I have just been informed by Podium Entertainment that beginning this week, The Stardock Trilogy in audiobook format is being added to extended distribution, and will now be available on an additional twelve major audiobook platforms including Spotify, Apple, and Audiobooks.com, as well as in libraries via the Libby and Hoopla apps.
Further information to come.
Victory! After being served with a DMCA takedown demand by the intellectuAl property lawyer I retained, TikTok has finally decided they should pay attention to my impersonation-account complaint, found the offending account to be in violation of their impersonation policy, and taken it down.
My thanks go out to both said attorney, and to Coach Brent, the TikTok user who reported the impersonator to me.
I was contacted today by a TikTok user who alerted me to the fact that someone on TikTok is masquerading as me. This person is using the username @seanfenian, using my name, my author photo, my book covers.
My social media presence is on Mastodon and Discord. The Mastodon account is bridged onto BlueSky. I also have a LinkedIn profile (though I do not consider LinkedIn “social media”, I consider it performative corporatism).
If you see an account purporting to be me on TikTok, on FaceBook, on Xitter ... in fact, fundamentally anywhere BUT Mastodon, Discord or my Amazon/Audible author pages ... IT IS NOT ME. It is someone masquerading as me. DO NOT BE FOOLED.
There is a reason I provide direct contact information in my books. If you want to talk to me, I want you to be able to know that it is me you are talking to.
I have filed an impersonation complaint with TikTok. I also filed a takedown request against pirated copies of my books I found on a document sharing site while researching the TikTok problem.
Anyone you see using my name in any of these places is an IMPOSTOR. And they probably do not have your best interests at heart, much less mine.
Yes — you will soon be able to listen to Agency, the collaborative near-future-SF thriller novel that Robert Auerbach and I wrote together. Podium Publishing has advised us that the audiobook version will release on August 5. Robert and I have reviewed the MP3s and sent in our corrections.
Kudos to Tim Campbell for absolutely knocking the narration out of the ballpark. Thanks, Tim. Our speculative, closed-timelike-curve future owes you one.
Godthief has been released and is now in the Amazon publication queue.
New from Sean Fenian, Godthief is a standalone fantasy novel set in an alternate world that might or might not be “real”. It delves into the powers and limitations of gods and prophecy, and what we really mean when we say the word “Paladin”, all against a background of the aftermath of a thousand-year-old, almost-world-shattering demon war.
Godthief, the next novel from Sean Fenian, is in final editing stages and will be released very shortly, either at the very end of May 2025 or the beginning of June. Godthief is a standalone (for now) fantasy novel that asks questions about what the word ‘Paladin’ really means, set in a world that will probably appear very familiar to readers of Becoming Real.
After evaluating the work of four different candidates and auditioning two, Fenian House is happy to announce the selection of Tim Campbell as narrator for the audiobook edition of Agency. Tim absolutely knocked his audition out of the park, perfectly capturing both Ciáran mac Cool and Judson Ritter. Both authors (Robert and Sean) are very happy with Tim's performance.
Podium Entertainment has recently announced newly expanded audiobook distribution onto additional leading audiobook platforms.
What this means to you, our readers, is that Fenian House audiobooks will now be available not only on the Audible platform, but also on other major audiobook pklatforms including Spotify, Apple Books, Storytel, and Audiobooks.com, as well as in local libraries via OverDrive and hoopla.
That last is of particular note, as it means that for the first time, you will be able to go to your local library and check out audiobooks of the Stardock Trilogy (and soon, Agency as well). The Podium audiobook edition of Agency is currently in narrator selection.
Amazon has just announced a beta for “KDP Audiobooks with Virtual Voice.”
KDP will automatically generate an audiobook for you from your eligible Amazon-published book, “voiced” by generative AI.
We would like to issue a brief official statement on this:
Period.
Why? Because it takes paid work away from actual human voice actors.
It came to my attention today that due to an overlooked page style error, the print edition of Bearing Gifts does not have page numbers in the Post-It Notes section. I have uploaded a corrected manuscript. The error is present only in Bearing Gifts.
Six copies—possibly seven—have been sold containing this error, and I have one additional such copy on my bookshelf (plus two author's proofs). If you own one of those copies: Congratulations! You now own a rarity.
Sean Fenian