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Hello! It’s been a while. The world is changing, and so is the status quo here at AWP, and that means that there’s news on the Antithesis podcast front.

Seven and a half years ago, I moved house.
The noise from a very abusive family in my apartment complex had
slowed my podcast production to molasses speed. Instead of an episode
every week (more or less), my full-cast audio slowed to a crawl. It took
a hiatus around the house move because, well, there was a house to
unpack, but things started coming back online the following spring,
hitting a full-cast production apex during the fall and winter of 2013
when Crudrat got underway and Antithesis took a temporary back seat.

Except, it didn’t turn out to be temporary. In the midst of Crudrat
production, we found that life in the San Francisco Bay no longer made
sense for a small studio and publishing house, and we de-camped to the
Oregon Coast for a small office on a quiet street right across from the
beach.

Production resumed, and on the aftershow for Episode 9 of Free Will I excitedly announced that the podcast was back, and back for good, because I’d recorded most of the rest of the book so there was nothing standing between me and the endgame.

The universe, it seems, has a perverse sense of humor. The week after
that podcast, a family member went into the hospital for long-term care
for what we thought was a terminal condition (thankfully, it turned out
not to be). A few weeks after that, one of my business relationships
broke down irretrievably, necessitating a lot of extra work to
disentangle things. A few weeks after that, my father in law announced
he was dying.

The podcast was the casualty. Unlike with The Every Day Novelist, Antithesis takes a lot
of production time–often ten to twenty hours per episode or more, once
all the production management is factored in. And I kept pushing it down
the stack.

My father-in-law’s death was followed swiftly by my own parents
needing help transitioning into retirement, which occasioned yet another
house move and an ensuing period of itinerancy, which isn’t the best
recipe for success when you’re running a small business. To survive, our
little production house spent almost all its resources on doing work
for other companies and other authors. We did good work, but very little
of it was ours, and very little of it touched you all who were with us
through all the full-cast podcasting years.

It’s been a seven-and-a-half year ride. It’s been three and a half
years since the last Antithesis episode dropped. A lot has happened
along the way in the world of Joss Kyle–to say nothing of the real
world.

And today, finally, after all these years, I am working on the
production for the Free Will podcast. I have the narration for six
episodes in the can, and at least most of the actors’ voices.

The next several months have a lot more excitement happening for me,
as I’m finally moving home again, to a ranch that I’ve bought during my
long exile, and building a house and (more importantly for the podcast) a
permanent office for AWP. There are definitely going to be production
interruptions, and it’s not fair to keep doing start/stop/start/stop
with this story, not with how invested you are and with how the story is
about to really pick up steam. So, with all that in mind…

I am going to start podcasting Antithesis again when I have twelve episodes finished
and tagged and queued. At that point, there will be enough queued to
put me through the summer when all the building happens, and into the
fall when we will resume our production season. If I can get farther
ahead, so much the better, but there will be at least twelve new episodes finished before the first one hits the feed.

That way, you can get the story you’ve been waiting for.

Thank you for being here, even after all this time. It means more to me than you can know.

And remember…

…it isn’t whether you win or lose, it’s how you rig the game.

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