STAR! I’M NEARLY DONE W DARK OF THE MOON AND I’M LOVING IT SO MUCH, GOD, THIS SERIES IS SO GOOD!! I’M REALLY EXCITED but v nervous about tori and jame meeting bc it doesn’t seem like it’s gonna be the reunion i’ve been waiting for, AND I HAVE BEEN WAITING. anyway i’m desperately trying to balance my id’s need for content w a healthy fear of spoilers, so: does the podcast have any spoilers? how long are episodes? (i’m gonna try it BUT my brain is bad w podcasts, so it’s a crapshoot lol.)
I AM SO DELIGHTED TO HAVE CONVERTED YOU!!!
Okay, so, the podcast episodes vary pretty wildly in length, they’re shorter at first (an hour) and then get longer in Dark of the Moon because things get more complicated once you drop Torisen into the mix (usually more like an hour and forty minutes), and we are doing our absolute damndest to be spoiler-free! I am just now editing the episode for Ch 7 of Dark of the Moon, the one with the rathorn mare and the Builder city, and I have done my level best to cut anything more spoiler-heavy than broad statements like “we meet more changers later,” and while I’m not perfect, I think I’ve done pretty well. We also try to do trigger warnings at the start of each episode, although, again, we’re human.
Re: listening to the podcast, first off, don’t hang yourself out to dry over it if you just have a hard time with podcasts, my “subbed media is Absolutely Prohibited” ass certainly won’t hold it against you. Don’t feel obligated, but also you ain’t gonna find a lot of other Kencyrath stuff out there. Our chatter is usually pretty easy listening and doesn’t require a lot of attentiveness in order to follow it, from what I’ve been told. Since we basically just go over every chapter beat by beat, if you read the book recently, you can sort of tune in and out without missing anything (this is a problem if you are me, the editor, who knows these books back to front and often tunes out during editing). The intro episode’s audio is…not good, we had some pretty acute technical issues, but if you’re already two books in, you can definitely skip it outright, it doesn’t include anything of importance. We initially posted on Castbox, but the Podcast Bound in Pale Leather can now be found on most podcast platforms including iTunes, and we are getting approved for Spotify, Stitcher, Google Music, Podcast Republic, and SoundCloud, so…go wild.
Incidentally, I’ve convinced more people to read these books since starting this podcast nine months ago than my mother and I COMBINED had managed in the preceding DECADE, and if you’re not careful I will go MAD WITH POWER.
