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ISBW #170 – Feedback We talk radishes. And elephants. And feedback. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #169 – SPECIAL Music Episode! We feature music from Jonathan Coulton, Brad Sucks, and John Anealio! WARNING- Minorly explicit as we play John’s song “George RR Martin is Not Your B****” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #168 – Feedback We’re back with feedback! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #167 – Big/little things / Jess Haines Interview As you can see, this episode is late. I am going to take a week off to get my feet under me again, episodes resume next Monday! Enjoy the interview with Jess Haines! And by the way: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #167 – Big/little things / Jess Haines Interview As you can see, this episode is late. I am going to take a week off to get my feet under me again, episodes resume next Monday! Enjoy the interview with Jess Haines! And by the way: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Free ebook- Young Junius by Seth Harwood! Podcaster and crime writer Seth Harwood’s new book, Young Junius, came out recently, and he’s offered my listeners his ebook! In 1987, fourteen-year-old Junius Posey sets out on the cold Cambridge (Mass.) streets to find his brother’s killer in a cluster of low-income housing towers—prime drug-dealing territory. After committing a murder to protect his friend, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Free ebook- Young Junius by Seth Harwood! Podcaster and crime writer Seth Harwood’s new book, Young Junius, came out recently, and he’s offered my listeners his ebook! In 1987, fourteen-year-old Junius Posey sets out on the cold Cambridge (Mass.) streets to find his brother’s killer in a cluster of low-income housing towers—prime drug-dealing territory. After committing a murder to protect his friend, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #166 – All Hallow’s Read There’s no feedback this week! So I talk in brief about All Hallows Read – give a scary book to someone you love! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #166 – All Hallow’s Read There’s no feedback this week! So I talk in brief about All Hallows Read – give a scary book to someone you love! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #165 – Introduction / Jared Axelrod Interview Learn a bit about me and my writing and my podcast, if you’re new. And we talk to Jared Axelrod! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #165 – Introduction / Jared Axelrod Interview Learn a bit about me and my writing and my podcast, if you’re new. And we talk to Jared Axelrod! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #164 – Feedback It’s a feedback show, lots of people want to talk about NaNoWriMo! Show notes coming soon! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #164 – Feedback It’s a feedback show, lots of people want to talk about NaNoWriMo! 00:07 ISBW #164 01:23 Promo: The Guerilla Poet 03:12 FEEDBACK: lots of listeners signing up for NaNoWriMo! — making NaNoWriMo work for you & One Page Per Day, growing appreciation for the Bad Cop, book trailers, using the iPod for recording, writing every [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW 163 – Characterization / PG Holyfield Interview We interview PG Holyfield, author of Murder at Avedon Hill, this episode! Detailed show notes coming soon! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW 163 – Characterization / PG Holyfield Interview We interview PG Holyfield, author of Murder at Avedon Hill, this episode! 00:06    ISBW #163 01:12    State of the Mur: We hope you like the new, more frequent, format!  Please visit the show’s new producer at his All Things From My Brain blog or on Twitter: @atfmb.  ISBW no longer has a sponsor, so please [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #162 Feedback It’s feedback time! Show notes forthcoming. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #162 Feedback It’s feedback time! 00:06 ISBW #162 01:10  Promo: Explorers: Beyond the Horizon 02:01 FEEDBACK: guide to cons, managing one’s brand & mindset, choosing the next project as a new writer, communicating with one’s agent, Amazon.com is expanding Kindle platform to include “singles” (novellas), buying an author’s book directly from author vs. from bookstore, number of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #161 Nanowrimo / Bob Fingerman Interview It’s our yearly look at NaNoWriMo! Are you doing it this year? Let’s make a support group! Use Write or Die! And then we talk to Bob Fingerman. I did not realize until the end of the recording that my sound software was drawing from the crappy internal mic, so VERY sorry for the sound [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #161 Nanowrimo / Bob Fingerman Interview It’s our yearly look at NaNoWriMo! Are you doing it this year? Let’s make a support group! Use Write or Die! And then we talk to Bob Fingerman. I did not realize until the end of the recording that my sound software was drawing from the crappy internal mic, so VERY sorry for the sound [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #160 – Feedback We’re back with another feedback show, and a Good Cop/Bad Cop. It’s at the end. There’s plenty of warning. Show notes coming soon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #160 – Feedback We’re back with another feedback show, and a Good Cop/Bad Cop. It’s at the end. There’s plenty of warning. 00:06 ISBW #160 01:09 Promo: The Guerilla Poet http://penslinger.com 02:57 FEEDBACK: the perils of including blogging in one’s fiction word count goal; online writing group for Portuguese speakers at http://groups.google.com.br/group/feedbackwriter; proper formatting for plot summaries 09:12 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #159 with co-host Howard Tayler Hugo nominated and Parsec-award winning podcaster and webcomic writer Howard Tayler joined me at worldcon to talk about personal author brands and how we present ourselves to the public. 00:06 ISBW #159 01:15 State of the Mur: new podcast recording setup; writing every day; working on mid grade novel & short story; upcoming travel & [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #159 with co-host Howard Tayler Hugo nominated and Parsec-award winning podcaster and webcomic writer Howard Tayler joined me at worldcon to talk about personal author brands and how we present ourselves to the public. Show notes coming soon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #158 – Feedback It’s another feedback show Look for a new show with webcomic writer and Parsec winning podcaster Howard Tayler this Friday! Show notes coming soon! We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 45-Day Trial! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #158 – Feedback It’s another feedback show Look for a new show with webcomic writer and Parsec winning podcaster Howard Tayler this Friday! 0:06 ISBW #158 2:51 FEEDBACK (no good cop/bad cop this episode): North Carolina Spec Fic Author’s Night Nov. 11, 7pm; Last 100 Days of 2010 Writing Challenge; creating an online writer’s group; special thanks to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #157 Finding Time/Paul Cornell Interview Sorry for delay- this was done but I was traveling from Friday to today and didn’t get a chance to upload and post. Still will have the weekly feedback ep tomorrow! Today we’re bringing you an interview with TV, comic, and novel writer, Paul Cornell. You may know him from Dr. Who, or Action Comics. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #157 Finding Time/Paul Cornell Interview Sorry for delay- this was done but I was traveling from Friday to today and didn’t get a chance to upload and post. Still will have the weekly feedback ep tomorrow! Today we’re bringing you an interview with TV, comic, and novel writer, Paul Cornell. You may know him from Dr. Who, or Action Comics. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #156 – Feedback It’s another feedback show! Did I mention I love my producer! Work going very smoothly now. Look for a new show with comic writer and novelist Paul Cornell this Friday! Show notes coming soon! We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 45-Day Trial! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #156 – Feedback It’s another feedback show! Did I mention I love my producer! Work going very smoothly now. Look for a new show with comic writer and novelist Paul Cornell this Friday! We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 45-Day Trial! 00:00:07 ISBW #156 00:01:17 GoTo Meeting Message 00:02:18 FEEDBACK: possibility [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #155 – Hubris and Peter V. Brett This week we bring you a long-overdue interview with author Peter V. Brett, author of The Warded Man and The Desert Spear. Show notes coming soon! We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 45-Day Trial! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #155 – Hubris / Peter V. Brett Interview This week we bring you a long-overdue interview with author Peter V. Brett, author of The Warded Man and The Desert Spear. We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 45-Day Trial! 00:00:07 ISBW #155 00:01:10 State of the Mur: WorldCon in Australia, some journaling Recommended podcasts: Writing Excuses, Starship [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #154 – Feedback Sadly, this was recorded well before worldcon, but my new producer, Patrick Hester, is on the ball with the production so things should be smoother now! Show notes coming soon! We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 45-Day Trial! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #154 – Feedback Sadly, this was recorded well before worldcon, but my new producer, Patrick Hester, is on the ball with the production so things should be smoother now! We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 45-Day Trial! 00:00:07 ISBW #154 00:01:04 GoTo Meeting Message 00:02:03 FEEDBACK: finding diverse population of writers [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #153 – Plz read show notes first / Mary Robinette Kowall Interview NOTE- Please read this before listening. This is a show regarding getting down about your career, and I pinpoint a lot of things that aren’t true about publishing. Upon relistening, I realize what I’m TRYING to say is the things I mention (ie, your editor putting a huge marketing campaign behind your book) aren’t guaranteed. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #153 – Plz read show notes first / Mary Robinette Kowal Interview NOTE- Please read this before listening. This is a show regarding getting down about your career, and I pinpoint a lot of things that aren’t true about publishing. Upon relistening, I realize what I’m TRYING to say is the things I mention (ie, your editor putting a huge marketing campaign behind your book) aren’t guaranteed. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #152: Sundries / David Williams Interview I talk emotional approaches to writing, and interview David Williams. We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 45-Day Trial! Detailed show notes coming! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #152: Sundries / David Williams Interview I talk emotional approaches to writing, and interview David Williams. We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 45-Day Trial! 00:00:06 ISBW #152 00:01:07 State of the Mur: tired! Writing, cleaning, recent attendance at NASFiC.  Upcoming: WorldCon and the next book. 00:04:08 GoTo Meeting Message 00:05:05 Emotional approaches to writing: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #151 – Feedback Show This is the first of our dedicated feedback shows, complete with a Good Cop, Bad Cop at the end of the show. You’ve been warned. Still somewhat shaky on the “two a week” thing. Working on it. Promise. We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 45-Day Trial! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #151 – Feedback Show This is the first of our dedicated feedback shows, complete with a Good Cop, Bad Cop at the end of the show. You’ve been warned. Still somewhat shaky on the “two a week” thing. Working on it. Promise. We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 45-Day Trial! 00:00:06 ISBW [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #150(!!): Hard Work vs Fun – Tracy Hickman/Scott Sigler Interviews Happy episode 150! Is writing fun? Is it hard work? Can it be both? We also talk to Tracy Hickman and Scott Sigler. A change in the show format is coming! More detailed show notes coming soon! We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #150(!!): Hard Work vs Fun – Tracy Hickman/Scott Sigler Interviews Happy episode 150! Is writing fun? Is it hard work? Can it be both? We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! 00:00:07 ISBW #150 00:01:31 State of the Mur: 12,000 words written in one day to meet deadline, upcoming changes in the podcast format 00:05:38 GoTo Meeting [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The glory of menial tasks Tonight I conquered Mt. Laundry, and as I was folding, my brain quietly worked out my writing melancholia and what I think may be behind it. Who knew that fretting over wrinkled t shirts was so helpful? Of course, many people know this. Your brain likes to quietly work on problems, not be attacked constantly [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #149 Editing – Paolo Bacigalupi / Tobias Buckell Interview Editing and a dual interview! Our show notes recorder is back on the job and will have notes to us soon! We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #149 Editing – Paolo Bacigalupi / Tobias Buckell Interview Editing and a dual interview! We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! 00:00:07 ISBW #149 00:01:18 State of the Mur: new theme song from John Anealio, new podcast at Angry Robot, magazine article & work-for-hire fiction, future plans to work on new book, listening to The Alchemist [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #148 Feedback / Good Cop, Bad Cop Yes. Another unannounced break. I was editing a book. This was recorded before I took the time to edit. Lots of feedback, and Matt joins us again for a long Good Cop Bad Cop. We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #148 Feedback / Good Cop, Bad Cop Yes. Another unannounced break. I was editing a book. This was recorded before I took the time to edit. Lots of feedback, and Matt joins us again for a long Good Cop Bad Cop. We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #148 Feedback / Good Cop, Bad Cop Yes. Another unannounced break. I was editing a book. This was recorded before I took the time to edit. Lots of feedback, and Matt joins us again for a long Good Cop Bad Cop. We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! 00:00:06 ISBW #148 00:01:14 State of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #147: Writing Tools/Liz Gorinsky Interview We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! A much more … sane ISBW returns to talk writing tools and to play the fantastic interview conducted by Chris Lester of the Hugo-nominated Tor editor, Liz Gorinsky! You can learn more about Metamor City, Chris’s award winning project. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #147: Writing Tools/Liz Gorinsky Interview We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! A much more … sane ISBW returns to talk writing tools and to play the fantastic interview conducted by Chris Lester of the Hugo-nominated Tor editor, Liz Gorinsky! You can learn more about Metamor City, Chris’s award winning project. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #147: Writing Tools/Liz Gorinsky Interview We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! A much more … sane ISBW returns to talk writing tools and to play the fantastic interview conducted by Chris Lester of the Hugo-nominated Tor editor, Liz Gorinsky! 00:00:06: ISBW #147 00:00:43: State of the Mur: working on the administrative [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Truth Hurts Steven Gould posted this on Twitter and made me laugh and cry AT THE SAME TIME. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Metacast #1 Really? I’ve never done a Metacast before? In FIVE years? Maybe it was called a “special” cast. I dunno. Regardless! I talk about what happened in May, what I’ve been up to, and assure you that the podcast is back and going nowhere anytime soon. We return to calm, clean, solo podcasting here. Note- I [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Metacast #1 Really? I’ve never done a Metacast before? In FIVE years? Maybe it was called a “special” cast. I dunno. Regardless! I talk about what happened in May, what I’ve been up to, and assure you that the podcast is back and going nowhere anytime soon. We return to calm, clean, solo podcasting here. Note- I [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Metacast #1 Really? I’ve never done a Metacast before? In FIVE years? Maybe it was called a “special” cast. I dunno. Regardless! I talk about what happened in May, what I’ve been up to, and assure you that the podcast is back and going nowhere anytime soon. We return to calm, clean, solo podcasting here. Note- I [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #146 – EXPLICIT – Live from Balticon, with John Anealio, Gail Carriger, and Matt Wallace We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! This is live from Balticon with return guest Gail Carriger (@gailcarriger), songwriter John Anealio (@johnanealio), and Bad Cop Matt F. Wallace (@mattfnwallace). This is not safe for work or kids. We are explicit here. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Tidbits before [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #146 – EXPLICIT – Live from Balticon, with John Anealio, Gail Carriger, and Matt Wallace We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! This is live from Balticon with return guest Gail Carriger (@gailcarriger), songwriter John Anealio (@johnanealio), and Bad Cop Matt F. Wallace (@mattfnwallace). This is not safe for work or kids. We are explicit here. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #146 – EXPLICIT – Live from Balticon, with John Anealio, Gail Carriger, and Matt Wallace We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! This is live from Balticon with return guest Gail Carriger (@gailcarriger), songwriter John Anealio (@johnanealio), and Bad Cop Matt F. Wallace (@mattfnwallace). This is not safe for work or kids. We are explicit here. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jonathan Coulton and the Forced March (An ISBW Audio Treat) I got a chance to interview Jonathan Coulton before his Raleigh show last Friday. I hadn’t talked to him since ‘07 when he came through town backing up John Hodgman, and he was the opening band for Paul and Storm. Things have changed a bit since then. I asked him about Thing a Week, when he [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jonathan Coulton and the Forced March (An ISBW Audio Treat) I got a chance to interview Jonathan Coulton before his Raleigh show last Friday. I hadn’t talked to him since ’07 when he came through town backing up John Hodgman, and he was the opening band for Paul and Storm. Things have changed a bit since then. I asked him about Thing a Week, when [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jonathan Coulton and the Forced March (An ISBW Audio Treat) I got a chance to interview Jonathan Coulton before his Raleigh show last Friday. I hadn’t talked to him since ’07 when he came through town backing up John Hodgman, and he was the opening band for Paul and Storm. Things have changed a bit since then. I asked him about Thing a Week, when [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #145 – Agents, Blake Charlton, Good Cop/Bad Cop We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! 00:00:06 ISBW #145 00:00:43 State of the Mur: driving to RavenCon! Travel, getting hacked (again), fresh reinstall and re-uploading of podcasts – please go to The Murverse for all your ISBW podcast archive needs – working on novella, trying to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #145 – Agents, Blake Charlton, Good Cop/Bad Cop We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! Show notes forthcoming. (Note, ISBW does  not advocate the harming of anyone. That’s all Matt.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #145 – Agents, Blake Charlton, Good Cop/Bad Cop We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! 00:00:06 ISBW #145 00:00:43 State of the Mur: driving to RavenCon! Travel, getting hacked (again), fresh reinstall and re-uploading of podcasts – please go to The Murverse for all your ISBW podcast archive needs – working on novella, trying to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #144 – Level Up! / Ellen Datlow Interview / Matt Wallace is Bad Cop We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial!? 00:00:07 ISBW #144 00:00:53 State of the Mur: working on novella, other short fiction, pondering some self-publishing production expenses. 00:02:42 GoTo Meeting Message 00:03:18 Level Up! A geeky role-playing-games perspective on learning from your mistakes: failure gets you experience points. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #144 – Level Up! / Ellen Datlow Interview / Matt Wallace is Bad Cop We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial!? 00:00:07 ISBW #144 00:00:53 State of the Mur: working on novella, other short fiction, pondering some self-publishing production expenses. 00:02:42 GoTo Meeting Message 00:03:18 Level Up! A geeky role-playing-games perspective on learning from your mistakes: failure gets you experience points. Anyone else want [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #144 – Level Up! / Ellen Datlow Interview / Matt Wallace is Bad Cop We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial!? 00:00:07 ISBW #144 00:00:53 State of the Mur: working on novella, other short fiction, pondering some self-publishing production expenses. 00:02:42 GoTo Meeting Message 00:03:18 Level Up! A geeky role-playing-games perspective on learning from your mistakes: failure gets you experience points. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Brilliant Character Post by Charlie Jane Anders I love io9, but I especially love it when Charlie Jane posts. I have hung out with her in person a couple of times (I’ll always remember pie and WorldCon 09, Charlie Jane!), and she’s nothing short of brilliant. I was delighted to read her post this morning about characterization and the “F*** Yeah” moment. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Brilliant I love wordplay. I’m not talented at it myself, but when it’s done well it’s like watching an expert dancer or eating something from a master chef. Oh, and the message is awesome too. Pay attention. Watch the whole thing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #143 – Cynicism / Don Vaughn Interview We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial!? 0:00:06 ISBW #143 00:00:40 State of the Mur: working on various freelance projects, a novella currently titled “Marco and the Red Granny”, blogging/pocasting for Tor, ISBW and The Artist’s Way. 00:02:00 FEAR OF SUCCESS (topic inspired by Beth Revis’ blog [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #143 – Cynicism / Don Vaughn Interview We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial!? 0:00:06 ISBW #143 00:00:40 State of the Mur: working on various freelance projects, a novella currently titled “Marco and the Red Granny”, blogging/pocasting for Tor, ISBW and The Artist’s Way. 00:02:00 FEAR OF SUCCESS (topic inspired by Beth Revis’ blog post [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #143 – Cynicism / Don Vaughn Interview We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! Show notes forthcoming. Upcoming interviews- Ellen Datlow, Blake Charlton, and, thanks to Chris Lester, Liz Giorinsky, Phil and Kaja Foglio, and more! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Video #13-2 – The Artist’s Way Week 3 Well, I’ve been dragging my feet. So I recorded an extra-long podcast for you, it’ll be delivered in two 10-minute episodes. Don’t forget our Facebook page! Episode 13-2 from YouTube: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Video #13-2 – The Artist’s Way Week 3 Well, I’ve been dragging my feet. So I recorded an extra-long podcast for you, it’ll be delivered in two 10-minute episodes. Don’t forget our Facebook page! Episode 13-2 from YouTube: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Video #13-2 – The Artist’s Way Week 3 Well, I’ve been dragging my feet. So I recorded an extra-long podcast for you, it’ll be delivered in two 10-minute episodes. Don’t forget our Facebook page! Episode 13-2 from YouTube: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Video #13 – The Artist’s Way Week 3 Well, I’ve been dragging my feet. So I recorded an extra-long podcast for you, it’ll be delivered in two 10-minute episodes. One today, one tomorrow (else iTunes won’t grab them both. If you MUST watch both today, check YouTube or Facebook. Episode 13-1 from YouTube: Episode 13-2 from YouTube: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Video #13 – The Artist’s Way Week 3 Well, I’ve been dragging my feet. So I recorded an extra-long podcast for you, it’ll be delivered in two 10-minute episodes. One today, one tomorrow (else iTunes won’t grab them both. If you MUST watch both today, check YouTube or Facebook. Episode 13-1 from YouTube: Episode 13-2 from YouTube: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Video #13 – The Artist’s Way Week 3 Well, I’ve been dragging my feet. So I recorded an extra-long podcast for you, it’ll be delivered in two 10-minute episodes. One today, one tomorrow (else iTunes won’t grab them both. If you MUST watch both today, check YouTube or Facebook. Episode 13-1 from YouTube: Episode 13-2 from YouTube: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #142 – Feedback! We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! It’s another feedback week! 00:06: ISBW is brought to you by GoTo Meeting 00:18: ISBW #142 00:49: State of the Mur: busy. Artist’s Way, Artist’s Way Video Podcasts, Artist’s Way on Facebook, ISBW, short stories & a novella, waiting for feedback on novel, and, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #142 – Feedback! We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial!? It’s another feedback week! 00:06: ISBW is brought to you by GoTo Meeting 00:18: ISBW #142 00:49: State of the Mur: busy. Artist’s Way, Artist’s Way Video Podcasts, Artist’s Way on Facebook, ISBW, short stories & a novella, waiting for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #142 – Feedback! We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial!? It’s another feedback week! 00:06: ISBW is brought to you by GoTo Meeting 00:18: ISBW #142 00:49: State of the Mur: busy. Artist’s Way, Artist’s Way Video Podcasts, Artist’s Way on Facebook, ISBW, short stories & a novella, waiting for feedback on novel, and, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #142 – Feedback! We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! It’s another feedback week! Show notes forthcoming. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Video #12 – The Artist’s Way, Week 2 We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! Some people have asked if they are behind in the Artist’s Way now. No no no no! Go ahead and get your book and get started. We are not going at any fast clipped pace here, mainly cause I can’t get [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Video #12 – The Artist’s Way, Week 2 We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! Some people have asked if they are behind in the Artist’s Way now. No no no no! Go ahead and get your book and get started. We are not going at any fast clipped pace here, mainly cause I can’t [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Video #12 – The Artist’s Way, Week 2 We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! Some people have asked if they are behind in the Artist’s Way now. No no no no! Go ahead and get your book and get started. We are not going at any fast clipped pace here, mainly cause I can’t get [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Video #12 – The Artist’s Way, Week 2 We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! Some people have asked if they are behind in the Artist’s Way now. No no no no! Go ahead and get your book and get started. We are not going at any fast clipped pace here, mainly cause I can’t get [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Video #12 – The Artist’s Way, Week 2 We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! Some people have asked if they are behind in the Artist’s Way now. No no no no! Go ahead and get your book and get started. We are not going at any fast clipped pace here, mainly cause I can’t [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Video #11 – The Artist’s Way We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! To get started, you need The Artist’s Way, a notebook, and a writing device. If a skeptic, be warned, the book focuses on spirituality, but you don’t have to have faith to do it. Shop Indie Bookstores Here’s the YouTube link. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Video #11 – The Artist’s Way We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! To get started, you need The Artist’s Way, a notebook, and a writing device. If a skeptic, be warned, the book focuses on spirituality, but you don’t have to have faith to do it. Shop Indie Bookstores Here’s the YouTube link. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Video #11 – The Artist’s Way We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial!? To get started, you need The Artist’s Way, a notebook, and a writing device. If a skeptic, be warned, the book focuses on spirituality, but you don’t have to have faith to do it. Shop Indie Bookstores Here’s the YouTube [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Video #11 – The Artist’s Way We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial!? To get started, you need The Artist’s Way, a notebook, and a writing device. If a skeptic, be warned, the book focuses on spirituality, but you don’t have to have faith to do it. Shop Indie Bookstores Here’s the YouTube link. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #141 – Amazon and iPad / Ursula Vernon Interview We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! My apologies for having a podcast about something timely and then back-burner-ing it for other things. I still think it’s relevant, especially when we pull in the iPad discussion. If you haven’t followed the news, the Macmillan Amazon links are back [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #141 – Amazon and iPad / Ursula Vernon Interview We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! My apologies for having a podcast about something timely and then back-burner-ing it for other things. I still think it’s relevant, especially when we pull in the iPad discussion. If you haven’t followed the news, the Macmillan Amazon links are [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Book Trailer: Peter Straub’s A Dark Matter You can also enter a chance to win a signed first edition copy of the book at Straub’s Facebook page! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #140 – Amateur Writing: Good Parts and Bad / Bemis, Enge Interviews We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! 00:00:07 ISBW #140 00:00:38 GoTo Meeting Message 00:01:29 State of the Mur: wrapping up 2009 podcasting content, Jar of Awesome method for choosing among writing projects, editing. 00:04:33 Promo: Steve Saylor and Ringtone Feeder present The Caffeine Collection, a dynamic audiobook. 00:05:48 Possible ISBW community [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #140 – Amateur Writing: Good Parts and Bad / Bemis, Enge Interviews We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! 00:00:07 ISBW #140 00:00:38 GoTo Meeting Message 00:01:29 State of the Mur: wrapping up 2009 podcasting content, Jar of Awesome method for choosing among writing projects, editing. 00:04:33 Promo: Steve Saylor and Ringtone Feeder present The Caffeine Collection, a dynamic [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #140 – Amateur Writing: Good Parts and Bad / Bemis, Enge Interviews We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! Detailed show notes to follow. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #139: The Very Special Christmas Episode with Matt Wallace We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! Me. Matt Wallace. Christmas. It gets weird. Not for kids. 00:00:07 ISBW #139 00:00:57 GoTo Meeting Message 00:01:32 Very Special Christmas Episode with Matt Wallace, recorded on the eve of Beethoven’s birthday (probably December 15th, but according to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #139: The Very Special Christmas Episode with Matt Wallace We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! Me. Matt Wallace. Christmas. It gets weird. Not for kids. 00:00:07 ISBW #139 00:00:57 GoTo Meeting Message 00:01:32 Very Special Christmas Episode with Matt Wallace, recorded on the eve of Beethoven‘s birthday (probably December 15th, but according to that Wikipedia [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #138 – New Years kick in the pants – Fear Happy New Year! We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! 00:00:07 ISBW #138 00:00:39 GoTo Meeting Message 00:01:14 New Year’s Kick in the Pants: about failing to write/podcast because of fear. Recommended reading: author Matt Wallace 00:06:21 State of the Mur: rewriting Heaven, working on Underground, hosting the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #138 – New Years kick in the pants – Fear Happy New Year! We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! 00:00:07 ISBW #138 00:00:39 GoTo Meeting Message 00:01:14 New Year’s Kick in the Pants: about failing to write/podcast because of fear. Recommended reading: author Matt Wallace 00:06:21 State of the Mur: rewriting Heaven, working on Underground, hosting [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #137 – Stop Thinking/Gail Carriger Interview We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! 00:00:07 J.C. Hutchins, author of 7th Son: Descent, presents ISBW 00:00:21 ISBW #137 00:00:50 GoTo Meeting Message 00:01:39 Congrats to all listeners who finished NaNoWriMo!!! State of the Mur: one project completed and sent to agent, working on short stories, blogging for Storytellers [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #137 – Stop Thinking/Gail Carriger Interview 00:00:07 J.C. Hutchins, author of 7th Son: Descent, presents ISBW 00:00:21 ISBW #137 00:01:39 Congrats to all listeners who finished NaNoWriMo!!! State of the Mur: one project completed and sent to agent, working on short stories, blogging for Storytellers Unplugged (go read the December 6th post on FEAR), had book signing earlier in December. 00:04:19 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #137 – Stop Thinking/Gail Carriger Interview We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! Show Notes forthcoming! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Video #10 – Vanity Presses and NaNoWriMo Sponsored by GoTo Meeting! NaNoWriMo is over! Did you win? I sure as heck didn’t. I grant you 3 days off. By Thursday I want you writing again. I explain why I’m a NaNo failure (again) and what I think of the Harlequin Horizons thing. Check my most recent blogpost for links. Promo: Grant’s Advent Calendar Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #136 For Parents/Triple Threat Interviews 00:00:07 ISBW #136 00:01:27 State of the Mur: novel edits are taking priority over NaNoWriMo. 00:03:40 Promo:Dr. Wicked’s Write or Die software 00:04:49 Main topic: For parents. Priorities, being a writer, being a success, being a role model, and following your dream. 00:13:43 Promo: J. Daniel Sawyer and Book 2 of The Antithesis Progression: Free [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #136 For Parents/Triple Threat Interviews We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! I Should Be Writing is also sponsored by Dr. Wicked’s Write or Die software! 00:00:07 ISBW #136 00:00:37 Sponsor message from GoTo Meeting 00:01:27 State of the Mur: novel edits are taking priority over NaNoWriMo. 00:03:40 Promo:Dr. Wicked’s Write or Die software 00:04:49 Main topic: For [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #136 For Parents/Triple Threat Interviews We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! I Should Be Writing is also sponsored by Dr. Wicked’s Write or Die software! 00:00:07 ISBW #136 Promo: Dr. Wicked’s Write or Die software Interviews and promos from Triple Threat authors: J. Daniel Sawyer, Chris Lester, and Pip Ballantine Detailed show notes coming soon! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #136 For Parents/Triple Threat Interviews We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! I Should Be Writing is also sponsored by Dr. Wicked’s Write or Die software! 00:00:07 ISBW #136 00:00:37 Sponsor message from GoTo Meeting 00:01:27 State of the Mur: novel edits are taking priority over NaNoWriMo. 00:03:40 Promo:Dr. Wicked’s Write or Die software 00:04:49 Main topic: For [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #135 – NaNoWriMo Extravaganzaaaaa – Baty, Lowell, Wilson interviews We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! 00:00:07 ISBW #135 00:00:39 GoTo Meeting Message 00:01:27 Happy NaNoWriMo!  Special episode: three interviews, no feedback.  Mur is still editing as well as NaNo-ing, and trying to pace herself to avoid early November burnout.  You are invited to be Mur’s NaNoWriMo buddy, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #135 – NaNoWriMo Extravaganzaaaaa – Baty, Lowell, Wilson interviews We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! 00:00:07 ISBW #135 00:00:39 GoTo Meeting Message 00:01:27 Happy NaNoWriMo!  Special episode: three interviews, no feedback.  Mur is still editing as well as NaNo-ing, and trying to pace herself to avoid early November burnout.  You are invited to be Mur’s NaNoWriMo buddy, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #135 – NaNoWriMo Extravaganzaaaaa – Baty, Lowell, Wilson interviews 00:00:07 ISBW #135 00:01:27 Happy NaNoWriMo! Special episode: three interviews, no feedback. Mur is still editing as well as NaNo-ing, and trying to pace herself to avoid early November burnout. You are invited to be Mur’s NaNoWriMo buddy, but it make take her some time to return the favor. [You are also invited to be [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #134 – Importance of Language / Devo Spice Interview We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! 00:00:07 ISBW #134 00:00:38 GoTo Meeting Message 00:01:26 State of the Mur update: giving a talk at BlogWorld re: podiobooks, and working on edits for “Project Underground” 00:05:26 Promo: J.C. Hutchins & the print debut of 7th Son Descent [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #134 – Importance of Language / Devo Spice Interview We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! 00:00:07 ISBW #134 00:00:38 GoTo Meeting Message 00:01:26 State of the Mur update: giving a talk at BlogWorld re: podiobooks, and working on edits for “Project Underground” 00:05:26 Promo: J.C. Hutchins & the print debut of 7th Son Descent [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #134 – Importance of Language / Devo Spice Interview 00:00:07 ISBW #134 00:01:26 State of the Mur update: giving a talk at BlogWorld re: podiobooks, and working on edits for “Project Underground” 00:05:26 Promo: J.C. Hutchins & the print debut of 7th Son Descent serialized novel (at BoingBoing), audiobook (at podiobooks.com), and other content (at JCHutchins.net) also available online. 00:07:04 Main topic: “That’s just [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Free Fiction: 7th Son: Descent Frequent guest of this podcast, JC Hutchins, is finally releasing his hit podiobook, 7th Son: Descent, in print! It’s out in stores and online retailers today, and I highly recommend you pick it up. If you’ve heard him on this podcast, you’ll know that JC is not one to expect you to buy into his [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Free Fiction: 7th Son: Descent Frequent guest of this podcast, JC Hutchins, is finally releasing his hit podiobook, 7th Son: Descent, in print! It’s out in stores and online retailers today, and I highly recommend you pick it up. If you’ve heard him on this podcast, you’ll know that JC is not one to expect you to buy into his [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Free Fiction: 7th Son: Descent Frequent guest of this podcast, JC Hutchins, is finally releasing his hit podiobook, 7th Son: Descent, in print! It’s out in stores and online retailers today, and I highly recommend you pick it up. If you’ve heard him on this podcast, you’ll know that JC is not one to expect you to buy into his [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #133 – You’re allowed to suck / Anders and Defendini Interview – LIVE 00:00:07 ISBW #133 00:01:12 State of the Mur update: final season of Heaven (War) is finished! Upcoming projects: �Project Underground� NaNoWriMo � other WriMos are welcome to visit the MightyMur profile page (Mur is happy and flattered that so many people want to be her NaNo �writing buddies�� but it may take time for her [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #133 – You’re allowed to suck / Anders and Defendini Interview – LIVE We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! 00:00:07 ISBW #133 00:00:38 GoTo Meeting Message http://www.gotomeeting.com/podcast 00:01:12 State of the Mur update: final season of Heaven (War) is finished! Upcoming projects: “Project Underground” NaNoWriMo – other WriMos are welcome to visit the MightyMur profile page (Mur is happy and flattered that so many people want to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #133 – You’re allowed to suck / Anders and Defendini Interview – LIVE We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! 00:00:07 ISBW #133 00:00:38 GoTo Meeting Message http://www.gotomeeting.com/podcast 00:01:12 State of the Mur update: final season of Heaven (War) is finished! Upcoming projects: “Project Underground” NaNoWriMo – other WriMos are welcome to visit the MightyMur profile page (Mur is happy and flattered that so many people want to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #133 – You’re allowed to suck / Anders and Defendini Interview – LIVE We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! 00:00:07 ISBW #133 00:00:38 GoTo Meeting Message http://www.gotomeeting.com/podcast 00:01:12 State of the Mur update: final season of Heaven (War) is finished! Upcoming projects: “Project Underground” NaNoWriMo – other WriMos are welcome to visit the MightyMur profile page (Mur is happy and flattered that so many people want to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW PDF and more You thought I forgot, didn’t you? The deal with freelancing and spinning a lot of plates means some inevitably get neglected. I continue to update the ISBW PDF but I just hadn’t gotten around to actually editing and getting it turned into PDF format. Thankfully, the mighty Phil Lunt has come to my rescue and created [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW PDF and more You thought I forgot, didn’t you? The deal with freelancing and spinning a lot of plates means some inevitably get neglected. I continue to update the ISBW PDF but I just hadn’t gotten around to actually editing and getting it turned into PDF format. Thankfully, the mighty Phil Lunt has come to my rescue and created [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #132 – Feedback Special We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! 00:00:07 ISBW #132 00:00:38 GoTo Meeting Message 00:01:12 Mur tackles ISBW administrative activities 00:02:49 Mur names her new assistant, Carrie Kei Heim Binas — check out Carrie’s writing blog at Heim Binas Fiction 00:03:37 State of the Mur update: finishing recording War, edits from agent [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #132 – Feedback Special We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! 00:00:07 ISBW #132 00:00:38 GoTo Meeting Message 00:01:12 Mur tackles ISBW administrative activities 00:02:49 Mur names her new assistant, Carrie Kei Heim Binas — check out Carrie’s writing blog at Heim Binas Fiction 00:03:37 State of the Mur update: finishing recording War, edits from agent [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #132 – Feedback Special 00:00:07 ISBW #132 00:01:12 Mur tackles ISBW administrative activities 00:02:49 Mur names her new assistant, Carrie Kei Heim Binas — check out Carrie’s writing blog at Heim Binas Fiction 00:03:37 State of the Mur update: finishing recording War, edits from agent on Heaven, more work on Project Underground, and then NaNoWriMo in November (if all [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #131- Worldcon Interviews – Lake, Gilman, and Kelly, Kessel, and Cadigan 00:00:07: ISBW #131 00:01:12: State of the Mur roundup (vacation, DragonCon, writing) 00:02:43: Plan for the fall: War, �project underground�, and NaNoWriMo 00:03:58: Announcement!� Upcoming interview with David Niall Wilson 00:06:32: Promo: The Dreamer�s Thread 00:07:47: WorldCon interview with Hugo nominee Jay Lake 00:26:52: Promo: Lost Gods 00:28:10: WorldCon interview with Campbell award nominee Felix [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #131- Worldcon Interviews – Lake, Gilman, and Kelly, Kessel, and Cadigan We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! 00:00:07: ISBW #131 00:00:38: GoTo Meeting Message 00:01:12: State of the Mur roundup (vacation, DragonCon, writing) 00:02:43: Plan for the fall: War, “project underground”, and NaNoWriMo 00:03:58: Announcement!  Upcoming interview with David Niall Wilson 00:06:32: Promo: The Dreamer’s Thread 00:07:47: WorldCon interview with Hugo nominee Jay Lake 00:26:52: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #131- Worldcon Interviews – Lake, Gilman, and Kelly, Kessel, and Cadigan We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! 00:00:07: ISBW #131 00:00:38: GoTo Meeting Message 00:01:12: State of the Mur roundup (vacation, DragonCon, writing) 00:02:43: Plan for the fall: War, “project underground”, and NaNoWriMo 00:03:58: Announcement!  Upcoming interview with David Niall Wilson 00:06:32: Promo: The Dreamer’s Thread 00:07:47: WorldCon interview with Hugo nominee Jay Lake 00:26:52: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #131- Worldcon Interviews – Lake, Gilman, and Kelly, Kessel, and Cadigan We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! I’m too beat for detailed show notes. I finish up my WorldCon interview series with Jay Lake, Felix Gilman, and a round table-like chat with Jim Kelly, John Kessel, and Pat Cadigan. So much awesome in one episode! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #130 LITE- Fear We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! I’m afraid. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #130 LITE- Fear We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! I’m afraid. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #129 LITE- Content rating system for children’s books? We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! I talk in this podcast about whether we should give children’s books content ratings like video games and movies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #129 LITE- Content rating system for children’s books? We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! I talk in this podcast about whether we should give children’s books content ratings like video games and movies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #129 LITE- Content rating system for children’s books? We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! I talk in this podcast about whether we should give children’s books content ratings like video games and movies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #128 LITE- You can’t convince people to love you We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! No means no, and you can’t make people love you. Really. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #128 LITE- You can’t convince people to love you We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! No means no, and you can’t make people love you. Really. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #127 LITE – Wanna give up We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! Everyone feels it. But we have to press on. Also, it’s hot. Short. Unedited. Free. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #127 LITE – Wanna give up We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! Everyone feels it. But we have to press on. Also, it’s hot. Short. Unedited. Free. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #127 LITE – Wanna give up Everyone feels it. But we have to press on. Also, it’s hot. Short. Unedited. Free. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #126 LITE – Drawing Class We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! I test out my new headphone/mic combo for my ipod and talk about my latest creative attempt: a beginning drawing class where I have to allow myself to suck. Square one, baby. It’s short, it’s unedited, it’s attempting to be daily, and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #126 LITE – Drawing Class We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! I test out my new headphone/mic combo for my ipod and talk about my latest creative attempt: a beginning drawing class where I have to allow myself to suck. Square one, baby. It’s short, it’s unedited, it’s attempting to be daily, and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #126 LITE – Drawing Class I test out my new headphone/mic combo for my ipod and talk about my latest creative attempt: a beginning drawing class where I have to allow myself to suck. Square one, baby. It’s short, it’s unedited, it’s attempting to be daily, and it’s free. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #125 LITE! – Intro to ISBW We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! Yes. If you want something done, ask a busy person. Welcome to ISBW Lite- It’s attempting to be daily, it’s small, it’s experimental, it’s unedited. But hey, it’s free. Today I give an introduction to ISBW, for any new listeners we may [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #125 LITE! – Intro to ISBW We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! Yes. If you want something done, ask a busy person. Welcome to ISBW Lite- It’s attempting to be daily, it’s small, it’s experimental, it’s unedited. But hey, it’s free. Today I give an introduction to ISBW, for any new listeners we may [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #125 LITE! – Intro to ISBW We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! Yes. If you want something done, ask a busy person. Welcome to ISBW Lite- It’s attempting to be daily, it’s small, it’s experimental, it’s unedited. But hey, it’s free. Today I give an introduction to ISBW, for any new listeners we may [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #124 – 4 Year Anniversary / Neil Gaiman Interview! I’m starting to wonder if I should just take August off from podcasting. It seems to be the month I have the most trouble getting content out. But no more! This week you will be DELUGED with content! Starting with the (one week late) anniversary episode of I Should Be Writing, featuring an interview with [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #124 – 4 Year Anniversary / Neil Gaiman Interview! We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! I’m starting to wonder if I should just take August off from podcasting. It seems to be the month I have the most trouble getting content out. But no more! This week you will be DELUGED with content! Starting with the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #124 – 4 Year Anniversary / Neil Gaiman Interview! We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! I’m starting to wonder if I should just take August off from podcasting. It seems to be the month I have the most trouble getting content out. But no more! This week you will be DELUGED with content! Starting with the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #124 – 4 Year Anniversary / Neil Gaiman Interview! We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! I’m starting to wonder if I should just take August off from podcasting. It seems to be the month I have the most trouble getting content out. But no more! This week you will be DELUGED with content! Starting with the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #123 – Art vs Popularity / Greg van Eekhout Interview We are also proud to be sponsored by JC Hutchins’ Personal Effects series, both the free podcast novella Sword of Blood and the novel Personal Effects: Dark Art are available (order now!) 00:07: ISBW #123 01:24: Words, pants, and my WorldCon schedule! 