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Interviews with writers. 20 Questions and a discussion about how why and whatever, screenwriters, novelists, scriptwriters, bloggers, journalists, diarists, anyone that gets creative with words
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CleanWriters20Q Podcast 15 – Philippa Ballantine | Fantasy Writer Philippa Ballantine is a writer of fantasy novels from New Zealand and you can find her work on her Website. This is quite a long interview as we were having such a good chat and she had so much to say about lots of details do to with being an author. I am listening to her novel Chasing the Bard now and enjoying the story Seeing as I was born in Stratford upon avon I feel I have a tenuous - very tenuous link to Shakespeare himself. So I like the way that Shakespeare is woven into the story as a fictional character. Philippa reads the story well and it is entertaining. You can get it by going to Podiobooks She is going down the traditional route of getting published alongside the new and exciting podcasting of novels and electronic Books to use on the likes of the Kindle and the iPad. Although from NZ Philipa is in the U.S. for most of this year to promote her work at conventions and signings. In the interview she also tells us about a course she is giving in fantasy writing. On Saturday 19th February, Philippa Ballantine will be at Borderlands Books reading from the as yet not released Spectyr, and signing books. Afterwards will probably find a local pub and kick back. Philippa says "I hope some of you can make it out. Borderlands is a great store, and my favourite place to shop in San Francisco." About Philippa Ballantine Born in Wellington, New Zealand, Philippa has always had her head in a book. For this she blames her father who thought Lord of the Rings was suitable bedtime reading for an eight year old. At the age of thirteen she began writing fantasy stories for herself. She first earned a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Political Science and then a Bachelor of Applied Science in Library and Information Science. So soon enough she found herself working in the magical world of libraries where she stayed for over a decade. Her first professional sale was in 1997, and since then she has gone on to produce mostly novel length fiction. In 2006 she became New Zealand’s first podcast novelist, and she has voiced and producedWeaver’s Web, Chasing the Bard, Weather Child and Digital Magic as podiobooks. Her podcasts have been short listed for the Parsec Awards, and won a Sir Julius Vogel award. Philippa is the author of the Books of the Order series with Ace- the first of which Geist was released in October 2010. Spectyr (June 2011), Wrayth (2012) and Harbinger are to follow. She is also the co-author of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences series with Tee Morris. Phoenix Rising will debut in May 2011. When not writing or podcasting, Philippa loves reading, gardening, and whenever possible traveling. | 8/2/11 | Gratis | Ver en iTunes |
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CleanWriters20Q Podcast 14 Stacey Keith | Stacey is the famous author of the book 'Drive Your Woman Wild in Bed' tells me how she skived off from school so she could write her first novel. I was flabbergasted to hear that she was only 19 when you wrote her self help sex book and described some of the difficulties in getting the book published. It is totally amazing that she was able to do that and not get ripped off by the published and agents, it seems it wasn't easy though. Stacey is of the old school in as much as she writes long hand with pen and paper. I find that totally weird seeing as it is so easy to use a computer and the writing has to go on a computer at some point anyway. It must be really difficult to do any editing when it is all on paper. But the important thing is that you get the ideas and the story out of the head and made real. I suppose my problem is that I am such a tech head geek. When asked about where she saw her writing going in the next five years Stacey was enthusiastic about the possibility if having control of the publishing, perhaps through self-publishing. Especially seeing as the publishing houses now expect authors to get out and promote their own work to a large extent also. Stacey Keith has been on more than twenty talk shows, including "Montel Williams," "Geraldo Rivera," "Real Personal with Bob Berkowitz," "Sally Jesse Raphael," and "Joan Rivers." In addition to hundreds of radio interviews, Stacey has lectured throughout the United States and the University of Toronto. I really enjoyed talking to her about her writing and I would love to see her move to a second stage of her writing career now that her children are getting grown up. In her blog she has plenty to say and also performs a agony aunt role with answering peoples' questions about various topics. During the interview I mention that I have recently self published and information eBook, and I did it though Lulu.com. I was stunned how easy it was to set it up. I exported the eBook out of Scrivener into the correct ePub format. I got an ISBN from Lulu.com and it will be going live on the iBookStore and I think the Amazon Kindle store too. Delighted that it was possible and the next thing for me to do is to promote the book, I think that is certainly the bigger job. | 20/12/10 | Gratis | Ver en iTunes |
