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I’ve been hinting at a seekrit project for a while now, and it’s finally public: Steve Eley, the brilliant mind behind the first podcast fiction magazine, is stepping down from Escape Pod, and I’ll be taking his place.
I’ve been involved with Escape Artists in one way or another several times in the past five years. Steve has published several of my short stories, and asked me and Ben Phillips to helm Pseudopod when it launched. I had to step down in 2007 because i had a day job and simply had to let some outside things go.
I’ve been working behind the scenes on the EP thing for a couple of weeks now, sifting through slush with some truly dedicated volunteers. We re-launch after our hiatus next week on Escape Pod’s fifth anniversary with Steve’s last podcast. Then I will take over hosting for three weeks, then we will run our traditional Hugo short story offering. July is when I’ll settle into the job fully with hosting and editing. We’ve got some new things coming up for the podcast this summer.
But never fear! The podcast is awesome because of Steve’s vision: fun SF, and I’ll never turn away from that.
I’ve got a great team helping me, and I’m very excited to see where we can steer this ship. Thanks for all the congrats that came through Twitter and email so far, it really means a lot to me that people have confidence in my ability to take this amazing podcast and keep it strong.
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Outstanding! It was EscapePod that turned me on to podcasting and the self-published creatives communities in the contemporary fiction worlds. Congrats and glad to hear this!
Congratulations, Mur. I’m so glad Steve is leaving our beloved podcast in such capable hands.
Congratulations Mur. Escape pod has brought me many of my favourite stories over the years and I’m looking forwards to hearing them coming to me with your voice involved. Shame that means Steve won’t be fronting the podcast though. Best wishes to him in everything he does in life.
Congrats, Mur!
Congratulations Mur! I look forward to seeing more of the good stuff!
Holy cow! Congratulations! I can’t think of a better person to fill in Mr. Eley’s shoes.
Congratulations, Mur! What do you think – can you make a re-record of your Christmas story a priority?
Go Mur Go!
You will be awesome, and Escape Pod will continue to be awesome.
Great news.
I was pleased as punch to hear this. Welcome aboard. Looking forward to see where EP sails with her new Captain.
Yay for us! … and for you, of course. Like many I squee’d with glee after hearing it in the Metacast. This is truly good news!
This is great news
A fine choice to carry the torch on from Steve. Good luck!
Terrific!
Mur, *you* are made of awesome. Yes, I think you will make a great Escape Pod editor.
But I remember that you were previously the host of Pseudopod, so I’m wondering how that fits together. And I’m also sort of wondering what happened to the previous plan for Escape Pod where Steve was going to have one or more co-hosts. I suppose it was deemed infeasible?
Anyways, I’m sort of rambling.
You will do well.
And clearly I need to get the Murverse on RSS feed ’cause there’s a lot of cool stuff going on here!
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@wyrdest Reread the blog post- I talk about why I left Pseudopod. Not sure what you mean by how it “fits together” – my time at pseudopod was three years ago. And yes, plans changed, as Steve is now leaving EP; there’s a lot more to the job than hosting, and he found it didn’t fit into his busy life with the new job and baby.
I’m really going to mis Steve, but I’m also very excited that you are the one to take over from him.
OH. MY. GONK. This is AMAZING news. Go, you!!!!!
I am really going to miss Steve, but you are definitely the best person to take over the trone.
Congrats Mur!
This is wonderful news, and you’re SO the best person for the job! Congrats to you, and to Steve for bringing you onboard!