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Free Podcast Novel

Years before my first novel Pushing Leaves Towards the Sun became available for purchase as a full-cast audiobook on Audible.com, I recorded it as a 37-episode podcast using only a few friends for additional voices. This early version is still available for free on Podiobooks.com and iTunes under their Podcast category. I highly recommend the full-cast audiobook version instead (linked on my STORE page), but if you are into podcasts, and the word free, then the early version (links below, or click here) might be for you.

Pushing Leaves Towards the Sun

Promo Video by Brian Jessip
Video Music by Kim Smith

This audiobook can be heard for free in its entirety on Podiobooks.com and iTunes (originally available summer 2012).

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Click here for instructions on how to subscribe and download this free audiobook on iTunes

Or, simply search for “Pushing Leaves Towards the Sun” on either Podiobooks.com or iTunes in their Podcasts section. The entire download is FREE. After listening, your feedback is welcome, and requested. Also be sure to visit Pushing Leaves Towards the Sun, my novel’s webpage, to hear all twelve companion songs in their entirety and link to each music artist’s page.

Pushing Leaves cover

 

Pushing Leaves Towards the Sun – a survivor’s guilt story by Mark L Berry


PLTTS Audiobook 4x6_postcard for web 2-3-2013When Oso gets yanked off his motorcycle and killed by a closed parking lot chain, Billy feels guilty for having taught him to hop curbs and shortcut traffic lights. Billy’s survivor’s guilt drags him down a spiral of excessive alcohol, reckless driving, one-night stands, and body painting. He’s now all too aware that life is short—play hard.

Meanwhile, Oso’s former girlfriend Lindy pours her grief into her new folk-rock album as she struggles with whether she can ever let herself love again. Can she turn this personal tragedy into something meaningful through her music?

Pushing Leaves Towards the Sun explores survivor’s guilt and grief through reckless adventure, a dozen original songs, and fiction. When you’ve lost someone you love, there are no easy answers.

This novel is intended for adults. It includes some graphic language, sexual situations, and questionable behavior. Recovery from intense loss is a rough road—100 miles-per-hour on two wheels with no regard for oncoming traffic, as an example.

A dozen original songs are developed and woven into this audiobook’s 36 episodes. 

Chapters are read in alternating first-person point of view by Mark L Berry as Billy, Alison Leston as Lindy, and Christopher Madden as Dog.
– Intro and outro music for most chapters composed and recorded by Adam Hill

 

 

 

Podcast Trailer and Promo – Long                  1:00

 

Here are the first five chapters to get you started.

Then be sure to visit Podiobooks.com or iTunes Podcasts section to download and listen to the full novel (again, it’s FREE in podcast format).

Cheers, MLB

 

 

 

 

Pushing Leaves Towards the Sun – in its original podcast audio form

Novel Intro and Chapter 1 – Curb Hopping          11:04 (Billy)

Chapter 2 – He Loved to Ride                                  4:05 (Lindy)

Chapter 3 – Last Call                                                   11:34 (Billy)

Chapter 4 – Oso’s Last Ride                                       7:27 (Lindy)

Chapter 5 –  Formidable Force                                 4:28 (Billy)

 

Here’s the Table of Contents for all 36 episodes (chapters)

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Pushing Leaves Towards the Sun                                   Total time: 8 hours 33 minutes 

                                       Chapter Titles                                    Companion Songs                    Minutes

Part I
Summer of 1984

Episode    1 – Billy       Curb Hopping                                                                                                   11:04
Episode    2 – Lindy    He Loved to Ride                                                                                              4:06
Episode    3 – Billy      Last Call                                                                                                               11:34
Episode    4 – Lindy    Oso’s Last Ride                                  “One Down and Four Up”                   7:27
Episode    5 – Billy      Formidable Force                                                                                             4:28

Part II
2 Years Later—Summer of 1986

Episode    6 – Billy      Kassi’s Diner                                                                                                      26:10
Episode    7 – Lindy    Bubble Hockey                                   “Can’t Say Goodbye”                            8:28
Episode    8 – Billy      The Battle of Breakfast                                                                                    7:37
Episode    9 – Lindy    High School                                                                                                          9:53
Episode  10 – Billy      Around The Loco Beer Fridge                                                                    20:30
Episode  11 – Dog        The Fallout Shelter                          “If I’m Only Dreaming”                      25:13
Episode  12 – Billy      Ship of Fools                                                                                                      35:26
Episode  13 – Lindy    Officer Huskador                                                                                               4:26
Episode  14 – Billy      Guests of the Crew                                                                                           16:13
Episode  15 – Lindy    Concert Plans                                                                                                      3:12
Episode  16 – Billy      Misery Loves Company                                                                                  31:16
Episode  17 – Lindy    One Day                                                   “One Day”                                          13:46
.                                                                                                          “
Screwed at the Drive-thru”
Episode  18 – Dog       Dog Houses                                                                                                        10:42
Episode  19 – Lindy     Spy’s Surprise                                      “Man-Made Roadblocks”                 3:28
Episode  20 – Billy      Don Q and Phoenix for Two                                                                        13:56
Episode  21 – Lindy     Zodiac Signs                                                                                                       7:36
Episode  22 – Billy      What About Lindy?                                                                                         15:43
Episode  23 – Lindy    Hey Young Lady                                  “Hey Young Lady”                             11:16
.                                                                                                         
“Organized Anger” (drum solo)
Episode  24 – Dog       White Horse Diner                                                                                           8:55
Episode  25 – Billy      Back in the Saddle                                                                                          15:30
Episode  26 – Dog       At Least It’s Paid For                                                                                        4:36
Episode  27 – Billy      Cockroaches of the Sea                                                                                    7:46
Episode  28 – Lindy   About ‘Just Dan’                                                                                                16:38
Episode  29 – Lindy   From a Long Way Away                    “From a Long Way Away”               20:44
Episode  30 – Billy     The Silent Treatment                                                                                       12:50
Episode  31 – Lindy    Next Move                                               “Just Another”                                   17:01
Episode  32 – Billy     Pushing a Couple Leaves Towards the Sun                                            15:33
.                                                                                                          “Pushing Leaves Towards the Sun”
Episode  33 –Lindy   Restless Sleep                                                                                                      4:47

Part III
2 Years Later—Summer of 1988

Episode  34 –Lindy    Encore!                                                   “The Family Tree”                             18:51
.                                                                                                         
“Cats”

Episode  35 – Billy      Epilogue                                                                                                              25:50

Episode  36                   Q & A                                                                                                                    32:22

 

Total time required to listen to this entire podcast audiobook: 7 hours 55 minutes 22 seconds

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The following songs are used as background within the audiobook with permission from the songwriters:

Refugee – Words by Amanda Feuerberg
Music by The Siren
Performed by The Siren

10 Round Click – Words by Amanda Feuerberg
Music by The Siren
Performed by The Siren

 

During Pushing Leaves Towards the Sun and Street Justice Lindy (protagonist) composed four music albums: Slices of NightLife, Studying Psychology–Mostly as a Patient, The Fallout Shelter, and Street Justice. The songs are listed as they appear on those albums, along with Bill’s cover body n’art, here: Lindy’s Albums and Cover Art

 

Podcast Novel Launch Party at The Vino Gallery 7/11/2012 – click here

 

Fun map showing where this audiobook has been downloaded. Thank you worldwide listeners!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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