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CleanWriters 20Q Podcast 13 John Oehler | John Oehler Thriller writer My wife was sitting on the bus coming back home from Girona and in the next seat was a guy talking to a friend about his writing and his stories. I was fortunate that she spoke to the guy and asked him if he would be interested in appearing on a podcast for writers. Well the long and short of it is that John Oehler and I worked out a time to record a conversation about writing. Social networking and the writer We discussed the use of social networking for writers and how to build an audience or a fan base by talking to people on line. Drip feeding bit of story to the public and getting them hooked on your stories. Seeing as the Independent film making community are doing great with the use of Facebook and Twitter. Used Ladies underwear John and I talked about all sorts of thing to do with writing and among them was the story that was on NCIS recently on TV which had used ladies underwear as the subject matter. I was a bit miffed because I had written a story / sketch based on the very same subject. I'd heard about vending machines with used underwear in from a guy that had visited Japan. I was amused by what he had told us about and I started into a story involving knickers. We were talking about cultural differences, east and west. Anyway my story is more comedy sketch than murder mystery. This came up in conversation and also tied in with what John had to say about perfumes.Perfume Aphrodesia - The latest story that John is working on is about the top student in the world’s best perfume school creating a phenomenal new scent – an aphrodisiac. But a counterfeiter’s knock-off starts killing people, and efforts to find the culprit involve a mystery that goes back to the Queen of Sheba. We talked about how the idea came to him and about things smelly, which brought us back to ladies knickers again. Had to have a bit of a laugh about that. I think it is a great idea and I am looking forward to reading the story. Character, scene based or Plot How do you start your stories? Do you start with a character and do you build a back story behind that character, perhaps even letting the character tell you where the story is going? You never know what your players in your creation will do and sometimes the story goes off in a direction that is dictated you never would have expected, when they get a life of their own. Writers workflow John tells me that he works with his writing in the morning and will do more in the afternoon. While he is writing John will also edit as he goes and because of that he doesn't get too many words out daily. Some people like to get into a flow of words and writers creativity in the zone. Then on the morning after doing the editing. It really depends on what works for you and helps you get the story out in front of your readers and fans. | 8/11/10 | Gratis | Ver en iTunes |
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CleanKurt Sasso Full interview for Writers20Q Artists20Q | Here is the full interview of Karl Sasso, You can see the show not for this podcast in the Video20Q category on Answer20Q. Full Show notes Kurt has been podcasting since 2008 and his topic of interest and expertise is Web Comics He has interviewed people like David Reddick who created the Legend of Bill and Star Trek comics Phil Foglio and many other comic artists. This version of the podcast is the short version concentrating on the video end of things. There is another podcast that is quite a bit longer in which Kurt talks more about the worlrd of comics. The reason that Kurt is being featured on the Video20Q podcast is because he told me some of hos plans to extend his podcast with video and is going to do the lone gun video interviews at a comic convention taking place in Chicago. Well not quite lone gun as he will have a friend helping him out with the video. He has an inexpensive JVC camera and will be interviewing artists at the show. Kurt likes the manga and anime influence on comics is a manga fan, comics such as Dragon Ball but grew up with the Marvel style also We also talk a bit about comic influenced movies such as, Sin City – Frank Miller Watchmen – which I have not seen yet but Kurt reckons is too long, dry and painful to watch. Kick ass Movie – story based on comics Moving from tape to a hard drive camera bought a JVC for 600 dollar with a 80 gb HD He is working with a friend called mike to record the interviews at the comic conventions Carrie Fisher of Star Wars fame will be at the event also. Kurt is an Audacity user for the editing of audio, he tells me that he loves the Mac and may think of getting one for when he needs to do the video editing. Kurt has been known to make really long podcasts – up to 3 or 4 hours, he was using Talkshoe for the podcsasting but the quality was bad – still uses it for the hosting of the audio podcasts. He was or is a World of Warcraft player and that got him into podcasting since 2008 has done 97 episodes, starting with WebComicPlanet.com Here are a few links for those amongst you interested in the world of comics. The Drunken Fools – created by Antoine Gagnon, this is the comic that I’m helping co-write based on my character submission Stubby the guardian angel skunk. Web Comic Planet run by Byron Wilkins it’s a combination collective site run by fellow webcomic creators and links through a database over 2200 webcomic sites. This site also has a batch of tutorials and processes for up and coming webcomic authors and artists from veterans in their fields. 