Hey folks,

It's been a great week. We did an event at Cameron Village Public Library Thursday evening that drew about 35 writers. Our panelists were sci-fi fantasy author James Maxey and Baen Publishing contributing editor Gray Rhinehart. The discussion really focused on the nitty-gritty details of how a publisher like Baen works in terms of acquiring manuscripts, setting pub dates, publicizing and marketing its books, and editing manuscripts to be published.

Then, on Friday, we filmed a new interview at the TV studio for The Artist's Craft to air on Raleigh Television Network Channel 10 later this fall. Marnie Cooper-Priest and Michael Graziano were directing, and this interview was with Cynthia Barnett, executive director for the 1500-member strong NC Writers' Network. 

Today, I'm driving down to Wilmington, North Carolina to moderate a panel discussion with three other authors titled "How to Write a Book: From Idea to Completed Manuscript" at Pomegranate Bookstore for the Wilmington Write to Publish Group.

Stacey 

Hey folks,

Here is the new interview for The Artist's Craft on Raleigh Television Network Channel 10. Directed by Marnie Cooper-Priest and Michael Graziano this episode will air later this fall on Time/Warner cable and features guests Pam Mosbrucker and Tobin Alder, authors of the book Cyber Gold. 

Enjoy it!

Stacey   

Busy, busy, busy... well we filmed another interview today and then I did an event this evening with the authors at Cameron Village Public Library in Raleigh.

The interview went very well, and I should have it available online within a couple days. I'll post it here when it's done.

Tonight's event was well attended, and I had a lot of fun.

Stacey

Hey folks,

I've got a new interview online. This one is with comic book historian and author Christopher Irving and is scheduled to air in Raleigh, North Carolina on RTN Channel 10 later this Fall. Enjoy... 

 

 

We have our first position in Google for the search term "How to Publish a Book"! Albeit, position #819, meaning somone would have to scroll through 81 pages of search results before finding us.

Nonetheless, we're on the map, and can only move forward from here.

Last week, howtopublishabook.org reached as high as 44th position in Yahoo's rankings, before some minor modifications dropped us back to around 120.

We had a great weekend this past weekend, with an interview in studio with three authors. I hope to have the videos uploaded by the end of this weekend, and we'll just keep this channel rollin'.

We've got another studio interview scheduled for tomorrow, and I made a guest appearance yesterday on the Murderati blog to talk about the show.

Stacey

Well, it's been a whirl-wind couple of days. On Thursday evening, I moderated a panel discussion at Cameron Village Public Library with authors Alexandra Sokoloff, J.D. Rhoades, and Vicki Hendricks. I managed to film the 90-minute discussion with three cameras and two studio mics, and was able to get the audience of 75 people to sign release forms so that I can use the footage freely.

My plan is to make a DVD out of this, but it'll take a couple of months to edit it all together. Nonetheless, when it's done it's going to look very good and sound very good, and it's my first truly "talk show" teleproduction with mics for the audience and the panelists. I'm really stoked about the whole thing.

Speaking of DVDs, my first "How to Publish a Book, How to Get a Literary Agent" DVD became available on Amazon.com in the past few days. I've already managed to sell one copy, and I haven't even publicized it anywhere yet.

Yesterday, I hosted Episode 3 of The Artist's Craft. Our in-studio guests were Vicki Hendricks and J.D. Rhoades. Here are parts 1, 2, and 3...