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The other day I was lucky enough to be able to sit down and Skype with Mur Lafferty, author of several podiobooks, including the award-winning Wastelands and Playing for Keeps, a full-case audio drama, The Takeover, and several other podcasts and columns. Her novel Playing for Keeps is now in print and will hopefully be followed by much much more.

We talked a lot about her Heaven series, The Takeover, and about breaking in and living the the writing life. I’ve written more than a few times about Mur’s work (which you need to listen to, I’m not playing anymore).

So without any further adieu, my conversation with Mur Lafferty…

More Mur:
All things Mur: http://www.murverse.com
Her print novel: Playing for Keeps
Her Podcast: I Should Be Writing
The AudioDrama: The Takeover
The Heaven Series (also on iTunes and hopefully coming to the bookshelf soon)
Look, I Googled her for you: Mur’s Googleverse

I’ll have a few more thoughts on these in a bit, but for now, here are your 2008 Parsec Award Winners! If you want to see all the nominees you can check out my earlier post.

Best Speculative Fiction Story (Short Form)

Best Speculative Fiction Story (Novella Form)

So if you aren’t familiar with the Parsec Awards-they’ve only been around since 2006-here’s the low down from Parsec’s Site:

Mur Lafferty, Michael R. Mennenga & Tracy Hickman founded The Parsec Awards in 2006 to celebrate Speculative Fiction Podcasting, under the banner of Farpoint Media.

Podcast shows are nominated by fans, and finalists are chosen by a yearly steering committee. Those finalists are then voted on by an independent panel of judges from outside of podcasting. Awards are given in several categories ranging from content to audio quality.

[Kyle’s Note: If you’re a fan of podcasting and haven’t checked out Farpoint Media yet, you’re missing out. They are a group of independently produced podcasts (most of which specialize in SciFi and Fantasy) who have come together to form what they call “The Indie Podcast Network.” The shows are fun, informative, and just generally some of the best things to happen to my iPod since time began. No joke.]

The winners will be announced during this year’s Dragon*Con in Atlanta, which means this weekend.

Just a few quick words before I plunge you head first into the nominees. First, I have tried to tell you in previous posts how very very good Mur Lafferty and Scott Sigler are. If my yammering on and on about them isn’t enough to convince you, then hopefully the nominations here will be. Between them, they have 8 nominations (Mur: 3 & Scott: 5) this year. If you still aren’t listening to them (assuming their genres are of interest to you) then you’re missing out big time. I’m trying to help you here, I really, really am.

More after the jump…