Tee Morris is an American science fiction and fantasy novelist, podcasting and social-media pioneer, and the author or co-author of Podcasting for Dummies (now in its fourth edition, with Chuck Tomasi and Evo Terra), one of the foundational references for the working podcaster. In January 2005 he took his 2002 historical epic fantasy novel MOREVI: The Chronicles of Rafe and Askana (Dragon Moon Press) into the then-emerging podosphere, making MOREVI the first novel ever podcast in its entirety, which earned him a permanent place in the early history of podcasting and the audio-fiction movement.
His Podcasting for Dummies line (Wiley) has been continuously updated across multiple editions to cover the working business of starting, producing, sponsoring, distributing, and growing a podcast. His follow-up reference titles include Expert Podcasting Practices for Dummies, Twitch for Dummies, Discord for Dummies, All a Twitter (Que), Sams Teach Yourself Twitter in 10 Minutes, and contributions to Making YouTube Videos. The podcasting infrastructure he co-founded with Evo Terra and Chris Miller in the form of Podiobooks.com gave thousands of indie authors a free distribution channel for serialized fiction in the decade before audio fiction became a major commercial category.
His fiction career began with MOREVI and continued with The Case of the Singing Sword: A Billibub Baddings Mystery (2004), a cross-genre hard-boiled-detective-meets-high-fantasy spoof, which earned an honorable mention from ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Awards. The podcast version of The Case of the Singing Sword won the 2008 Parsec Award for Best Audio Drama. In 2011 he returned to fiction full time with the steampunk Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences series co-authored with his wife Philippa Ballantine. The debut novel Phoenix Rising (Harper Voyager, 2011) won the 2011 Airship Award for Best Steampunk Literature, and the series continues through The Janus Affair (Harper Voyager), Dawn's Early Light (Ace), the Ministry Protocol anthology, and the related Tales from the Archives podcast.
He has contributed short fiction and essays to BenBella's Farscape Forever: Sex, Drugs, and Killer Muppets and So Say We All: Collected Thoughts and Opinions of Battlestar Galactica, the audio anthology VOICES: New Media Fiction, and Dragon Moon Press's Podthology: The Pod Complex. He teaches podcasting and digital media for business and government clients out of the Washington D.C. and Virginia metro area, co-hosts The Shared Desk with Philippa Ballantine and Happy Hour from the Tower: A Destiny Podcast. He lives in Virginia with Philippa Ballantine, their daughter, and three cats.
