Getting rating bombed on your Audio Fiction podcast for being a guest on another show by a single person over many different accounts is WILD. And so very immature. I just started my show a few months ago and already see in the sparse data I have how much it has impacted growth and discoverability. Kill em with kindness and move on I guess?
This audiocard goes HARD. Holy shiiiiiiiiit. Count me in.
Caine chases after Su-jin, flying back down the road that leads to one place: Metropolis West. It’s time to come home — and time to leave another one behind.
S3E1 out on Friday! Listen wherever you get your podcasts!
Want to know what that homecoming feels like for Caine and others? You can pledge $5 and up to hear the episode TODAY on our Patreon!
Dead West Visual Trailer
So, I make little trailers like this for projects I do as sort of a moving mood board. Something about them scratches an itch in my brain. So here is the one I did for DW the moment I heard the final version of the Theme Music from Sage. I still get chills when I get to drop that glorious piece of art into each episode of the show. You know what? I should do some of these for funsies for other shows too! Hmmmm. Who to unabashedly show some love to first?
as it turns out, trying to write your own audio drama is about 30% character creation, 20% world building, and 50% coming up with a list of fucked up pizzas that monsters might enjoy. this is fun lol
it's simple really: october is for horror movies with highly stylized villains and iconic monsters because they make for good costumes. early november is for gothic horror because of the fog and decay etc. late november is for zombies (commentary on consumerist culture). december is for psychological horror and stuff where they're trapped in a room because that's when you have to go to holiday parties with your family.
Our new podcast segment Tales from the Dead West is live! These are stand alone episodes from the wider world of the Dead West which allows us to both fill out the world and give you (the rabid listener) more of our weird little world! For this one we peek in on a moment in the life of Louis before his death. Please be aware there is a LOT of content warnings for this episode. Be sure to check them out before diving. ================================================ LISTEN HERE: SPOTIFY APPLE WEB RSS ================================================ Don't worry, these are going to be highly irregular on the main feed but if you like them then be sure to check out our Ko-fi and Patreon pages for more of these as they will be regular offerings for supporting the show.
New Episode!!!! Dead West, Part 3 is live!
Auggie confronts Conrad. Louis struggles with being a spirit. Conrad meets Mrs Davis who isn't who she appears to be. Oh and Mr Davis? We meet him too. In a manner of speakin' ================================================ LISTEN HERE: SPOTIFY APPLE WEB RSS ================================================ I do this show as a way to stay creative and stay ahead of corporate burn out. Wholly something mine. So, for those of you who have checked it out, thank you! I hope you enjoy the story so far and stick around for the ride. Be sure to send it along to a friend as well!
#do it #it is a fun listen so far #holmwood foundation
Now our Kickstarter is over, have a fresh link to our pilot to tide you over until the rest of season one arrives!
Hoping to release some fun snippets and extras on our feed as we go, so please be sure to follow us on Spotify, or anywhere else you get your podcasts!
WHAT IS THE HOLMWOOD FOUNDATION?
Our story follows Jeremy Larkin (Played by Sean Carlsen) and Maddie Townsend (Played by Rebecca Root), two co-workers at the mysterious Holmwood Foundation, as they are possessed by the ghosts of Jonathan and Mina Harker, and embark on a road trip across the country in an effort to achieve their ghost's wishes: to stop Dracula once and for all.
This is a story about identity and self discovery, family loyalty and devotion, all wrapped around a nightmare of a road trip with a rejuvenating severed head, incredibly sincere Victorian ghosts, and an analogue recorder
Reviews for Episode One:
Episode drops tomorrow, catch it everywhere!
Conrad and Father Gregory finally meet! Letting us learn more about Blackwater and the Father's role in it. VA credit: Zach Scott
the world is a better place with trans women in it
This makes me so damn proud.
When I was first spinning this show up I had a lot of reservations with putting it out into the world. The time period I wanted to set the show in comes with a LOT of bigotry, religious zealotry, racism, sexism, and xenophobia. With that, fictional media coverage of this time period is traditionally through the lens of a glorified "tough guy" acting under the eye of the Christian God or guided by the principles of Manifest Destiny. Which means the audience that flocks to Westerns are traditionally cis white dudes in which the bigoted, racist, sexist, xenophobic rhetoric has the possibility of feeding into their lived experiences and view points. Hell, I even started a TikTok for the show to help market it. My first podcast episode EXPLODED from a couple of posts I did over on TikTok, with 90% of the listener-ship being funneled over from social media identifying as men. Which on it's own isn't a huge issue; it becomes one when some of these commenters on Tiktok have usernames like "yourn*zihero88." Saying they see this being their favorite podcast in the future. (Username exaggerated for this post, but not by much.) So seeing stats like this give me a lot of hope for the future of the story I am working on telling here with Dead West. And we haven't even gotten to the real depth of this world or the stories I want to see come to life in it yet. Still on the horizon: - Sapphic Betrayal and Revenge - Trans Outlaws - POC Monster Hunters All informed by real life examples from the Wild West. Don't believe me? Go check out Henry Allen! I know at this point and time we have a little white boy as our driving narrative force, but my intent with the show wasn't to stay with Conrad forever.
Dead West is a horror audio fiction series that is a blend of folk horror and weird western themes told in a re-imagined American Gilded age. A time when everything was stolen, blood was let, and society grappled with modernity. Find our show on all Podcatchers! Be sure to leave a rating and review.
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