Jake Kerr

Audio Drama

What is an Audio Drama?

I saw this question asked on Reddit some time ago, and the answers were predictably passionate. For some people an audio drama is specifically a dramatic presentation in audio that includes sound effects and dialogue, nothing else. No narrator. No descriptive elements. Just the audio doing all the work. For

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Writing the Thieves Guild

One of the questions I get every so often is "How can you produce not just one, but three audio dramas on a weekly schedule?" The short answer is that I'm cheating, but I don't want to be glib, so I figured I'

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My Dissonance With Social Media

One of the things that I constantly struggle with is that my usage of social media seems radically different than most other people. Generally speaking, I join a social network to interact with my friends and, in some instances, friends of friends. I'm not really interested in anything

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Off of Facebook & Instagram

I'm a fairly private person, and most of my social networking has been minimal outside of a controlled environment like Facebook. There I would have all my posts set to private, and I would interact with a limited group of friends. That said, I've always been

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The Thieves Guild Listening Guide

The Thieves Guild is an epic length serial that gets longer with every episode release. How epic? Well, the currently released episodes will fill almost three full novels and listening to it from the beginning will take more than 20 hours. Of course, that's part of the appeal!

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How Do I Catch Up or Read/Listen to The Thieves Guild?

The Thieves Guild epic fantasy audio drama podcast is becoming quite popular. It is also available as novels and also as a serial at Kindle Vella. With so many options across three platforms, how can you catch up if you're interested? Let me give some recomendations. You Want

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Find Me on Social Media

Beyond this website, there's a few places you can find me in social media. Feel free to reach out to me, ask questions, or simply follow me if you want. Threads: https://www.threads.net/@jakedfw Mastodon: https://kerr.social/profile/jake Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/jake.

In Shambles Productions

Artifacts of the Arcane Podcast Coming

I've had so much fun writing The Thieves Guild podcast as a serial story (with one chapter per week) that I've decided to launch another podcast with my friends at In Shambles Productions. This is an an adaptation of my Tommy Black series, which has been

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The Thieves Guild Hits 100 Episodes!

The Thieves Guild, the audiodrama podcast written by me, has offiically reached 100 episodes. I'm quite proud of this podcast, as it's a full cast production and is epic in scope, even as the characters are personal and easy to root for. I started writing The

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The Burning City Release Date is Tomorrow

Book two of my series, The Thieves Guild, is out tomorrow. All of the personal chaos that Ralan experienced in book one gets blown up into tons of political machinations. I hope you enjoy it. It's titled The Burning City because, well, the city is burning. :)

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The Burning City Cover Reveal!

It's been a busy year, and part of the year has been revising and updating my Thieves Guild series. It was previously known as The Guildmaster Thief, but I have expanded some of it and totally re-edited both editions. Additionally, I'll be releasing book 3 in

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Thursday is Now Available!

My sci-fi thriller Thursday is now available to buy. You can find it at all major bookstores in either ebook or paperback. I hope you enjoy it. I intentionally wrote it to be a fast-paced edge-of-your-seat read, but I also wanted to examine the question as to who is the

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Thursday Audiobook in Production. Check out the First Chapter!

I love the work being done on the Thursday audiobook. It should be available by the end of November. If you are considering the audiobook, here's a sneak preview of the first chapter! https://soundcloud.com/audiodrama-ai/thursday-audiobook-sample

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Thursday available for Pre-Order

Thursday, my debut science fiction thriller novel is now available for pre-order. It's availalbe at all major bookstores. Store links can be found via the link below. Click here to go directly to the buy link of your favorite retailer

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Stories of My Life

To celebrate the upcoming release of my first science fiction novel, Thursday, I've decided to share some stories of my life: Tales from the music industry, tales from my career in writing, tales from my work as a Silicon Valley business development executive, and possibly some random life

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My First Science Fiction Novel Cover Reveal!

When SF author John Scalzi was in town a couple weeks ago I was joking with him that I messed up my writing career with some poor choices. One of them was that, while I was nominated for the Nebula and Sturgeon Award for my science fiction short fiction, the

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Learning Writing From Reading "Bad" Books

Recently a young writer posted on Reddit about the advice from Stephen King to augment your writing journey by learning what not to do via reading bad books. Alan Moore also mentions this in his Masterclass videos. While I don't disagree with this advice, I think it is,

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A scene from the full cast podcast of The Thieves Guild

If you were wondering whether to dive into the free full cast audio drama podcast of The Thieves Guild, here's a one minute scene to give you a taste:

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Jaye Albright, My Personal Trans Hero

Back in the nineties, I was the Alternative Music editor for Radio & Records, an industry publication that was inluential with radio music directors and program directors. These were the people who could make or break careers and decided which songs would be hits. My office was in Century City

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Conan And Friends Podcast Tops 4,000 Downloads

I don't mention it very often, but when I began working with a Hollywood producer I started my own production company. That sounds more impressive than it is, trust me. What I basically did was just create a brand name as a name for various things that I

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The Thieves Guild Shenanigans!

I'm very excited to have The Thieves Guild now on sale in all major bookstores in both print and ebook. This is the first book in an ongoing series. Book two, The Burning City, will be available in December, and book three will be available in the first

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The Thieves Guild Now Available for Pre-Order

I'm so excited for this release. Back when I was in my teens, classic fantasy by Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert E. Conan saved my life by giving me a much-needed escape. I loved the rollicking adventures and colorful characters. Later I was similarly taken away by Charles

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Cover Reveal!

I'll write more about exciting publishing news in the near future, but let me start with the first news... the release of a newly revised and brand new edition of my swashbuckling fantasy series The Thieves Guild. I wrote this as a personal project and a labor of

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I'm Now on Bluesky

As I've noted in a number of places, I deleted my Twitter account. However, I've joined Bluesky and you can find me there as @jake.kerr.social. You can also find me on Mastodon as @jake@kerr.social. I regularly check both locations, so if you&

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No Critique Lab This Month

As I'll be teaching at the Cascade Writers Workshop in a few weeks and will be critiquing a handful of manuscripts, I won't have time for free notes this month. So sorry about that. I'll make sure to have the contest up for August,