Edit: title of this was wrong initially… this is episode 22.
Gwenn brings you an interview with Brandon Sanderson, author of Mistborn and Elantris
Visit his site at brandonsanderson.com.
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Finally my interview with Richard Lowry, author of Marines in the Garden of Eden
Visit his site at www.marinesinthegardenofeden.com.
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Links mentioned:
Library Thing
Jamie Ford
Tricks on Dialogue from the OSC Writing Class
Orson Scott Card’s site
OSC’s Intergalactic Medicine Show Sci-Fi Magazine
Promo: Holly Lisle
Mentioned: I Should Be Writing
Update on my writing… like you actually care.
Some info on publishing (eg. the selling your books and what you need to know to sell short stories, what to expect, what to write, etc).
At the end I play the song Untitled Pretention Pontificated by a Passive Voice by Alex Wilson who is attending Clarion Writer’s Workshop
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Just a quick thought or two from me on Card’s thoughts on Steven King. Still working on converting class notes into show notes. Forgot to mention the voicemail number in the show.
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Listen to Episode 19
Here’s the final installment of my interview with Orson Scott Card. I probably failed in my attempt to not be too much of a fanboy when asking him about his work. There IS some good stuff here on the structure of a novel and some examples of how he thinks he didn’t get it right in some of his books.
This runs only about 10 minutes as I was eager to move on to writing questions.
This is the second part of the Orson Scott Card interview. This was actually the first part I recorded with OSC and myself PLUS the added bonus of Ed Schubert who is the new editor of InterGalactic Medicine Show The audio quality with both of them talking wasn’t quite what I expected/wanted, so the sound has been tweaked to get you as much content as possible. This is about 35 minutes or so and the largest section of the interview. I hope you enjoy listening at least half as much as I did recording it.
OK, I got an hour or so of interview with OSC at his class this weekend. I’m breaking it up into three shows, which I’ll be putting up over the next few days. The next two should have better sound quality than this one as I’ll have time to edit them more, but I wanted to get something up to you guys while it was fresh and new.
Please visit Orson Scott Card’s website at www.hatrack.com and his on-line sci-fi magazine InterGlactic Medicine Show
Quick re-visit of Kaavya Viswanathan. Is the publisher wasting a lot of free press?
Year of writing: My “get it done every day” process involves writing before bed, and turning off the internal editor which apparently takes me a little too close to where I dream as I find myself dozing off near the end (the last few sentences end up being goofy and random).
I’m going to the OSC Writing Class, look me up if you’re going too.
Books Mentioned:
From Where You Dream - 0802142575
Mission Octagon - 0975390767
Marines in the Garden of Eden - 0425209881
Tricks of the Podcasting Masters - 0789735741
Podcast mentioned:
Tee Morris’s “Survival Guide to Writing Fantasy”
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Listen to Episode 15
Well, I finally got something recorded for you. I’m still messing with mics and such, and playing with the new podcast settings in GarageBand, so things on the sound quality front may still be a bit dodgy. BUT we’ve got a podcast, some rambling on originality and how hard it can be to have your own voice. This was prompted by the recent controversy over “How Opal Mehta God Kissed, God Wild, and Got a Life” by Kaavya Viswanathan AND my own struggle with a story that runs off into somebody else’s plot.
Also mentioned is “The Kissy Bits” podcast.
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Listen to Episode 14
I blather on about writing books you may want to read, play a couple of promos, and blather some more. Oh, and I mention the new Wordtrip.com Spring Poetry Contest 06
Promos: I Should Be Writing Podcast and The Survival Guide to Writing Fantasy Podcast
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Listen to Episode 13