Fortress Draconis: The Podast is now live!

A quarter century previous, an elven seer spoke the Norrington Prophecy:

A Norrington to lead them,
Immortal, washed in fire
Victorious, from sea to ice.

Power of the north he will shatter,
A scourge he will kill,
Then Vorquellyn will redeem.

For twenty-five years the world has awaited a hero, and now the world’s fate rests in the hands of a nimble-fingered young thief.

Fortress Draconis, the first book in the epic fantasy series the DragonCrown War Cycle by Michael A. Stackpole, made its audio debut on Monday, May 28th.

The previous post has a great rundown on what a podcast is and how to download the files through software like iTunes or other aggregators. As long as you are reading this, however, you have everything you need to be able to listen.

The Introduction and Chapter One are but a click away.

You’ll be able to stream (play directly through a media player such as Winamp, Windows Media Player or iTunes) Fortress Draconis. You also have the option of downloading the .mp3 files directly to your computer. To save the file to your PC computer: right click the above link and choose “Save target As.” To save the file on a Mac: click and hold the mouse button on any above link and choose “Save File As.” If you are using OS X, simply Option-Click on the link and the file will be automatically downloaded.

Once you have the files, you may burn them to a CD to play in the car, on a stereo or portable CD player. You can also listen to them right on the computer, or load them onto an MP3 player. The files are encoded so they should work with all different players not just iPods.

If you wish to subscribe to the podcast, just open your aggregator (in iTunes it’s on the advanced menu) and click on Subscribe. When the box comes up, cut and paste: http://www.fortressdraconis.com/podcasts/fd/fdxml.xml into the box, and you should be good to go.

The initial plan is to release a chapter a week, though a few more will go out in this first week, just to get things started.