03:50: Promo: Movie Mantras 05:27: Art vs Popularity - This blog post says [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #123 – Art vs Popularity / Greg van Eekhout Interview We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! We are also proud to be sponsored by JC Hutchins’ Personal Effects series, both the free podcast novella Sword of Blood and the novel Personal Effects: Dark Art are available (order now!) 00:07: ISBW #123 00:37: GoTo Meeting Message 01:24: Words, pants, and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #123 – Art vs Popularity / Greg van Eekhout Interview We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! We are also proud to be sponsored by JC Hutchins’ Personal Effects series, both the free podcast novella Sword of Blood and the novel Personal Effects: Dark Art are available (order now!) 00:07: ISBW #123 00:37: GoTo Meeting Message 01:24: Words, pants, and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #123 – Art vs Popularity / Greg van Eekhout Interview We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! We are also proud to be sponsored by JC Hutchins’ Personal Effects series, both the free podcast novella Sword of Blood and the novel Personal Effects: Dark Art are available (order now!) 00:07: ISBW #123 00:37: GoTo Meeting Message 01:24: Words, pants, and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | I Should Be Writing – The PDF – Chapter 2 Below is the continuation of the ISBW document! Chapter 2- Put Your Butt in the Chair (Direct link to PDF) I’ve gotten a lot of great feedback on the first one, and already had one person convert it for me! Please thank Jason Ramboz for converting the document into HTML and Stanza formats! ISBW Intro and Ch 1 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | I Should Be Writing – The PDF – Chapter 2 Below is the continuation of the ISBW document! Chapter 2- Put Your Butt in the Chair (Direct link to PDF) I’ve gotten a lot of great feedback on the first one, and already had one person convert it for me! Please thank Jason Ramboz for converting the document into HTML and Stanza formats! ISBW Intro and Ch 1 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | REPOST: ISBW #120 – Don’t Be an Ass! / Matthew Wayne Selznick Interview For some reason iTunes did not grab this mp3, so I’m reposting it. If you’re getting it again via another feed reader, I apologize. See show notes here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | REPOST: ISBW #120 – Don’t Be an Ass! / Matthew Wayne Selznick Interview For some reason iTunes did not grab this mp3, so I’m reposting it. If you’re getting it again via another feed reader, I apologize. See show notes here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | I Should Be Writing- the PDF In the feed you will find the first document in a series I’m releasing called, strangely enough, I Should Be Writing. You will get periodic files from me  expounding on what I talk about on the show. It will probably be enough to eventually release as an ebook, but for now you’ll get it in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | I Should Be Writing- the PDF In the feed you will find the first document in a series I’m releasing called, strangely enough, I Should Be Writing. You will get periodic files from me  expounding on what I talk about on the show. It will probably be enough to eventually release as an ebook, but for now you’ll get it in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Personal Effects Downloads! Download JC Hutchins’ Personal Effects Party Pack: A PDF with party ideas to further enhance the awesomeness of Personal Effects: Dark Art. While you’re at it, download the first four chapters of the book (in the feed), get the first episode of Personal Effects: Sword of Blood, or enter to win the actual Sword of Blood, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Personal Effects Downloads! Download JC Hutchins’ Personal Effects Party Pack: A PDF with party ideas to further enhance the awesomeness of Personal Effects: Dark Art. While you’re at it, download the first four chapters of the book (in the feed), get the first episode of Personal Effects: Sword of Blood, or enter to win the actual Sword of Blood, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #122 Antagonists / JC Hutchins Interview Once again we are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor this week! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! We are also proud to be sponsored by JC Hutchins’ Personal Effects series, both the free podcast novella Sword of Blood and the novel Personal Effects: Dark Art are available (order now!) 00:07: ISBW #122 00:37: GoTo Meeting [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #122 Antagonists / JC Hutchins Interview Once again we are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor this week! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! We are also proud to be sponsored by JC Hutchins’ Personal Effects series, both the free podcast novella Sword of Blood and the novel Personal Effects: Dark Art are available (order now!) 00:07: ISBW #122 00:37: GoTo Meeting [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Success Story- Phil Rossi’s CRESCENT comes out today! It always astonishes me that people get a lot out of my ramblings about writing, but Phil Rossi claims he was greatly influenced by ISBW. All I know is that a couple of years ago he went on to write the horror SF thriller CRESCENT. He then released it via podcast, and then it got [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #121 – PANTS! / Laura Mixon Interview Once again we are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor this week! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! We are also proud to be sponsored by JC Hutchins’ Personal Effects series, both the free podcast novella Sword of Blood and the novel Personal Effects: Dark Art are available (order now!) 00:07: ISBW #121 00:37: GoTo Meeting [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #119 – Are You a God? / Seth Harwood Interview Once again we are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor this week! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #119 – Are You a God? / Seth Harwood Interview Once again we are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor this week! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #118 – Getting Restarted – Christiana Ellis Interview Once again we are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor this week! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! We are also proud to be sponsored by JC Hutchins’ Personal Effects series, the podcast Sword of Blood, launching for free on May 15, 2009, and the novel Personal Effects: Dark Art, launching mid-June (pre-order now!) 00:07: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #118 - Getting Restarted - Christiana Ellis Interview Once again we are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor this week! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! We are also proud to be sponsored by JC Hutchins’ Personal Effects series, the podcast Sword of Blood, launching for free on May 15, 2009, and the novel Personal Effects: Dark Art, launching mid-June (pre-order now!) Frankly, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #117 – Back to Basics / Scott Sigler Interview Once again we are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor this week! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! We are also proud to be sponsored by JC Hutchins’ Personal Effects series, the podcast Sword of Blood, launching for free on May 15, 2009, and the novel Personal Effects: Dark Art, launching mid-June (pre-order now!) 00:07: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW 116 – China Mieville Interview New show format, new show notes format! 00:07: ISBW #117 01:27: Allergy Attack! 01:52: Change in show format – adding interviews, subtracting nothing 03:57: Progress report on WAR 04:40: Hope to see you at Balticon- sign up for our ISBW Workshop! 05:30: Join me for breakfast at Balticon! 05:57: Promo: Jack Wakes Up 07:52: What [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #116 – Writing Magazines / China Miéville Interview New show format, new show notes format! Once again we are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor this week! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! 00:07: ISBW #117 00:37: GoTo Meeting Message 01:27: Allergy Attack! 01:52: Change in show format – adding interviews, subtracting nothing 03:57: Progress report on WAR 04:40: Hope to see you at Balticon- sign up for our [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #116 – Writing Magazines / China Miéville Interview New show format, new show notes format! Once again we are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor this week! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! 00:07: ISBW #117 00:37: GoTo Meeting Message 01:27: Allergy Attack! 01:52: Change in show format – adding interviews, subtracting nothing 03:57: Progress report on WAR 04:40: Hope to see you at Balticon- sign up for our [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW 116 – China Mieville Interview New show format, new show notes format! 00:07: ISBW #117 01:27: Allergy Attack! 01:52: Change in show format – adding interviews, subtracting nothing 03:57: Progress report on WAR 04:40: Hope to see you at Balticon- sign up for our ISBW Workshop! 05:30: Join me for breakfast at Balticon! 05:57: Promo: Jack Wakes Up 07:52: What [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #43 – Nebula Award Winner John Kessel Once again we are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor this week! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! I interviewed Dr. John Kessel, winner of the 2009 Nebula Award for best novella novelette (eep- sorry, best novella was won by “The Spacetime Pool” – Catherine Asaro)! We talked in a coffee shop, so please forgive [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #43 - Nebula Award Winner John Kessel Once again we are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor this week! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! I interviewed Dr. John Kessel, winner of the 2009 Nebula Award for best novella! We talked in a coffee shop, so please forgive the background noise. Did I mention you can get the early info of the new [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #115 – Beginnings and Prologues Once again we are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor this week! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! I come up from illness to say hi and talk about stuff! My Story “Mother Sponge” came out in Hub magazine! Friend me at GoodReads! Promo: GreatHites Beginnings, prologues, and yes, you are allowed to suck! Promo: Nina Kimberly the Merciless 6 yr [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #115 - Beginnings and Prologues Once again we are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor this week! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! I come up from illness to say hi and talk about stuff! My Story “Mother Sponge” came out in Hub magazine! Friend me at GoodReads! Promo: GreatHites Beginnings, prologues, and yes, you are allowed to suck! Promo: Nina Kimberly the Merciless 6 yr [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #114 – Feedback We are proud to have GoTo Meeting as a sponsor this week! Get a Free 30-Day Trial! Show Notes: I’m doing a new thing with War – subscribe to the premium feed at the Heaven site! Promo: Dice Jockies You must check out the new interactive storytelling site, Storytron! David Moldawer and I are running a beginning writer workshop at [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Video Podcast #6 – Book Trailers! In this podcast I experiment with a new messy room in my house- the office. I discover the lighting is terrible, but I KEEP GOING. Also, David Wellington was ISBW #111, not 112. My bad. I need a fact checker… Visit JC Hutchins’s site for more innovative marketing. And remember, learn from people who are original, but [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Video Podcast #6 - Book Trailers! In this podcast I experiment with a new messy room in my house- the office. I discover the lighting is terrible, but I KEEP GOING. Also, David Wellington was ISBW #111, not 112. My bad. I need a fact checker… Visit JC Hutchins’s site for more innovative marketing. And remember, learn from people who are original, but [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Video Podcast #5 – Live from Stellarcon! I report live from StellarCon, 09, in this. It’s the last day of the con. I’m tired and having just returned from the Worst Panel in the World. My new friend, the Black Plague, is with me. John Cmar on camera, Ursula Vernon in charge of the art, and Kevin Sonney in charge of awesome [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Video Podcast #5 - Live from Stellarcon! I report live from StellarCon, 09, in this. It’s the last day of the con. I’m tired and having just returned from the Worst Panel in the World. My new friend, the Black Plague, is with me. John Cmar on camera, Ursula Vernon in charge of the art, and Kevin Sonney in charge of awesome [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #113 – Brett Savory and Paul Malmont Interviews No rant this time, just an update! My Fingertips project Promo: Two Minute Danger Theater Interview with Paul Malmont of Jack London in Paradise Promo: Buffy Between the Lines Interview with Brett Savory of Chizine Regular shows resume next week! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #112: Mary Jo Pehl and Tobias Buckell Interviews My rant on #queryfail. (Search for the constantly updated twitterstream here) Promo: Get Committed to the Brink from Personal Effects: Dark Art Interview with Mary Jo Pehl of MST3K and Cinematic Titanic. Promo: V for Vertigo Interview with Tobias Buckell, author of The Cole Protocol (Halo), Ragamuffin, Sly Mongoose, and Crystal Rain. [Edit 3-11-09: Very sorry, I neglected to point [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #112: Mary Jo Pehl and Tobias Buckell Interviews My rant on #queryfail. (Search for the constantly updated twitterstream here) Promo: Get Committed to the Brink from Personal Effects: Dark Art Interview with Mary Jo Pehl of MST3K and Cinematic Titanic. Promo: V for Vertigo Interview with Tobias Buckell, author of The Cole Protocol (Halo), Ragamuffin, Sly Mongoose, and Crystal Rain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #111 – David Wellington Interview You know, one of my worst habits is becoming recording a podcast and not editing it for days. I apologize. So I talk about what I’m going to get done in the last days of February in this one, and you can clearly see I did NOT do it. Ah well. Notes of the show: I outlined War, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #43 – Holly Lisle Interview I got to talk to fantasy author Holly Lisle who has developed the How to Think Sideways course for writers, starting with ideas and moving on through manuscript and revisions. Promo: Grizzly’s Growls Podcast Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special Episode #42 – Kim Stanley Robinson Interview It’s time for another guest host! James Patrick Kelly has been a frequent guest and supporter of ISBW, and he got a chance to record with Kim Stanley Robinson a little while back. Robinson is teaching at Clarion this year, and I want to encourage anyone interested to apply before March 1! Promo: Adventures in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special Episode #42 – Kim Stanley Robinson Interview It’s time for another guest host! James Patrick Kelly has been a frequent guest and supporter of ISBW, and he got a chance to record with Kim Stanley Robinson a little while back. Robinson is teaching at Clarion this year, and I want to encourage anyone interested to apply before March 1! Promo: Adventures in Sci [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special Episode #42 – Kim Stanley Robinson Interview It’s time for another guest host! James Patrick Kelly has been a frequent guest and supporter of ISBW, and he got a chance to record with Kim Stanley Robinson a little while back. Robinson is teaching at Clarion this year, and I want to encourage anyone interested to apply before March 1! Promo: Adventures in Sci [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Video Podcast #4- Daring Return of the jiggle-cam, uncomfortable close-ups, and reminders that the tripod is my friend. Oh yeah. And take risks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Video Podcast #4- Daring Return of the jiggle-cam, uncomfortable close-ups, and reminders that the tripod is my friend. Oh yeah. And take risks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #110 – Courtney Summers Interview Yes! ISBW has depth this week as we discuss YA with new author Courtney Summers! Sponsored by Author Boot Camp – sign up with the code MUR1 for a discount! Promo: Author Boot Camp, February 21, 22 in San Francisco. Interview with Courtney Summers. Promo: Sun Run Homes I’m being deluged with backup solutions! Jungledisk, Mozy, Apple’s Time Capsule, Zoho, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #109 – Scott Sigler interview (audio!) The month of interviews continues! Promo: The Prophet of Panamindorah New York Times Bestselling Author Scott Sigler talks about his work, his book tour, and his new book, Contagious. New Feedback Song! “ISBW Her” by Famous Patrick Free map-making- Autorealm Six Sentences Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Video Podcast #3 – Interview with Scott Sigler I just spent an evening with Scott Sigler and 104 other junkies during the tail end of the Sigler Stank tour. We had a blast at his reading and signing, and he graciously gave me a couple of minutes at the bar before the drinkin’ started to talk about his experience. Congrats on the New [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Video Podcast #2 – Excuses and Feedback Try not to be drinking anything during the first five seconds. On my end, it was mildly amusing, but on the viewer’s end, it’s much funnier. Show notes: Read the Google Docs TOS I use a Flip Camera to record. Another backup method: Dropbox Also, I’m remiss in talking about the blog comments in the podcast. I need to rectify [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #108 – Grammar Girl Interview At last, I’m finally getting the interview I did with Grammar Girl up! And that’s not all! Soon we’ll have an interview with Scott Sigler in a matter of days! And many more interviews this month! January is the month of the interview! I’m trying out the snowflake method. Promo: Antithesis, Book 1 Interview with Grammar Girl (GG on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #108 - Grammar Girl Interview At last, I’m finally getting the interview I did with Grammar Girl up! And that’s not all! Soon we’ll have an interview with Scott Sigler in a matter of days! And many more interviews this month! January is the month of the interview! I’m trying out the snowflake method. Promo: Antithesis, Book 1 Interview with Grammar Girl (GG on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | How a book is made – totally true. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #107 – Goals Happy New Year! #107 was recorded when I was getting over the ick and it’s a little disjointed. Sorry about that. Promo: The Naked Bootleg We talk goals, starting over, and 2009. I had a story published at Escape Pod! We also talk about the ISBW Forums. Promo: The Unbelievable Origin of Super Spiff and the Toothpick Kid In feedback [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Video Podcast #1 – Happy 2009! I have threatened to give you video content, now I deliver! The cuts are a little awkward at times, but I’m still learning. Hope you enjoy! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #106 – Don’t Panic! This episode sponsored by Travis Heerman’s Heart of the Ronin Podcast! My Christmas story, “Like Wild Leaves That Before The Wild Hurricane Fly” will be submitted to Escape Pod today! Yes, the economy sucks. Don’t panic! For map information, check David Macaulay or Library Servers. Mind42 – organizational tool Blog for the publishing side of things – Publishing U Jane Lindskold’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #105 – More Feedback! NaNoWriMo is over! Did you win? My Christmas Story for Escape Pod is almost done! Promo: The Galactica Quorum Get Well Soon, Tobias Buckell! (New York Times Bestselling author as of yesterday!) Find quotes at quotegarden.com – but make sure you have permission to use in your stories! We hear from Christof Laputka of The Leviathan Chronicles A question about the Amazon [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #105 - More Feedback! NaNoWriMo is over! Did you win? My Christmas Story for Escape Pod is almost done! Promo: The Galactica Quorum Get Well Soon, Tobias Buckell! (New York Times Bestselling author as of yesterday!) Find quotes at quotegarden.com - but make sure you have permission to use in your stories! We hear from Christof Laputka of The Leviathan Chronicles A question about the??Amazon [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | New ISBW Promo I realized it had been, uh, well, a while since I had done a new promo. So here’s an updated promo, a new sound, if you would like to help me promote I Should Be Writing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #104 – Interview with Benjamin Rosenbaum Promo: Brain Science Podcast Interview with Benjamin Rosenbaum, short story writer, author of The Ant King: and Other Stories (PDF here) and sponsor of The Ant King derivative works contest. Promo: Young Junius by Seth Harwood The Career Novelist by Donald Maass for free More Creative Commons talk Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #104 - Interview with Benjamin Rosenbaum Promo: Brain Science Podcast Interview with Benjamin Rosenbaum, short story writer, author of The Ant King: and Other Stories (PDF here) and sponsor of The Ant King derivative works contest. Promo: Young Junius by Seth Harwood The Career Novelist by Donald Maass for free More Creative Commons talk Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #103 – NaNoWriMo Time Again! Trying to finish Project: Underground. New ISBW website coming soon! Promo: Metamediocrity It is NaNoWriMo time again. 30 days (November), 50,000 words, bragging rights forever. Promo: The Leviathan Chronicles Dr. John Kessel will be speaking on speculative fiction at the NC Writers Conference Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #103 - NaNoWriMo Time Again! Trying to finish Project: Underground. New ISBW website coming soon! Promo: Metamediocrity It is NaNoWriMo time again. 30 days (November), 50,000 words, bragging rights forever. Promo: The Leviathan Chronicles Dr. John Kessel will be speaking on speculative fiction at the NC Writers Conference Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #102 – Creative Commons Working on a short story for Escape Pod. The author contract for Long Tale Press should be read carefully. Promo: Dead Robots Society Contest We talk this week about Creative Commons. Benjamin Rosenbaum’s The Ant King Cory Doctorow’s Content Colette Vogele’s interview on ISBW Promo: Support Chris Lester of Metamor City and his high school biology class. Fractal geometry novel outlining! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #102 - Creative Commons Working on a short story for Escape Pod. The author contract for Long Tale Press should be read carefully. Promo: Dead Robots Society Contest We talk this week about Creative Commons. Benjamin Rosenbaum’s The Ant King Cory Doctorow’s Content Colette Vogele’s interview on ISBW Promo: Support Chris Lester of Metamor City and his high school biology class. Fractal geometry novel outlining! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #41 - Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine Interview I got a chance to talk to Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine, the two brilliant minds behind Ask a Ninja and the new Ask a Ninja Presents The Ninja Handbook: This Book Looks Forward to Killing You Soon. We talk about moving from screenwriting to book writing, how to write humor, and collaboration. This was [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #41 – Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine Interview I got a chance to talk to Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine, the two brilliant minds behind Ask a Ninja and the new Ask a Ninja Presents The Ninja Handbook: This Book Looks Forward to Killing You Soon. We talk about moving from screenwriting to book writing, how to write humor, and collaboration. This was [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW VIDEO Special #40 - Connie Willis Interview Pt. 2 This is part 2 of the hour-long Guest of Honor video from Balticon 42 with Connie Willis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW VIDEO Special #40 – Connie Willis Interview Pt. 2 This is part 2 of the hour-long Guest of Honor video from Balticon 42 with Connie Willis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW VIDEO Special #39 - Connie Willis Interview Pt 1 I was thrilled and honored to be able to co-conduct the Guest of Honor interview at Balticon 42, to interview my idol, Connie Willis. This is part 1 of 2 in the hour-long interview. Thanks to JC Hutchins for camera aid. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW VIDEO Special #39 – Connie Willis Interview Pt 1 I was thrilled and honored to be able to co-conduct the Guest of Honor interview at Balticon 42, to interview my idol, Connie Willis. This is part 1 of 2 in the hour-long interview. Thanks to JC Hutchins for camera aid. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #101 - Feedback I have an agent now! I’m represented by Byrd Leavell of Waxman Literary Agency. I’m working on editing Heaven for him. And the short story “Mother Sponge.” Promo: The Zombie Chronicles by James Melzer Lots of fun interviews in the can! New press available: Long Tale Press Freedom for Mac users easily distracted Brown Street Press is publishing a NaNo [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #101 – Feedback I have an agent now! I’m represented by Byrd Leavell of Waxman Literary Agency. I’m working on editing Heaven for him. And the short story “Mother Sponge.” Promo: The Zombie Chronicles by James Melzer Lots of fun interviews in the can! New press available: Long Tale Press Freedom for Mac users easily distracted Brown Street Press is publishing a NaNo [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #100 - Live From DragonCon I Should Be Writing was taped live at DragonCon this year, to a packed room on a Saturday morning. It was low key and friendly and I answered a lot of questions. Thanks to everyone who has helped keep this show going. It - and my writing career - has gone places I never could [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #100 – Live From DragonCon I Should Be Writing was taped live at DragonCon this year, to a packed room on a Saturday morning. It was low key and friendly and I answered a lot of questions. Thanks to everyone who has helped keep this show going. It – and my writing career – has gone places I never could [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | New Media From the Mouth of Sigler In a very fitting interview considering the benefits I’ve received from new media, Scott Sigler had a video discussion with the show Internet Superstars. As most of what I consume is audio, this video was fun to watch. I see Scott once a year at best, so it was cool to watch him interviewed. I [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | IBSW #99 - New Media Round Table Scott Sigler, JC Hutchins, and I discuss new media, where it’s going, and how to leverage it into book deals. And how NOT to… Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | IBSW #99 – New Media Round Table Scott Sigler, JC Hutchins, and I discuss new media, where it’s going, and how to leverage it into book deals. And how NOT to… Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #98 - It Happened I’m doing this last minute before DragonCon. There’s really only one thing to talk about… And here’s my DragonCon schedule: Title: I Should Be Writing Episode 100 Celebration LIVE! Description: Award winning author and podcaster Mur Lafferty brings her I Should be Writing show to Dragon*Con to celebrate it???s 100th episode. Time: Sat 10:00 am Length: 1 Hour Moderator / MC [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #98 – It Happened I’m doing this last minute before DragonCon. There’s really only one thing to talk about… And here’s my DragonCon schedule: Title: I Should Be Writing Episode 100 Celebration LIVE! Description: Award winning author and podcaster Mur Lafferty brings her I Should be Writing show to Dragon*Con to celebrate it’s 100th episode. Time: Sat 10:00 am Length: 1 Hour Moderator / MC [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Playing For Keeps full PDF with bonus story- PARASITE AWAKENS Thanks to everyone who helped out with this, especially Paul Fischer and Martha Holloway! This is the full book, including a new short story, Parasite Awakens. He likes Pallas. He likes who he is when he experiences her life out of her eyes. And now he looks through her eyes at his own sleeping brown face as [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #97 - Why I Do What I Do I recorded this last week. My book comes out TOMORROW, not next week. I’m not anxious at all. Just not sleeping much… This rambles a bit, but I do include Keys to Publishing #6 by Jay Lake! What do you do with the keys to publishing? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #97 – Why I Do What I Do I recorded this last week. My book comes out TOMORROW, not next week. I’m not anxious at all. Just not sleeping much… This rambles a bit, but I do include Keys to Publishing #6 by Jay Lake! What do you do with the keys to publishing? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #38: AISFP #58 - Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff Ryman 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. From AISFP In our last episode with the instructors of Clarion, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #38: AISFP #58 – Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff Ryman 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. From AISFP In our last episode with the instructors of Clarion, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #37: AISFP #57 - Neil Gaiman 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. From AISFP Neil Gaiman joins us to discuss his first teaching [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #37: AISFP #57 – Neil Gaiman 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. From AISFP Neil Gaiman joins us to discuss his first teaching [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #36: AISFP #56- Mary Anne Mohanraj 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. From AISFP Mary Anne Mohanraj joins us in our third Clarion [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #36: AISFP #56- Mary Anne Mohanraj 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. From AISFP Mary Anne Mohanraj joins us in our third Clarion [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #35 - AISFP #55: James Patrick Kelly and Matthew Wayne Selznick 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. From AISFP In our second Clarion episode, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #35 – AISFP #55: James Patrick Kelly and Matthew Wayne Selznick 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. From AISFP In our second Clarion episode, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #96 - Mur Lafferty Interview I apologize to Arkle, I gear up for Amazon rush (25th! August 25th!), and then Matt Wallace comes into the studio to talk to me about 3 years of ISBW and my new book. Promo: Keys to Publishing #3 Interview with Mur Promo: Babylon 5 Heat Em Up Feedback: Self-hypnosis MP3, Dexter novels, Fantasy and Science Fiction [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #96 – Mur Lafferty Interview I apologize to Arkle, I gear up for Amazon rush (25th! August 25th!), and then Matt Wallace comes into the studio to talk to me about 3 years of ISBW and my new book. Promo: Keys to Publishing #3 Interview with Mur Promo: Babylon 5 Heat Em Up Feedback: Self-hypnosis MP3, Dexter novels, Fantasy and Science Fiction [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #34 - Double Trouble Interview I got to talk to Tee Morris and Pip Ballantine about their upcoming book launch - Double Trouble, on 8-8-08. Happy birthday Pip! Promo: Requiem of the Outcast Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #34 – Double Trouble Interview I got to talk to Tee Morris and Pip Ballantine about their upcoming book launch – Double Trouble, on 8-8-08. Happy birthday Pip! Promo: Requiem of the Outcast Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #95- Confidence Pt. 2 promo - Staked Get the confidence to make your own decisions! promo - Playing For Keeps (yeah, I use my own show. what’s it to ya?) Feedback: podcasting.isfullofcrap.com Benjamin’s Palm character software: ISBW listeners use code “ISBW” to download for FREE. Awesome! ISBW #100 will be LIVE at DragonCon! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #95- Confidence Pt. 2 promo – Staked Get the confidence to make your own decisions! promo – Playing For Keeps (yeah, I use my own show. what’s it to ya?) Feedback: podcasting.isfullofcrap.com Benjamin’s Palm character software: ISBW listeners use code “ISBW” to download for FREE. Awesome! ISBW #100 will be LIVE at DragonCon! