by admin | December 26, 2017 · 10:47 pm
Did you hear? We have a new book on the shelves! (The digital ones anyway.) With Operation: Endgame out and waiting for you to read, The Shared Desk is looking back on the ministry of Peculiar Occurrences and talks about everything a writer thinks, feels, and fears when wrapping up a series and dropping the curtain on familiar grounds.
And really, are they done with the Ministry? Well……
00:00 — Introduction
- Whew! It’s been a week…
- If you want to relax, Dunkirk is NOT the movie to help you with that.
- Okay, if you didn’t hear about it today…
- Operation: Endgame is coming out today in all digital formats.
- And did you know a new Christmas story is out for Tales from the Archives?
- Audio and print books are coming in January/February 2018.
- There’s also a special offer on 12/26 and 12/27 so download your copy now!
04:08 — Episode #85: Ending a Series
- You are having so much fun with this series, but now comes a time to wrap it up.
- Nothing new for Pip with the Books of the Order.
- For Tee, reaching the end has been proving elusive.
- There’s a lot of time invested into a series, its characters, its world…and you wonder if you have one more book in you.
- Is the drive and the desire there?
- Pip was sad to see Sorcha and Raed go…but she got over it.
- Tee’s issue with getting Operation: Endgame done — REAL LIFE.
- Tee’s failed attempts at writing a series
- MOREVI (which has fans on PSN and Twitch apparently)
- The Billibub Baddings Mysteries
- Tee may not have wanted to say goodbye to Books & Braun just yet…
- The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences is not going anywhere. The podcast and this series, however, are done.
- Ending on your own terms feels pretty damn good.
- Kickstarter made it clear: A demand was there.
- Tee finished Operation: Endgame…and fell apart.
- Achievement Unlocked: We reached the end we had planned.
- Verity Fitzroy is making the sting of ending a series less painful.
- Change of all kinds take place in Operation: Endgame.
- We do resolve things in the book…mostly.
- BIG SHOUT-OUT to our editor, K.T. Bryski who will be here next week!
- Humble beginnings to the series and the wild ride that ensued…
- And we’re still married…but there was that one time during Curse of the Silver Pharaoh….
- Taking a break from now until the summer because we got stuff to do on our own!
- How can we forget Countless Hues of Crimson? Rivaled only by this amazing work of literature…
- Taking a bittersweet Victory Lap
26:40 — Writers Off the Clock
- We just finished a book. LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES!!!
- Let’s talk about some of the movies we saw over the weekend….
- Dunkirk
- Hans Zimmer decides to actually give us a really amazing score for this cinematic triumph.
- Wait? you mean, things happened in World War II before Americans got involved?
- Just brace yourself for those first ten minutes.
- Hands down, Nolan’s best film.
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi
- Spoiler Alert — JUMP TO TIMECODE 42:09 TO AVOID SPOILERS
- LAST CHANCE — 42:09 TO AVOID SPOILERS
- Tee liked it more than Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens, but did not like it as much as Rogue One
- Thoughts on the middle section
- Thoughts on Rose
- Thoughts on humor in Star Wars
- Thoughts on Mary Poppins
- Thoughts on Fan Rage
- Thoughts from someone else about how we’ve been here before…
- Bright
- Bright is, according to Pip, Shadowrun.
- It was more like Training Day: Shadowrun, but here’s the rundown of this (pretty damn clever) plot.
- This is not high art, but it does not pretend to be anything else than what it is. AND IT WORKS!
- Definitely rocking a Men in Black or Alien Nation vibe.
- We talked about Suicide Squad, but this is a better film.
- Critics are hating Bright…but Netflix is listening to the audience.
- Why Alien Nation was a better television show than it was a movie.
- Is race an issue in this movie? Yes. Because LOOK AT OUR FREAKIN’ HEADLINES!
50:42 — The Wrap-Up
- The Adventures of Centaur Cop, coming soon from Pip Ballantine.
- We’re done for the year. So, go out, use that Amazon.com gift card, and buy our new book!
- K.T. Bryski is coming!
- 2017 was better than 2016, that’s for damn sure.
- Foreshadowing for the next show — Your Author Word for 2018!
- If you have an event and want The Shared Desk to appear there, or if you just want to share an opinion about the show, here’s where to find us…
- 703.791.1701
- pip@pjballantine.com
- tee@teemorris.com
- …and social media, of course.
- Pip’s Patreon will feature the first episode of her ALL-NEW PODCAST!
- Yep, she’s got a website (with a teaser) — We Don’t Talk About That
- And you can hear it first….if you become a subscriber.
- See you in 2018!
54:15 — The Last Word
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by admin | February 26, 2014 · 2:51 am
Our intern from the Great White North, ForeWord-nominated author, Katie Bryski, has reached the end of her February internship. The mics are hot and we ask our intern the tough questions
00:00 — Introduction
- Show #30 — we have been good this year with our regular posting, and Tee’s got some new drop-in’s!!!
