ISBW #119 – Are You a God? / Seth Harwood Interview
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We are also proud to be sponsored by JC Hutchins’ Personal Effects series, the podcast Sword of Blood is available free now, and the novel Personal Effects: Dark Art, launched this past week (order now!)
Note- I recorded this before I spent two weeks of hardcore writing and editing. I wrote 25,000 words in four days, and did basically nothing else. So I apologize for not getting this up until now.
- 00:07: ISBW #119
- 00:37: GoTo Meeting Message
- 01:30: Balticon was a blast!
- 02:30: War launched June 1
- 05:23: Promo: John Mierau’s Serving Worlds
- 06:17: Ghostbusters’ lessons – and yes, I now remember SW’s character was not Zool – If someone asks you if you’re a god, YOU SAY YES. (most of the time)
- 13:35: Promo: Feedback: A Hero’s Calling Season 2
- 14:50: Interview with Seth Harwood, author of Jack Wakes Up
- 35:07: Promo: JC Hutchins’ Personal Effects: Sword of Blood
- 36:58: Feedback: Very awesome “I’m a writer” email, outlining including the snowflake method, wordcount, standard manuscript format (see edit below), mentors, you’re allowed to suck, kill your darlings, self publishing, more outlines, putting work online, Super Note Card is good writing software for PCs, how to send mss to publishers when you can’t afford printing, always send polished mss to agents/publishers!
EDIT- mistakenly said standard manuscript format is 10 pt Courier- I was wrong. It’s 12 pt Courier. Sorry! Thanks to people who reminded me!
Personal Effects: Dark Art Launches Today!
Frequent guest, sponsor and good friend JC Hutchins has his print debut hit the bookshelves today. Personal Effects: Dark Art is a novel, a transmedia experience, and alternate reality game. We’ve mentioned it before, but now you can see what podcasting novelists thinks about it.
As I said- in full disclosure, Hutch is a sponsor, and a friend, but I wouldn’t endorse this book as heavily if I hadn’t read an advance copy and think it’s worthwhile to read. It’s scary, touching, creepy, and fascinating. I can’t wait to actually start following the clues in the retail version of the book.
Other podcasters in the vlurb: Philippa Ballantine: Chasing the Bard, Digital Magic, Weather Child, Scott Sigler: Infected, Contagious, Ancestor, Seth Harwood: Jack Wakes Up, Jack Palms 2 & 3, Young Junius, Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff: Number One with a Bullet, Shadow Falls, Diary of a Madman, Christiana Ellis: Nina Kimberly the Merciless, Space Casey, Matt Wallace: The Next Fix, The Failed Cities Monologues, James Melzer: The Zombie Chronicles – Escape, Stephen Eley: Editor of Escape Pod, and publisher of the horror fiction podcast Pseudopod, Mark Jeffrey: The Pocket and the Pendant, The Two Travelers, Phil Rossi: Crescent, Tales from the Vault, Eden, and Matthew Wayne Selznick: Brave Men Run, Hazy Days and Cloudy Nights.
ISBW Video #9 – Book Trailers Revisited
Book trailers. Well. They’re hard. That’s about it.
In this video, we have two versions of my WAR trailer, and lots of help and love from fans. I asked for content, and got well over TWENTY comments, videos and audio clips. Deluge of love! I couldn’t use them all, but I do plan on putting each comment either on the site or in an audio promo, so don’t think you did a bunch of work for nothing.
And as usual, I forget someone in the credits- ARGH. Natalie Metzger did some graphic design doctoring on the WAR cover, and she created the amazingly creepy image of our new villain, the masked woman you’ll see in the video. Also, Will Hoffacker took the still pics of me and JR Blackwell from Balticon.
[EDIT You can get all of the ISBW video episodes on YouTube now!]
ISBW Video Podcast #8 – JC Hutchins Interview, LIVE from Balticon
I got to get an exclusive sneak peek at the awesomeness that is Personal Effects: Dark Art this past weekend at Balticon! I talk to author JC Hutchins about his ground-breaking book, and we try not to get distracted by passers-by.
Camera work by John Cmar, Additional Direction by David Moldawer
ISBW Video Podcast #7 – Submission Survival Kit
In this podcast me and my camerawoman head to Staples to talk about the best tools for your submission kit. Her camera work isn’t the best, and I mispronounce “Pyr Books“, but we had a good time.
The kit:
Pens
Self-adhesive #10 envelopes for small queries and SASEs
Self-adhesive large envelopes for larger queries/partials
Tracking system for queries
Stamps (USA just raised postage to $0.44)
Adhesive address labels
And a chair.
Sponsored by Personal Effects, Dark Art.






