11 - Letting The Good Times Roll, with Nicholas Eames

04/14/23 • 48 min

Publishing Rodeo: The Good, The Bad, and the Bloody Ugly

Today we're joined by Nicholas Eames, author of cult favorite KINGS OF THE WYLD to discuss his publishing experience in a wide-ranging interview. Eames is a debut success story, and we hope you find his conversation as funny, uplifting, and engaging as we did (a welcome change after last week's grim deconstruction!) Other topics addressed: -- the creative process of working with a trad editor-- life as a "slow" writer-- how doing other creative projects can keep the writing passion going (this one was a listener question!)-- and a few bonus questions from our discord, with some hints from Nick about the next and future book.

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In celebration of making it to 10 episodes, Scott & Sunyi answer some of the host-specific and/or personal questions that listeners have submitted. This is not really an official episode, just a fun, rambly, probably-too-opinionated extra for them who are interested.

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12 - The Finances of a Full-Time Author, with Andrea Stewart

Today we're joined by Andrea Stewart, author of the acclaimed Drowning Empire Trilogy via Orbit. In addition to discussing her long journey to publication and her experience of debuting mid-Covid, Andrea also goes into the practicalities of managing your author finances. We look at how income works out year-by-year at this stage of publishing, talk frankly about the amount of money authors need to survive (versus what they often get), and discuss basic aspects of financial planning: taxes, savings, forming corporations, and so on. Sunyi and Scott also offer some thoughts on the dicey conundrum of whether or not to rely on your partner for financial stability, and the pitfalls of such situations.