The podcast series is partly a retelling of Mr Gellatly's Wimmera Trilogy book series, which follows the lives of two men living in the region, and their interactions with the people living there.

Mr Gellatly said the stories were based on his experiences of growing up in the Wimmera.

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Mr Gellatly grew up on a farm in Lubeck, leaving in his early twenties to pursue an education at LaTrobe University in Melbourne.

During his childhood, he spent a lot of time exploring the land north of the Grampians, Murtoa, and specifically the Barrabool state forest.

"I spent an awful amount of time along the Wimmera river and the Northern Grampians. That landscape shaped the story a lot," Mr Gellatly said.

He said an experience at the Wimmera river in his youth planted the seed of writing a story set in the Wimmera.

"In the mid 1970's, when the Wimmera river in a once in a lifetime event, flowed beyond Lake Albacutya, beyond Lake Fyans and into Lake Brambuk," Mr Gellatly said.

"I went there with a friend just to witness that happening. The previous time that water flowed into that lake was in 1941, so it was pretty much a once in a lifetime event.

"So I had this little story, thinking at the time while watching Lake Brambuk, I developed it in my head and started writing and it led me to three books."

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Aside from the landscape, there are many other parallels in the story to Mr Gellatly's life.

Death and its impacts are a theme that travels throughout the novels. Both the main character and Mr Gellatly worked as a funeral director.

Mr Gellatly had previously planned to record the book series in an audiobook and said the story lends itself to the podcast format.

He released the original Wimmera Trilogy novels in exclusive e-book format, with the philosophy of 'not needing to kill a tree to read a book'.

The digital experience of releasing an e-book gave Mr Gellatly the knowledge to produce the podcast, which he records on Apple's GarageBand.

"All of the episodes that I have, bar a few, run from about 20 to 30 minutes," Mr Gellatly said.

"I think that is a neat little length of time for people to not lose their concentration.

"The real beauty of podcasting is the sort of, short, sharpness of it. It helps you to keep it in your mind."

Mount Zero: the Wimmera Trilogy is available on Spotify. Mr Gellatly plans to release 86 episodes to cover the three novels, with 41 released so far.

Mr Gellatly's novels, Lake Brambruck, Golton Island Corker's Creek and Mount Zero are all available online as free e-books.

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