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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