Happy Holidays everyone. I hope you are all having a wonderful festive season with your loved ones and thank you for tuning in. I have a very special episode for you today. Gail Carriger, New York Times best selling author of the Parasol Protectorate books, is my guest and she is an absolute delight. I had the good fortune to meet Gail at Balticon and I’ve wanted her on the show ever since. I also have a book review for those of you looking for some holiday reading.Thanks for listening. Show Notes 00:00 — Opening – Get Published Episode 47 – Happy Holidays with Gail Carriger Everything has to start somewhere and this is the start of “Get Published” 00:14 […]
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Some Salient Points
I was listening to Mur Lafferty’s “I Should Be Writing” podcast this morning. Specifically episode 171. I love Mur’s podcast because she is so honest about her own writing journey and because a lot of things she talks about are things I’m going through too. In this particular episode she talked about two things that really resonated with me. The first was the sense of entitlement some people seem to have, specifically entitlement about getting published. There were times where I’ve felt that sense of jealousy towards people who “seem” to have hit the jackpot and been published the first time out. Usually what happens is I do additional research and discover that these people have years and YEARS of […]
Read moreDealing with Disappointment
If you are a writer, you have to get used to disappointment. Maybe your story doesn’t go the way you want it. Maybe it doesn’t go at all. Or perhaps, worst of all, you write something you love only to have it rejected. And then rejected some more. I had thought I was ready to deal with any disappointment. After all, I’ve been rejected numerous times only to rise again and submit some more. That was until yesterday when I received a very polite, “Thanks, but no thanks” letter from a perspective employer. I’ve had those before, but never after investing so much of my time and energy. I actually applied in May of this year. Then in August, I […]
Read moreGet Published Episode 45 – The Writing Adventures of J Daniel Sawyer
J Daniel Sawyer is a gifted writer, podcaster and all around interesting fellow. I was lucky enough to meet him at Balticon this year during my first pilgrimage and I’ve wanted to get him on the show ever since. Well, the waiting is over. I talked to Dan about writing, marketing and all sorts of other good things and today I share that discussion with you. You may hear some things that surprise you but isn’t that what this show is all about? 🙂 In the feedback section of the show, I talk about my NaNoWriMo journey this year. Some successes, some incompletes and even a couple disappointments. Thanks for listening. Show Notes 00:00 — Opening – Get Published Episode […]
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