Michael and Michael delve into a discussion about publishing issues with traditional venues, POD venues, and the pitfalls in between that authors may fall into… all explained by Michael M’s personal experiences with his publishing adventures. They also cover other alternate outlets for storytelling that are cropping up thanks to new technologies that exist and that may not yet exist.
July 2007 is “Cover to Cover” Double Feature Month! That’s right, you’re getting two interviews in each show. This is what happens when there are too many authors to talk to and not enough weeks in the year for a weekly show.
Interview: Michael and Summer talk with Emma Bull and Will Shetterly, husband and wife Tucson transplants as they drop by the studio at the beginning of their joint book tour for their respective new novels Territory and Gospel of the Knife.
Gospel of the Knife is a followup to Will’s acclaimed story Dogland, and Territory is a paranormal spin on the events leading up to and about the events around the gunfight at the OK Corral. Will tells us about the problems and distractions he ran into doing research for this “freaky Biblical history”, and Emma tells us about the attraction of writing about the Old West, and how easy it is to throw in supernatural and paranormal “secret histories” for many of the tall tales and legends from that time.
Find the next stop on their tour, and if you can, drop by and say Hi!
Listener Feedback: What were the books on your must read lists the past year? And keep submitting your opinions on Lord of the Rings compared to The Fionavar Tapestry.
Submitting Listener comments: If you have any suggestions or comments, please let us know!
Link: QWERTY Ranch: Emma Bull and Will Shetterly
Promo: Feedback: A Hero’s Calling
Promo: Variant Frequencies
Holy Cow, what a pair of guests! I’ve been a Fan – of both – from way back. Thank you!
The Lord of the Rings does not compare to the Fionavar Tapestry. Not.
LOTR was spreading and diffuse and ugliness was usually veiled. JRRT told a good story, from a distance.
GGK’s books were brutal (in some places) and immediate and sharp. These books grabbed me and made me read them.
emma is great! i cant wait for this book…although i havent read her husband(throw fruit at me)…
I always wondered about the dynamic when writers are married…it seems to me that most writer’s spouses usually are their full-time support staff(and little acknowledged by the outside world). But it must be really hard if both partners are in their own ‘worlds’ and could use that support as well. That would make for some interesting behind the scenes type stuff…
oh and I dont think the revolution in printing a book at the store will happen for at least twenty more years…and then it will be a novelty for people that still read printed form in first world countries. I am beginning to think that this expected step in book retail will be skipped completely as e-reading tools continue to develope and become cheaper tech on its own. The true future market for printed authors is maintaining a viable living when type becomes easier to read and thus traded freely between users. In this future, i think you will see alot of famous authors working with corporations to pay the bills in a hyper-ad copy position.
Mike and Mike,
You asked for comments about the first part of the show… as someone who has been less than thrilled with some of the direction of the show lately, I just want to say that was an wonderful, excellent, and fascinating discussion of publishing and the state of the publishing buisness. Well done, excellent, and please, bring on more stuff like this!