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Should I Order the Steak or the Salad?

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Have you ever gone out to a nice restaurant, looked at the menu and seen the most delectable dish that calls your name? You look at it, decide it’s too much to eat, move on and, invariably, come back to it and, somehow, despite your best intentions to behave and not overeat you order it anyway? You have? Me too. That’s actually what my writing and podcasting workload has felt like lately. There’s all these great things to work on, but if I try to do them all I’ll be overextending myself. I’ve got ‘Get Published’, ‘GalaxyBillies’, my YA novel rewrite, my short fiction. They all take time and I want to do them up right. Then there’s preparing for […]

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Get Published Episode 25 – Interview with Erik Buchanan

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Erik Buchanan is a former actor/fight director turned professional writer. He has a lot of interesting things to say about writing and his journey as a published author. His second book, “Cold Magics” is coming out in April. We also have a very good writing question. I hope you enjoy the episode. -Michell Show Notes 00:00 — Opening – Get Published, Episode 25 – Interview with author Erik Buchanan Everything has to start somewhere and this is the start of “Get Published” 0:14 — Introduction – Get Published, Episode 25 – Interview with author Erik Buchanan Welcome to the show. 00:56 — Promos: GalaxyBillies https://michellplested.net 02:44 — Feedback – Get Published, Episode 25 – Interview with author Erik Buchanan (continued) Should you put […]

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Beware of Foot in Mouth Disease

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Controversy was ignited (perhaps even exploded) yesterday when the podcasting community, and more specifically the podiobooks.com community, caught wind of an article written for a magazine that essentially said that only books that have no chance of publication ever go onto podiobooks.com and real authors wouldn’t ever consider posting stuff on it. Um… words really failed me when I read that. It turns out that the author of the article has never listened to any of the books/stories found on Podiobooks.com nor did she do any research to confirm/deny some of the things she wrote. You know, little things like “putting your books up on the site would never, ever result in a sale to a publisher”. As you might […]

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