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We welcome back Krista Walsh. Krista is the author of the fantasy series, The Meratis Trilogy. She recently launched a new series, Cadis, and the first book Bloodlore in June. She also started a blog series and is experimenting with marketing strategies like giveaways. We thought it’d be great time to bring her back on and have her share what she has learned since February. We will pick her brain on author platform and how sales are going in the fantasy genre. Join us at 7 PST/10 EST to have your questions answered live on air.
Find Krista’s books here: Amazon
xgranville I’m ready to get this thing started!
How’s everyone doing?
writerwade as well as I can
James Thoenes writerwade sometimes maintaing is okay
Not first! (Trying to make that a thing.)
writerwade
eh. I had brown rice, quinoa, some beef and veggies for lunch. But
then I had heated chocolate cake with chocolate sauce and ice cream and
everything is looking better now 😀
10 seconds…
RChazzChute Wait for it…
BatmanErica writerwade I just had a popsicle – does that count? Now my tongue is all blue.
xgranville
xgranville RChazzChute Almost there…
RChazzChute xgranville it’s like a shy poo
RChazzChute xgranville Stay on target
BatmanErica RChazzChute xgranville Dammit Erica, you stepped on my punchline. That was good, though.
RChazzChute my bad. What was your punchline?
BatmanErica RChazzChute Same as yours essentially. Your wording was better, actually.
QUESTION: why is the London sky grey a lot and I don’t mean cloudy?
BatmanErica London, England or London, Ontario? Robert?
Hey Guys!
the original London
ReneeKelley Hiya!
ReneeKelley hello
BatmanErica Ah, Rome, then.
xgranville BatmanErica It’s grey in London, Ontario because of the pervasive sadness.
xgranville Londinium?
Best line ever: giant centipedes
BatmanErica To add atmosphere.
xgranville ReneeKelley What’s up X?
writerwade ReneeKelley Hello Wade.
I watched an anime yesterday which had a giant double headed centipede.
ReneeKelley xgranville Not much! Writing and listening to Doctor Who audios as per usual 🙂
Best misheard line ever: *insert name* is having tentacle difficulties
BatmanErica I listened to a Doctor Who audio where a giant centipede was the private investigator in an Agatha Christie-style murder mystery.
xgranville okay, that one wins.
BatmanErica Liam! He has a name dammit!
xgranville fixed
xgranville ReneeKelley I hear ya! I’m writing. Trying to reach my goal every day.
Give away all the things!
A Moose…lol That was to funny, Wade
Moose: The noble dorks of the animal kingdom.
A. The plural should be meese.
B. Paying for shipping is a really expensive problem, especially for Canadians.
ReneeKelley xgranville I missed my goal today. But I’ll have Dino Noir 2 done next week if it kills me.
X…lol you’re crazy
RChazzChute Dork: a whale’s penis.
Krista is the prettiest!
(Not that shipping is necessarily cheap for Americans, but all my readers are American so it’s a cross-border problem for me, as well.)
No idea why hangouts kicked me off. Internet connection is fine.
Where’s Liam? He can’t threaten to take my job if he’s not here!
michelleread I’m trying, hangouts is just saying no.
Liam Kingman michelleread Liam go to facebook
Liam Kingman I think Michell sabotaged you.
Correct. Dangit James don’t give away all my secrets.
michelleread he has tentacle difficulties
Maybe you didn’t put on your Thursday face.
michelleread It was too obvious. He goes off, you come on asking where he went. 1+1=3
I saw that! I mean…I didn’t see it. Because that’d be weird. But I heard.
Every time……nom nom. Can’t kick the quiet girl off the show, she’ll take you out!
michelleread excellent title for a tentacle erotica 😛
You and Xavier should cowrite
michelleread nom nom? Take you out and eat you? o.O
michelleread he’s not into the tentacles or the erotica
michelleread he put on Saturday’s by mistake?
michelleread Hey, Michelle what’s up.
michelleread why aren’t you on?
Jim Butcher has a forum and moderators
I set the pages that I follow to ‘notifications off’ and I still get stuff turning up in my feed. So I’ve started selecting ‘unfollow but stay signed up’
I posted a picture with words on it (a long quote of mine that some click-bait quotation site displayed). I thought it looked good, so I posted it on my facebook fanpage site thing. I only have 230 followers, and I did not boost the post. But I got like 200+ views. Normally, it’s nothing at all. Weird.
johnlmonk it could also be that if someone following you clicked like then it could be then displayed to their followers.
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X, cracks me up.
BatmanErica johnlmonk Ahhhh…fascinating. Well well 🙂 Never knew this.
johnlmonk it depends on their settings on if it shows it to their followers
Sure sure
I’m a walking spambot!
Hi, Wade! #buymybook
koob ym yub…
PatrickSzabo you forgot the pretty cover pic!
Liam has appeared
OMG hold your kiwi horses! I’m not on because I’m having a rough week and don’t want to be a blubbering fool on camera.
johnlmonk …dratsab uoY
michelleread *hugs*
“Buy my book or I’ll burn down your house!” It works but I hate going door to door. (Less effective on Twitter.)
James Thoenes seems windows 10 was the cause of his tentacle difficulties
BatmanErica PatrickSzabo It’s best seen in your mind.
RChazzChute It is August, after all. Krista and I pre-show were telling Wade about the Canadian tradition of burning one’s home down every August.
PatrickSzabo that bad, huh?
ReneeKelley What did I do? I already forgot.
BatmanErica James Thoenes Michell’s assassins must have failed.
Has Krista tried Bookbub?
xgranville RChazzChute Did he buy it?
RChazzChute xgranville yes I did 🙂
Bonjour
RChazzChute xgranville For a little too long haha. It was only when the meese came into the equation he doubted us.
BatmanErica Bookbub is op
BatmanErica PatrickSzabo It’s completely brilliant.
Carl Sinclair op?
BatmanErica Carl Sinclair overpowered
BatmanErica Carl Sinclair aka amazing
How slow does she walk? 5 min drive = 45 min walk?
PatrickSzabo I don’t believe you 😛
BatmanErica PatrickSzabo Just close your eyes and beliiiieeeeeve
A rare moose reference..
Carl Sinclair BatmanErica Hehe, thought you meant “overpriced” and I was all like “wuuuh?” Then I was all like, “oooh…yeah.”
Starbucks isn’t going to happy until there’s a Starbucks inside every Starbucks.
johnlmonk Carl Sinclair BatmanErica Not over priced. It’s super cheap for what you get off it.
Carl Sinclair You’ll have to listen back to the first 15 mins. Too many meese.
Carl Sinclair find sloth below
PatrickSzabo thankfully not that bad here 😛
PatrickSzabo Starbucks have awful awful coffee.
xgranville Carl Sinclair I love meeses to pieces.
Carl Sinclair their hot chocolates suck too >.<
PatrickSzabo I’ve got 2 Starbuck’s across from each other near me too.
Carl Sinclair PatrickSzabo All coffee is awful. But damn does it smell good.
PatrickSzabo Carl Sinclair Blasphemer
Questions for our guest, folks?
James Thoenes none nowhere near me 😛 They stick to the cities
Carl Sinclair PatrickSzabo totally agree! I’d be lynched here for saying that
Question 1: who are her literary inspirations/mentors?
Question 2: when Krista’s reading books (indie or trad), what pulls her out of the story?
All good if you don’t get to them. Just if Xavier messes up and everyone grows uncomfortable and wants to change the subject.
writerwade Carl Sinclair PatrickSzabo I used to deliver to Starbucks. Loathed it.
xgranville Does she harbour dreams of being signed to a big fantasy publisher, like Tor?
/slap
Xavier
/SLAP
Carl Sinclair PatrickSzabo Coffee is one of those acquired tastes. Life is too short for that.
BatmanErica James Thoenes It’s a suburb.
/SLAAAAAAAAAAP
Carl Sinclair I know.
xgranville Carl Sinclair : ( The third book is epixxx
I just watch the show now. I quit the books after book 4. NOTHING good happens. Ever. To anyone.
Carl Sinclair xgranville I agree, but it was too slow despite the badass cliffhangers.
xgranville LIKE TOR BOOKS
johnlmonk ….Thanks?
xgranville Carl Sinclair Epic fantasy is slow.
xgranville johnlmonk Hehe, just kidding 🙂
PatrickSzabo : (
I’d sign with Tor in a split second. Just because, Tor and that.
Carl Sinclair xgranville But it doesn’t have to be boring. The books just started boring me after hearing he 437th description of a meal.
PatrickSzabo Carl Sinclair xgranville : ( : ( : (
PatrickSzabo Carl Sinclair xgranville THANK YOU! Too much descriptions of grass and pudding.
Carl Sinclair PatrickSzabo I’m not wrong though. 😀
xgranville PatrickSzabo Carl Sinclair I was bored of that by the end of the first book. By book 4 I was skimming.
And back to writing sprint x 3 for the day in…
3…
2…
1…
Where’s Mat?
BatmanErica Who?
PatrickSzabo Carl Sinclair Boo!!! Love coffee and it’s good for you.
Carl Sinclair 50K Mat
writerwade PatrickSzabo Carl Sinclair I hate the taste but LOVE the smell. It’s weird.
H.G. Wells? xgranville
I love those books to Krista. I’m a huge fan of Bronte Sisters and Jane Austen.
James Thoenes xgranville Haha yes
PatrickSzabo writerwade it’s an addiction / habit to drink coffee. It’s not good for you.
James Thoenes xgranville I was thinking H.G. Wells and Oscar Wilde at the same time. It became Orson Wells.
I think we were all pushed to the edge of sanity 😛
Hello lovers
MrJohnRead John!!!
MrJohnRead Awwww yeah
BatmanErica I like to think it was well over the edge.
Whatup?!
xgranville any nibbles on your short stories?
And hello to you sir.
“Eight and thirteen?!”
BatmanErica xgranville Some. Some KU page reads, which was a new
MrJohnRead No avatar? SHAME!
Sorry, still finding myself ; )
MrJohnRead Where did you leave yourself?!
There’s no meme for it…..boooo
Here and there…
Ah yes, looked for that once
I wrote this week too! First time in ages!
2nd Best misheard quote ever: on your fake facebook…
I have to hit the sheets. Night all. Thanks for another good podcast.
You guys just reminded me that i have access to solitaire today 😛
Taco Bell and Long John Silver’s. Fish and Chips?
Good show guys! Thanks
***** Since I don’t have I-tunes
https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/hoaevent/AP36tYdfejKfBou30RzYKOrC3O_BMkTnc79Ya7LLsMsF7tqAMkSCXw
party!
James Thoenes stitcher
PatrickSzabo xgranville Carl Sinclair I can say I loved the first book. And really enjoyed the second. By the third book, despite how the plot was on such a higher scale, I found I couldn’t get behind how much filler there was.
ACK!! I can’t believe I missed the Podcast–Bad Cate! BAD CATE!!
Sorry, guys, I sort of crashed and burned last night. But I’m listening to it now, and enjoying it immensely. Next week, promise!