Hi, this is K.M. Wyland, and you are listening to the very first Wordplay

podcast. Word Play, the writing life of K.M. Wyland, has been my blogging venture

for the last few years,

and I've had a blast writing it every week and interacting with all the great folks who have stopped by.

But the time has finally come to branch out.

I realize that, in our ever more hectic lifestyles, demands upon our time are increasing every week, even every day sometimes.

Because taking the time to sit down and read even a short blog post isn't always feasible. Many of us prefer to have our information on a

handy MP3, which we can toss onto our iPods and listen to you on the go. So, in the interest of helping us all save a little time, I'm very excited to offer this

podcast as a subsidy to my regular weekly blog posts.

I'm admittedly an utter newbie at this recording bit, much more comfortable with a keyboard under my fingers rather than

a microphone.

So I'd be more than pleased to hear any suggestions or critiques you may have.

You can contact me on my website at W-W-W-W-W-E-I-L-N-D dot com or my blog at wordplay-K-M-Y-L-L-E-N-Yland dot com.

That said, please enjoy this week's recording, branded negotiating consumerism in fiction.

In recent years, consumerism has taken an increasingly prominent place in entertainment.

Powerhouse companies have gone from mere advertisements,

commercials during television shows, billboards outside ballparks,

join advertisements with blockbuster movies.

To what many people consider blatant overuse and

occasionally even abuse of product placement in sports colacums movies

TV shows and even books such as Lauren Weisbergers best-selling The Devil Wears Prada.

What probably began as a harmless, an even unconscious attempt by authors to bring a sense of realism

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