On today's edition of the Official Adventures in Odyssey Podcast, hosts Bob and Jesse talk to artist Gary Locke, the man behind the illustrations of all your favorite Odyssey characters. You can see his work on AIO's many albums, books and magazines. You'll also find his drawings on the Odyssey Adventure Club. Watch the video podcast below.
The next Adventures in Odyssey episode review from the AIO Update is of The Greatest of These from Album 4: The FUN-damentals. In this episode the trouble starts when Robyn Jacobs is paired with slow learner Oscar for the middle school science fair, but the trouble peaks when their model volcano malfunctions. You can read our full episode review below. Audio Theatre Central, a podcast that covers your favorite family friendly audio dramas, has released their interview with Bob Smithouser, who answers fans' questions about the Odyssey Adventure Club. Bob is one of the co-hosts of the Official Adventures in Odyssey Podcast as well as the newly appointed club producer. ATC also takes this opportunity to chat with Bob about his first exposure to Odyssey, how he became the host of the Official AIO podcast as well as some of the characters he's voiced on Odyssey. Listen to their audio interview. Earlier this month we revealed on the AIO Update the title of Book 16 in the Imagination Station series, Doomsday in Pompeii, which will be released in January 2015. And today we have the summary for this upcoming book release. You can read it for yourself below. It’s the hottest adventure yet! When Patrick takes a trip alone in the Imagination Station for science project research, things get a little explosive. First, his cousin Beth gets angry that she was left behind. Second, Eugene Meltsner sees red when he realizes that Patrick went to Pompeii in 79 A.D. a day before Mount Vesuvius erupts! It doesn’t help that the Imagination Station is on the blink and Whit has gone missing. Speaking of the Imagination Station series, Brock Eastman, author of Book 5: Showdown with the Shepherd, has announced that his book has entered into its sixth printing, which will bring the total copies in print to 31,832. He also says, "At the moment there are 18 books planned for the series." This means that after Book 16: Doomsday in Pompeii, you can expect at least two more books to be produced in this series. And it's perfectly possible that the series will continue on from there and keep releasing more adventures, even beyond Book 18. It all depends on whether readers are interested.
The Trent Show, a podcast from the AIO Fansite, has released the first part of their new audio interview with Adventures in Odyssey actor Shona Kennedy, the voice of Jules Kendall in Album 57. If you have not yet heard The Ties That Bind, Part 1, you may want to do so you can avoid potential spoilers in this interview. On this week's edition of the Official Adventures in Odyssey podcast, Dave Arnold and Jesse Florea interview Brock Eastman and Bob Smithouser as they talk about how they started working at Focus on the Family, the creation of the Odyssey Adventure Club, and the new direction in the Club: Brock is moving to a new position at Compassion International and Bob is taking over the role of Odyssey Adventure Club producer. Listen to the podcast interview. Today's Adventures in Odyssey episode review from the AIO Update is of A Good and Faithful Servant from Album 4: The FUN-damentals. In this episode the Barclays get a budget for the first time, and so Jimmy and Donna must learn how to handle their finances. You can read our episode review below. Last September we released our new logo design for the AIO Update to replace the temporary logo that had been created the week before. Now that we've had the chance to reflect on it for a few months we've decided to change a few things for the latest version of the AIO Update's logo. This new updated logo uses a different font which is less jagged and more readable. The colors have also been brightened slightly to create a warmer look. Our social network pages, including Facebook, Twitter and Google+, have now been updated with this new logo. We have also made some changes to the AIO Update's homepage. You'll find that our new homepage design goes into detail in describing some of our features and helps direct new visitors to specific sections they might be interested in on the website. The Odyssey Scoop has launched another Adventures in Odyssey contest and this time winners will receive a copy of volume one of Wooton's Whirled History, A Blend of Bravery, and volume two, A Mix of Melody Makers. That's a total twelve previously released historical episodes plus brand-new hilarious intros from the character of Wooton Bassett himself. All you have to do to enter this new contest is find the three places where Wooton is hiding on The Odyssey Scoop website. You can find out all the contest details there. The Journal Gazette, a newspaper based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, has just released an interview with voice actor Katie Leigh, who we all know as the voice behind Connie Kendall on Adventures in Odyssey. She talks about the characters she's voiced, how she re-enacts classic AIO scripts on Fort Blanket Revue, and much more. You can watch a two minute video clip and then read the longer text interview here. |