So it’s been a while since we have sat down and recorded a Shared Desk, but how about this — when we finally got a chance to record a Shared Desk, we did it with the lovely P.J. Schnyder. This episode is about tough choices we make as authors in bringing about the demise of a character. Why do we do this to our creations? Is it for shock value? Is it for impact? And do we really care in the end?
00:00 — Introduction
- A brand new Shared Desk, and this time we brought a friend!
- Who is P.J. Schnyder?
- The way to a woman’s heart: Meat and Explosives
- Letting the drop-in’s fly!
- And God said “Okay, Tee, enough with the drop-in’s!”
02:46 — Making Tough Choices
- What happened between Shared Deskepisodes
- Making a book trailer
- The Steampunk World’s Fair
- Balticon
- Blogworld and B.E.A.
- …or what we remember of Blogworld and B.E.A.
- The dangers of drinking with agents, editors, and new friends…
- Getting complaints — a second one from a book critic — concerning a choice Pip and I made in The Janus Affair…
- Do we create characters simply to kill them?
- Evoking the name of Joss and when he kills beloved characters in his works.
- When do authors cross a line?
- Did J.K. Rowling go too far (or not far enough) in The Deathly Hollows?
- Tee’s gripes on Farscape and clever twists on bringing characters back
- Jumping genres and discussing a gratuitous death (or was it?) on M*A*S*H*
- We do care about the characters we kill.
- Do we write for entertainment, or to make an impact?
- TANGENT: Waxing happily about random drop-in’s for computers and future shows…
20:51 — Writers Off the Clock
- Sonic Boom is away at summer camp…so we have been indulging…in watching movies…
- Tee and Pip are talking about John Carter. (P.J. is talking about porn, we think…)
- A pleasant surprise of John Carter
- Terrific characters
- A lot of charm
- Fantastic visuals
- Tee, Pip, and P.J. go into Disney’s bungling of John Carter‘s marketing
- This movie had a lot going for it! (Even the credit sequence was good!)
- Bringing it back to marketing of books — when it works, when it doesn’t, and when it boggles the mind….
- What does P.J. do to relax?
- Shout-out to his special man, Ord
- The Good as Gold Tournament
- How does P.J. manage her time?
- Shout out to Stella Price!
36:23 — The Wrap-Up
- Drinks to mix, food to prepare, and stuff to blow up!
- Time to plug away!
- And here’s where we drop a little surprise on P.J. Schnyder as we all wait to hear from The Parsec Awards…
- What’s coming up for us…
- Pip has Hunter and Fox out and Wrayth coming soon…
- Pip is aiming to start a new series in November
- Now that The Janus Affair: A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel
is out, Tee & Pip work on Dawn’s Early Light
- Tee is looking up Tales from the Archives: Volume 2 launches on April 10 with new stories from the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences
- Upcoming Conventions
- Dragon*Con
- The Baltimore Book Festival
- …and FenCon (once again!)
- P.J.’s Upcoming Conventions
- Otakon
- Authors After Dark
- …and maybe Dragon*Con
- …and Pip shows up Tee on the Creative Commons tag. Again.
RELATED LINKS
- Linnea Sinclair’s Savvy Authors workshop
- Patricia Briggs
- M*A*S*H* (the feature film)
- Destined to Play (The “If you liked 50 Shades of Grey…” book)
- Write or Die
- Gimmie Shelter
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I still stand by my statement that it was hard to read. Not so much because of the what, but because of the how.
Really though, you introduced a character and in the same book killed her off and weeks later I’m still going through the grieving process. That’s not a complaint it’s a compliment.
Ok… it is a little bit of a complaint… but I’m coming to terms with it.
just getting around to catching up on my podcast loved the episode was missing you in my headphones. Hope the Boom loved the fire works. also I must say i feel it is unfair you guys got to hang with the lovely Miss Schnyder and got Manly man on the grill…
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