Hear Here! Dan's Audiobook Podcast
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Creator: Dan Masterton
Single-voiced Multigenre Anthology Audio Book
Synopsis:
Tune in here to hear a new chapter from Dan's latest book each week, read aloud audiobook style! The newest story, Bigger than Ourselves, is out in paperback. The audiobook is coming this summer.
Buy Go Your Way, Dan's collection of fiction stories, as paperback or eBook on Amazon.
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Format: Audio Book
Continuity: Anthology
Voices: Single
Genres: Multigenre
Completion status: NA
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Episodes:
Chapter 11: An Epilogue Letter
Tue, 28 May 2024 19:48:45 GMT
Almost a bit of an epilogue, this story from the pen of Fr. Joseph gains an extra chapter a little bit down the road from the final one Joseph wrote himself. Enjoy this final installment of Bigger than Ourselves, the final story of Go Your Way.
Thanks for listening!
Check out the full story as part of Go Your Way, a compilation of my fiction stories, available via Amazon. Check out more of my writing via my LinkTree.
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Chapter 10: The Parish Council
Tue, 21 May 2024 23:44:05 GMT
The Parish Council - comprised of several familiar faces - gathers to hear the decision on the parish's new direction from the diocesan office, but not before sharing in some prayer together.
Check out the full story as part of Go Your Way, a compilation of my fiction stories, available via Amazon. Check out more of my writing via my LinkTree.
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Tue, 14 May 2024 19:17:45 GMT
Kevin is a strategic thinker with a strong education and experience background that he brings to his role advising the bishop. His old parish, St. Brendan, is on the chopping block. The data tells a story, and he finds himself torn over what to advise and what to do.
Check out the full story as part of Go Your Way, a compilation of my fiction stories, available via Amazon. Check out more of my writing via my LinkTree.
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Mon, 06 May 2024 11:00:09 GMT
Jill is a faithful parishioner and seasoned nurse-educator, no longer juggling parenthood so steeply as an empty nester now that her and her husband Ken's kids have moved out. She helps host and lead a faith-sharing group, and her discernment has been percolating in new ways lately.
Check out the full story as part of Go Your Way, a compilation of my fiction stories, available via Amazon. Check out more of my writing via my LinkTree.
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Mon, 29 Apr 2024 19:48:08 GMT
Nick is always there, every week, at the ten Mass -- sharp navy suit, clean red tie, church tidied, bulletins and baskets at the ready. He is a widower and father of a grown, lapsed Catholic, and he just wants to belong and serve. And maybe a bit more.
Check out the full story as part of Go Your Way, a compilation of my fiction stories, available via Amazon. Check out more of my writing via my LinkTree.
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Mon, 17 Jul 2023 11:00:57 GMT
Andrew is a diocesan priest and the associate pastor of St. Brendan. He has been on the fast track from Catholic school all the way into priesthood, and he imagines he must be a pastor soon. His play to make a bigger name for himself in ministry stumbles, and it takes the steady hand of his veteran pastor to recalibrate him.
Checkout the full story as part of Go Your Way, a compilation of my fiction stories, available via Amazon. Visit my LinkTree for more info: linktr.ee/danmasterton.
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Mon, 10 Jul 2023 11:00:34 GMT
Meet Larry.
He's the newly hired food pantry manager, a newly created part-time job. As he acclimates to adding this exciting opportunity to his 30-hour role in design, he and the pastor decide he should submit a journal to help Fr. Joseph understand what a week in the role is like.
Checkout the full story as part of Go Your Way, a compilation of my fiction stories. Available via Amazon. Visit my LinkTree for more info: linktr.ee/danmasterton.
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Mon, 03 Jul 2023 13:00:00 GMT
Meet Adam.
Adam has just started at college and he's finding his footing. The wild card? He's been thinking about religious life and priesthood, and he thinks he wants to share it a bit, while not overdoing it with new friends or undersharing it loved ones and trusted people.
Checkout the full story as part of Go Your Way, a compilation of my fiction stories. Available via Amazon. Visit my LinkTree for more info: linktr.ee/danmasterton.
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Mon, 26 Jun 2023 11:00:45 GMT
Meet Hope.
Hope is the director of youth and young adult ministry. And it's going well! But for all her talent and skill, she's edging toward burn out, and worrying her ministry is going flat. How could she shake things up and renew her work?
Check out the full story as part of Go Your Way, a compilation of my fiction stories. Available via Amazon! Visit my LinkTree for more info: linktr.ee/danmasterton
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Mon, 19 Jun 2023 12:15:00 GMT
Meet Madison.
