As you probably know, I’ve been working towards the goal of getting published for several years now. Last year I had some success with my short stories, managing to get three of them accepted by various e-magazines and digital sites. That success only encouraged me to work harder to get my books in front of publishers to try and get them published as well. Then, in October, I received my first book contract for my YA Superhero novel, “Mik Murdoch, Boy Superhero”. The book is the first in what I expect to be a six-book series. I was (and still am) very excited about this development, but, as I have said many, many times, publishing is slow. I know where […]
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Crossing the Streams
I’ve blogged and podcast and Tweeted many times about networking and the importance of reaching out to meet new people. It is always very rewarding to meet new people and build those online relationships. It is even more cool (for me, anyway) when someone reaches out to me. For example, a few weeks back, K_A_Dewberry contacted me and told me she had found my podcast (Get Published) recently and had downloaded all the episodes and listened to them. She said she loved the show. Hearing that someone likes my podcast is very gratifying. Learning that they downloaded all fifty-four (at the time, I think) episodes and had done a marathon listen to them was outright stunning. I mean, the episodes […]
Read moreGet Published Episode 57 – A Talk with New Horror Master, James Melzer
Hello Everyone and welcome to Get Published. I’m very excited to have today’s guest on the show. James Melzer is the award-winning author of Escape: A Zombie Chronicles novel which is coming to print in 2012 from Simon & Schuster and Permuted Press. I’ve been meaning to have James on the show almost since the show began, but it never quite happened. That oversight has been taken care of in this episode. I also received a question from @K_A_Dewberry on Twitter that I discuss in the “Tips and Typos” section. It’s a question I get a lot. Namely, “when should I start building my platform”. I also wanted to give you all an update on my book’s progress. As you […]
Read moreNot Enough Hours in the Day
One of the things that always gets my creative juices flowing is the chance to meet and talk with other creative types, especially writers. That being said, you can imagine how much fun I had last night talking to the good folks at Flying Island Press on the Galley Table. This wasn’t my first time on the show, but it was the first time my co-writer and collaborator JR Murdock and I were on a show together. It is also the first time my alter-ego (JAHite on Twitter) and I appeared on the show at the same time. Let me begin by explaining the inside joke of JAHite and alter-ego. I made a comment a few weeks ago that Jeff […]
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