This week, there’s a bit of an inversion happening in this issue compared to prior ones Oddly enough, there are more shows in the “Coming Soon” section this week than in “Recently Complete”. …

Greetings, fabulous fan of fiction podcasts! Before I get to the stories — and there are some great ones today — I’m going to bring up sponsorship and individual support. Yes, again. Big thanks to Radio Drama Revival for becoming the Presenting Sponsor of the “coming soon” section, something new…

Happy almost-2023! it looks like we won’t quite hit my personal goal of getting 1,000 subscribers by the end of the year over on The End, but we’re quite close to 900, so I’m taking the win! Feel free to tell a few dozen people about this place, however. …

Happy holidays, fan of fiction podcasts! I guess this is the Christmas edition, if only due to proximity to the calendar. So if you celebrate (I do!), merry Christmas. Or Happy Hanukkah. Joyous Solstice. Fabulous Festivus. Et al. A special holiday thanks to Joseph Stephen Leonardo for becoming our latest…

Greetings, fabulous fan of fiction podcasts! If you’re wondering what to buy me for Christmas; booze works. Or becoming a personal supporter of The End. I’m easy! A lot of fiction podcasters are using Tumblr, so The End has a Tumbler account as well! While The End is most active on Mastodon these days, we tend…

Last week, I highlighted a bunch of long fiction podcasts, perfect for a long drive. This week, I’m bringing balance to the universe by highlighting, with two notable exceptions, shows you can easily binge in a day. — We’re super close to 800 subscribers — thank you! Keeps spreading the word of The End to your friends. With that, let’s get into it. Featured Finished Fiction Podcasts Blood on Gold Mountain: A Story from the 1871 LA Chinatown Massacre from Micah Huang, Hao Huang, and Emma Gies

(Disclaimer: I’m not exactly sure how to best use Medium as a distribution method for The End, my weekly newsletter that shines a light back on fiction podcasts when they’ve reached the — or at least a — conclusion. But when did that ever stop me?) Welcome to December! Our…

8 resources to guide you on your quest (see what I did there) to find a fiction podcast you’ll love. Finding a new fiction podcast to listen to isn’t hard. Not really. Don’t believe me? Open up your preferred podcast listening app. Find the area that displays/filters by category and look for the Fiction category. There you go. Literally thousands of fiction podcasts for you to listen to. Easy! See…

Not so long ago, it was possible to talk about the future of podcasting in relevant terms for every podcaster. But podcasting has evolved beyond those simpler times. So what do we do in these more complex times? I’m not gonna beat around the bush. What you are listening to or reading right now is the very last episode of Podcast Pontifications that I will make. This is it. I wrote out this long and detailed outline of a script that dug deep into why I’m making this…