LDK 72 - Exploring Splickety Publishing Group

10/12/17 • 48 min

We have Andrew Winch on this week, who is the executive editor with Splickety Publishing group where he's worked with a whole host of authors including Jerry B. Jenkins, Tosca Lee, and Robert Liparulo. He's a full time physical therapist when he's not running around with Ben Wolf.

In this episode:

Google is a wonderful thing. ;)
Who is Ben Wolflichman?
Wrangling flaming pigs
Gothic horror / steampunk
Weird stuff submitted to Splickety (hint: did you guess frog erotica?)
Andrew's love of creepy stuff
Don't edit your voice out of your story!!!
Is writing flash fiction a perfectionist's game?
What 3 tips would Andrew give to improve your writing?
Why you should read women's fiction.
You have to write a great story.
Supporting characters Andrew wants to know more about!

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In this episode:

Google is a wonderful thing. ;)
Who is Ben Wolflichman?
Wrangling flaming pigs
Gothic horror / steampunk
Weird stuff submitted to Splickety (hint: did you guess frog erotica?)
Andrew's love of creepy stuff
Don't edit your voice out of your story!!!
Is writing flash fiction a perfectionist's game?
What 3 tips would Andrew give to improve your writing?
Why you should read women's fiction.
You have to write a great story.
Supporting characters Andrew wants to know more about!

For additional show notes, visit LasersDragonsAndKeyboards.com

Previous Episode

LDK 71 - The Magic of Lorehaven

In this episode, we sit down with E. Stephen Burnett, who, along with Ben Wolf (see episodes 10 & 11), is the co-founder of the forthcoming e-magazine, Lorehaven.

Stephen is a former print journalist who now helps run SpeculativeFaith.com and other faith-based websites that focus on fiction--including Lorehaven. He hails from Texas.

In this episode:

What Lorehaven is--and what it won't be.
What is a flash review?
Stephen's favorite version of Star Trek.
Lorehaven's goal to create book clubs.
The broader content goals of Lorehaven.
Who should everyone be reading?
What is Stephen watching? Wonder Woman? Anime?

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Next Episode

LDK 73 - Coiled with H.L. Burke

This week we have hopeless romantic, H.L. (Heidi) Burke on the show. She's totally obsessed with dragons, but we know a few people who also are, so we won't hold it against her.

In episode 73:

We discuss the Eros & Psyche myth again (see Laura VAB's recent episode for more E&P!) as H.L.'s book, Coiled, is based on the myth.
Heidi's desire to go "aww" while writing.
How we have to release our books to the world and they become a part of the world instead of ours.
Myths are out of copyright—we can plagiarize them!
Can snakes get sea sick?
Star Trek rants!
Re-reading on Goodreads
Myers Briggs analysis of characters

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