We are back for episode 23 after the thanksgiving break. We hope you enjoyed your holiday, and are ready for another hour packed full of indie publishing news discussion.
We are finally joined by our new co-host, Trish McCallan this week. We will introduce her on the show, but we are very excited to have her on board.
This weeks show is hosted for the first time by Wade Finnegan. The news stories follow.
Let’s argue about genre one more time. Should you stick to one genre or can you build a career by switching based off of your whim?
Amazon launches traditional imprint devoted to short form fiction. It’s called StoryFront.
Record Holiday Sales for Amazon’s Kindle Store.
Amazon reveals that 25% of all weekly Kindle sales are from self-published authors. There are rumors that at least 10% of those sales can be attributed to titles on which David Wright has worked.
Google Play gives big play to Romance/Eroitca authors.
Complaining is not a strategy. You’ve got to read this article where Charlie Rose interviews Jeff Bezos.
Kobo talks about the self-publishing take down.
Amazon is changing the EFT Threshold.
New online retailer for authors. Get paid via PayPal.
We hope you will join us all tomorrow night live.
First comment. I apparently rock.
Damn you Buddy and your perfect features…
The video feed is now posted. If you refresh you should see it on the post.
Heya Buddy… and Scott
Eric Guindon …Eric…
shroudbetween Eric Guindon Guindon….
shroudbetween Eric Guindon Eric and Scott….and Sinclair….
Newman…
Hello all of you shiny, happy people!
jlward …Ward
jlward Ward just put R.E.M. in my head….
Howdy
Welcome, Trish! Wade is rocking it with the hosting gig so far.
Grinch is in the house!
sryeager I love that Carl now calls you ‘Yeager Bomb.’
Trish! Trish! Trish!
When Wade hosts… everyone has a lower third. Boom.
That’s because Carl was yelling at everyone 2 minutes before we went live.
jlward … and that’s different how? was he sober?
Is he ever sober? I’m not sure anyone knows the answer to that.
nicholaskahler jlward I’m not sure I’ve ever seen him sober.
jlward Point goes to Ward. Well played.
I want Crissy to talk more so we can see more shots of her in her cute hat.
nicholaskahler jlward What’s sober?
BuddyGott Here, here
Eight different pen names baby!
Dude. Do I need to get a hat?
Do you know your genre? What do you do to understand and keep with the trends?
RemarkableReads That’s….remarkable!
Look at Trish being courteous. She hasn’t developed that cutthroat roundtable spirit.
LOL.
Carl Sinclair I do this crazy thing called “reading.”
nicholaskahler Carl Sinclair I write humor, so I research by watching movies like Animal House over and over again.
nicholaskahler Carl Sinclair I fixate on the top 100 list and seethe
Long live generic and interchangable stories
and podcasts!
NOTE TO JOHN WARD: I’ve watched three seasons of Doctor Who in less than two weeks.
BuddyGott What about a note to me?
Carl, don’t forget Salma Hayek’s great dance in that movie. Oh yeah….
BuddyGott I’ll never forget that Buddy
Carl Sinclair BuddyGott I send you a lot of notes. I’m trying now to be John’s new best friend.
BuddyGott I better get to read a teenage amish vampire book in the Q1 of 2014, Buddy…. or you can shove your Whovian ways right up your butter churn.
nicholaskahler BuddyGott Thanks, Nick. You will. No shoving required.
werewolf cyborg christmas love triangle
Buddy, you’re always my friend. I mean… I never get invited to be on your show or anything, but that’s okay.
RemarkableReads Write that shit.
Thanks, Crissy!
Congratulations! Your life has been made better.
When are we going to the nine page Fiction Formula Gold Rush pamphlet guys?
jlward Your invite is in the mail with the Christmas card I sent you.
RemarkableReads Writing it right now.
Carl Sinclair RemarkableReads look at carl multi tasking. don’t forget to get cracking on that Dino Dick Christmas Holiday Erotica bundle
Carl Sinclair RemarkableReads I don’t have time for that.
C’mon guys. NaNoWriMo is 50k words because that is considered a minimum length for a novel
Hi everyone
Is it really though? I believe that most traditional publishers want at least 70k (and prefer 80k) for a novel unless it’s YA. I think the NANO folk just picked 50k arbitrarily.
David Anson Hi David =)
Hey David.
shroudbetween David Anson Hey David
jlward I think there’s a more ‘standard length’ for published work… but 50k is a novel. Barely, but it is.
jlward Words to write in a single month? I don’t 50k was all that arbitrary.
Comment more. You’re making Wade look bad.
I know Carl doesn’t like to self promote, but if you aren’t listening to the #amwriting podcast, go listen to Carl compliment himself. It’s classic.
RemarkableReads wait… you mean he’s not your favorite fantasy author?
RemarkableReads I compliment myself to my kids, the podcast is just an extension of that.
Carl Sinclair RemarkableReads We’re all Carl’s Kids.
nicholaskahler RemarkableReads I’m everyone’s fav. Sanderson even said so. (Note: I’m not saying which Sanderson)
Carl Sinclair nicholaskahler RemarkableReads Sam Sanderson. Custodian at Carl’s office.
Who’s your daddy?
BuddyGott Carl Sinclair nicholaskahler RemarkableReads That’s my new pen name Sander Branderson
Speaking of indies in the Top 100….Write. Publish. Repeat. cracked the Top 100 today. Woo hoo!
BuddyGott Which would make it their best selling book to date?
nicholaskahler BuddyGott Indeed it would.
nicholaskahler BuddyGott I would guess so.
Self-pubbing WASN’T very big, even just a couple years ago. It’s grown incredibly quickly. Shit’s changing.
I think Yesterday’s Gone has been as high as Write. Publish. Repeat. before. Today, WPR hit number 93. I think they’ve hit that before with YG… if I’m remembering correctly.
nicholaskahleror were you talking about the Realms and Sands titles?
Carl Sinclair: The Nostradamus of the indie world.
BuddyGott I taught him everything he knew.
Yeah.. really going out on a limb and betting on a multi-national multi-billion dollar corporation.
Carl Sinclair BuddyGott He had to see the future to learn from Carl so that he could see the future… so that he could learn from Carl. So which came first? The Carl or the egg?
Carl Sinclair nicholaskahler BuddyGott damn i love irony
shroudbetween Carl Sinclair BuddyGott Scott, damn, you’re deep, man….
It was a very good STP today. One of the best shows yet.
Maybe I would watch STP if they ever bothered to broadcast at a consistent time week to week.
crissymoss “Soooo… that’s a maaaaybe?”
A bit late to this discussion, but:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_count#In_fiction
jlward Write. Publish. Repeat is now at #75. It’s got to be their highest one.
Carl has a shredded volleyball in his office with a bloody handprint that he calls Bezos.
nicholaskahler I can understand it being hard to do at the same time every week. I just hope they’re able to go back to weekly episodes.
#amwriting!
BuddyGott nicholaskahler Not that I’m saying anything… but aren’t they both ‘full-time’ authors? How hard can it be?
DIDN’T READ IT?!
Awesome having Trish on the show now!
shroudbetween I can’t even read, it’s not a requirement.
Yes, it is.
The germans think the book is about _actual_ seals. One star.
I used to date a German woman who was into romantic suspense. She used to make me wear a fedora and a trench coat and then we’d….well….back to the show….
I’m sorry to our german viewers. You are hilarious.
BuddyGott Club baby seals? You monster…
BuddyGott The camera would pan to the fireplace?
TMI, Buddy. 😉
MelissaLummis Yeah, probably. P.S. – Welcome to SPRT, Melissa!
BuddyGott MelissaLummis Hi Melissa!
Damn it….
*waves* hi!
I have a Buddy’s shirtless autobiography cover as my screen saver.
“I can’t believe it’s not Buddy”
Okay…I’m on the commercial. Will shoot it this weekend.
Afterpart invites below
Tell me here if you want in the afterparty.
Carl Sinclair I’m in!
BuddyGott http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE
jlward I do. kevinmichael3gmail.com
jlward I’m down. Scott Richards – since you ALWAYS FORGET!
Vote now to make Wade the perma-host of this train wreck.
Hey! Change your user name.
Invites coming out now.
nicholaskahler thanks. You’re a nice guy, I don’t care what Carl says.
Carl Sinclair compared to you everyone looks bad.
BuddyGott thanks Budster! I know I can count on you.
writerwade Carl Sinclair True
nicholaskahler BuddyGott No, we’ve reached Top 20, I believe, with Z 2134. And also Yesterday’s Gone.
thedavidwwright nicholaskahler BuddyGott I think they were talking about Realm & Sands, not Collective Inkwell.
writerwade nicholaskahler Wade did a great job, I vote we keep him as perma-host too. (and not just because that way I won’t have to do it.) 🙂
nicholaskahler Yes! Exactly! We need an “I can’t believe it’s not Buddy,” commercial.
shroudbetween BuddyGott I think the camera would pan to the dinner table and the butter dish full of Parkay. . .
jlward Thanks Buddy and John- it’s Awesome being on the show. 🙂
nicholaskahler hmmmm- maybe that has to do with that ocean view on the cover with the seals frolicking in the distance.
BuddyGott Agreed, really enjoyed it. 🙂
Carl Sinclair I’m at a loss how you guys can comment and pay attention to the show’s discussion. I can to do one or the other, but not both. Perhaps I need a class on multi-tasking. . .
nicholaskahler According to the NaNo website they admit that 50K is NOT a novel, they say it’s just a number that was achievable to most people, and since they needed to pick a number–they picked 50K. But they say that most 50K Nano projects will not be complete at the end of Nov.
Eh, give it a few weeks. You’ll be doing the same thing in no time.
nicholaskahler I was just lulling them into a false sense of security before I started talking all over everyone . . . . 🙂
RemarkableReads nicholaskahler Carl Sinclair hahahhahahhahah- that is such a successful strategy.
nicholaskahler What! What! What!
BuddyGott Thanks Buddy and yes, Wayne rocked the hosting.
BuddyGott Always Buddy- that’s why we picked you do the commercial selling SPRT’s new THE MEN OF INDIE PUBLISHING beefcake calendar…. <beg>
BuddyGott Oh and I’m not joking about the calendar- just ask Carl, he’s already got a photo shoot lined up. . . .
Trish McCallan writerwade nicholaskahler The petition has been seconded and past by majority vote.