The Goat American Novel

Episode 1: It Was Not Any Barn She Knew

The start of our journey, in which we meet the farmer and the four kids of the herd, and we listen in on their conversations, their wild goatly imaginings, their dreams...

Discussed: Haunted Barns(?), Spiders are building things with their butts, and FM radio- an old time machine, invisible but all around you.

 

Where to find me:

The Goat American Novel website: https://goatamericannovel.podbean.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goatamericannovel/

Email us with questions and queries at goatamericannovel@gmail.com- Hilde is available for storytelling and workshops at your school or community event in Whatcom county and the Lower Mainland/Fraser Valley

If you are liking this story, please leave us a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts- it really helps- and tell a friend about us.  And consider supporting me through my ko-fi page: https://www.ko-fi.com/goatamericannovel

Episode 2: The Milk and Wool Producing Animals’ Neighborhood Society

In this episode, we meet the whole herd, and their neighbors, and we see the goats try- and mainly succeed- to boss all the other animals around. But do the goats, sheep, alpacas, or their respective humans, yet scent the danger wafting from the 100 year old barn?

 

 

Where to find me:

The Goat American Novel website: https://goatamericannovel.podbean.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goatamericannovel/

If you are liking this story, please consider supporting me through my ko-fi page: https://www.ko-fi.com/goatamericannovel

Episode 3: The Ballad of Ruby One-Horn

In which the big sister yearling goats tell the kids a terrifying rural legend about the one-horned goat, and FM receives an unexpected visitor, crossing the borders in dreamland to deliver a message...

Special thanks this week to Courtney Lyons for filling in!

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If you are liking this story, please consider supporting me through my ko-fi page: https://www.ko-fi.com/goatamericannovel

Episode 4: The Corn Brings the Chickens, The Chickens Bring the Noise

In which FM reaches out to her neighbors- the familiar and the frightening, the sensible and the strange, for help with her animals while she takes The Seaside Cure. But first, a squirrel.

We have a map of the farms and list of characters up! View the Map and Character Guide Here. Feel free to consult the character list freely (we confess, it's a story with a lot of characters) and, the map is designed to be colored or painted, please feel free to color the map and send us a picture of your work! 

You can find us on instagram @GoatAmericanNovelPod and never hesitate to email us goatamericannovel@gmail.com, send us your questions, let us know where you're listening, what you do while you listen (we've heard reports of family jigsaw puzzling), and most importantly who you're listening with.  With Grandpa at the care home? In the car on the way to school? Curled up in bed with your best stuffie? We need these details.

This episode features the incredible voicework of my full cast, as well as some great live-recorded foley from the folks over at freesound.org, who provided the beautiful creative commons recordings of crows, songbirds, bells and dinner ware which made this episode so beautiful and immersive. Thanks for foley artists dibko, manhawks, applesauceav, and inspectorj for their additions to the audio creative commons.

Enjoy

Episode 5: Roars, Thunderbutts, Rattling engines

As FM makes her last preparations to drive away and leave Pearl and Sawyer in charge, two of the kids break out in search of apples. Or is it prize-winning pumpkins? Or is it fear itself they'll wind up chasing?

CW: There is one scary moment! We forgot to warn in the intro! Kids, Mangoat and Silver will be fine!

We have a map of the farms and list of characters up! View the Map and Character Guide Here. Feel free to consult the character list freely (we confess, it's a story with a lot of characters) and, the map is designed to be colored or painted, please feel free to color the map and send us a picture of your work! 

You can find us on instagram @GoatAmericanNovelPod and never hesitate to email us goatamericannovel@gmail.com, send us your questions, let us know where you're listening, what you do while you listen (we've heard reports of family jigsaw puzzling), and most importantly who you're listening with.  With Grandpa at the care home? In the car on the way to school? Curled up in bed with your best stuffie? We need these details.

Episode 6: Tings In Te Barn

In which ouija boards- one regular, one made out of an accursed farm sign- are consulted regarding the supernatural business on the farm. How many ghosts are in this episode? It's not an exact science, but Ruby One Horn is surely here, and at least one haunted cat....

Special thanks this episode to Cora Lyons Smoker, guest starring at the Baker's Daughter. Featured also this week is the foley soundwork of plingavator, kyle'scountry, Rutger Miller, Bevibevel design, and stevious, and Clifford Brown's historic recording of Stardust.

 

Where to find me:

The Goat American Novel website: https://goatamericannovel.podbean.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goatamericannovel/

Email us with questions and queries at goatamericannovel@gmail.com- Hilde is available for storytelling and workshops at your school or community event in Whatcom county and the Lower Mainland/Fraser Valley

If you are liking this story, please leave us a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts- it really helps- and tell a friend about us.  And consider supporting me through my ko-fi page: https://www.ko-fi.com/goatamericannovel

 

Thanks as always to Ursula Buker, Gabriel Alden, Caleb Alden, Johnny Buker, Erin Alden, Courtney Lyons, and the Steam Brass Band for their ongoing excellent contributions!

Episode 7: Sawyer Does the Chores. With Literature.

It's time for Sawyer to do the first round of morning chores. But will he be able to do it without striking terror and/or inciting revolution in the hearts of the animals? How will Zipnog cope with no regular supply of The Brown? And what is Goatina up to?

 

Thanks as always to Ursula Buker, Gabriel Alden, Caleb Alden, Johnny Buker, Erin Alden, Courtney Lyons, the musicians of the Electric Unicorn sessions, and the Steam Brass Band for their ongoing excellent contributions!

This week leaned heavily on Foley artists Fun with Audio (breaking class) Debko (morning chorus with birds) Breviceps (crows), Justkiddink (seagulls and waves) and Zabuhailo (door creaking). Thanks for your work!

Where to find me:

The Goat American Novel website: https://goatamericannovel.podbean.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goatamericannovel/

Email us with questions and queries at goatamericannovel@gmail.com- Hilde is available for storytelling and workshops at your school or community event in Whatcom county and the Lower Mainland/Fraser Valley

If you are liking this story, please leave us a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts- it really helps- and tell a friend about us.  And consider supporting me through my ko-fi page: https://www.ko-fi.com/goatamericannovel

 

Episode 8: Who, Exactly, Has Got The Power?

In which a meeting of the Milk and Wool Producing Animals Society collides with a daisy chain, and the yearlings' Demonic Possession theory collides with the awesome force of Squirrel Power. But who, really, has got the power?

Thanks as always to Ursula Buker, Gabriel Alden, Caleb Alden, Johnny Buker, Erin Alden, Courtney Lyons, the musicians of the Electric Unicorn sessions, and the Steam Brass Band for their ongoing excellent contributions!

Where to find me:

The Goat American Novel website: https://goatamericannovel.podbean.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goatamericannovel/

Email us with questions and queries at goatamericannovel@gmail.com- Hilde is available for storytelling and workshops at your school or community event in Whatcom county and the Lower Mainland/Fraser Valley

If you are liking this story, please leave us a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts- it really helps- and tell a friend about us.  And consider supporting me through my ko-fi page: https://www.ko-fi.com/goatamericannovel