I’ve been blogging a long time, but that doesn’t mean I know what I’m doing when it comes to my website. Yes, I’m a technical guy, but I’m not an Internet technical guy. That means I’m still not getting the most bang for my buck out of this website. I have been increasing the number of people who actually access my site on a daily/weekly/monthly basis, but are they real people or bots? Are they real people or just aggregation sites? Are they real people who actually want to know about my next book/podcast/appearance? These are all questions I need to ask myself. If I were to judge my success by the number of people who are subscribed to this […]
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Making Things Easier
The other day it was pointed out to me that I haven’t done a very good job making my website and podcasts available for subscription. To that end, I spent some time this morning setting up the feeds and subscription buttons properly. You can now, more easily subscribe to Get Published, GalaxyBillies AND the entire Irreverent Muse feed. I hope you find this useful. -Michell
Read moreGet Published Episode 106 – J Daniel Sawyer and Creating Audio Books
On today’s show I have J Daniel Sawyer, a writer, producer, podcaster and voice-over artist. His list of fiction publications, both long and short-form are approaching fifty and he has been known to talk about contracts and copyright on occasion. Dan has recently released a book on creating audiobooks and we talk about that and why the budding author should care about their books in audio. I also talk about style guides. Why they are important and why I find them useful. That’s today’s episode. I hope you enjoy it. Show Notes 00:00 — Opening – Get Published Episode 106 – J Daniel Sawyer and Creating Audio Books Everything has to start somewhere and this is the start of “Get Published” […]
Read moreGet Published Episode 93 – Putting Experiences into Your Writing
I’ve been thinking a lot lately, about how my own experiences have affected my writing. I have looked at several of my better stories and I have been able to pick out things I’ve learned, people I have known and even different events in my life. That is not to say I’ve recorded those things in the stories, but used the experiences to provide flavour to the writing. Definitely not word for word, but more in how they would cause my characters to act and the story to develop. So, I decided it would be fun to have a few people join me to discuss this. As often happens, I was only able to line up the schedule with a […]
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