I love writing, reading and listening to serial stories. Sometimes those stories are individual episodes of a bigger story and sometimes they are chapters of a story. Either way, they are fun for me. Don’t believe me? Check out my own serialized stories of Boyscouts of the Apocalypse and GalaxyBillies. Both are going up on Wattpad in case you are interested. So, when I heard that Val Ford, or VG Ford as she is known by for her writing, was coming out with a new, serialized Advent story, I knew we had to talk. This episode, you will be able to hear us talk about her stories and serializing fiction. I also wanted to let you know that there isn’t […]
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Get Published Episode 121 – Horror Comes to Get Published
It should come as no surprise to anyone that Halloween is just around the corner. That being the case, I decided it might be fun to hear about a genre I haven’t talked about much on the show. That genre…wait for it, is horror. I know. You are probably shocked that I would have a horror writer on the show just before All Hallow’s Eve. Well, prepare to be even more shocked because I not only have one horror writer, I have three. Okay, four if I count myself. On today’s episode I have Paul E Cooley, Scott Roche and Jake Bible as my guests in a discussion about horror and horror writing. We had a great time and I […]
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I’ve been doing some experimenting with my writing the past while. Not the mad scientist experimenting (that happened when Jeff Hite and I brought out A Method to the Madness: A Guide to the Super Evil), but trying out new things to see what might work out for me. In this case, the experimenting has been around marketing and promotion, two things I tend to be very bad at for my own work. I can talk up other people and their work until the cows come home, but I always seem to have difficulty talking myself up. But I digress. Lately I have been reaching out more to agencies that can shelve my books (the latest was the local public […]
Read moreGet Published Episode 119 – Ben Coleman, Veteran and Writer
Writers come from all walks of life. Some are businessmen, some are farmers, others teachers or, like today’s guest, Navy veterans. Where you come from and what your working life is like absolutely shapes your writing as Ben Coleman talks about today. We talk about what he is doing to make his writing relevant and to help monetize it. I also talk about making your characters work for their success. Something I didn’t do enough of in early drafts of my novel, Mik Murdoch, Boy Superhero. I talk about one of the major lessons I learned while editing that manuscript for print. I also wanted to share some of my successes. I have recently written and sold two short stories […]
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