After two days of recording and a plethora of technical glitches, we are back for another episodes with our new intern and return Canuck, ForeWord-nominated author, Katie Bryski! Join us as Katie, fresh from Stonecoast, come in-studio to talk about this amazing experience that she has embarked upon…
00:00 — Introduction
- We are on a roll!!!
- G’day, eh? We have a guest in the studio again! Throw on the back bacon — it’s Katie Bryski!
- Things you shouldn’t do after the Smoky Writers: Have your liver tested.
- Pip bitches about the drop-in’s. Again. (And remember this…for later on in the show…)
- Since the Smoky Writers events, what have Tee & Pip been up to?
- The Silver Pharaoh is submitted to Laurie.
- Wolf in the Fold is also submitted to Laurie.
- Audio recording for Ministry Protocol is underway.
- Tee’s still job hunting, still working on Wolf in the Fold, and also working on something for Valentine’s Day.
- What Katie has been up to since Stonecoast?
- She’s our intern for February!
- Katie is still working on a book that is formally known as formerly known as Styx.
- In Season Three of Tales from the Archives, things get very Canadian!
14:48 — All about Stonecoast (with Katie Bryski)
- The first challenge of Stonecoast: Get to the right Portland!
- What exactly is Stonecoast?
- Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
- Low-Residency (so you can do this from home…)
- Residency is in Portland, ME
- Tee’s mic problems and Pip’s odd need for editing…eh, just go with it!
- Working with Mentors (who are working authors)
- This isn’t NaNoWriMo or a writers’ retreat, folks. This is graduate school. For writers.
- And there is Tee, just being far too ‘Murican.
- From #MicFAIL to #DropInFAIL
- Pip asks who would Tee want to have as his Writing Mentor…and Pip makes an uber-#SteampunkFAIL.
- But Katie is a published author already…so why does Katie need a Masters Degree in Writing?
- Katie looks at the goals of Stonecoast she’s looking to accomplish through this program.
- Tee and Pip are a touch green with envy over Katie’s journey with Stonecoast.
- For someone who hates drop-in’s, Pip’s asking a lot from Tee in this episode.
- Does Stonecoast have business angles covered?
- Stonecoast offers another aspect of the writers’ community
33:44 — Seriously?! Seriously.
- Another #DropInFAIL but we’ll get this…
- It’s kind of important before you go into a blog tour to know what to do when you’re on a blog tour.
- Copy-Paste-Here’s-Your-Blogpost….no, that’s not what you do.
- If you are too busy to go on a blog tour because you are too busy promoting, you’re lost in #EpicFAIL
- There are bigger problems afoot if you don’t have evergreen blog content to offer a blog tour.
- Is the problem a lack of ideas? (As we show, nope.)
41:25 — The Wrap-Up
- So excited that we have Katie for a little more time!
- Katie is gathering a lot of dirt on it.
- And she’s a good intern ’cause she’s getting Tee coffee!
- Pip and Tee struggle to keep the show on target
- Weather Child now has a cover.
- Tee & Pip head down to Richmond for The Writers’ Show!
- Dawn’s Early Light hits the shelves at the end of March!
- Something special coming up in February….
- Oh yeah, RavenCon as well!
- Sweet as! Katie is coming to Balticon!!! And she’s talking about beer!!!
- We need a better sign-off for Katie…
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So many thoughts on this. First, amazing banter mixed with invaluable information. Love that you’re so willing to share your experience with your peers.
Second, there’s incredible valuable in finishing your degree – to your writing and to your life. Going back to finish my criminal justice degree gave me a much deeper understanding of the field. (And yes, book sales is not a zero-sum game)
Third, thanks for sharing the blog post stories. Yeah. That happened.
Cheers!
nK
Thank you for the comment on the blog tour. I want to see new content when I visit a toured site. They should sell their selves and content to me. Make me want it.
And Katie was by my blog too! 😀 Was so thrilled to have her by.
So many good things coming to look forward to! All of you, and Valentine’s is so close. Curious to see what Tee has for us.
I’m going to have to see about getting to RavenCon one of these years.
Look forward to seeing you all at Balticon! 🙂
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So surprised to hear that Smokey Writers wasn’t an invite only event. But I suspect it filled up fast when it was announced.
I worry about the way some people go about blog tours and release events. So much of it seems very cookie-cutter. You need to make an extra effort for such events to make sure you’re providing new and engaging content to encourage readers to go to every stop on the tour, not just the ones that benefit oneself.
Glad to see the podcast in my feeds again!
Doc