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Speaker 1: [outro jingle] Hi, I'm Steven, and
I'm the showrunner for this podcast, Collected.

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Speaker 1: And I've got a quick update for you.
So first of all, these episodes are

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Speaker 1: developer commentaries. They're for
updates, commentary on the show itself, the

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Speaker 1: development process, whatever I'm
happen to be thinking at the time, uh,
education,

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Speaker 1: stuff like that. So if you're only
interested in the stories, you can skip these.

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Speaker 1: Second of all, the release schedule
for Mortal Steel, which is Season one, is every

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Speaker 1: two weeks. So that means that
there'll be a new episode, episode two, this
Friday.

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Speaker 1: And I'll try to release them midnight
the night before. So technically right at the

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Speaker 1: very end of Thursday. It's gonna be
two weeks for a while, at least until I can hire

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Speaker 1: a team, so more than just me. More on
that later. This gives me some time to do

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Speaker 1: some backend business stuff, to do
things that are about planning the future of the

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Speaker 1: show itself, rather than just making
the episodes. So eventually we'll be able to

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Speaker 1: switch to a weekly schedule, but it's
gonna take a little bit of time, so hopefully

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Speaker 1: you can bear with me until then. I
still think that this is a pretty fast release

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Speaker 1: schedule for a podcast like this.
Speaking of business stuff, if you are an

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Speaker 1: established author or you know a
literary agent, I am interested and would love
to

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Speaker 1: talk to you. So I'm looking for
fantasy and science fiction authors with an
email

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Speaker 1: list or social media following of ten
thousand or more people, established authors,

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Speaker 1: uh, because I'm looking to sign a few
of them by the end of the year in order to

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Speaker 1: help me make stories like this. So if
you know anyone like that, please have them

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Speaker 1: contact me. I am
Steven@collectedaudio.com. I would really

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Speaker 1: appreciate that. If you are an
up-and-coming author, do not despair. I have
some big

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Speaker 1: things planned for you too, and I'll
tell you a little bit more about that in the

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Speaker 1: master plan development series that I
have coming up in a few weeks. I've already

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Speaker 1: got it written. I just don't want to
pollute this feed with too much developer

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Speaker 1: commentary. It should be mostly about
stories. Last bit of housekeeping. What are

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Speaker 1: these older episodes before Mortal
Steel? You probably have seen them and wondered

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Speaker 1: what they're for. Those are
essentially test stories. They're pilots.
They're just

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Speaker 1: the first and second episode of a
bunch of different possible stories that we
could

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Speaker 1: produce into full seasons. So like
Mortal Steel, they are stories that I wrote just

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Speaker 1: to try out a world and characters.
They have much lower production value than the

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Speaker 1: full seasons. So take that into
account when you listen to them. The stories are

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Speaker 1: still good, uh, but they're much less
polished. The recordings are worse, and

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Speaker 1: there's very little sound design. So
keep that in mind if you decide to listen to

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Speaker 1: them. I would encourage you to listen
to them. I'd love to hear what you think,

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Speaker 1: especially if you would like to vote
for what Season two will be. If you've got a

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Speaker 1: favorite, please tell me. That's it
for this update. Just a short one. And you will

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Speaker 1: hear a new episode of Mortal Steel
this Friday. See ya.

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Speaker 1: [outro jingle]