- This is the end of February, and Katie Bryski is hanging in there with her internship at Casa de Morris!
- Foreshadowing what’s coming up with this episode…
- Pip channels her inner-Chole and goes into what she’s been working on…
- Weather Child — the layout continues with the recent proof
- Immortal Progeny — After checking with the Book of George (R.R. Martin), the novel is taking shape.
- We’re looking overseas with our indie books and our agent of awesome.
- What Katie has been up to since the last show…
- Apply a few gold medals and Canuck gets cocky!
- Notes are back from her Stonecoast Mentor.
- “Research” for her day job…which means she’s drinking beer.
- Apparently, when it comes to giving us a bit of feedback on how hard Tee & Pip work her, silence is golden.
- What has Tee been up to?
- Reworking Wolf in the Fold
- The Billibub Kickstarter is starting to make some headway after one week. 31%. Not bad.
- The blog machine rolls on with the Endless Possibilities Blog Tour and on TeeMorris.com!
- Tee’s drinking beer with Katie. Good times!!!
- And the job hunt rolls on, but Tee’s considering options…
10:15 — What’s a Writer’s Internship?
- How did this whole idea of Katie becoming our intern actually happen?
- What does an intern for a writer do?
- There’s a fine line between intern and stalker.
- Pip takes a guess as to what you’re supposed to do during an internship?
- What Katie wanted to learn right off the bat: Survival Techniques for Indie Authors
- Working with Adobe Photoshop
- It’s all about the image.
- Mac Boy Vs. PC Girl
- Getting our digital hands dirty with layers.
- DepositPhoto.com — Pip’s new friend. And now, Katie’s
- Working with InDesign
- Katie LOVES this program…and templates are her friend!
- There’s still some terms she needs to get familiar with.
- Giving books personality with InDesign.
- Pip and Katie share the story behind Weather Child and how Katie went on a journey with the podcast…and now she’s laying out the book in print.
- K.T. Bryski, editor
- Taking the red pen in hand.
- It’s a big step in editing another person’s work, but Stonecoast’s lessons were applied.
- Katie was learning stuff from how Pip and Tee were dealing with writers in everyday life. (Yikes!)
- Pip has a pupil in her School of Love and & Despair.
- But Mighty Mur comes to save the day! (Love ya, Mur!!!)
- How our intern helped us out
- Networking us with other podcasts and blogs like 3 Geeks in a Pod
- Katie drops her contact info — contact (at) ministry of peculiar occurrences (dot) com
- Katie wants to come back for eBook layout classes
- A constantly changing technology
- Barnes & Noble Nook #FAIL
- Other stuff we did with Katie
- Katie is leaving….but she’s not leaving.
- What did the Intern teach the Mentors?
- Katie is an impressive student, picking up new tools in audio and video.
- We learned that our Intern is very possessive.
- Writers don’t have set hours.
- Just having assistance in setting up the calendar — awesome!
- The Intern’s First Assignment when she gets home: The Most Canadian Steampunk EVAR!
- Jack Mangan, the gauntlet has been thrown!
36:21 — Writers Off the Clock: Talking True Detective
- #DropInFAIL with both of the girls talking over the bumper…
- Setting the tone for this segment with “Far From Any Road” from The Handsome Family…
- THE. BEST. TELEVISION. SHOW. EVAR. True Detective, on HBO.
- What is it about True Detective and the appeal of Southern Gothic to geeks?
- Some critics thought the show was slow, but that’s because they were watching it on Thursday…
- You have to pay attention with this show.
- Matthew McConaughey is stepping up as an actor.
- The characters of this show is like Louisiana — broken.
- True Detective from a film buff’s perspective.
- Katie’s perspective from a show “she would never watch.”
- The gothic science fiction touches throughout True Detective
- The good news for Katie: She found a source for the last two episodes!
- Talking about the writing of Nic Pizzolatto, the Executive Producer, Writer, and Creator of True Detective
- The relationship between Chole and Hart….played seamlessly by Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson
- A comparison between True Detective and Homicide: Life on the Street
53:47 — The Wrap-Up
- Pip Ballantine just ignores the music cue. Shocker that.
- The rise of the anthology? Is it happening?
- Katie learned stuff with us…but we still have stuff to be teaching her!
- Pip and Tee turn to the Intern one last time for what’s coming up…
- Where to contact everybody…
- Podcasters, bloggers, and media folks, if you want to book Tee & Pip, send a line to contact (at) ministryofpeculiaroccurrences (dot) com
- Drop Tee and Pip a voicemail at 703.791.1701, or drop us a comment here or in email.
- SHOW #35 ANNOUNCED AS OUR NEXT VOICEMAIL SHOW!!!
- How do you say goodbye? Giant freaking robots beating up monsters!
- Drop-in by request…
- …and Katie breaks out in to spontaneous song.
- Tee stumbles though the Creative Commons tag on account of teh feelz.
1:01:07 — The Outtake
cover art by J.R. Blackwell
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703.791.1701,
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