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 […]
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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 moreGet Published, Episode 6 – The 12-Year Overnight Success, an Interview with Philippa Ballantine
Hello everyone. I hope you are actually getting spring (or fall) weather wherever you are. I’m not sure what the weather is here. It should be spring, but the snow still insists on falling (damn snow!). This is an interview I have been looking forward to. I absolutely loved Pip’s book ‘Digital Magic’ and I’ve wanted to talk to her for quite a while. It is a fun interview which I really think comes through. Enjoy. Show Notes 00:00 — Opening – Get Published, Episode 6 Everything has to start somewhere and this is the start of “Get Published” 0:14 — Introduction – Show #6: The 12-Year Overnight Success, an Interview with Philippa Ballantine Philippa Ballantine (AKA Pip) recently signed […]
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