She's a member of Ms. Hope's St. Brendan youth group, and it's clear at the summer wrap-up Navigators Night that she remained a young woman in between. Madison faces down a social tug-of-war that starts to pull her in a bad direction.
Check out the full story as part of Go Your Way, a compilation of my fiction stories. Available via Amazon! Visit my LinkTree for more info: linktr.ee/danmasterton
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Mon, 10 Apr 2023 05:01:01 GMT
To celebrate release day of Go Your Way: Stories from Our Lives of Faith, today I'm sharing Chapter 1 of the third story in this collection: Bigger than Ourselves!
In this episode, you get to meet St. Brendan Parish, the table-setting opening chapter to a collection of short stories with an exciting confluence at its conclusion. First, you get the lay of the land; in the chapters that follow, you meet and walk with the people of St. Brendan.
Visit bit.ly/booksbydan for more info on this collection of fiction stories, or go directly to Amazon to buy your copy today!
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Mon, 03 Apr 2023 11:00:16 GMT
Entering the chat with a bonus mini BlogCast - my April 3 post "To Gain a Way to Pray," a reflection on the impact of reading on prayer.
At the end of the episode, I share the info on my new book — Go Your Way: Stories from Our Lives of Faith, my collection of fiction stories. The book will be available as a paperback and Kindle eBook on Easter Monday (April 10). For more info, visit my book site. Happy reading! Prayerful reading!
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Mon, 20 Mar 2023 12:00:56 GMT
BIG NEWS! My eBook and paperback, Go Your Way: Stories from Our Lives of Faith, will be out on Amazon on Easter Monday (April 10). The book is the collection of my three fiction stories, including the brand new story, Bigger than Ourselves, which follows several people through short stories within a parish.
For now, I wanted to offer the narration of a Stations of the Cross I wrote a few years back. At each station, you hear from someone who encountered Jesus during his life and ministry. I hope these theoretical reflections from the Way of the Cross can help you pray and reflect this Lent.
Pre-orders of the Kindle eBook are open, and the paperback releases on April 10! Visit Amazon to check it out, and get full info at my book site.
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Thu, 27 Oct 2022 12:12:14 GMT
This month's Blogcast features my four "Money Talks", reflections on materialism, consumption, and more. Check out my LinkTree for more links to my writing and my free fiction eBooks, or follow me on Twitter for regular updates. Below are links to the blog and the articles linked within the posts:
- 10/4 - Money Talks No. 1: A Bank Note
- 10/11 - Money Talks No. 2: Some Minimalism Minimums
- 10/18 - Money Talks No. 3: The Squishies
- 10/25 - Money Talks No. 4: The Hopes
- Andrew Yang's pitch for universal basic income (UBI)
- UBI background from Forbes, Marketplace, and U of Chicago
- A look at child poverty data
- A GoFundMe I found to be spot-on
- A previous post in which I wonder about "pledge drives" in the Church
- The most generous moments of BTS
- The legend of Boaty McBoatFace
- My Grotto Network post on "green-pack it"
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Tue, 23 Aug 2022 12:26:42 GMT
Noah goes to his parish church for some quiet prayer. Soon after, he sets out to do some important writing.
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Wed, 17 Aug 2022 11:39:00 GMT
Noah once again finds himself back at CIstercian, checking in with an old mentor on some new findings.
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Wed, 10 Aug 2022 23:11:25 GMT
Noah faces up to a difficult reality and has a tough conversation with an important person.
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Tue, 02 Aug 2022 21:53:50 GMT
Noah heads for the hills, literally, deciding to take a hike, literally, and get some fresh air and fresh thinking.
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Tue, 26 Jul 2022 11:23:52 GMT
Noah keeps seeking rich prayer by following humble, benevolent advice -- this time an invitation from Fr. Ambrose to the alumni to gather at a Taizé Prayer Service. Noah surrenders to the mantras and silence and sees a version of himself in elected office.
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Tue, 19 Jul 2022 19:34:22 GMT
Noah tries to get back in a prayer groove by signing up for an Adoration slot at his parish. His gets out of God's way a bit, and some things start happening again.
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Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:22:45 GMT
Noah tries to figure out what's next after a tricky experience. His girlfriend makes a clutch suggestion that leads to a very helpful connection.
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Tue, 05 Jul 2022 13:36:25 GMT
Noah walks away from a great night with friends, and his renewed engagement brings him to a challenging, difficult experience that throws him for a major loop.
