Future Best Seller

Future Best Seller

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Future Best Seller episodes

  • EP 8: SoonerCon 2023 Recap, Featuring Author Julie Jones

    Guest: Julie Jones is an award winning author who came to SoonerCon with us!

    Shoutout to the wonderful people who put on SoonerCon year after year!

    Shoutout to all of our friends who attended!

    Panels, programming, costumes, and all the shenanigans we got up to at the con!

    News:

    - Writer Beware of... Writer Beware imposters?

    - SFWA Market Report reminder.

    - Let's help out Clarkesworld.

    - TikTok Publishing books?

    - An author has a magical windfall!

    - AI updates

    Tools: Mythulu

    Creatives On Fire: Be Leonard, conventions, and networking

    The best outtake ever.

    1 hr 37 min
  • EP 7: Authors on F.I.R.E.

    Special Episode - Every week we do a segment called Creatives on F.I.R.E. where we focus on interweaving the concepts of financial independence with what we know about building our author business. In this special episode, we've broken out Phill's Authors on F.I.R.E. presentation and focused an entire episode on the 2nd path to achieving our dreams. We're going to talk about saving, investing, reducing expenses, eradicating debt, succeeding in our day jobs, as well as our author careers, and much much more.



    2 hr 4 min
  • EP 6: Best Selling Authors Take Over The Future Best Seller Podcast, Featuring Gerald Brandt and Bryan Thomas Schmidt

    This week we've got not ONE, but TWO, best selling authors on the podcast! We are joined by Gerald Brandt, author of the Quantum Empirica and the San Angeles trilogy. And Bryan Thomas Schmidt, an author and renowned anthology editor who has worked on IP's such as Aliens Vs Predator, Jonthan Maberry's Joe Ledger series, and the upcoming Robots Through the Ages. Buy their books!

    - Pitching, editing, and managing anthologies.

    - Author Rule #1: Don't be an @$$hole.

    - Gerald's villain origin story - How he acquired representation and sold his first novel.

    - Advice for new authors.

    - Pantsing Vs Plotting.

    NEWS:

    - Bryan sings to us.

    - Audio Books sales hit records in the U.K..

    - Draft2Digital announces expanded distribution with Gardners.

    - Review Bombing is back. Yay...

    - Black Lawrence Press picks up Nomadic Press authors who don't have a home after Nomadic Press had to shut the doors.

    - The Grammys lay out their rules about A.I..

    TOOLS:

    - Bryan tells us about a tool he uses call TypeItIn to make editing more efficient.

    - Gerald shares what he uses to manage his writing process.

    CREATIVES ON FIRE:

    - Working a full time job while writing.

    - Credit Card Debt.


    58 min
  • EP 5: Selling Books At Conventions, GotAngst, SoonerCon, Writing With Parkinson's, Naughty Skynet, Featuring David J Pedersen & A Corgi Named Marvel

    -Author David J Pedersen joins us this week!

    -Soonercon is this weekend!

    -An absurd voicemail. Can you guess which parts the translator got wrong?

    -The best part of the concert.

    -David J Pedersen: Watson's World, Writing with Parkinson's, gotAngst on Youtube, David's writing & early reader process.

    -News: Book sales are back down, Harper Collins is trying to buy Simon & Schuster, audiobook narrators concerned about AI (duh), fanfic writers screw with the robot overlords, virtual reality but for reading, an update on the writer strike, and pirates! Arrrggg!

    - Tools: On this week we talk about David's favorite writing tools from his video The Best Writing and Publishing Software for Writers - Things, Evernote, Plottr, Scrivener, and Vellum.

    - Creatives on Fire: We share our tips for selling books at conventions.

    1 hr 28 min
  • EP 4: Our 1st Official Guest Is Actually Just Four Ferrets In A Trench Coat, Featuring Author Tracy S. Morris
    • Authors don’t pay publishers.
    • Should you query with a story you’ve already published?
    • Book-it, but for adults!
    • Tracy S. Morris gives us a teaser about what she’s cooking
      • up.
    • Tracy shares her knowledge about working in shared
      • universes, co-authoring, and writing alternate history.
    • Cormac McCarthy.
    • Vivendi acquires Lagardère.
    • Library of Congress’s 23rd
      • National Book Festival.
    • Chris tries to appease the robot overlords.
      • What out for scammers!
    • The Horror Writers Association
      • Scholarships.
    • Clarion West Write-a-thon.
    • The Audies.
    • The latest Nook.
    • Our Favorite Writing Tools: Our
      • favorite pens.
    • Creatives on Fire: The 2 paths to making
      • money as an author in today’s world.

      1 hr 9 min
    • EP 3: Book Sales Are Up! J.H. Reveals Her Secret Project, Phill Thinks Everything Is Phenomenal, & #ChrisSoundsHot
      • J.H. has a big announcement! Secret, secret Project. Super secret Project!
      • Until next year, Oklahoma Renaissance Festival!
      • Book sales are up!
      • SFWA's Open Market Report.
      • Barnes & Noble.
      • Amazon KDP category changes.
      • EPUB V3.3.
      • It turns out you can't steal other people's intellectual properties. weird, right?
      • A.I. be running wild.
      • Writers go on strike and other people get a deal. Sounds about right.
      • Tools: Our favorite word count trackers.
      • Creatives on Fire: Thinking About Money Differently.
      • #ChrisSoundsHot
        • 1 hr 6 min
      • EP 2: How Much Money Do I Need To Quit My Day Job?
        • Trains, trains, and mediocre ads.
        • A new level of fame.
        • Moms being moms, and that time Phill's mom made everyone think he died.
        • The boat gods hate Phill but also he might be a mage.
        • Who would ban A Wrinkle In Time?
        • Kindle Unlimited Price Increase.
        • Free Agency.
        • Ryan Reynolds, but he can't make funny.
        • U.S. Book Show.
        • You might be able buy Simon & Schuster unless you're a Batman villain.
        • Tools: Vellum.
        • Creatives on Fire: The Trinity Study & the 4% Rule.
          • 55 min
        • EP 1: The Podcast We Need. Not The One We Deserve.
          • The podcast we wished existed when we were starting our writing journey.
          • Casserole.
          • The Oklahoma Renaissance Festival.
          • A most unusual nipple.
          • Knollsy is a beast.
          • Murder she wrote.
          • Amazon KDP raising paperback costs.
          • Ingram Spark removing costs.
          • The writer strike.
          • AI - Serving our robot overlords.
          • Tools for Authors: Scrivener.
          • Creatives on Fire: A 2nd path to achieve my dream.
            • 1 hr 4 min

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