an RSS feed.
• http://community.podiobooks.com/group/mentorshipprogram/
• http://www.howtopublishabook.org/index.html - I have this guy's podcast on my RSS feed.

• NS: investigate http://www.ourmedia.org/ - free podcast company?

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