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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Should I Order the Steak or the Salad?
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 […]
Read moreGet Published Episode 25 – Interview with Erik Buchanan
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 […]
Read moreGalaxyBillies – Promo
GalaxyBillies is the story of five humans who are kidnapped by a semi-sentient starship. If these humans were scientists or engineers it might turn out to be an adventure. Unfortunately, the humans in question hail from the Appalachian mountains and are a little… raw. What could have been adventure turns into something else.
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