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Wed, 29 Jun 2022 00:08:17 GMT
Noah catches up with his best friends. The nostalgia and storytelling gives way to some vulnerable life updates, and Noah has to decide how much he is ready to share with others.
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Tue, 21 Jun 2022 13:57:31 GMT
Noah catches back up with his alumni group, this time to pile in a van and serve at a food pantry, where the example of the local community and its leader help him see new possibilities.
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Tue, 14 Jun 2022 16:36:27 GMT
Noah tries to get back in the flow of life and bring his renewed prayer with him. This includes a lazy weekend with his girlfriend, Joan, and another Sunday at Mass at their parish.
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Tue, 07 Jun 2022 12:37:03 GMT
Noah wakes up for day two of the retreat, ready to try and engage further with the opportunities of this retreat. He dusts off an old prayer practice he learned in high school, and things start happening again.
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Tue, 31 May 2022 12:36:10 GMT
Welcome to my new story, Abundance, not Scarcity !
Meet Noah, who has traveled down to a Trappist abbey. He's broken through his life malaise enough to say yes to something - an alumni retreat with his high school, where he'll be invited into prayer in a new way.
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Thu, 26 May 2022 13:20:52 GMT
Delighted for this month's set to include the rollout for my second fiction story, Abundance, not Scarcity. Full details are in the May 24 post, and all the forms and files are available via my LinkTree. Enjoy!
Here's May's posts:
- 5/3: When it Hits Closed to Home
- 5/10: Still Hitting Closed to Home
- 5/17: Fewer, not More
- 5/24: Abundance, not Scarcity: Another Invitation to Listen and Read Along
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Teaser: Preview Passage from Abundance, not Scarcity
Sat, 21 May 2022 20:19:06 GMT
It's time for Season 2! Listen for a short non-spoiler passage from Abundance, not Scarcity, my new fiction story. The audiobook debuts Tuesday, May 31!
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Teaser: About Abundance, not Scarcity
Sat, 21 May 2022 20:13:27 GMT
It's time for Season 2! Listen for a brief preview of Abundance, not Scarcity, my new fiction story. The audiobook debuts Tuesday, May 31!
Get your free eBook or order a paperback at linktr.ee/danmasterton, where you can also find links to all my writing.
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Fri, 29 Apr 2022 20:53:23 GMT
Exciting to have traveled for an in-person NCEA conference to offer a session and see my books on sale in the wild! Also a bit of news to share in the intro...
Here's April's posts:
- 4/5: Dispensation and Obligation
- 4/12: Not All Traditions Have Milkshakes
- 4/19: The Greatest Sign of Intelligence?
- 4/27: Preferential Option for Creation
Check out my LinkTree, follow me on Twitter, or visit the blog site or like the Facebook page.
Or click through to these Earth Day resources: caution against wish-cycling, NPR's mini-doc on recycling myths, and Planet Money's coverage of the origins of sketchy recycling marketing.
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Wed, 30 Mar 2022 12:54:35 GMT
Here's the BlogCast for March 2022. While I finish up prep for my NCEA 2022 talk, get rolling on a new project helping with an Ave Maria Press textbook, and enjoy another chance to contribute to Grotto Network for St. Patrick's Day, here's the weekly posts from March:
- 3/1: Not Hogging the Covers
- 3/8: Aging Empathetically
- 3/15: Will Parishes Need Public-Broadcasting-Style Pledge Drives?
- 3/22: Sports Sometimes Don't Stink (Before They Quickly Stink Again)
- 3/29: To Build Up "A Civilization of Love"
Read FemCatholic's must-read article: https://t.co/2Vv3AY2ASx
Sign FemCatholic's petition to the bishops conference: https://t.co/drKOt7eZbA
Enjoy!
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Thu, 24 Feb 2022 14:47:08 GMT
NEW TO THE PODCAST FEED!
Each month, I'll record a BLOGcast of my weekly blog posts from the month.
This first episode includes my four posts from February:
2/1: Curation
2/8: Children as Sacramentals
2/15: A Resignation Reset
2/22: Mysteries of Multi-Potentiality
A new bonus episode will go up each month! And a new novel is in editing and will enter the feed in a few months...
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Mon, 18 Oct 2021 12:45:01 GMT
Theresa takes stock of things with John before one last late meeting and walking out the door on a long day -- out to a sweet surprise.
Enjoy Chapter 13! The conclusion of What There Is to Be Done! Things for listening, y'all. To grab a paperback or check out my other writing, visit linktr.ee/danmasterton
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Mon, 11 Oct 2021 05:57:33 GMT
Theresa works through some meetings and then gets a chance to catch up with Mike. His candor and thoughtfulness meets her at a good place, and they take stock of how things have become in their work.
