Hi, this is Cam Wyland, and you are listening to the third episode of the Word Play

Podcast.

I've done a little fiddling this week and figured out how to embed the podcast in my blog.

So for those of you who listen through my website, instead of iTunes or Blueberry,

the audio player is now embedded directly beneath my posts.

Please let me know if you can encounter any problems.

I now have an official fan page on Facebook with, of all things, real-life fans.

I'm still in a bit of a probably unwarranted euphoria over that, but there's nothing worse than poking the submit fan page button and then biting your nails worrying that your only fan will be your sister.

If you're interested in receiving updates about my blogs, this podcast, and my books, you can become a fan by visiting my blog at wordplay-K-M-Y-L-N-Y-L- A N D dot blog spot

dot com and clicking the blue Facebook button in the side column.

On Friday I sent off two of the four orders I'll be making for the gifts and

promotional items for the drawings and contests celebrating

my crusade novel, Behold the Dawn's publication in October.

The prizes, all of them sharing the book's medieval theme, look fantastic. I absolutely can't wait to share them with you all.

I'm working hard to get everything ready to launch on July 1st.

Until then, if you have any questions, comments, suggestions, or complaints, please feel free to contact me on my website

at kamwiland.com or my blog at wordplay-Kamwiland.com.

That said, please enjoy this week's recording. Don't let the big words die.

I'm a vocabulary nut. I admit it. I love words. Little words, big words, unusual words, archaic words. Ever since high school,

it's been my practice to keep a piece of paper in front of the book I'm reading so I can mark

down unfamiliar words and look them up the next day. Whenever I look up a word I underline

it. And these days, if you were to flip through my battered Random House Dictionary of the English

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