Archive for July, 2008
ISBW Special #33 - AISFP #54 - Kelly Link and Lou Anders
Clarion is currently underway in California, and Shaun Farrell of Adventures in SciFi Publishing is getting interviews with the instructors. (I’m not jealous). But Shaun did allow me to put these amazing interviews in my feed, because I know you’ll get a lot out of it. We’re looking forward to Kelly Link, James Patrick Kelly, Neil Gaiman, and more!
From AISFP
In our first Clarion special show, Kelly Link joins us to discuss workshops, MFA programs, writing short fiction, and more. Then Lou Anders of Pyr SF stops by to analyze the purpose of cover art.
Show Notes
We start this show with Publishing News: Tobias Buckell has been selected to write the next Halo novel for the bestselling series. This spawns Shaun and Sam to discuss media tie-ins. And who wrote those other novels in the Halo series: The Flood, First Strike, The Fall of Reach, and Ghosts of Onyx, all by Eric Nylund, and Contact Harvest, by Joseph Staten.
We are very pleased to bring you weekly episodes for the rest of the year, and we start off with our special Clarion Series, where we go behind the scenes of the Clarion Workshop. Kelly Link joins us to talk about the program, low-residency MFA programs, writing short stories, Creative Commons, and her new story collection, Pretty Monsters. Also, Lou Anders examines the purpose of cover art. Is it meant to accurately portray the book? Should SF books be laden in iconic SF imagery, or is Photoshop the way to go?
Lastly, no feedback this time, and we have some fun with it. Don’t forget to get in on the Keys to Publishing contest, coming soon.
Promo: The Keys to Publishing contest
Promo: I Should Be Writing
ISBW #94 - Truths
- Matthew Wayne Selznick debuted Brave Men Run last week! Congrats, Matt!
- This week’s Key to Publishing #2 (check Adventures in SciFi Publishing for #1)
- Truths - my confessional about bad habits in writing. MY bad habits.
- Promo: John Payne fancast
- Writing and Tracking through Subversion (from Jennifer)
- MFA/MFYOU
- Robert’s write-every-day blog
- New Fantasy Magazine- Beneath Ceaseless Skies
The merits of yWriter
You know those things that you let sit cause you either forget about them or you think you don’t have time, and then you realize over 6 months have passed, so you wonder if you should keep your word or not do it at all and hope everyone forgot…?
I promised PG Holyfield that I’d put his review of the software yWriter from the Nanomonkeys podcast in my feed. A long time ago. And now I’m doing it. Sorry it’s late, PG!
ISBW and AISFP Hold the “Keys To Publishing” Contest!
Win free books from Tor and Pyr SF in this summer’s “Keys to Publishing” contest!
Adventures in Scifi Publishing is teaming up with I Should be Writing to bring you the “Keys to Publishing” contest. Running all summer long, the contest will feature authors Tobias S. Buckell, Kay Kenyon, Jay Lake, David Louise Edelman, Brenda Cooper, Sean Williams, and perhaps a surprise author or two.
These professional writers will bring you some the essential keys necessary in succeeding as a professional author. Tor and Pyr SF are cosponsoring the contest with book giveaways featuring some of the summer’s hottest new titles.
To enter the contest, simply listen for the six keys on Adventures in Scifi Publishing and I Should be Writing. Write down the title of each key, and when the last key is given, email all six keys to adventuresinscifipublishing@gmail.com with “Keys” in the subject line. That’s all you have to do. There will be at least two winners!
We hope you have fun with the contest and that it helps some of you fulfill your dreams of becoming professionally published authors.
**Sorry, but US residents only.
FEED HIJACKED
Matthew Wayne Selznick, author of the podiobook Brave Men Run: A Novel of the Sovereign Era (the guy I just interviewed), wanted to borrow my feed to promote his plans to rush the Amazon charts on July 13 (the book’s release date), and the all-day event to celebrate the release.
As part of this live video event, Matt will read seven short stories set in the Brave Men Run universe, from some of the hottest names in podfiction, including:
- JC Hutchins (”7th Son”)
- Nathan Lowell (The “Golden Age of the Solar Clipper” novels)
- Matt Wallace (”The Next Fix”)
- J.R. Blackwell (Voices of Tomorrow)
- Jared Axelrod (The Voice of Free Planet X)
- P.G. Holyfield (”Murder At Avedon Hill”)
- And Mur Lafferty
If you’ve enjoyed Matt’s excellent free podcast content, now is the time for you to give back and support his hard work by purchasing a copy of Brave Men Run on Sunday, July 13, at Amazon. Actually, you’ll be doing all podiobook authors a favor by purchasing the book, because the more podiobooks that do well in print, the better chances we all have in getting on the shelves.
Visit Matt’s site for all the details.
ISBW Special #32 - Interview with Matthew Wayne Selznick
I sat down last month with Matt Selznick, author of Brave Men Run (coming out from Swarm Press next Monday SUNDAY JULY 13!) to discuss DIY, small press, and his awesome book.
Promo: Adventures in SF Publishing and ISBW Keys To Publishing contest! More later on the ISBW blog!
What do I tell you? What’s my mantra?
YOU ARE ALLOWED TO SUCK. Ira Glass says so:
Course, he says it in a more eloquent way. Cause I still suck in some ways. But that’s OK. I’m working through it.
ISBW #93 - Confidence
- Playing For Keeps will be out August 25! Order on that day from Amazon.com!
- Hard drive crash. Whee.
- I said I was going to get the podcast out on July 4 - right after recording many bad plumbing things happened, so it’s going out on the 6th. Sorry.
- I wrote a story for JC Hutchins’ 7th Son Obsidian!
- I got Feedback to do a video blurb for PFK!
- I wrote a story for Matthew Wayne Selznick’s Brave Men Run. (And check out the promo)
- Support systems are nice - vital - but at the end of the day, if you don’t have the confidence in yourself, you’ve got nothing. That’s what I’ve been struggling with lately.
- Promo: Jody Whitesides‘ Practical Insanity
- WE HAVE VOICEMAIL! 919 794 8498
- I was interviewed on Adventures in SciFi Publishing, and we have some cool stuff going on very soon in tandem with that podcast! Stay tuned!
- I mention JC Hutchins’ Ultra Creatives interview with Cory Doctorow - excellent interview.