Enjoy Chapter 12! Grab your paperback at linktr.ee/danmasterton
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Mon, 04 Oct 2021 13:00:44 GMT
As Theresa continues to get her feet under her in student life, she gets a little fresh spiritual direction — from her old spiritual director, her dear colleagues, and a new figure.
Enjoy Chapter 11! Grab a copy of the paperback at linktr.ee/danmasterton
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Mon, 27 Sep 2021 19:47:04 GMT
Theresa gets acclimated to a new normal, juggling new administrative duties with the old teaching hustle. She gets some perspective on the constancy of solid teachers as well as on the new challenges she'll face.
Enjoy Chapter 10! You can order your paperback at linktr.ee/danmasterton
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Mon, 20 Sep 2021 21:44:02 GMT
Theresa sets up her new office in the admin wing, but then she gets thrown a curveball that challenges her developing and deepening peace.
Enjoy Chapter 9! You can order your paperback at linktr.ee/danmasterton
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Mon, 13 Sep 2021 12:58:20 GMT
Theresa gets to start mentally settling into her new role, chatting with colleagues and imagining what the future could look like.
Enjoy Chapter 8! You can order your paperback at linktr.ee/danmasterton
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Mon, 06 Sep 2021 13:16:34 GMT
Theresa is flustered because she wants to accept the job but hasn't had the chance, so she hits the pub for a Friday drink with Mike. She resettles into some fresh peace and pulls on a thread to unravel a happy discovery.
Warning: some mild language in this chapter.
Enjoy Chapter 7! We're at the halfway point. Grab your paperback or check out Dan's writing at linktr.ee/danmasterton
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Mon, 30 Aug 2021 04:43:26 GMT
Theresa spends a Sunday morning talking discernment with her husband, John, and then bringing that conversation to Mass at their parish.
Enjoy Chapter 6! You can order your paperback at linktr.ee/danmasterton
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Mon, 23 Aug 2021 12:58:55 GMT
Theresa sits down for her annual job review, and attempts to keep calm while wondering if a new offer for next year is coming from here principal, Frances.
Enjoy Chapter 5! You can order your paperback at linktr.ee/danmasterton
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Mon, 16 Aug 2021 05:21:50 GMT
The time is nearing for Theresa to decide if she wants to pursue a new role, and to figure out how to do it. Meanwhile, some affirmations come flying in but are overshadowed by others' teardowns.
Enjoy Chapter 4! You can order your paperback at linktr.ee/danmasterton
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Mon, 09 Aug 2021 12:17:54 GMT
Theresa makes a visit to her spiritual director, Duke, and explores continuing to teach versus perhaps making a switch, and learns to look out for "screwtaping" herself.
Enjoy Chapter 3! You can order your paperback at linktr.ee/danmasterton
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Mon, 02 Aug 2021 04:53:03 GMT
Walk with Theresa and her husband, John, as they work through a conversation around Theresa's discernment of perhaps pursuing a different role at her school.
Enjoy Chapter 2! You can order your paperback at linktr.ee/danmasterton
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Mon, 26 Jul 2021 02:44:07 GMT
Get acquainted with Theresa, or as the kids call her, Mrs. Acutis, as she begins a new year teaching at Mary, Mother of God High School and reckons with an intriguing faith formation session.
Enjoy Chapter 1! You can order your paperback at linktr.ee/danmasterton
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Teaser: About What There Is to Be Done
Wed, 21 Jul 2021 03:35:38 GMT
In this teaser, hear the back-of-the-book summary of What There Is to Be Done, and find out how to get in touch.
Tune in here to hear a new chapter from Dan's latest book each week, read aloud audiobook style!
To get a copy of What There Is to Be Done, or to check out Dan's other writing, visit linktr.ee/danmasterton.
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Wed, 21 Jul 2021 03:33:59 GMT
In this teaser episode, hear an excerpt from the story, listening along with the first few pages and how this story begins...
Tune in here to hear a new chapter from Dan's latest book each week, read aloud audiobook style!
To get a copy of What There Is to Be Done, or to check out Dan's other writing, visit linktr.ee/danmasterton.
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Wed, 21 Jul 2021 03:30:11 GMT
In this teaser episode, hear an excerpt from the story, in which our main character, Theresa, daydreams about what her dream job could look like after a few years...
Tune in here to hear a new chapter from Dan's latest book each week, read aloud audiobook style!
To get a copy of What There Is to Be Done, or to check out Dan's other writing, visit linktr.ee/danmasterton.
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