Working our way through the recorded backlog, and keeping this on track. We should get a medal…well instead we got an award! We’ll be talking about the RT convention in a future episode, but for now we’ll be talking to Nobilis about editing anthologies.
00:00 Introduction and Time Shifting
- Some professional banter between Tee and Pip.
- Looking forward to Balticon this weekend!
- Nobilis is taking our hand through running our own Ministry Initiative game.
- At the time of recording Nobilis was working on a charity anthology, and we were finishing Tales of a Tesla Ranger
- Where you can find Pip and Tee at conventions
4:21 What we’re working on
- This was waaaaay back, when we were finishing the final line edits of the Diamond Conspiracy!
- Pip had finally finished the edits of the audiobook Weather Child.
- Tales of a Tesla Ranger is now out there.
- Apparently Pip’s life as kitty litter scooper and laundress is still rolling on
- Nobilis had put up episode 315 of his podcast up. Putting us all to same.
- Nobilis has an app for that for iphone and Android
- Nobilis has had novel nibbles, and is involved in tentacle romance.
- Pip gets too excited by tentacles.
- Tee and Pip are working on book Five for the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences
- The Social Media for Writers is coming! Seriously it has an Amazon page and everything…
- All the BUYMYBOOKBUYMYBOOK people need a couple of copies…
- Moving to the Tee loves Chuck section of the podcast. Check out Chuck Wendig’s blog…
- What…what…we recorded this back around Christmas!?!
- Seriously the Krampus!
14:17 Looks like we finally found the topic!
- Nobilis is working on developing a charity anthology called Coming Together: Outside the Box, that will benefit an organization researching the cancer that took PG Holyfield– The Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation.
- Nobilis’ anthology Coming Together: Outside the Box is available now from Smashwords or Amazon.
- The more submissions the more, Nobilis has to choose from.
- Nobilis is up to four anthology.
- Digging through the slush pile can be somewhat depressing…
- The Woodhull Freedom Foundation
- Coming Together in Flux was Nobilis’ first anthology he was in from the start.
- What you need to become an editor and rally an anthology. First, networking…
- So many places now to sell short fiction these days.
- How Nobilis decided to do Outside the Box, and finding a research organization
- PG Holyfield, pioneer inspired the theme
- Coming Together is a huge range of fiction available, including anthologies
- With Tales of a Tesla Ranger we ran it through a few people
- Some charities go all in!
- Sometimes you have to move fast to get things done.
- Shout out to Bruce Press Photography
- We gave PG adventures he never got to have
- Anthology contains some of PG’s previously unpublished works
36:06 The actual editing of stories
- You think writing is tough, try editing!
- Pros and cons of invitation vs open submissions
- Finding the flow of stories for the anthology
- First and last stories are very important
- First stories especially as that turns up in the sample when people are deciding if they should buy or not
- Pip’s happy to be the end
- Anthologies are like a sampler box of chocolates
44:40 Writers off the Clock- House of Cards, Disney Infinity
- We delve into the world of Frank Underwood and House of Cards.
- West Wing by David Fincher
- Frank doesn’t let Tee get off the elliptical
- Pip has enjoyed playing Disney Infinity
- Pip is either Gamora or Thor…not to say why…
- Nobilis is worried about a conspiracy from Bioware. He’s been playing Dragon Age: Inquisition
- Pip and Tee have to control themselves from rushing out to buy it.
- A beautiful example of game writing
- The issues of romance in game
- Pip says no brain eating
1:03:51 Outro
- The Christmas Market (yeahhhh we got sick and never got there!)
- What break? We don’t recall one…
- Nobilis apparently went to Farpoint, next one is coming February 2016
- Pip explains Boxing Day
- Find Nobilis here
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The Shared Desk — Episode #15: The Listener Appreciation Show (Volume 2)
WOW! We collected enough comments, questions, and overall opinions from you, the listeners, to make this show our second Listener Appreciation Show! We got some questions on Kindle, Scrivener, and Book Reviews, but we also got questions on topics we have never tackled before on mic.
And Pip gets not one but TWO drop-in’s of her own…
00:00 — Introduction
04:30 — Your Voicemail and Email
1:03:03 — The Wrap-Up
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