1977 The Comic – is Byron Wilkins actual webcomic site. About 1977 in Chicago loosely based on his life. Danielle Corsetto, wonderful person and very active in the community Penny Arcade These two are pretty much the godfathers of Webcomics. They didn’t start the community but they have been the most consistent and successful at it. Eldon Cowgur created this and I’ll let you decide what you think about Astray 3. Devils Panties – Jeannie Breeden consistently updates every single day without fail for many many years. Johnny Saturn created by Scott Story This comic could easily rival DC and Marvel | 21/4/10 | Gratis | Ver en iTunes |
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CleanWriters20Q Podcast 10 J.C. Hutchins | Seventh Son Author. JC. Hutchins... | 23/11/09 | Gratis | Ver en iTunes |
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CleanWriters20Q Podcast 9 – David Hewson | David Hewson Author of Semana Santa and the Nic Costa series of books. | 7/11/09 | Gratis | Ver en iTunes |
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CleanScreenwriter and Film maker Clive Davies-Frayne | Clive has an interesting approach to writing, particularly with his choice of tools to do the job. He told me he use Excel to start with to outline the characters, moving on to using scrivener and then on to Final Draft, which is the industry standard for presenting the movie when makng the film. Final Draft gives the timings for the movie apparently. The Filmutopia company website, where people can see clips from Clives' movies and there is also a Filmutopia blog, The blog is published with a new post every Sunday morning - European time, which I then discuss with readers on twitter. Here's a little bit of blurb about about Filmutopia : Clive Davies-Frayne is a screenwriter and producer, whose company Filmutopia Ltd develops and produces feature films for cinema. So far, Clive has written and directed half a dozen short films, including one which won a UK Royal Television Society award.. and also two feature films. The first "Punx," never completed due to funding issues... the second "No Place" was made in HD with a $750,000 budget was completed in 2005, but has spent the last four years mired in distribution issues... Filmutopia was founded after "No Place" was completed, when Clive decided to walk away from his previous production company and a nine year business partnership, in order to change dramatically the way his movies were made, in particular the business strategies adopted. Clive admits "Everything I ever learned about how to make movies, I learned by first getting it completely wrong" Filmutopia's latest movie project, "Smoke" is a comedy and is currently in the development phase... the projected budget, €6M. "After making movies the indie way for years and seeing little in return for my efforts, I decided to look at different way to make, finance, market and distribute movies. My passions are movies and the movie business... I don't see the two as contradictions. All I want to do is entertain people and make a profit in the process." Please Leave a comment on this post about the Podcast | 4/11/09 | Gratis | Ver en iTunes |
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CleanWriters20Q Podcast Karen Sperling | What was so great about talking with Karen was that she is into so many things, like myself she can’t stop herself being interested in a variety of interests. She has published a book called Painting for Photographers which is available now as an eBook and will be going into print very shortly. It is not her first book either, as karen has written a number of manuals for the Application Painter or PainterX. Karen also is an artist and amazingly like the same styles of art as myself too. Both of us really like the German expresionists, the surrealist and we both have an appreciation for the talent of Picasso. You really must have a look at her paintings at her web site. She is conveying a dream world as art and with them being in black and white it reminds me of the work by Giger the artist that created the creature in the movie Alien. Karen is having an exhibition this month of her art work and if you live near enough you are invited to go and have a look. Karen also writes screen plays for movies and has a script for a romantic comedy, where does she find the time to do all these things? The podcast is supported by sponsors GoToMeeting Have a look at the free 30 day trial Highly Toxic Gallery Godo 6749 San Fernando Rd.#C Glendale, CA 91201 Opening Night: September 25, 2009 7 pm to midnight - Please join us! http://gallerygodo.net/ Show Sponsor is GoDaddy – I use GoDaddy for all my domains and hosting. I use the deluxe hosting for $7.99 a month and have a number of my domains on the same hosting. It is a huge bargain where other hosting companies will let you only have one domain or perhaps two on a hosting and probably charge more for it too. Godaddy is for me the best place to get domains and I am happy to recommend it to you. If you put in the code POD146 when you get to the check out you will get 10% discount off your order. I tested that out and it works. | 11/9/09 | Gratis | Ver en iTunes |