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #92 – Tim Pratt Interview Did I mention I sold my novel? Yeah. I sold my novel. I got solicited for a story! We fear Nathan Lowell. Promo: Archangel I interview Tim Pratt (aka TA Pratt) about pen names, geography, and urban fantasy. Tim’s blog, Tropism. Promo: The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd Summer Reading Program. Not Now Sweetie, Daddy’s Worldbuilding I think the K7 line is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW 2.0 #91 – Announcement, Twitter and Email Feedback We have new theme music! Travelling by Beatnik Turtle I sold a novel! Playing For Keeps will be released via Swarm Press this August! Promos: Parsec Awards (ISBW was 2007’s Best Writing Podcast!), The Takeover Feedback episode! (follow me on Twitter) Promo: 7th Son OBSIDIAN Murder Your Darlings Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW 2.0 #91 - Announcement, Twitter and Email Feedback We have new theme music! Travelling by Beatnik Turtle I sold a novel! Playing For Keeps will be released via Swarm Press this August! Promos: Parsec Awards (ISBW was 2007’s Best Writing Podcast!), The Takeover Feedback episode! (follow me on Twitter) Promo: 7th Son OBSIDIAN Murder Your Darlings Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #90 - Picking Up Where We Left Off Now, I recorded this last week. If you’ve been paying attention, you know I have an announcement. I will be making the announcement via the podcast very shortly. Promo: Mur and PG Holyfield speak at Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh this Saturday, May 17. I discuss how I’m getting back into the novel I put aside. Promo: Manic [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #90 – Picking Up Where We Left Off Now, I recorded this last week. If you’ve been paying attention, you know I have an announcement. I will be making the announcement via the podcast very shortly. Promo: Mur and PG Holyfield speak at Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh this Saturday, May 17. I discuss how I’m getting back into the novel I put aside. Promo: Manic [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Cory Doctorow releases Little Brother One of my favorite guests from I Should Be Writing, Cory Doctorow, has a new book out! A YA book focusing on kids, online rights and Homeland Security, Little Brother is available in hardcover and audiobook. Cory’s strongly against DRM - digital rights management - and refuses to release his book through Audible or iTunes [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #31 – JC Hutchins Interview I welcome back podcast author JC Hutchins to follow up on his Solidarity campaign from last fall and to see what he’s up to now. (Hint – look at the logo over there on the left.) First, we discuss my new blog series, The News From Poughkeepsie. Promo from Work In Progress JCHutchins.net Obsidian YouTube [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #31 - JC Hutchins Interview I welcome back podcast author JC Hutchins to follow up on his Solidarity campaign from last fall and to see what he’s up to now. (Hint - look at the logo over there on the left.) First, we discuss my new blog series, The News From Poughkeepsie. Promo from Work In Progress JCHutchins.net Obsidian YouTube [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #89 – Pseudonyms We talk about why you’d want a name other than your own. And I get over the plague. Promos: Eyewitness, Max Quick 2. I get an agent rejection during the podcast! New Pages – good place to find literary contests Novel in 100 Days Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #89 - Pseudonyms We talk about why you’d want a name other than your own. And I get over the plague. Promos: Eyewitness, Max Quick 2. I get an agent rejection during the podcast! New Pages - good place to find literary contests Novel in 100 Days Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #88 - Christopher Moore Interview I was thrilled to interview Christopher Moore, author of You Suck!, A Dirty Job, Lamb, and many other books. He was a lot of fun and very enlightening in the world of writing humor. Because of illness, there is little other content in this podcast. Hope to record more soon. Christopher Moore’s site Moore’s myspace page Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #88 – Christopher Moore Interview I was thrilled to interview Christopher Moore, author of You Suck!, A Dirty Job, Lamb, and many other books. He was a lot of fun and very enlightening in the world of writing humor. Because of illness, there is little other content in this podcast. Hope to record more soon. Christopher Moore’s site Moore’s myspace page Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #30: Jared Axelrod Interview I got to talk to prolific podcaster, writer, illustrator, costume designer, and cheese enthusiast Jared Axelrod! Voice of Free Planet X ISBW Neil Gaiman Interview Overheard in Purgatory Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #30: Jared Axelrod Interview I got to talk to prolific podcaster, writer, illustrator, costume designer, and cheese enthusiast Jared Axelrod! Voice of Free Planet X ISBW Neil Gaiman Interview Overheard in Purgatory Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #87 – Humbleness and Hubris Last week I was on top of the world and down in the dumps. I need some balance… Nathan Lowell informed me of my Podcast Peer Award! Last week I launched Wasteland. Promos: Nobilis Erotica, Scott Sigler’s Infected Feedback: you can find writing prompts at Wordtrip and an interview with Tim Pratt by Charles Tan Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #87 - Humbleness and Hubris Last week I was on top of the world and down in the dumps. I need some balance… Nathan Lowell informed me of my Podcast Peer Award! Last week I launched Wasteland. Promos: Nobilis Erotica, Scott Sigler’s Infected Feedback: you can find writing prompts at Wordtrip and an interview with Tim Pratt by Charles Tan Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #86 - Back to Basics We’re talking the basics of submitting a story here, an old topic, but always good to return to. Promos: Jack Wakes Up, The Nut Gallery Market research: Ralan, Duotrope, Writing Quiz. Starship Sofa podcasts the 2007 Best British SF Short Story nominees. New SF market: Afterburn SF Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #86 – Back to Basics We’re talking the basics of submitting a story here, an old topic, but always good to return to. Promos: Jack Wakes Up, The Nut Gallery Market research: Ralan, Duotrope, Writing Quiz. Starship Sofa podcasts the 2007 Best British SF Short Story nominees. New SF market: Afterburn SF Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #85 - Feedback This one is a long one! I just finished WASTELAND! Will be podcasting on 3/19. I have a new homepage: The Murverse Promo: The Next Fix Feedback links: writing prompts, Mur on Twitter, The Secret World Chronicles, many Mac users love Scrivener (PageFour suggested for Windows users), Dramatica Pro, Movie Magic Screenwriter, Critters, Online Writing Workshop, Ralan SF Market [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #85 – Feedback This one is a long one! I just finished WASTELAND! Will be podcasting on 3/19. I have a new homepage: The Murverse Promo: The Next Fix Feedback links: writing prompts, Mur on Twitter, The Secret World Chronicles, many Mac users love Scrivener (PageFour suggested for Windows users), Dramatica Pro, Movie Magic Screenwriter, Critters, Online Writing Workshop, Ralan SF Market [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #29: John Scalzi Interview Guest interviewer Christopher Lester cornered journalist, SF author, award winner and blogger John Scalzi at a convention and got this fantastic interview with him. We learn where he got his start, how he doesn’t recommend it for others, and how to be a full time writer. I’ve been a fan of Scalzi’s blog for some time [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special Episode #28 - Patrick Lussier and Matt Venne I have much to do this month, so we’ll be doing special interviews until March. The first will be White Noise 2 director Patrick Lussier and writer Matt Venne -ISBW’s first dip into script writing advice! (Apologies for the occasional dog barking in the background - I was also just getting over a cold so you [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #84 - Matt Wallace Interview Work continues on project UNDERGROUND. Promo: Technorama Interview with Matt Wallace from Variant Frequencies, author of The Failed Cities Monologues**, and The Next Fix. Matt’s Livejournal, Apex Digest, PDF link to The End of Flesh, Murky Depths, Stranger Things. We talk nipples, Cougars and pimpmobiles, so this one might not be safe around the kids. Promo: Black Shadow [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #83 - Mur�s Announcement No frills, no edits, no promos, just how my life is changing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #82 - Maybe you shouldn�t� I’m back! Sorry I’ve been away, but a job layoff, travels, sickness, and holidays have kept me away from the mic for a while. All of the podcasts have suffered, and I apologize. Did you hear Citytalkers on Escape Pod? Wondering what to write next. Promo: Dark Age: A Fantasy Pod-Novel Our main topic: why write if you don’t [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #81 - Pre-writing writing My daughter, the Pink Tornado, joins me for part of this episode! Topic: front end work on a novel. Working on Voodoo Pad. Promos: MOREVI: Remastered - 7th Heaven promo from JC Hutchins and Mur Lafferty Feedback links: Google Notebook Plug: Playing for Keeps, Geek Fu Morning Show� Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #80 - Minister Faust Interview That’s right! I interview the utterly HAWESOME Minister Faust again. We talk about his new book From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain and other things writing and editing. Promos: Metamor City and Killer Breakfast Other links: Warwick University Writing Podcast Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #79 - Feedback Episode This week I talk feedback! Your questions and comments! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #78 - Editing Argh. This was recorded an embarrassing three weeks ago. Not much has changed, but Playing for Keeps has launched, which is awesome! I sold a story to Podgeschichten. I finished my ALBATROSS story! Promo: The Process Diary Editing. Bleh. Promo: Scott Sigler Wants to Kill You Feedback: NaNoWriMo, young writers, action scenes, and publishing contests. Writer Beware is your friend. Check [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #27 - NaNoWriMo Interlude I’m back, with a raw show about NaNoWriMo. Enjoy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #27 - NaNoWriMo Interlude I’m back, with a raw show about NaNoWriMo. Enjoy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #27 – NaNoWriMo Interlude I’m back, with a raw show about NaNoWriMo. Enjoy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #27 – NaNoWriMo Interlude I’m back, with a raw show about NaNoWriMo. Enjoy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #26 - Guest Interview with Kim Harrison Thanks to Christopher Lester of the Metamor City podcast, who went to ConClave and interviewed Kim Harrison on behalf of I Should Be Writing! The Outlaw Demon Wails Holidays Are Hell For A Few Demons More Promo: Dragon Page Sponsored by: Get your online college degrees at schools like Capella University and Walden University! Learn about literature and writing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #77 - Trust yourself as a writer In this podcast I talk about how to find what works for you. Promo: Rejection Letter Audio Promo: Voice of Free Planet X Feedback links: Nathan Bransford’s blog on querying, Kristin Nelson’s blog, Free Range Librarian, David Wong’s free novel, John Dies at the End, Getting Things Written. I’ll be at PNME this week, so be sure to say [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #77 - Trust yourself as a writer In this podcast I talk about how to find what works for you. Promo: Rejection Letter Audio Promo: Voice of Free Planet X Feedback links: Nathan Bransford’s blog on querying, Kristin Nelson’s blog, Free Range Librarian, David Wong’s free novel, John Dies at the End, Getting Things Written. I’ll be at PNME this week, so be sure to say [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #76 - Solidarity! Interview with JC Hutchins I’m back from DragonCon! I won the Parsec for Best Writing Podcast! on a new writing schedule Promo: Mike Bennet’s Hall of Mirrors I discuss solidarity with JC Hutchins. My Twitter username, and JC’s. Bumper: Tracy Hickman Lots of voicemail! Mike started a writing journal. CA Sizemore wants to contribute to the podcast - I say definitely. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #76 - Solidarity! Interview with JC Hutchins I’m back from DragonCon! I won the Parsec for Best Writing Podcast! on a new writing schedule Promo: Mike Bennet’s Hall of Mirrors I discuss solidarity with JC Hutchins. My Twitter username, and JC’s. Bumper: Tracy Hickman Lots of voicemail! Mike started a writing journal. CA Sizemore wants to contribute to the podcast - I say definitely. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Special item in the feed! Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd! Dr. Grant of The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd got in touch with me and asked me to put this historical audio document in our feed. How could I refuse the young protege’ of the world’s most brilliant scientist? I hope you enjoy Dr. Floyd’s adventures, it’s one of my favorite podcasts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Special item in the feed! Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd! Dr. Grant of The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd got in touch with me and asked me to put this historical audio document in our feed. How could I refuse the young protege’ of the world’s most brilliant scientist? I hope you enjoy Dr. Floyd’s adventures, it’s one of my favorite podcasts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #75 - Cynical look at writing advice We get a lot of advice, and face it, we don’t follow it all. Let’s look at that advice… Promo: The Nut Gallery Podcast Mur is a cynic! I mention the Writing Show POD Debate. Promo: Metamor City Lisa is writing again! I reference one of my favorite ze frank vidcasts. German SF podcast: Podyssey I’ll be at DragonCon this weekend! [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #75 - Cynical look at writing advice We get a lot of advice, and face it, we don’t follow it all. Let’s look at that advice… Promo: The Nut Gallery Podcast Mur is a cynic! I mention the Writing Show POD Debate. Promo: Metamor City Lisa is writing again! I reference one of my favorite ze frank vidcasts. German SF podcast: Podyssey I’ll be at DragonCon this weekend! [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #25 - Mercedes Lackey and Steve Libbey I got to sit down with Mercedes Lackey and Steve Libbey of The Secret World Chronicle podcast for quick interview. Sound quality isn’t the best, so I apologize, but hope you guys enjoy it! Promo: The Cinemafreaks Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #25 - Mercedes Lackey and Steve Libbey I got to sit down with Mercedes Lackey and Steve Libbey of The Secret World Chronicle podcast for quick interview. Sound quality isn’t the best, so I apologize, but hope you guys enjoy it! Promo: The Cinemafreaks Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #74 - Feeding the Beast Pt. 2 I’m getting up early, and writing. 21 days to Dragon*Con, much work to do on Earth. Promo: 7th Son, Book 3: Destruction My agent hunt is an official failure. I am learning this. I am listening to the beast. Promo: James Patrick Kelly’s Free Reads Another interview coming! Voicemail: Motivation and closing off the interwebs. Email: Freelancing for Newspapers, adverbs, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #74 - Feeding the Beast Pt. 2 I’m getting up early, and writing. 21 days to Dragon*Con, much work to do on Earth. Promo: 7th Son, Book 3: Destruction My agent hunt is an official failure. I am learning this. I am listening to the beast. Promo: James Patrick Kelly’s Free Reads Another interview coming! Voicemail: Motivation and closing off the interwebs. Email: Freelancing for Newspapers, adverbs, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #73 - Listener Questions Listener requests for topics! Promo: Daughter of the Sun Writer Beware Preditors and Editors Promo: Things are Looking Up Pimping other projects, like This Day in Alternate History Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #73 - Listener Questions Listener requests for topics! Promo: Daughter of the Sun Writer Beware Preditors and Editors Promo: Things are Looking Up Pimping other projects, like This Day in Alternate History Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #72 - Connie Willis Interview In a dream come true, I actually got to talk to one of my idols, multiple-award-winning author, Connie Willis. Other things discussed: I sold three short fic pieces! Earth proceeds, as does a new story. Two agent rejections… from the same agency… Promo: Strangely Literal The interview was somewhat clipped by skype at the beginning, which is irritating, but it gets [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #72 - Connie Willis Interview In a dream come true, I actually got to talk to one of my idols, multiple-award-winning author, Connie Willis. Other things discussed: I sold three short fic pieces! Earth proceeds, as does a new story. Two agent rejections… from the same agency… Promo: Strangely Literal The interview was somewhat clipped by skype at the beginning, which is irritating, but it gets [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special 24 - Steve Dupont Interview I interview Steve Dupont from Skull and Bones publishing. We talk writing, sure, but more importantly, we talk scurvy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special 24 - Steve Dupont Interview I interview Steve Dupont from Skull and Bones publishing. We talk writing, sure, but more importantly, we talk scurvy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #71 - Skool Days We discuss my writing and why there isn’t any, how you should deal with education choices, and a little bit of feedback. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #71 - Skool Days We discuss my writing and why there isn’t any, how you should deal with education choices, and a little bit of feedback. