Babbling Writers:
Writers discuss what it’s like to podcast about the subject that is nearest and dearest to them- fiction writing.
J.C. Hutchins, Tee Morris, Scott Sigler, Mur Lafferty, P G. Holyfield, Philippa Ballantine, Michael Stackpole

I’m working on the next part of Guardians and still seeking a few voice actors for some characters coming up. Things are going well with Holly’s Ebook and I’m on track to deliver to her before DragonCon in TWO WEEKS!!

Things are going a little slow with the “Thinking Sideways” workshop from Holly Lisle. Partly because I’m dividing my time between projects and the class. Currently I’m trying to get in touch with my Muse, so if you see her please let her know I’m patiently waiting for her to drop back by. It’s very much worth the time and money. A lot of it is helpful for life, not just writing. So I’m really digging it. I’m also going to use it to refine Guardians.

I’m including my entry for Mur’s Stories from the Third Wave in prep for her release of Playing For Keeps on the 25th. This was the first full-cast Stories of the Third Wave.  Love Lines producer, editor, and concept created by Kimi Alexandre. All the participants created their own characters and their own lines for Love Lines.

* Dora Holly – Kimi Alexandre
* Jason Block – Jason Block
* Amora – Ivy Reisner
* Bruno – Chad Henderson
* Shelly – Paulette Jaxton
* Julie – Pamela Templin
* Kim – Comic Book Goddess

Love Lines – A story from the Third Wave

As a side note: Currently PodPress doesn’t work with WordPress 2.6 so if you simply click on “listen” you will be able to listen to the podcast in your defaul media player on your computer. Right clicking will allow you to download it.

SO…..last night I did two amazing interviews back to back cause I’m insane like that. The first was with PG Holyfield, followed up with Mur Lafferty and then I got them to both get on the line for a couple mins of spontaneous chat. I had a great time and both of them were increadibly nice as well as seriously helpful. Right now I’ve managed to slate so many interviews that my plan is to get the interviews in the can and work on them one at a time. This way the people I’ve asked for interviews don’t think I’ve forgotten them. I don’t want to flood the feed with just interviews so I may space them out…but that just means I’ll need to get off my butt and either write (which I plan to do) or discuss something interesting in between.

I’ve changed the sidebar a bit. I took down the polls because not many people were taking them. I think I’ll repost them in blog posts and give them a category for anyone who comes to the site. You’re comments, questions, and suggestions are really important to me and very valuable so please feel free to give your opinion if you find the time. Speaking of polls, I would love to know how many people read the blog as well as listen to the podcast. I’m trying to decide if I should make seperate feeds for both or just keep it in one feed so that info would be helpful. Feel free to just leave a quick comment here if you’d like to answer.

Also changed on the sidebar is the “recent comments” section. This will help you see if there are threads going on to any of the posts you might like to voice an opinion on. I also added a donation button to the side. I do not expect donations. But I will welcome any help keeping the site/podcast running.

In voice acting news, I sent in an audition and recieved an email asking me to audition for another character as well, which was way cool. And lastly, I just found out last night that I will speaking at 11am at PodcampNYC 2.0 on “Podcasting for Authors”. So um…wish me luck! I’ll be taking my ipod and mic and recording it so you’ll all get to hear how it goes.

Mentioned in the show: (in no particular order)

Sherrilyn Kenyon – Author of the Dark Hunter’s Series
DragonCon�
Metamor City – Chris Lester
Mur Lafferty
Scott Sigler
JC Hutchins
PG Holyfield
Rachel Vincent

I set up an interview with Mur Lafferty and I have to send her the questions and arrange a date for the podcast interview.

I’ve also done a lot of re-thinking of my book. I think, sadly, a decent amount of the work already written may have to be “scrapped”/shelved but I think it’ll be a better book for what I’ve got planned. I wrote up a basic character summery of the major players minus one or two and I’ve been going over in my head in small pieces how I want the story to go. I’ll reveal more about it later.

Still working on the template design as well. Now here are is a link to a great article I found on writing at Lifehack.org. It’s about how to get your writing started.