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CleanWriters20Q Podcast 6 Chris Graue | Chris Graue has a novel on Twitter and has a film production web site called 51 productions. Chris likes to write collaboratively and has made some TV and film scripts. He tells me that he though it would be a silly thing to do, to put up a novel on Twitter but says that it has improved his writing due to the constraints of getting it into 140 characters. The other thing is that it is hard to find the start of the novel, and harder the longer it gets, because Twitter puts up the last tweet at the top of the pile and you have to read from the oldest page to the newest and also from top to bottom. Comedy is an area that Chris like working with and wants to work towards making TV and film scripts that get produced for public consumption, perhaps with him acting and directing the final work too. Chris must be a bit shy because this is the picture he gave me of himself. I wonder why he is wearing crown, or is that just a funny punk hairstyle? The Sponsor of the show is GoDaddy who I use for my domains and web hosting. It is a good place to get your own space online and the only thing that bugs me is the number of steps you have to take to get to the check out. Easy enough though to ignore all the extras and just get what you have on your order, a domain name and or some web hosting. I have numerous domains bought at GoDaddy and all hosted on my hosting account which I have been using for at least 3 years. If you put in the code POD146 when you get to the checkout you will get a 10% discount on your order. Chris also has a MySpace page called Naronicdisress | 2/9/09 | Gratis | Ver en iTunes |
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CleanWriters20Q Podcast 5 Matthew Wayne Selznick | Matthew is the author of Brave Men Run and Hazy Days and Cloudy Nights. Sci Fi fantasy type fiction but with a grounding in the real world. I listened to the podcast of the book Brave Men Run which I downloaded off iTunes and enjoyed the story. I got addicted to it. You know what it is like when you can't put down a good book - same here but with it being read to me by the author. I had a great chat with Matthew and we discussed the writing as well as the audio podcast end of things. Matthew highly recommends the giving away of the book as a free podcast in order to build an audience and a brand. he has been able to get a publishing deal through this type of promoting because the publishing company will see that part of their work is done if an author already has a following that will probably buy his or her books. I recommend that you support Matthew by having a look at Cloudy Days and Hazy Nights web site. You can become a member and get additional material to what we will find in the free podcast copy of the story. The free podcast will also be about a month behind the members only version. So if you are patient ?? | 12/8/09 | Gratis | Ver en iTunes |
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CleanWriters20Q Podcast 4 Abbie Clarke | I am so pleased that I chatted with Abbie Clarke about writing. She is just getting started as a writer and tells me that when she gets home from work will write for a couple of hours for the novel she is working on. I persuaded her to get a blog set up to start building her brand and get known as a writer. Abbies' Blog. I found it refreshing talking to a young person that has creativity in mind and a desire to produce something for public consumption. I think that a writer has to develop a thick skin though because there will be lots of rejection notices from publishing house before it finally get taken and a book gets published. But if you stick in there and keep working at it then it will work out eventually. In the interview I talk about the audiobook route that people like Matthew Wayne Selznick, Scott Sigler and JC Hutchins have taken. Seems to work well for them, as on the back of their podcasted books given for free they have developed a following and have got sales of printed materials and book deals. I am tempted to go that route myself, though I am not sure what sort of story would suit my Brummie accent. Enjoy the podcast with the interview of Abbie Clarke. | 16/7/09 | Gratis | Ver en iTunes |
