S12E3 – Choosing the Right Medium for Your Book
Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food. – Douglas Adams
Writing Roots
S12E2 – Building and Author Brand
In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible. – Seth Godin
S12E1 – Finding Your Target Audience
In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author. – John Locke
S11E9 – Best: Improving Your Writing to Achieve Your Best
Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy. – Robert Half
S11 Bonus Episode – Read: How to Read as a Writer
The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book. – Samuel Johnson
S11E8 – Plan: Basics of Planning a Story from Start to Finish
I don’t plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn’t be a closed system – it’s a quest. – Kurt Vonnegut
S11E7 – Time: Maintaining Momentum Through a Story
Making sure that geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers to get it right. – Michael Scott
S11E6 – Edit: Why Editing is Essential for the Business of Publishing
Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear. – Patricia Fuller
S11E5 – Stop: Making the Decision to Abandon or Pause a Story
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things because we’re curious. And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. – Walt Disney
S11E4 Extended – LGBT+: Further Discussion of Quality Representation of the LGBTQ+ Community in Writing
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. – Oscar Wilde