Bleah! Between the Power Bug that Sonic Boom brought home from school and final reviews of The Janus Affair, Tee and Pip are finally back behind the mic, bringing a perspective on book bloggers, book reviews, and keeping it classy in light of a bad review.
00:00 — Introduction
- We’re back! (Did you miss us?)
- The joys of school-bred viruses
- The Janus Affair is now heading to press.
- What to expect from Wellington Eliza, and friends in the next few months…
- A plea to whomever sent me the drop-in’s.
- Working on steampunk faerie tales
- Elder Cat says “Oh hai!”
08:01 — Concerning Reviews
- We’d love to do a show on Scrivener, but writers (and now agents) keep doing some really stupid things!
- Elder Cat says “Oh hai!” again…
- Goodreads — an online network that loves Phoenix Rising.
- It all started with a review…or two….
- …and it ended with agents getting into the scrap.
- Rule #1 of Reviews: Not everyone will love you.
- How bad behavior affects your book
- Tee still hasn’t read The Night Circus on account of spam.
- The Tom Cruise Effect
- How bad reviews reflect positively on authors’ works
- An Authors’ WTH Moment: When Agents Attack
- Respecting the Book Bloggers
- How Book Bloggers Stand Taller than Amazon/Goodreads Reviewers
- If you don’t want an honest review, don’t approach Book Bloggers.
- Taking the fight to other networks like Twitter, Facebook, et. al.
- When is it a good time to question a bad review?
- Looking for common threads in good and bad reviews
- Why you must love Book Bloggers…like our girl, Mel!
33:58 — Writers Off the Clock
- Hold on — Tee’s got a WotC for Pip?
- The name of the game is Skylanders…and we bought it for Sonic Boom. (No. Really. We did!)
- A friend of Starla’s. A friend of ours. And her (bad) influence on the Boom…
- Sonic Boom was fighting back, so we were looking for and advantage. (In comes Skylanders.)
- And at 38:02, this happens…
- What Skylanders is all about
- How Sonic Boom plays into this new obsession
- Feline distractions
- Laying down the Law (and enjoying the results)
44:39 — The Wrap-Up
- Places where we are going to be this year:
- Pip’s upcoming releases…and her Jell-O Decorated throw-Down at Dragon*Con
- Big congrats to J.R, Jared, and their recent collaboration!
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and we’ll catch you later.
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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