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CleanWriters20Q Podcast 3 Scrivener | I got talking to Keith Blount the developer of Scrivener, the excellent writers software for the Mac. He tells me that he is a wanna be writer and a coder but not necessarily in that order. Used to be a teacher in primary school and gave up the high life to be a code monkey. Talking about Scrivener The idea behind Scrivener is that you write the long novel in chunks and you can use Scrivener to organise the whole thing. there are loads of ways of looking at the work. You can just concentrate on the small bit you are working on. You can see all of the small bits in an outline mode or you can see them on a corkboard view. Lots more information from Keith about Scrivener in the podcast. He changed to Mac and was looking for a decent laptop and was blown away by the iBook and the retail store experience helped him to make the decision to buy. I have a number of questions for Keith in the interview about how he uses his Mac and you can listen to the podcast to get more. Win a copy of Scrivener The question to answer is Is there something spooky in the Text Menu [contact-form 1 "Contact form 1"] | 30/6/09 | Gratis | Ver en iTunes |
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CleanWriters20Q Podcast 02 – Yi Shun Lai | This is the first of the Writers 20 Questions Podcasts with a set of questions more suited to asking writers. It follows on from the first podcast posted in here though which was the one where I am talking with Mike Smith, as Yi Shun Lai is a friend of his. Yi Shun Lai has worked as a writer / editor for 15 years and now is working for herself as in freelance and having the time to spend on a novel of her own. Seems that writers have to do the work and save money so that they can then have the opportunity to write for themselves. I learned a few things during our chat and she was lovely to chat with. I do like friendly people, life is to short to have to deal with grumpy devils. Yi Shun has worked on a book called 100 Days Of Monsters (with DVD) sounds like fun. Started off as a web project but has moved on to print. Isn't always good to have the paper in your hands to read. At The Examiner Yi Shun writes about out door activities and recreation. I don't think it is possible to kayak in Central Park but check out the site to find out what Yi Shun says you can do there. We talked about writers critique groups and getting past writers block. Of course there was some discussion about the craft of writing but more about editors and agents. | 10/6/09 | Gratis | Ver en iTunes |
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CleanWriters20Q Podcast 1 SplatEric | Mike has a MacBookPro as his main computer and has a Mac Mini connected to the TV. Mike is a writer and had taken the brave step of giving up a job in order to make his way in the world into being a writer. Has been using the mac for about 3 years before the writing he was a coder. Connected to the computer he goes for wired mighty mouse the nipple scroll button is mentioned regards getting it cleaned. He rubbed the nipple on paper where I have blown into the gap around the edge of the button the get the gunk out, and has a brother HL5240 printer. I guessed at Mike using Scrivener and was 100% right. Well he is a writer and it seems that it was coded by a writer that could get what he needed from the word processor route. Mike says it is a cracking bit of software. likes the chaptering and versioning - templates for various things - make it easy to collate it and output the final work, and the price was good too. For script writing you might look at Celtx a free app and free is always good. Mike has an extensive collection of iPods and it may have had a slight effect on the buying of an Apple computer. Mike is a Firefox person and once in a while will use Safari, he likes the plug ins with Firefox, like the debug tools and sage plugin Adium is mentioned by Mike because it connects to so many social networks, lately getting more integration added to it. Mike has recently changed to Tweetie for his twittering. Mike as had a play with iLife '09 apps but is not a big user because of doing movies in Final Cut Pro 3.0. Found that the faces feature in iPhoto just takes time from him and his writing. One of his writing projects is ‘Out of Office’ a web drama and has other things in the pipeline. We talk about how level the playing field is for aspiring writers to be able to get work out in front of an audience online. There is content coming out from the top down, as in the BBC’s and other institutions and also from the grass roots level of people like the young woman in the North east of England who has put out videos on YouTube showing people how to put on make up. Good content will always find an audience. Mike acknowledges the steepness of the learning curve with Final Cut Pro 3.0 and says he learns something new each time he has some editing to do. Mike like features in Quicksilver and come in there as a favourite application especially when operating with iTunes. Fav for the iPhone is iExpenseit as a way to control what he spends, seeing as he needs to build an income with the writing. The film Minority Reportwhere Tom Cruise is moving stuff around on a huge screen is something that would be in a wish list of computing equipment. Minority Report (Widescreen Edition) Sceptics Guide to the Universe podcast. gets a mentions and I tell him about JC Hutchins podcasted novel called 7th Son. Go now to watch the web drama that is ‘Out of Office’ and have a look at Mike’s personal web site. Screenwipe a TV program about writers ScreenFlow an application that I love using to make screencasts. Edits video as well | 26/5/09 | Gratis | Ver en iTunes |
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