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Writers Talking Ep. 8 I had the honor of being on Episode 8 of Writers Talking with James Patrick Kelly and Matthew Wayne Selznick last Saturday, so with Matt’s permission I’m dropping that show into this feed. Enjoy! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #70 - Just WRITE the damn thing! I’m back! Rejection from an agent reading a full. But I’m OK with it. I finished the final draft of Heaven. Working at Lulu.TV now. Check out This Day in Alternate History. Today’s Topic: WRITE THE DAMN THING! Lots and lots of feedback. Lots. I will be on Writers Talking this weekend - 5pm EDT! Drop by and check it out! Listen [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #70 - Just WRITE the damn thing! I’m back! Rejection from an agent reading a full. But I’m OK with it. I finished the final draft of Heaven. Working at Lulu.TV now. Check out This Day in Alternate History. Today’s Topic: WRITE THE DAMN THING! Lots and lots of feedback. Lots. I will be on Writers Talking this weekend - 5pm EDT! Drop by and check it out! Listen [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #23 - Seth Harwood Interview I interview Seth Harwood of Jack Palms II. Subscribe Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #23 - Seth Harwood Interview I interview Seth Harwood of Jack Palms II. Subscribe Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #69 - Flawed Characters I’m writing, we have flawed characters, and some voice mail and email! Also, a link to Mark Putnam’s Plotastic. [update - Scott emailed me to say the dictation episode (YES! I got it wrong!) was Kevin J. Anderson on Dragon Page Cover to Cover - check it out. And thanks, Scott!] Subscribe Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #69 - Flawed Characters I’m writing, we have flawed characters, and some voice mail and email! Also, a link to Mark Putnam’s Plotastic. [update - Scott emailed me to say the dictation episode (YES! I got it wrong!) was Kevin J. Anderson on Dragon Page Cover to Cover - check it out. And thanks, Scott!] Subscribe Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #68 - Loving the stuff you hate I haven’t done much this week, but James Patrick Kelly, good friend of the show, has won the Nebula Award! Congrats, Jim, I’m thrilled for you. And he’s made the podcast version of Burn available again (go to the above link) - if you haven’t heard it, you should. Why don’t they Twitter or live [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #68 - Loving the stuff you hate I haven’t done much this week, but James Patrick Kelly, good friend of the show, has won the Nebula Award! Congrats, Jim, I’m thrilled for you. And he’s made the podcast version of Burn available again (go to the above link) - if you haven’t heard it, you should. Why don’t they Twitter or live [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #67 - Endings I sold another story! To Hub Magazine! Agent rejection #41 Read my stuff on 365 Tomorrows. Heaven continues its planning. Bumper: Buffy Between the Lines Endings! Nancy Kress article Spider-Man 3 spoiler. Sorry. It’s over at 8:30. Connie Willis’ Just Like the Ones That We Used to Know Michael A. Stackpole’s The Secrets Bumper: Voice of Free Planet X SF Name Generator Tk’tk’tk on Escape Pod Subscribe Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #67 - Endings I sold another story! To Hub Magazine! Agent rejection #41 Read my stuff on 365 Tomorrows. Heaven continues its planning. Bumper: Buffy Between the Lines Endings! Nancy Kress article Spider-Man 3 spoiler. Sorry. It’s over at 8:30. Connie Willis’ Just Like the Ones That We Used to Know Michael A. Stackpole’s The Secrets Bumper: Voice of Free Planet X SF Name Generator Tk’tk’tk on Escape Pod Subscribe Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #66 - Colette Vogele Interview Do I say it’s 65 in the podcast? It’s 66. Sorry. The return of the interview! In this episode I interview Colette Vogele, IP lawyer and host of the Rules for the Revolution podcast. Something weird was with my mic, so the sound quality isn’t the best, and for that I apologize. Wordpress release plugin Colette mentioned [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #66 - Colette Vogele Interview Do I say it’s 65 in the podcast? It’s 66. Sorry. The return of the interview! In this episode I interview Colette Vogele, IP lawyer and host of the Rules for the Revolution podcast. Something weird was with my mic, so the sound quality isn’t the best, and for that I apologize. Wordpress release plugin Colette mentioned [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #65 - Subconscious at Work I got boing boinged! Topic: letting your subconscious choose the way. We get zen here, people. Promo: Hell (yes, self-serving!) I was on MWS’s Writer’s Talking #1 - you can download it now! Note from Just One More Book podcast. I talk about Vonnegut and make an embarrassing mistake: Yes, I know the book is Bluebeard, not Blackbeard… Indiana Jim calls [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #65 - Subconscious at Work I got boing boinged! Topic: letting your subconscious choose the way. We get zen here, people. Promo: Hell (yes, self-serving!) I was on MWS’s Writer’s Talking #1 - you can download it now! Note from Just One More Book podcast. I talk about Vonnegut and make an embarrassing mistake: Yes, I know the book is Bluebeard, not Blackbeard… Indiana Jim calls [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #64 - Zero to One/Submission Redux I’m back. That’s all. Ze Frank talks about Zero to One Miss Snark Standard Manuscript Format Clarion Voice mail was FUBARed in my audio issues, including the voice mail from CA Sizemore - but his suggestion was to try media mail for the cheap mss sending. Subscribe Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #64 - Zero to One/Submission Redux I’m back. That’s all. Ze Frank talks about Zero to One Miss Snark Standard Manuscript Format Clarion Voice mail was FUBARed in my audio issues, including the voice mail from CA Sizemore - but his suggestion was to try media mail for the cheap mss sending. Subscribe Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Mur on the first Podible Paradise podcast I re-interviewed my former instructor Steven Gould the other night, and when I was done, he turned around and interviewed me. Turns out he’s faster with the podcasting than I am, cause his is already live. And he said I could put it in the feed, too! W00t! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #22 - Just talkin� I’m still here. Still alive. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #22 - Just talkin� I’m still here. Still alive. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #63 - Having Fun We need to have fun to write better. Don’t be so serious. Links: Miss Snark, Preditors and Editors, Writer Beware. Notes from Nobilis and JR Blackwell. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #63 - Having Fun We need to have fun to write better. Don’t be so serious. Links: Miss Snark, Preditors and Editors, Writer Beware. Notes from Nobilis and JR Blackwell. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #62 - Sex Agent rejection #22 came this week! I had coffee with Cory Doctorow this week, and he made me think. Sex- are writing sex scenes too personal? Not if you do it right. Dan Savage’s Savage Love column. I go on a bit of a tangent: I want to hear if you’re applying for Viable Paradise this year! I [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #62 - Sex Agent rejection #22 came this week! I had coffee with Cory Doctorow this week, and he made me think. Sex- are writing sex scenes too personal? Not if you do it right. Dan Savage’s Savage Love column. I go on a bit of a tangent: I want to hear if you’re applying for Viable Paradise this year! I [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #61 - Guilt I should be writing, but should I be reading, foruming, and subscribing as well? I go over a discussion I had with Paul S. Jenkins. I’ve been contributing to Lulu Radio. Promos: Voice of the Free Planet X, Misfit Brew Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #61 - Guilt I should be writing, but should I be reading, foruming, and subscribing as well? I go over a discussion I had with Paul S. Jenkins. I’ve been contributing to Lulu Radio. Promos: Voice of the Free Planet X, Misfit Brew Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #60 - Paul Malmont Interview Argh - I had this post up with all the shiny links. Then Audacity crashed the entire machine. Maybe it heard me talking crap about it in the podcast. Anyway. I will do my best to recreate these show notes. But I really do want to get the podcast up. I interviewed Paul Malmont. I talk rejections [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #60 - Paul Malmont Interview Argh - I had this post up with all the shiny links. Then Audacity crashed the entire machine. Maybe it heard me talking crap about it in the podcast. Anyway. I will do my best to recreate these show notes. But I really do want to get the podcast up. I interviewed Paul Malmont. I talk rejections [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #59 - More Rejections The Notes of the Show… Tee Morris’s Survival Guide to Writing Fantasy Silk Code Promo Dealing - again - with rejections Voice mails! Emails! I narrated Under the Graying Sea, a SF novelette Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #59 - More Rejections The Notes of the Show… Tee Morris’s Survival Guide to Writing Fantasy Silk Code Promo Dealing - again - with rejections Voice mails! Emails! I narrated Under the Graying Sea, a SF novelette Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #21 - JC Hutchins Interview Help TD-0013 help those with MS I interview JC Hutchins of the 7th Son Trilogy - a couple of the familiar Skype skips happen, but it’s not too bad. My Beta Clone picture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #21 - JC Hutchins Interview Help TD-0013 help those with MS I interview JC Hutchins of the 7th Son Trilogy - a couple of the familiar Skype skips happen, but it’s not too bad. My Beta Clone picture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #58 - Settings I announce the job, how the agent hunt is doing, and discuss settings. Voicemail and email follow. Doncha love detailed show notes? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #58 - Settings I announce the job, how the agent hunt is doing, and discuss settings. Voicemail and email follow. Doncha love detailed show notes? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | New ISBW promo I finally have a new ISBW promo, courtesy of Phil Rossi! Thanks, Phil! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | New ISBW promo I finally have a new ISBW promo, courtesy of Phil Rossi! Thanks, Phil! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #20 - Matthew Wayne Selznick Interview A couple of weeks ago I spoke with Matt Selznick, DIY enthusiast and author of the popular podiobook Brave Men Run. Matt’s a very cool guy and I admire his principles. We’ll both be at Balticon this year! Voicemail from Earl Newton from the Stranger Things vodcast, launching in February. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #20 - Matthew Wayne Selznick Interview A couple of weeks ago I spoke with Matt Selznick, DIY enthusiast and author of the popular podiobook Brave Men Run. Matt’s a very cool guy and I admire his principles. We’ll both be at Balticon this year! Voicemail from Earl Newton from the Stranger Things vodcast, launching in February. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #57 - The Great Agent Hunt I am done with the novel! Done! Seriously! Thus I begin the great agent hunt. Links mentioned: Steve Gould’s (and others’) blog Preditors and Editors Writer Beware Miss Snark AgentQuery.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #57 - The Great Agent Hunt I am done with the novel! Done! Seriously! Thus I begin the great agent hunt. Links mentioned: Steve Gould’s (and others’) blog Preditors and Editors Writer Beware Miss Snark AgentQuery.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Meta Podcast: State of the Mur, 12/06 I wanted to post a podcast letting you know what was up with me, my podcasts, and my life. Why the podcast has been spotty and my plans for 2007. So I did. My novel is done! Now I begin my agent search. 2007’s early months will be dedicated to finishing Hell for Geek Fu. Interviews with podiobook [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Meta Podcast: State of the Mur, 12/06 I wanted to post a podcast letting you know what was up with me, my podcasts, and my life. Why the podcast has been spotty and my plans for 2007. So I did. My novel is done! Now I begin my agent search. 2007’s early months will be dedicated to finishing Hell for Geek Fu. Interviews with podiobook [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #56 – Nancy Kress Interview In October I spoke with Nancy Kress about her books, professionalism, the muse, and NaNoWrimo. Skype had some hiccups near the end that clipped off some of our conversation. This is Skype – not clumsy editing. I didn’t edit anything from this interview. And the dog is barking in the background… Me? I’m so tired [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #56 - Nancy Kress Interview In October I spoke with Nancy Kress about her books, professionalism, the muse, and NaNoWrimo. Skype had some hiccups near the end that clipped off some of our conversation. This is Skype - not clumsy editing. I didn’t edit anything from this interview. And the dog is barking in the background… Me? I’m so tired of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #56 - Nancy Kress Interview In October I spoke with Nancy Kress about her books, professionalism, the muse, and NaNoWrimo. Skype had some hiccups near the end that clipped off some of our conversation. This is Skype - not clumsy editing. I didn’t edit anything from this interview. And the dog is barking in the background… Me? I’m so tired of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #56 - Nancy Kress Interview In October I spoke with Nancy Kress about her books, professionalism, the muse, and NaNoWrimo. Skype had some hiccups near the end that clipped off some of our conversation. This is Skype - not clumsy editing. I didn’t edit anything from this interview. And the dog is barking in the background… Me? I’m so tired of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #55 - Freelance Work I’m back after being gone and then ill. Thank goodness for antibiotics. I failed at NaNoWriMo, but congrats to the winners! I did finish part three of Hell. Main topic: how I got my freelance career started. Hub will launch in the UK on December 8. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #55 - Freelance Work I’m back after being gone and then ill. Thank goodness for antibiotics. I failed at NaNoWriMo, but congrats to the winners! I did finish part three of Hell. Main topic: how I got my freelance career started. Hub will launch in the UK on December 8. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #54 - Professionalism The cold is over. I am 14K into NaNoWriMo (very behind), 138 pages into novel edits (pretty happy with it.) NaNoMonkeys podcast trailer I discuss professionalism beyond the adage of “don’t be an ass”. Never Was trailer I remind you of my books at Podiobooks.com - Heaven and Hell. We deal with a lot of emails and voice mails, some [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #54 - Professionalism The cold is over. I am 14K into NaNoWriMo (very behind), 138 pages into novel edits (pretty happy with it.) NaNoMonkeys podcast trailer I discuss professionalism beyond the adage of “don’t be an ass”. Never Was trailer I remind you of my books at Podiobooks.com - Heaven and Hell. We deal with a lot of emails and voice mails, some [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #19 - Viable Paradise Party - NSFW Here it is. The drunken VPX party. There are not safe for work things here, not safe for kids. There are f-bombs. discussions of gay kinky frog sex. and an occasional mention of stuff people learned. Some in-jokes: I mentioned Ophelia’s death metal in a previous post, as well as dinosaurs and sodomy. But we also [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #19 - Viable Paradise Party - NSFW Here it is. The drunken VPX party. There are not safe for work things here, not safe for kids. There are f-bombs. discussions of gay kinky frog sex. and an occasional mention of stuff people learned. Some in-jokes: I mentioned Ophelia’s death metal in a previous post, as well as dinosaurs and sodomy. But we also [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #18 - Jim Kelly Trifecta! My third interview with the always-charming James Patrick Kelly! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #18 - Jim Kelly Trifecta! My third interview with the always-charming James Patrick Kelly! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #17 - Cory Doctorow, Baby! Yes, I finally scored the highest honor in podcasting, the Cory Doctorow interview! As Cory would say, “W00T!” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #17 - Cory Doctorow, Baby! Yes, I finally scored the highest honor in podcasting, the Cory Doctorow interview! As Cory would say, “W00T!” