Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology II

[sophinisba]

halfamoon is running their annual celebration of female characters from now through February 14th. podklb, cantarina, bessyboo, and I would like to put together a podfic contribution to that celebration, a reprise of last year's Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology, to be posted on the 14th. Like podklb did last year, we'll collect a bunch of short lady-centric podfics by different readers in different fandoms and make them available both as individual files and as a podfic/podbook collection.

Podficcers: Interested in participating? We'd love to have you. Even though we're working with a relatively short time-frame, it should be a low-stress project, even for people who are new to podficcing, since we are only looking for short podficlets: based on stories of less than 1500 words (with many being as short as 1-2 minutes). If you'd like to record something for this anthology, please comment here or at the corresponding post on amplificathon with your preferred method of contact (email or PM), and we'll send you the link to the spreadsheet where we'll be keeping track of all the podfics.

Here are some good places for finding short fics about female characters:
-Awesome Ladies Ficathon (LJ)
-Awesome Ladies Ficathon (DW)
-Real Women Fest
-Female Character Trope Fest
-The Bechdell Test Comment Ficathon
-The Bechdell Test Comment Ficathon II
-I am the Plot, Babe: A Villainess Ficathon
-The Women Being Awesome, Female Characters, and Female Relationships tags at the AO3, sorted by wordcount.

Everyone: Feel free to comment with links to other fests or specific works that you think would be a good fit for this anthology. Even if you're not able to make a podfic right now, maybe you can help someone else find a story they want to record.

Authors: It would be totally awesome if some authors wanted to get involved, in pod_together style, to create short female-centric pieces for the anthology in collaboration with podficcers. If you’re an author who’s interested, please comment below. Podficcers who would like this sort of collaboration, please reply directly to the authors.

Below the cut is a little more information on what we're looking for with these podfics and how they should be submitted.



For the sake of consistency within the anthology, we'd like to ask that everyone follow these guidelines for eligible fics and the metadata you include in the podfic:

-Each reader can make as many podfics as they want, but up to 10 podfics, and each story should be less than 1500 words.
-All stories should focus on characters who identify as women in canon.
-All fandoms, including rpf fandoms, are eligible.
-All recordings should begin and end with two seconds of silence.
-Each reading should begin, "[Title], by [author], read by [reader]. Fandom: [Fandom]." We also suggest including appropriate warnings or content notes for common triggers such as sexual assault and underage sex.
-Each reading should end with "The End".
-To match last year’s anthology, the meta data should follow this format:

Name: [Fandom] Title
Artist: readername (reader)
Album Artist: authorname (author)
Year: 2012
Album: Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology II
Comments: Text at: http://link
Genre: Podfic
(Note that usernames should be all-lowercase, with fandom and title given title capitalization.)

-All podfics should be submitted in mp3 format by February 12th at midnight Central Standard Time (GMT-6).

Comments

[nickelmountain.livejournal.com]

Thank you for putting this together! I was really hoping there would be another Awesome Ladies anthology this year. Count me in, definitely! I'm fine with PMs, but you can also reach me at nickelmountain(at)mail(dot)com.

Yay!

[xenoamorist.livejournal.com]

Totes interested! PM me or e-mail me at xenoamorist[at]gmail.com.

And omg, I just remembered that I have a set of Toph-centric ficlets that would totally work for this. :DDD!

Also! I would be happy to contribute cover art if you don't already have someone doing that. :)

[bessyboo.livejournal.com]

I'm already on the cover art (or possibly the person who did it last year, depending), but thanks so much for the offer! Yay cover art ^^

[knight-tracer.livejournal.com]

\o/ Sounds great! beexfive @ hotmail . com

[croissantkatie]

This sounds really awesome! I'd like to be involved. You can either pm me or email me at starkumquat @ aim . com

[leish]

Count me in! You can PM me or email me at leishamh at gmail dot com.

eta: is it okay if the fic is a teeny bit longer than 1500 words? Like. 138 words longer?

[sophinisba]

Awesome, thank you!

[sophinisba]

Thanks, we'll be in touch!

[sophinisba]

Thank you!

[sophinisba]

We are going to enforce the 1500-word limit for the anthology, but there's no reason not to record the slightly longer one and post it to halfamoon as well. :)

[leish]

Fair enough, just thought I should make sure! I probably will 'cause it's such a gorgeous fic, but there are plenty of others I want to record that qualify for this.

[dione marie basseri (from livejournal.com)]

-whimpers, big puppy eyes- I'd like to do a fic of mine, from Artemis Fowl, but it's 2,000 words...pleeeeeeeease? Come on; it'll add some variety!

[spiletta42.livejournal.com]

First, anything of mine is fair game, no further permission needed:

http://www.spiletta.com/jc.html

Secondly, here are some of my favorite short-ish works:

http://archiveofourown.org/works/216595

http://archiveofourown.org/works/67212

http://archiveofourown.org/works/16550

[sophinisba]

Sounds like a great podfic that you should post to halfamoon! But we're sticking with the 1500-word limit for the anthology, sorry.

[sophinisba]

Only the first one of those (Sanctuary fandom) would fit the guidelines for this project, but recs and blanket permission are always welcome, so thank you!

[spiletta42.livejournal.com]

Oops! I remembered them both as being really short, I guess I should check my memory next time. I don't seem to have anything else under 2000 words bookmarked, sorry.

[cantarina]

Hey, I remember you! I'm always tickled to see other former JetCers around fandom :)

[spiletta42.livejournal.com]

*waves* Looks like we have a few more recent fandoms in common, too.

[cantarina]

Well, impeccable taste doesn't disappear, does it? :P

(Jenny/Vastra <3)

[spiletta42.livejournal.com]

Good point.

[cosmic-llin.livejournal.com]

Yay, exciting! Here are a few of my fics that might fit the bill:

Star Trek:

http://archiveofourown.org/works/81344
http://archiveofourown.org/works/113023
http://archiveofourown.org/works/157971
http://archiveofourown.org/works/209596

Downton Abbey:

http://archiveofourown.org/works/297316

[sophinisba]

Awesome, thank you!

[sophia-gratia.livejournal.com]

Man, I wish I had time to participate! This sounds awesome, and I've been wanting to try podficcing. But for the record, all my stories (http://archiveofourown.org/users/sophiegrace) are fair game. Lots of shorts in there, all ladycentric. ♥

[oohshinyfangirl.livejournal.com]

I'm in! PM is fine or you can email me at oohshinyfangirl(at)gmail(dot)com.

[podklb.livejournal.com]

Can I jump in to encourage you to give participating a shot? It's a great way to start podficcing, since it's relatively low-effort and contributes to something big and awesome that will get a lot of downloads (whereas normally a podfic that was 2–5 minutes long probably wouldn't get a lot of attention). And you can go for short—one of my pieces last year was under a minute. And I am super-slow at making podfic, but even for me, that only took about an hour from start to finish. Most people could probably do it in more like 30 min.