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Hot Tub Cast™ 08: The Ladies of Podio Racket

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Yes, I had the honor of sitting down in the virtual hot tub this week with the two lovely ladies of Podio Racket and the two Podiobooks-pro podcasts there: the bi-weekly half-hour roundup Raise A Racket and the Blogtalk radio live interview show! Thanks to Heather Rhoulo and Rhonda Carpenter for the great work they're doing in the community and for coming on this show!

**This is a GREAT podcast for you new podcasters who're looking for ways into the community, onto...

Holt Uncensored up and #platformchat coming!

Pat Holt, pre-eminent publishing maven and overall chronicler of the domain, has just posted the first of two pieces about yours truly over at her blog, Holt Uncensored. I read this regularly, so I'm very happy to be included in her thoughts on the industry. I read one of her posts this summer about Paul Harding's book Tinkers, and she couldn't have been more dead on. Not only did this book break every mold publishing can offer, in addition it's also a truly wonderful book.

In any case, she's ...

Bouchercon Conference Coming Up!

New things abound! Not only did I post new episodes of CrimeWAV (finally!) and the Hot Tub Cast™ this past weekend, but I'm also getting ready to go to Indianapolis next week for the Bouchercon MWA events. If you'll be there (Indy from 10/15-10/18) I hope we can hook up. I'm a part of three panels at the following times:

Thurs 1:30 pm – 2:25 pm THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD TO PUBLICATIONWriters discuss their unusual and inspiring paths to publication
Friday  9:45 am – 11:15 am Hyatt Regency C/Dspan

Hot Tub Cast™ 07: Dan Sawyer Interview

This week I'm teaming up with none other than East Bay podcaster Dan Sawyer to throw down some facts on how we roll, how much you want to keep big hair out of the Hot Tub, and what it's all about with podcasting your way to publication. Dan's one of the best podcasters out there and a super big-time technical wizard when it comes to the audio production. Listen in to hear about his "Wall of Sound," the multi-actor fiction podcasts he's been putting out, and how he keeps all of these things...

The long, quiet, good day

So this is where I've been: Boston, Cambridge, New York City. All in the last weeks. I celebrated my 36th birthday.

Now I'm writing every morning to make This Is Life as good as it can possibly be.

I've got about 90,000 words of the draft and many of them I haven't looked at in over a year. This is the good, but also the bad. The good is there's plenty of work to do here, many mornings to fill with revision, reading, marking up printed sheets and putting in changes. Yes, I'll be revising this...

New Site Design thanks to JASON!!!

Yeah, yeah!! Check it out and help me thank Jason for the awesome new look to the site! More changes to come!

You Control the Audio: Sigler/Harwood Preso from NYC

That's right: if you missed my presenation with Scott Sigler this past weekend in New York City at the Writers Digest Conference 09: The Business of Getting Published, you can hear it here now!

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We had a great time doing this presentation (you'll be able to tell). The conference featured some amazing speakers that I was happy to meet, I learned a great deal, and really, all was awesome!

Some of the folks I met include: Chris Brogan, Bill O'Hanlon, Mark Levy,

Back in NYC: Writers Digest Conference

Next weekend, Sept 18-20, Writers Digest is hosting a conference in NYC called "The Business of Getting Published."

Scott Sigler and I are on the card for a presentation on Saturday morning and we're currently (whoo-ha!) featured on the front page of the conference's website: writersdigestconference.com

I'm proud to be appearing as a part of this fantastic event in a stellar lineup including Mike Shatzkin, Kassia Krozser, Kirk Biglione, Jane Friedman, Chris Brogan, and our own Byrd Leavell...

Hot Tub Cast™ 06: Jenny Beanses Interview!

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That's right: here's the link to downlaod this week's episode where I get freaky in the Tub with Jennifer Hudock (Jenny Beanses) to talk about writing, career goals for writers, who we've read coming up, her new podcast novel Goblin Market, the joy of the podcast author community, technical issues and stuff for the podcast author and... where she likes the jets! Don't worry: this episode is fully PG rated!

Also, the l...

Hot Tub Cast™ 05: The Cold Tub

That's right: Cold Chillin'! That's what I've been up to. And here, I take a minute to stop in and actually talk about that with you. Can you feel the relaxation coming across?

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Today I talk about: the future of JACK PALMS II, the tub itself, J.C. Hutchins, Scott Sigler, James Melzer, Mark Jeffrey, my wife's back, my classes and lots lots more.

Hear me wax poetic about my view of The Bay, splash my feet around, and speak the word on the late-summer simmer.

Enjoy!

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