My Associate Producer and evil alter-ego, Jeffrey Hite staged yet another takeover on today’s show. He decide we needed to talk about message in stories and invited Christiana Ellis to the show. It was a fun discussion but it felt so odd not controlling the conversation. And before we begin the show, I would like to remind you that if you have any questions or comments, you can send them to podcast@michellplested.net. If I don’t know the answer to your question, I will find the person best suited to answer it and play it on the show. Show Notes 00:00 — Opening – Get Published Episode 149 – Story Messages Discussion Everything has to start somewhere and this is the start of “Get […]
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Get Published Episode 73 – Jeremy Lassen & Nightshade Books
As I talked about last episode, I went to World Fantasy Convention hoping to line up some guests for the show. The first, with Michael Stackpole was a great conversation but there was a lot of background noise that I wasn’t able to clean up. My second interview also suffers from background noise, this time from people in the area. I kept trying to find different and better places to do the interviews but everywhere I went there were people. Today’s interview is with Jeremy Lassen, Editor-in-Chief at Nightshade books. I met Jeremy once before and I was very happy to get some of his time for the interview. I also have another segment of JRMurdock’s “Unorthodox Writing Tips”. I […]
Read moreGet Published Episode 72 – Michael Stackpole Talks Digital Media
When I went to World Fantasy Convention in October, one of my goals was to line up some guests for the show. I didn’t really expect to get too many in person interviews because the convention is pretty busy and everyone is trying to get as much in as they can. I did manage two in person interviews. The first, which I’m going to share with you today, is with Michael Stackpole. Mike is one of the big e-vangelists in the industry for self e-publishing. He has a ton of great things to say. Unfortunately, there weren’t many quiet places to comfortably talk at. In this case, we had some construction across the street so you get a lot of […]
Read moreGalaxyBillies – Episode 5
Before you ask, no, I didn’t purposely make you wait extra long for this episode because of all the cliffhangers in the last one. Honest. To do so would make me an overly evil bastard and, as my grandmother might have told you, I am nothing, if not angelic and considerate of everyone’s feelings. Now don’t you feel better knowing that? 🙂 In this episode we finally find out what has become of Jim Bob and we learn a bit more about Bobby John. We also have a new character show up to make things interesting. A couple things As many of you know, the auction for “The Boom Effect” took place on February 27, 2010 to raise money for […]
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