Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology IV

[klb]

Happy almost-February! As we have for the past three years, we'll be collecting short lady-centric podfics by different readers in different fandoms to release as an anthology (and as a collection of individual files) on the final day of halfamoon.

If you are not familiar with this project, you can see the previous three anthologies here, here, and here.

To 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)
-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
-Where No Woman: Un-erasing the women of Star Trek
-Femslash Kinkmeme
-The Femslash February Collection
-The Misses Clause Challenge from Yuletide
-The Women Being Awesome, Female Characters, and Female Relationships tags at the AO3, sorted by wordcount.

Since this project has a quick turnaround time, you may want to refer to the list of authors who have given Blanket Permission to Podfic, so that you can get started recording stories right away!

To the Podcurious: A number of prolific podficcers have gotten their start by contributing to previous years of this anthology. If you have ever thought you might like to create podfic, this is a really great starting place. It's low pressure, you'll get a ton of listeners, you're contributing to a cool fanwork that celebrates our love for female characters, and it's not too intense of a spotlight, because your piece is in the company of many other voices.

To Everyone: Feel free to comment with links to other fests or specific works that you think would be a good fit for this anthology. Additionally, we are looking for beta listeners who can absolutely commit to at LEAST two hours of beta listening between February 12th and 13th. Please let us know if you'd be available and interested, we'd be very grateful!

To 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 up to 10 podfics, and each story should be no more 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: 2014
Album: Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology IV
Comments: Text at: http://link
Genre: Podfic
(Note that usernames should be all-lowercase, with fandom and title given title capitalization.)

-To help make sure the volume across the anthology is consistent, we are providing a benchmark volume file to use for volume-matching. Please make sure that your own podfics are approximately matched to this volume. If you aren't sure how to adjust volume, in Audacity it's Amplify under the Effects menu, and in Garageband it's track volume (the blue line here). If you have more questions, feel free to ask in the comments!

Benchmark volume file: Here (right-click save to download)

-All podfics should be submitted in mp3 format by February 9th at midnight Central Standard Time (GMT-6).

Comments

[greedy_dancer]

I'm in! \o/ gee_dee @ hotmail dot fr please!

[croissantkatie]

croissantkatie @ gmail please! :)

[knight_tracer]

\o/ EXCITED!!! beexfive@hotmail.com

[juniperphoenix]

Yes, please!

juniper at purplelagoon dot org

[ashesandghostff]

I'm in! blackbirdswings at gmail dot com.

[fire_juggler]

Oooooh! Pick me, pick me!!!!! \o/ firejuggler451 at gmail dot com.

[jjhunter]

I'm not available to do a pod_together -style collaboration as an author at this time, but if anyone's looking for a piece to record, I'd be thrilled beyond measure to have someone perform my poem Mother-Tongue.

[klb]

Any chance we could talk you into performing it? :D

[argentumlupine]

I'm in!

argentumlupine @ yahoo dot com

[akamine_chan]

I have a ST Reboot, Uhura-centric fic that fits (http://archiveofourown.org/works/1002943); would be willing to write something teeny for Bandom - Lindsey, Jamia, Alicia, Kitty, Chantal, Becky Cloonan, or some permutation of these wonderful ladies.

[argentumlupine]

I MAY have already recorded your Uhura fic. *whistles innocently*

If you write something short about any of those Bandom people, I will happily record it. :)

[jelazakazone]

Sign me up! No clue what I'm doing or how I'm going to manage it, but I don't want to miss out. jelazakazone1 @ gmail.com. Thanks!

(What's the policy on repods for this?)

[klb]

The repod policy is that they're fine as long as there aren't 2 copies of the same story within the same year's anthology.

And no pressure if you don't manage it! Signing up doesn't commit you to anything, just gives you spreadsheet access :)

[idella]

I'm in!

idella [dot] sometimes [at] gmail [dot] com

[klb]

Awesome! I emailed you the spreadsheet link. I've seen you around tumblr, right? Have you made podfic before or will this be your first?

[kdheart]

I'm in :)

linda_quest@yahoo.com

[natmerc]

Something I've been really interested in trying to do... can't commit yet as haven't even looked at the technical side, but am interested.

natmerc @ fastmail dot fm

Sounds great!

[klb]

Okay, I've emailed you the link to the spreadsheet, and there's no commitment involved—it's fine if you submit something and fine if you don't.

The technical side can be pretty simple, especially in a short podfic. It's mostly about figuring out the best mic you have around (sometimes it's a cell phone, or the mic built into your computer), then editing out any mistakes or repeated lines in Audacity or Garageband, and then you're done!

It *can* get a lot more complex than that, but to begin with it definitely doesn't have to.

Let me know if you have any questions!

[crazybutsound]

I'm definitely in! crazybutsound at gmail

[kalakirya]

me! ciao(dot)khalimera at gmail

[paraka]

I'm in. You have my email already, but just in case, parakaproductions @ gmail.com

[cantarina]

Me please! wintersnap (at) fastmail (dot) fm :D

[itsadrizzit]

Have travel coming up and might not be able to pull this off, but I want to try.

Hanako.noriko at gmail dot com

[alba17]

I'd like to participate. I'd also be interested in writing something. alba1720@gmail.com

[klb]

I've emailed you the link to the spreadsheet.

What fandoms would you be interested in writing for?

[chestnut_pod]

SUPER EXCITED!!

chestnutpodfic@gmail, please.

[idella]

\o/\o/\o/

[tarae]

I don't know if I can pull it off in such a short time, but I sure would love to try! :)

paquada at yahoo dot de

There's nothing in the guidelines about the use of music/effects, but as this is an anthology, I guess it's a no?

[klb]

The short time is part of the process, to keep the pressure low. Short time, short fics, no commitment :)

Music/effects are fine, as long as you meet all the submission guidelines. I'd say keep in mind that this won't need its own musical intro and outro, since it will be occurring in the middle of an Anthology and so listeners won't be coming into it "cold" the way they would to a normal podfic, but if there's music that you want to use to enhance the podfic for some other reason (or effects), then you're welcome to do so.

[alwaystheocean]

Yes definitely! :D I'm pretty sure I have at least two that need an edit and polish that would fit. :D ( cleopatrap (AT) gmail (DOT) com )

Yaaay!

[anatsuno]

I'm in :)

anatsuno / gmail etc

[dunderklumpen]

I'm in!
Every year I see the sign-ups and every year I'm like "I really wanna do it". This year I finally have time and can go looking for something to record. I'm excited:)

[klb]

Yay! Can you give me contact info so I can send you a link to the spreadsheet?

ETA: Never mind, I'll look it up from pod_together! :)