The Double Shadow: A Clark Ashton Smith Podcast

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The “Death” of The Double Shadow and Why I’m to Blame – by Tim

Mea culpa time. Any of you who are regular listeners of the podcast will have noticed that the show’s posting schedule has been slowing down. Our two-episodes-a-month release schedule quit and split town last winter, and hasn’t really made a comeback since.

There are reasons that involve all three members of this podcast, Ruth has been working hard to wrangle a career in place. Phil and his wife had a baby this summer, but, the reality is that the majority of the blame rests on my shoulders. You see, editing a podcast takes time and effort. Making a quality product, something interesting and entertaining, is difficult, and lately I just haven’t been up to the task. The will is there, I want to keep recording and posting episodes of Double Shadow. I love this show, and I think you guys, the listeners, are awesome and insightful. I also very much believe that Clark Ashton Smith deserves this exposure, and I’m heartened thinking about the dedicated converts we’ve helped bring into the CAS fold–which is an amazing feeling.

This past winter the slow-down was due to simple fatigue. I quite honestly was tired of spending my free time working. I, like pretty much all of you out there, have a day job. Working all day in an office and then coming home to sit at a computer to edit took its toll. I got burned out, despite how much I enjoyed the end product.

This summer, however, is a different story. We recorded two new episodes, Dweller in the Gulf and Vulthoom, and I was back in the saddle, scheduling new readers (by the way, I think Alex did an amazing job with Dweller), and editing like mad. Then some freelance work started to roll in. I’ve recently been contracted to write a boutique baby journal that will be marketed and sold to “geek” parents–trust me, it’s relevant to your interests. The writing schedule on this book is pretty breakneck, and I’m just about over the hump and ready to deliver the final manuscript.

I’ve also been contracted to do some actual paid podcasting by the amazing editors over at Slice Magazine. Starting in October you can look forward to some literary fiction goodness with In the Telling.

I haven’t forgotten about you, Double Shadow! We haven’t “podfaded”! Vulthoom is half edited, and we’re going to schedule some recordings soon. Besides, we’re almost finished! Our mission when we set out was to cover all of Smith’s main settings, ending with Zothique, and Zothique’s dying sun looms bleak on the horizon.

It would be a shame to never visit that mad world with you guys.

The Double Shadow Has Forums!

Want to talk more about Smith and the weird? Have a question about something on the show? Check out our new forums!

We’ve set registration to require moderator approval, which we’re hoping will keep out the bots, etc. But if you sign up, we’ll get you approved as soon as possible!

Double Shadow Moves to a New Site

The podcast has successfully (we hope) moved to its new and permanent website. We wanted to use self-hosted WordPress so we could control more than one can on Tumblr, but Tumblr was very useful for us when we were just getting our feet and needed to concentrate on CAS, not tech stuff. We’ll still be using the Tumblr for updates for those who prefer to use it, only now it’ll be at thedoubleshadow.tumblr.com.

Your iTunes or Feedburner subscription should update automatically. However, it’s possible that iTunes may decide to re-download the episodes for everyone, in which case we apologize. We’re also going to be putting the episodes up one by one on Blubrry’s website so that we can have guaranteed hosting vs. our free hosting on archive.org. I’m hoping that won’t cause any redownloads in iTunes. The fortunate thing about all this happening so early in the podcast’s history is that, if it does redownload, it will only be a few episodes.

Now available on iTunes!

Just a quick update to say that you can now subscribe on iTunes, either by searching for us in the iTunes store or by opening this link in your browser and clicking to open in iTunes (probably faster, because iTunes store search sucks).

Updated: And thanks to Jason for the reminder that for those who don’t want to subscribe in iTunes, you can use our Feedburner feed for your podcasting program/RSS reader!