Posts Tagged ‘interview’

I Should Be Writing, Podcasts, Projects

[ISBW] What makes a writer ambitious? With Chikodili Emelumadu!

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ISBW S19 Ep34

I got to talk to award-winning Nigerian author Chikodili Emelumadu about her new book Dazzling, and we wander all sorts of directions, including into ambition, what makes her write, and advice for new writers!

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I Should Be Writing, Podcasts, Projects

[ISBW] Book launch party with Travis Baldree!

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ISBW S19 Ep30

Turns out that the stress of dealing with November has made me sit on this production. 🙁 But Travis Baldree and I hung out online and talked about our books that launched this month, Chaos Terminal and Bookshops and Bonedust.
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[ISBW] NaNoWriMo Prep with Valerie Valdes!

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ISBW S19 Ep29

NaNoWriMowhere Peace is lost book cover, angelic profile with wings and a sheild starts tomorrow! Are you participating? Are you ready? Author, editor, and long time NaNoWriMo municipal liaison Valerie Valdes joins us to talk about her new projects and how to tackle NaNoWriMo!

Don’t forget, Chaos Terminal comes out in ONE WEEK.

Transcript

Valerie Valdes 10:08:
…I wonder if there’s like enough NaNoWriMo people at this point who are published writers that it’s kind of lost some of that sheen of the amateur. Somehow I don’t know. But I definitely haven’t heard that as much as I feel like I also would occasionally see that kind of grump on social media. But yeah, I think that, that more and more writers, the benefit of NaNoWriMo, even if you’re a professional writer, and you write 100%, of the time all year round, is that you’re doing this together with other people who are also doing this thing. And even professional writers, a lot of them don’t write 50,000 words in a month, a lot of times, it’s a much slower pace, and it’s spread out over a longer period of time. 

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I Should Be Writing, Podcasts, Projects

[ISBW] Meta Cast and Wole Talabi Interview

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ISBW S19 Ep28

If you’re a creator, when someone wants to give you money, you say, “yes, please!”

I’m taking a break from podcasting to finish my book. Doing some housekeeping and then presenting an excellent interview with Wole Talabi, author of Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon!

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Wole Talabi: 19:50- …And I’ve been to the British Museum several times. The last time I was there, I saw a few items in that I really wanted to, like, take with me, including the brass head of Obalufon, which is a real object. … I felt the urge to conduct a heist. So I just decided to write it into the novel.

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Ditch Diggers, Podcasts, Projects, Transcript

[DD] Data Wonking with Podmother Gail Carriger

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Ep 8: Data Wonking with Podmother Gail Carriger

Ditch Diggers episode 8, “Data Wonking with Podmother Gail Carriger”  is brought to you in large part by my patrons, who received an early version of this episode. You can join our Fabulist community with a pledge on Patreon or Substack! You can get the entire archive and bonus episodes!

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Streamed live, July 10, 2023
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S9 Ep8
Horny chaotic god energy is what we’re all about in today’s Ditch Diggers, “Data Wonking with Podmother Gail Carriger” where Gail joins us to talk about sifting through data in self publishing. It is some heady stuff, and we discuss tying your self worth to “bad” data and more!

Gail Carriger: 30:30 (ish): My sense of failure will kick in when a reader says I love Gail Carriger. And I didn’t know she had a new book out, that’s when I feel like I failed at my job. I am an author, that’s the one job I had is to make sure that people who liked me can read my new books, right? That’s it.

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[ISvBW] Revisiting the Michael A. Stackpole Interview

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Episode 4: Revisiting the Michael A. Stackpole Interview

Old I Should Be Writing episodes are new again with classic podcasts from 2005! If you wonder what I Should Be Writing sounded like back in the old days, when podcasting was new and before I was published, look no farther! I’m releasing most of my old episodes with commentary, and maybe some new interviews with old friends. The shows will also be released with transcriptions for free, but Patreon and Substack supporters will get the episodes first, and annotated transcripts too!

I Should’ve Been Writing S1 Ep4

Episode four, and my very first interview! I meet with Mike at Dragoncon and use my tiny digital recorder to get the audio, which I’ve tried to clean up.

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Ditch Diggers, Podcasts, Projects, Transcript

[DD] Author/Agent Seth Fishman Answers Our Questions

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Streamed live, June 19, 2023
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S9 Ep7

Mur’s agent Seth Fishman joins us to take your questions about agents and children’s publishing, and we fill up an hour FAST.

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[ISBW] Can YOU Write a Pile of Garbage?

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Episode 25: Can You Write a Pile of Garbage?

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S19 Ep25
I got to interview game designer turned YA romance writer James L. Sutter in this episode, and it was a blast. So much good stuff here! I also talk about my latest anger at ADHD and what I’m reading. 

From the transcript:

James L. Sutter 34:10: And so it was hugely enlightening for me to see, sort of these authors were very talented and established, going through the same outline process, you know, struggling with their pitches, struggling with characters and realizing that like, oh, every great work of art, like starts out as a pile of garbage. And like, I can make a pile of garbage.

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What I’m Reading: Darkhearts, of course, but also These Prisoning Hills and People You Meet on Vacation. Links below!

Mentioned: The Artist’s Way podcast (Apple link)

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[ISBW] Promises Authors Make // Arley Sorg Interview

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ISBW Logo, blue and purple, illustrated tiny mur in foreground with giant fountain pen for arley sorg interview“Promises Authors Make // Arley Sorg Interview” is brought to you in large part by by my patrons, who received an early, expanded version of this episode. You can join our Fabulist community with a pledge on Patreon as low as $3 a month!

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S19 Ep23
Thinky bits about reading and pacing and migraines. I’ll be clever next week, promise. But what I’m really excited about is the interview with Arley Sorg, editor, writer, and now a new agent!

We have a transcript! Support the Patreon if you’d like to see the annotated transcripts!

New Agent in Town: Arley Sorg!

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June 1, 2023 | Season 19 Ep 23 | murverse.com
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[ISBW] The Importance of Interviewing Agents // Chana Porter Interview

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S19 Ep22
I’m back doing solo episodes with an interview at the end. In this episode I talk about the importance of you interviewing any agent who’s interested in you, and the disasters that can happen if you don’t. Then I talk to Chana Porter, then discuss the books I’m reading.

News, and Let’s Talk Agent Stuff

Guest: Chana Porter

  • Chana Porter
  • All books mentioned in this podcast are below Time War, Legends and Lattes, Babel, Marrying In, Death Watch, and of course, The Thick and the Lean, links below (affiliate link with Bookshop where applicable)


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And remember, we can’t do this without you. Thanks for your support.
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and files hosted by Libsyn (affiliate link). Get archives of the show via Patreon.
May 24, 2023 | Season 19 Ep 22 | murverse.com
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