My opinion is that more authors could use podcasts to differentiate themselves in a crowded text-based marketplace.

Coffee takes on an almost ritualistic meaning. I learned that from being on hurricane patrol for a year in the North Atlantic.

I can write three novels in the time it takes to write one novella. I'm probably not going to go with that form again.

specialize in small cast/single reader long fiction so I only compete against other podcasts of novels in that form.

Stop aspiring. Start doing.

Podiobooks rules. It's still the best way I know to find an audience for longer works in any genre.

I only read on my phone and the whole "let's see if we can get people to do it" idea seems less "wouldn't it be cool if we could get people to do it" and more "what else would people do."