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #16 - AC Crispin Interview Back at DragonCon, AC Crispin gave me some of her time and I’m only just now getting to posting it. Sorry! Writer Beware Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #16 - AC Crispin Interview Back at DragonCon, AC Crispin gave me some of her time and I’m only just now getting to posting it. Sorry! Writer Beware Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #53 - In Defense of NaNoWriMO It’s almost NaNoWriMo time! I also discuss my time at Viable Paradise. For some future podcasts, let me give you some referential information: When we read Hamlet (Beer with Billy, where we drank and read Shakespeare) the guy playing Opheila decided to do her as a death metal singer. It was the best Ophelia I’d ever [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #53 - In Defense of NaNoWriMO It’s almost NaNoWriMo time! I also discuss my time at Viable Paradise. For some future podcasts, let me give you some referential information: When we read Hamlet (Beer with Billy, where we drank and read Shakespeare) the guy playing Opheila decided to do her as a death metal singer. It was the best Ophelia I’d ever [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #52 - James Maxey interview Quick post- interview with James Maxey. enjoy. [Edit show number because PG Holyfield is a smartass. I’m on vacation, dude.] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #52 - James Maxey interview Quick post- interview with James Maxey. enjoy. [Edit show number because PG Holyfield is a smartass. I’m on vacation, dude.] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #51 - Workshops Busy busy busy. Slightly more chatty and raw, but I got it done. Viable Paradise Clarion Odyssey Duke Young Writer’s Camp Orson Scott Card’s Literary Boot Camp Comments from Alexa, Nat from Obsidian River, and Phil Rossi from Filling the Page. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #51 - Workshops Busy busy busy. Slightly more chatty and raw, but I got it done. Viable Paradise Clarion Odyssey Duke Young Writer’s Camp Orson Scott Card’s Literary Boot Camp Comments from Alexa, Nat from Obsidian River, and Phil Rossi from Filling the Page. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #15 - Paul S. Jenkins Interview I spoke with Paul S. Jenkins a couple of weeks ago as he was starting work on his podiobook, The Plitone Revisionist. Paul is also the host of The Rev Up Review, pretty much the best SF review podcast available, which also includes podsafe music and original short stories by Paul. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #15 - Paul S. Jenkins Interview I spoke with Paul S. Jenkins a couple of weeks ago as he was starting work on his podiobook, The Plitone Revisionist. Paul is also the host of The Rev Up Review, pretty much the best SF review podcast available, which also includes podsafe music and original short stories by Paul. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #50 - No apology needed Should you apologize for writing something edgy or a character unlike yourself? This Week in Science Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #50 - No apology needed Should you apologize for writing something edgy or a character unlike yourself? This Week in Science Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #14 - Edmund Schubert Interview I sat down with writer and editor Ed Schubert at DragonCon and we chatted a bit. A very nice guy, I’m terribly sorry the audio isn’t better. Ed’s personal site, blog, and Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show. [Edit- the very embarrassing “I heavily edit” phone call has been removed. My humblest apologies. 130+ podcasts, you make [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #14 - Edmund Schubert Interview I sat down with writer and editor Ed Schubert at DragonCon and we chatted a bit. A very nice guy, I’m terribly sorry the audio isn’t better. Ed’s personal site, blog, and Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show. [Edit- the very embarrassing “I heavily edit” phone call has been removed. My humblest apologies. 130+ podcasts, you make [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #49 - Gender - May not be safe for work 00:01 I Should Be Writing #49: September 9, 2006 00:30 Returned from DragonCon, dragging big time. 01:14 You can listen to Wingin It from DragonCon (Seriously NSFW) to hear what I’ve been writing. And congrats to the Parsec winners. 02:35 Two rejections upon coming home. Crud. 03:35 Argh, my brain wants to do more work. What’s wrong with me? 04:10 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #49 - Gender - May not be safe for work 00:01 I Should Be Writing #49: September 9, 2006 00:30 Returned from DragonCon, dragging big time. 01:14 You can listen to Wingin It from DragonCon (Seriously NSFW) to hear what I’ve been writing. And congrats to the Parsec winners. 02:35 Two rejections upon coming home. Crud. 03:35 Argh, my brain wants to do more work. What’s wrong with me? 04:10 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #48 - David Drake Interview I saw outside a restaurant and interviewed Dave Drake about writing, being A Writer, and how he became a writer and deals with criticism. DragonCon this week! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #48 - David Drake Interview I saw outside a restaurant and interviewed Dave Drake about writing, being A Writer, and how he became a writer and deals with criticism. DragonCon this week! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #47 - Happy Birthday ISBW! 00:01 I Should Be Writing #46: August 19, 2006 - One year! 01:30 Complaining and worrying doesn’t help. I’ve been busy. Finally. 02:34 Wrote a Slush Bomb story. 03:26 Let There Be Write, by Nancy Fulda. 06:50 Note from Chris. 08:18 Why I Should Be Writing? 09:45 For what it’s worth, yes I know smoking is bad for me, and I [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #47 - Happy Birthday ISBW! 00:01 I Should Be Writing #46: August 19, 2006 - One year! 01:30 Complaining and worrying doesn’t help. I’ve been busy. Finally. 02:34 Wrote a Slush Bomb story. 03:26 Let There Be Write, by Nancy Fulda. 06:50 Note from Chris. 08:18 Why I Should Be Writing? 09:45 For what it’s worth, yes I know smoking is bad for me, and I [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #46 - Reading 00:01 I Should Be Writing #46: August 10, 2006 00:44 Magazine deadlines, rewrites. 01:04 Working on stories for the Slush Bomb and my submission to Viable Paradise. 01:30 We make our own stress. 02:06 Podcast back on schedule. 02:22 Pseudopod launches on 8/11! 02:40 Reading and its importance to writing. Read romance, like Kiki says, or read about food, Ruth Reichl’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #46 - Reading 00:01 I Should Be Writing #46: August 10, 2006 00:44 Magazine deadlines, rewrites. 01:04 Working on stories for the Slush Bomb and my submission to Viable Paradise. 01:30 We make our own stress. 02:06 Podcast back on schedule. 02:22 Pseudopod launches on 8/11! 02:40 Reading and its importance to writing. Read romance, like Kiki says, or read about food, Ruth Reichl’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #45 - Letting Go 00:01 I Should Be Writing #45: July 27, 2006 00:57 Jim Kelly chastized me at TrinocCon, so now I have a plan. 01:37 Stressful week with birthday and sick kiddo. 02:30 Discussion on Escape Pod. 03:55 You have to let your work go. 08:00 Interview with Jim Kelly and John Kessel are elsewhere on this feed. 10:40 The short list for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #45 - Letting Go 00:01 I Should Be Writing #45: July 27, 2006 00:57 Jim Kelly chastized me at TrinocCon, so now I have a plan. 01:37 Stressful week with birthday and sick kiddo. 02:30 Discussion on Escape Pod. 03:55 You have to let your work go. 08:00 Interview with Jim Kelly and John Kessel are elsewhere on this feed. 10:40 The short list for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #13 - Kelly/Kessel Interview Here is my interview with Jim Kelly and John Kessel I did last week at TrinocCon. I’d had some Excedrine to help with a bad headache, and the caffeine made me super-wired. Apologies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #13 - Kelly/Kessel Interview Here is my interview with Jim Kelly and John Kessel I did last week at TrinocCon. I’d had some Excedrine to help with a bad headache, and the caffeine made me super-wired. Apologies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #44 - Interview with Victoria Strauss 00:01 I Should Be Writing #44: July 16, 2006 01:14 I got into Viable Paradise! 01:30 I Look Forward to Remembering You aired on Escape Pod last week. 01:54 I started a new short story and got a rejection. 02:16 Steve DuPont should be writing 02:35 Interview with Victoria Strauss, author of The Awakened City and contributor to the popular [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #44 - Interview with Victoria Strauss 00:01 I Should Be Writing #44: July 16, 2006 01:14 I got into Viable Paradise! 01:30 I Look Forward to Remembering You aired on Escape Pod last week. 01:54 I started a new short story and got a rejection. 02:16 Steve DuPont should be writing 02:35 Interview with Victoria Strauss, author of The Awakened City and contributor to the popular [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #43 - Agents ISBW Unplugged - live from Origins. I missed my deadline. Jim Baen died June 28, 2006. Our topic: Agents, what they do, what they don’t do. And this news didn’t make it into the podcast, but I just learned that I will be attending Viable Paradise this fall! Links to agent blogs: Miss Snark Pub Rants (interestingly, Agent Kristin is currently doing [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #43 - Agents ISBW Unplugged - live from Origins. I missed my deadline. Jim Baen died June 28, 2006. Our topic: Agents, what they do, what they don’t do. And this news didn’t make it into the podcast, but I just learned that I will be attending Viable Paradise this fall! Links to agent blogs: Miss Snark Pub Rants (interestingly, Agent Kristin is currently doing [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #42 - Conventions I sold a story to Scrybe Press! Trying to get the novel edited by July 1… ergh… Conventions: Do: be nice, understand their schedule. Don’t: Ask for them to read your stuff, ask to be introduced to their agent. Alex Wilson gives us the Clarion Podcast, and he supplies our closing music, Untitle Pretention… available through Creative Commons. Write, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #42 - Conventions I sold a story to Scrybe Press! Trying to get the novel edited by July 1… ergh… Conventions: Do: be nice, understand their schedule. Don’t: Ask for them to read your stuff, ask to be introduced to their agent. Alex Wilson gives us the Clarion Podcast, and he supplies our closing music, Untitle Pretention… available through Creative Commons. Write, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #41 - Shyness Heaven seems to be turning into a novel. I don’t have very many short stories. Submission bomb controversy started at Charles Coleman Finlay’s blog. Shyness sucks. Here’s how to deal. The info I could find on first novels is at Justine Larbalestier’s site. Jay Penney’s blog, covering his usage of Holly Lisle’s One Pass Rewrite. Write, already! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #41 - Shyness Heaven seems to be turning into a novel. I don’t have very many short stories. Submission bomb controversy started at Charles Coleman Finlay’s blog. Shyness sucks. Here’s how to deal. The info I could find on first novels is at Justine Larbalestier’s site. Jay Penney’s blog, covering his usage of Holly Lisle’s One Pass Rewrite. Write, already! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #40 - Holly Lisle Interview The wonderful Holly Lisle granted me a bit of her time this week to discuss writing. She’s a wonderful woman with a treasure trove of information on her webiste. Go. Look. It’s cool. We also discuss the writing program CopyWrite for the Mac, a tool I’m currently experimenting with. Wordtrip.com people are very nice! New forums! In case [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #40 - Holly Lisle Interview The wonderful Holly Lisle granted me a bit of her time this week to discuss writing. She’s a wonderful woman with a treasure trove of information on her webiste. Go. Look. It’s cool. We also discuss the writing program CopyWrite for the Mac, a tool I’m currently experimenting with. Wordtrip.com people are very nice! New forums! In case [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #12 - Live Life! You shouldn’t be writing. Not all the time. I remind you of the new, shiny forums. Apologies for yesterday’s SNAFU - I forgot about the stupid RSS/iTunes thing about only grabbing one of the files in the feed - and they always grab the wrong one… Live already. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #12 - Live Life! You shouldn’t be writing. Not all the time. I remind you of the new, shiny forums. Apologies for yesterday’s SNAFU - I forgot about the stupid RSS/iTunes thing about only grabbing one of the files in the feed - and they always grab the wrong one… Live already. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #11 - Perspective Will a different perspective help you write more? I set a date for the final draft of my novel. We have new forums! Wheee! Also, I was recently interviewed on Podcast411. Write, already! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #11 - Perspective Will a different perspective help you write more? I set a date for the final draft of my novel. We have new forums! Wheee! Also, I was recently interviewed on Podcast411. Write, already! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Special Show #11 - Perspective Will a different perspective help you write more? I set a date for the final draft of my novel. We have new forums! Wheee!Also, I was recently interviewed on Podcast411. Write, already!Listen | Subscribe Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #39 - Enter the Villain I did queries and submissions this week - submitted to A Field Guide to Surreal Botany. Heaven is at mid-season break. We talk villains this time. I recommend Babylon 5 and Brave Men Run. We talk prologues, writing while depressed, and yWriter. Write, already! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #39 - Enter the Villain I did queries and submissions this week - submitted to A Field Guide to Surreal Botany. Heaven is at mid-season break. We talk villains this time. I recommend Babylon 5 and Brave Men Run. We talk prologues, writing while depressed, and yWriter. Write, already! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #10 - Giving back to the community Today’s podcast talks about helping others out. We talk about the Absolute Write forums and the boards at Baen. Write, already! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #10 - Giving back to the community Today’s podcast talks about helping others out. We talk about the Absolute Write forums and the boards at Baen. Write, already! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #9 - Keeping Yourself Honest Quick podcast today since it’s morning and the kiddo gets up. I mention a Firefox plugin to keep time of your browsing… Write. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #9 - Keeping Yourself Honest Quick podcast today since it’s morning and the kiddo gets up. I mention a Firefox plugin to keep time of your browsing… Write. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #8 - Changes to Make The return of the dailies! Just for a week, mind you, but here’s the first one: finding changes to make and looking at long term priorities. I reference Media Artist Secrets. Write. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #38 - Balticon 40 Thoughts I return from Balticon! We discuss shady agents - follow the sites Writer Beware (and its blog), Making Light, and Miss Snark. Not to mention the 20 Worst Agents list. Fear of success! Eeek! Heinlein’s 5 Rules of Writing as told by Robert J. Sawyer. I’ll be at ConCarolinas this weekend. Blast, I forgot to thank Magnatune and Dr. Kuch [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Show #38 - Balticon 40 Thoughts I return from Balticon!We discuss shady agents - follow the sites Writer Beware (and its blog), Making Light, and Miss Snark. Not to mention the 20 Worst Agents list.Fear of success! Eeek!Heinlein's 5 Rules of Writing as told by Robert J. Sawyer.I'll be at ConCarolinas this weekend.Blast, I forgot to thank Magnatune and Dr. Kuch for the use of the music. Write.Listen | Subscribe Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW Special #7 - Neil Gaiman Interview Paul Fischer from the Balticon Podcast and I scored an interview with Neil Gaiman this past weekend, which was a thrill. Hope you enjoy it; new ISBW coming soon, provided the rest of the day can be as productive as this morning. Write. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #37 - The Dreaded Slump Crappy week. The Slump monster has attacked. I am inspired by Jonathan Coulton. This week’s topic: Slumps. Harry, Carrie and Garp Novel in a Year Overstuffed Dicebag Language Construction Kit I was on the Round Table, and I will be on Jack Mangan’s Deadpan Podcast. Balticon Balticon Balticon! Parsec Awards Write. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #36 - Tracy Hickman Interview Quick show notes: I am a regular columnist in another magazine! Interview with Tracy Hickman. Your emails, opinions on sequels. Write. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ISBW #27 – Listener Questions What a week! Tricks of the Podcasting Masters is done! Woot! So is Voices: New Media Fiction! We were mentioned on BoingBoing, Warren Ellis’ blog, and Wired.com Sponsored by Lulu.com Listener questions, scams, tenses, POV (I mention Good Omens) and agents We have a new motto: Be Informed! Congrats to James Patrick Kelly for his [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |