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This week, on Thursday June 26th the Self-Publishing Roundtable welcomes contemporary romance author Mimi Strong. The show will air live at 6 pm PST/9pm EST and the video will be embedded into the show page just prior to going live.
After spending the past few years building the highly successful Mimi Strong Brand of smart, funny, contemporary romances Mimi was ready for a break. She also had a hankering to try her hand at Urban Fantasy/Sci-fi. Enter the Ghost Hacker Series written under the pen name T. Paulin.
We’ll be talking to Mimi today about the pros and cons of transitioning from one genre to another, how her fans reacted to the new series and what (if anything) she would have done differently during her Indie journey. If you have any questions for Mimi, leave them in the comments and we’ll ask them on air.
Should be a fun and interesting show. See you all in 90 minutes.
Get ready for a party folks.
kevinmichael3 Jay did say he would be here 😛
Here’s to hoping there aren’t any Google+ issues *crosses fingers*
Here 🙂
Sorry everyone, we’re having tech difficulties and we’ve lost our guest. O-O
Just a few more minutes. Hang in there.
We’re having trouble with the website comments too, so if they go down for you, hop over to the You Tube show and comment there. We’ll be checking both.
ooops some google+ thingies happening.
You had to say something
Mimi Strong aka Dalya Moon aka T Paulin We found you!
Demelza Carlton maybe go get a snack so it will start :p
Wow, crazy things are going on right now. LOL Mimi is on the site, but we can’t get her in the hangout.
Mimi Strong aka Dalya Moon aka T Paulin It’s my fault. I cursed us all by crossing my fingers against such an eventuality. I’ll go commit hari kari now…
Patience is a virtue
Okay, we’re going to reboot the hangout completely and see if Mimi can get in that way. I think it means we’ll have to re-emb the video feed again, so don’t be surprised if it disappears for a bit.
If this hasn’t been the most riveting half hour of your life, I don’t know what to tell you. Just wait until the show actually starts.
kevinmichael3 We’ll wait 🙂
Time to mix drinks. What does everyone want? Carl Sinclair is picking up the tab 😛
Good evening all.
Hello PatrickStemp just saw you over yonder youtube 😛
Okay, everyone refresh the post as there is now a new video embed. The other hangout was busted and we couldn’t get Mimi in.
BatmanErica Carl Sinclair I’ll take a juice box. Frozen.
The correct video should say SPRT 052 v 2
BatmanErica Carl Sinclair I don’t know if I should trust Aussie drinks…one can’t be sure what’s in them–which makes them THAT much more fun!
CateMorgan Carl Sinclair I don’t trust Aussie drinks either. Try New Zealand drinks instead 😛
Carl Sinclair Can’t find it.
michelleread Carl Sinclair https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2k57K807Ek
michelleread Carl Sinclair Refresh the page, worked for me
michelleread Carl Sinclair Just refresh this page.
BatmanErica CateMorgan Carl Sinclair I mean, they call coffee a “long black” over there…which means something entirely different this side of the pond!
michelleread BatmanErica Carl Sinclair The cold never bothered me anyway.
BatmanErica PatrickStemp Took three busses to get here but I made it! Travel on the internet is not for the weak or the weary!
CateMorgan that’s for nothing added coffee. Flat white tend to be more common (milk added, little to no froth)
Carl Sinclair Boo to you all. Hold on.
PatrickStemp sounds like traveling around London O.o
BatmanErica CateMorgan Step away from the awful joke built into that, and no one gets hurt…
PatrickStemp michelleread Carl Sinclair Nope. Can you link to it?
michelleread boo to me? I provided a link!
BatmanErica michelleread Oh! I didn’t see it.
CateMorgan would that be mosquito bite boobs? 😛
michelleread I feel ignored 🙁
BatmanErica michelleread Do it again!! I can’t see it. I feel so not cool.
BatmanErica PatrickStemp When people mention London I never really know if they mean the fake one, or the one I live in, in Ontario.
michelleread here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2k57K807Ek
BatmanErica CateMorgan You just made me gigglesnort perfectly good vodka. Ow ow ow.
michelleread PatrickStemp Carl Sinclair It should be just embedded into the post. Do you see the video at the top?
PatrickStemp the original one in England 😛
CateMorgan it is my aim in life to get people to spit-take. I made Carl Sinclair spit his coffee over his computer the other night when I told him the name of the book I’ve just started writing 😛
So…after party now?
PatrickStemp hah!
BatmanErica CateMorgan Carl Sinclair I would have paid good money to see that…
PatrickStemp LOL I’m already mixing drinks!
Carl Sinclair I see it…though it’s still on standby
Carl Sinclair michelleread PatrickStemp No. I’m going home.
Mimi Strong aka Dalya Moon aka T Paulin PatrickStemp It’s coming. We may do a chat based interview with Mimi in a minute!
CateMorgan Carl Sinclair I had been getting a lot of LOLs for it, didn’t expect a spitting 😛
Mimi Strong aka Dalya Moon aka T Paulin PatrickStemp lol
And….that didn’t work. We’re trying something else. Hang in there, Mimi and everyone else. arggggg
Carl Sinclair Mimi Strong aka Dalya Moon aka T Paulin PatrickStemp I’m doing a small show for my cat!
Trish McCallan are we going to all end up in IRC?
While we try our hardest to get this working.
Let’s play some Q&A
What’s your perfect Sunday?
What’s new everyone?
Carl Sinclair Watching SPRT
Carl Sinclair Boom!
Carl Sinclair brunch and games at our fave cafe 🙂
writerwade Hey Wade. Like, tell me all the stuff.
writerwade I’ve started writing a new book. What are you working on atm?
Carl Sinclair Reading on the porch with the neighbor’s cat on my lap. With coffee. Ooh! And a few lines. Maybe some heroin if it’s raining.
Carl Sinclair This is Florida, so…fantasy novel, lawn chair, rum drinks until I fall over into the sand.
PatrickStemp as long as you aren’t snorting heroines…although what would that entail…probably some weird kind of erotica…
Mimi Strong aka Dalya Moon aka T Paulin we’ve tried again to send you another invite to both of your emails. Check em.
BatmanErica PatrickStemp Oo! Oo! I know! Cannibalism erotica! *beams*
CateMorgan PatrickStemp the next big fad!
2000 words yesterday. camping this weekend.
BatmanErica CateMorgan PatrickStemp “50 Spices of Grey”? o.O
writerwade whenever I see ‘camping’ mentioned online I think of people camping at spawning points in games…
CateMorgan PatrickStemp 50 Species of Jean Grey 😛
Where’s Xavier?
michelleread don’t know, but Jay said he’d be late. If he’s lucky he’ll arrive when we get started and think the delay was just for him 😛
45 minutes in and we’ve only got 79 comments. That’s a bit slack on our part 😛
BatmanErica michelleread hehehehe yeah! special.
*drums fingers on tabletop* The one time I manage to show up for the live feed and it’s late…
Woot! The third time was the charm. We have Mimi now, and we’re redoing the you-tube link again for the THIRD time. You’ll need to refresh your screen.
Well it’s working now… you have to refresh AGAIN! But the third video is going to be the key.
*opens a can of JOOSE* *Thunderclap* ….. The show can start now that I’m here. Go ahead, Carl.
http://youtu.be/5CHygiovJD8
BatmanErica baha!
michelleread I called it 😛
michelleread to be fair, I just shared that for something happening in a chatroom and thought ‘what the hey’ and posted here too 😛
and we’ve started!!!
yay. chastain is here to save the day.
Keen to see this one as I’m starting a new pen name 🙂
kevinmichael3 That’s what i do
Hey I see video but no sound…
kevinmichael3 you miss so much now that you’re no longer on twitter o.O
I miss Dalya. 🙂
Could we get the speaker in the big pic?
Carl is so vain. He probably put the camera on himself
It’s all slow mo and just Carl picking his nose.
JayChastain Of course I do?
PatrickStemp You and Archer should teach Carl how to use the hangout correctly
Where’s Mimi’s nerd?! I like him!
michelleread I like the nerd too.
PatrickStemp Does google hate SPRT now?
michelleread PatrickStemp Impossible
JayChastain michelleread PatrickStemp It’s working, stop moaning.
michelleread PatrickStemp I think Dave is remotely screwing with them for continuing the show without him.
JayChastain michelleread PatrickStemp Right?! We’re such a happy bunch.
michelleread JayChastain PatrickStemp Be nice like Michelle you heathens.
Carl Sinclair michelleread JayChastain PatrickStemp What’s nice?
JayChastain Carl Sinclair michelleread PatrickStemp Jay can find nothing nice about me. That’s cool.
PatrickStemp michelleread That guy? We were famous before him and are famous after him. Everyone knows that people come here to watch my face.
PatrickStemp michelleread Carl Sinclair I’ve had this issue myself when running a podcast. You accidentally click on a person while you’re doing the hosting and it is then set on that person. I’ve no idea how to turn it back to changing, other than the person leaving the hangout and maybe returning.
michelleread JayChastain Carl Sinclair PatrickStemp Michelle is nice, you are a joose drinking heathen.
BatmanErica PatrickStemp michelleread Carl Sinclair Is it working for anyone? The video is still really slow and there’s no sound for me.
We can’t click on the thumbnail, it pauses the video. But no worries! Keep going!
PatrickStemp have you tried opening it in youtube?
BatmanErica PatrickStemp Yes, and refreshing this page. I’ll back out of the page completely and reload.
just blame google for all your problems. it never fails.
PatrickStemp try closing everything else that you’re not using and check the volume on the youtube itself. Otherwise I got nothing else.
I see the speakers correctly now, with no clicking.
When Mimi said, “It’s like trying to get your husband to try a new…” my mind jumped to a place that was not dinner. Which I’m sure does not surprise her at all. 😉
MeiLinMiranda Now it’s set in Trish 🙂
Nice!! No research! I can do that.
I have that issue with the schedules too. It started with homework back in school…
RoxieRivera We both went there…
Okay, who has the questions for Mimi?
Dave Wright has a solution (via twitter): Whoever is running the hangout clicked Trish’s frame it seems. They need to click again to get it back to normal.
Carl Sinclair Here’s a question. AM I the only person who’s not on KBoards.
michelleread Carl Sinclair I wish I wasn’t.
Carl Sinclair Also, where did she and her husband meet. Because he’s super cool.
BatmanErica PatrickStemp I tried playing some music and that didn’t work either so clearly my sound card must have had issues. Rebooted the laptop and everything is working now. The last hour has been an adventure!
michelleread it’s where I get some of the info I’ve passed/linked to you 😛 But as Carl Sinclair implies with his reply, it’s not always a healthy environment. Pick and choose what you read.
PatrickStemp seems it! You’ll definitely need a drink!
Don’t do anything until you have three books out seems to be a resounding piece of information. I like hearing it over and over again. Makes me not worry.
Is Mimi publishing just on Kindle, or distributing widely?
*squee* having twitter convo with Dave. He can’t log into here.
CateMorgan according to her sites widly for her Mimi Strong stuff but Kindle only for the new pen name atm.
BatmanErica Daaaaaaave!! How’s our favorite hedgehog?
CateMorgan he’s writing Boricio atm
BatmanErica CateMorgan AND WE’RE MISSING IT?! *whimper* Where’s Ray Chase when you need him?
CateMorgan what he posted on twitter: If it hadn’t been for the asshole playing Friends in Low Places for the umpteenth time, Boricio might not have found the strength to get up from the bar and get the hell out of the shit hole joint before the jolly band of jerkoffs started “singing” the song — again.
I love the character name: Peaches Monroe.
BatmanErica CateMorgan *bliss* I do love a good Dave rant, fictional or otherwise.
CateMorgan I guess there is a little Dave in Boricio…
CateMorgan She distributes everywhere. Because she is AWESOME! 🙂 I’m a big fan.
chastain. there’s not enough joose in this podcast. what are you goingto do about it?
more questions anyone?
I love how she’s saying things that go against what other guests have said.
BatmanErica Everyone has their own opinions and what works for them. Mimi is definitely doing things some others aren’t.
Carl Sinclair yeah and it goes to show that there is no one way to do this 🙂
Speaking of romance, my super hot husband is playing guitar in the living room. Soooo…..go romance.
anyone else with questions?
kevinmichael3 what’s her next genre?
kevinmichael3 Sorry. Had…uh…an important call. I’m back.
Mimi, you’re perfect. None of your stuff is rough. 🙂
BatmanErica kevinmichael3 sci fi fantasy, then back to romance
kevinmichael3 nothing else?
I didn’t even notice John disappear o.O
She said soylent!
michelleread the question is, did she mean the people or the nutrient replacement that’s now a thing.
BatmanErica michelleread They are one in the same right? Also, I just learned what that was THIS WEEK.
michelleread well there’s ‘soylent green is people’ and then there’s http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/05/soylent-1-0-arrives-at-ars-we-mix-it-up-and-slurp-it-down/
BatmanErica michelleread Yes I saw him on Stephen Colbert…..then my mom and husband were like “Soylent green is people!!” And played the clip. And I went 0.o
Treadmills are for holding clothes.
michelleread mine currently has a dismantled desk and a pile of my husband’s files on it. We’re rearranging the furniture. It is meant to be a treadmill desk (husband made the desk shelf for it) and also a normal treadmill (desk shelf is removable).
michelleread I agree. So are the cycles.
I bought a treadmill desk three months ago…it’s still sitting in the box…
Trish McCallan Boxes are for tables.
Trish McCallan I tend to use stuff a lot when I first get it, then my usage peters out. I was using it for 3 hours a day when I was totally into it. Set to stroll of course 🙂
I’ve got the baby oil… LET’S START THIS PARTYYYYYY!!!!!!
kevinmichael3 do the thing for me please 😛
BatmanErica kevinmichael3 Me too, please
Demelza Carlton BatmanErica kevinmichael3 MEEEE
Just grabbed “Ghost Hackers”.
PatrickStemp As did I.
JayChastain YOOOOU
AFTA-PARTEH!!!
AFTA-PARTEH!!!
JayChastain It’s coming.
Carl Sinclair JayChastain YEAH IT IS
JayChastain Carl Sinclair heh heh hehe, he said coming…
BatmanErica JayChastain Carl Sinclair HUH HUH HUH
BatmanErica JayChastain Carl Sinclair You’re so immature, Erica.
JayChastain BatmanErica Carl Sinclair shush, behave or no invites.
JayChastain you smell like poopy
BatmanErica JayChastain You smell like poopy ANNNND urine
michelleread Trish McCallan The box the treadmill desk is in holds my keys and mail when I come through the door, does that count?? 🙂
We have two more spots for the after party if anyone wants in?
BatmanErica I’m not sure what hurts worse, Erica not noticing or Carl liking it.
BatmanErica I think some people get confused about what they should do, because almost anything will get you *some* benefit. But investing 10 hours should get you something… even if it’s the knowledge that spending 10 hours doing that thing was kind of a waste, ha ha. 🙂 YMMV!
BatmanErica She was originally Clark, because I thought Monroe was toooooo obvious. Then I remember that reading’s supposed to be fun, and Monroe is more fun. 😀
michelleread The only thing I would say to do is network with some likeminded authors, and also try to get a few reviewers and early fans on board. You’ll need the other authors for emotional support. Learning the tricks of the trade are just a side benefit. It’s totally a head game, and you gotta keep team spirit up. 😀
michelleread Carl Sinclair I met my husband because he was doing an internet radio show where he and his friends all yelled at each other about current events. 😀
RoxieRivera LOL. Well, the secret to that is to not give any warning. Just BAM GUESS WHAT! Squash risotto! Or whatever you call it. ;-D
Carl Sinclair michelleread He was off playing DnD for the evening. ;-D
MeiLinMiranda *rainbow unicorns*
Mimi Strong aka Dalya Moon aka T Paulin michelleread Thank you! Working on it….
Thanks so much for the “Congratulations,” my friends!
Audio up and on iTunes.. finally… sorry about the delays.
Mimi has created a new blog with self publishing tips and tricks that you should check out: http://www.genrehobo.com/