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January 18, 2021
Telling My Own Story with Alison Stine
Growing up in rural Ohio with a hearing impairment, Alison turned to reading and telling her own stories as a way of staying involved. In the process of reading, she realized that the stories where she came from weren’t getting out into the mainstream. She decided to help fill that gap with he...
January 11, 2021
Learning Thru Story with Dantzel Cherry
She started writing in college but decided she needed to push herself. So she signed up for a writer’s bootcamp facilitated by Orson Scott Card, where she learned about the short story market.
It was through writing short stories that she developed her voice and learned to tell compact, heartfelt stories that get people excited and make people laugh.
S...
December 31, 2020
Reflecting upon The Artist’s Choice
For this turn-of-the-year podcast episode, I’m offering you a personal reflection on what I’m calling “The Artist’s Choice.” I hope you find something in it that works for your own unique journey.
December 21, 2020
The Value of Average
Today I’m going on a tangent about going trad pub vs self-publishing, as that conversation intersects with the results of the Written Word Media 2020 Author Survey.
Here’s a link:
https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/the-evolution-of-an-author-how-to-go-from-zero-to-100k-from-your-writing/
So what do I think? You’ll have to listen to find out!
Happy ho...
December 14, 2020
Find Your Voice with Lamar Giles
Between reading Stephen Kings On Writing and discovering books by black authors in his favorite genres, Lamar realized there was a route to making money writing fiction.
At first, his stories emulated the voices of the authors he grew up admiring. He even sold a few short stories that way, yet it was when he found his unique voice that his career truly started to shift.
Success is the life Im...
December 7, 2020
Every Word Counts with Robert Buettner
With a love of classic science fiction, he draws upon his experiences as a U.S. Army Intelligence Officer to tell compelling stories that accurately depict the emotional experience of being a soldier.
With ten novels under his belt, including his most release release, My Enemys Enemy (published by Baen), Roberts learned the ins and outs of the publishing...
November 30, 2020
Plausible Science Fiction with Peter Cawdron
The reviews show he knows how to write a crowd pleaser. After all, for Peter, it’s all about the fun and challenge of telling plausible yet entertaining stories that are easy to read. He’s also not afraid to write and publish more experimental stories, even if that means not writing a bestseller ...
November 23, 2020
Write Like Me with Mike Sacks
He’d been contributing humor pieces to national magazines and papers for a number of years before he truly hit his stride. As a student of comedy, his epiphany was realizing that for legends like George Carlin and Richard Pryor, it was only when they dropped the pretense and became themselves that their careers truly took off.
Since that t...
November 16, 2020
Do It First with Brandon Easton
Ten years after being published 2002, he was finally published again, and that was only because he took the initiative. Brandon self-funded the creation of the original graphic novel, SHADOWLAW. That book earned him a Glyph award for Best Writer and helped him land a writing deal with Lion Forge Comics.
His ultimate dream, though, was to become a Hollywood ...
November 10, 2020
Author Confession: This isn’t funny
Fun fact: I used to teach yin and restorative yoga (also: the root yoke of yoga means ‘to connect’). No, I’m not wearing my yoga pants today. And yes, I’m wearing pants…it’s way too cold in my office right now!
Okay, let’s get serious. I want to talk with you about a recent release of mine and why I took the risk of putting it out there, even though it’s decid...
