Keystroke Medium

Josh sits down with Kacey Ezell and Griffin Barber, and the narrators of their new book Second Chance Angel, Jennifer Jill Araya, David Drummond, and Natasha Soudek to talk about the book, the process, and anything else that happens to come up.

Come join in the conversation!

The No Safe Words editrixes are back, this time to discuss ways you can bring those editing costs down. We'll talk self-editing tips, handling beta readers, a checklist for every author, and consider cheaper editing options such as reducing the project scope and hiring on freelancer platforms.

Walt is drinking coffee from POW POW New Guinea and loving it... especially taking it on the go!

With Josh Gayou, Dean M. Cole, Nicholas Sansbury Smith, and Craig Alanson

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Keystroke Medium Anthologies

     Kingdoms of Iron and Stone - https://amzn.to/2GjbE6I 

     Horizons Beyond - https://amzn.to/2SrJ6uX

     Farthest Reach – https://amzn.to/2UZINeo

The Writing Dream – and How to Make it to Happily Ever After – Keystroke Medium’s first non-fiction book. https://amzn.to/2UZINeo

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Happy Labor-Daybor, Mediums!

Joining us today is the author of the Wess'Har series, and is also known for writing tie-in material based on Star Wars, Gears of War, Halo, and G.I. Joe. Her work crosses various forms of media including novels, short stories, comics, and video games. Check out our chat with Karen Traviss, going LIVE at 11 AM Eastern...

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For all the latest and greatest KSM Gear, check out our store at: https://keystrokemedium.com/ksm-store/

Also, subscribe to Sci Fi Explorations for the best discounted and free books we come across through our contacts: http://www.scifiexplorations.com

Keystroke Medium Anthologies

     Kingdoms of Iron and Stone - https://amzn.to/2GjbE6I 

     Horizons Beyond - https://amzn.to/2SrJ6uX

     Farthest Reach – https://amzn.to/2UZINeo

The Writing Dream – and How to Make it to Happily Ever After – Keystroke Medium’s first non-fiction book. https://amzn.to/2UZINeo

If you enjoy this podcast, please leave us a review and rate the show on iTunes, Podbean, Stitcher, or wherever else you found us!

Come hang out and find out who this year's big winners are!

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Become a Medium today! https://keystrokemedium.com/mediums/

Don't forget to Like and Subscribe and get involved with the mayhem and shenanigans in the live chat! http://www.youtube.com/c/keystrokemedium

If you have any thoughts or ideas for show topics or if you have authors you'd like to see on the show, let us know. Visit our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/KeystrokeMedium

For all the latest and greatest KSM Gear, check out our store at: https://keystrokemedium.com/ksm-store/

Also, subscribe to Sci Fi Explorations for the best discounted and free books we come across through our contacts: http://www.scifiexplorations.com

Keystroke Medium Anthologies

     Kingdoms of Iron and Stone - https://amzn.to/2GjbE6I 

     Horizons Beyond - https://amzn.to/2SrJ6uX

     Farthest Reach – https://amzn.to/2UZINeo

The Writing Dream – and How to Make it to Happily Ever After – Keystroke Medium’s first non-fiction book. https://amzn.to/2UZINeo

If you enjoy this podcast, please leave us a review and rate the show on iTunes, Podbean, Stitcher, or wherever else you found us!

Are you thinking of doing some editing but aren't sure how to give useful feedback on your friend's manuscript? Looking for a more helpful response than "Yeah, I liked it..." or "No, the book's total trash"?

In tonight's episode, the No Safe Words editors talk about setting up expectations and goals for the editing process, avoiding possible pitfalls, working with your friend to make this manuscript the best it can be... and somehow keeping your friendship intact by the time you hit publish.

Ready?

Keystroke Medium's Book Services Community: https://bit.ly/31W6gjt 

No Safe Words Editors: https://nosafewordsllc.com/ 

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Become a Medium today! https://keystrokemedium.com/mediums/

Don't forget to Like and Subscribe and get involved with the mayhem and shenanigans in the live chat! http://www.youtube.com/c/keystrokemedium

If you have any thoughts or ideas for show topics or if you have authors you'd like to see on the show, let us know. Visit our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/KeystrokeMedium

For all the latest and greatest KSM Gear, check out our store at: https://keystrokemedium.com/ksm-store/

Also, subscribe to Sci Fi Explorations for the best discounted and free books we come across through our contacts: http://www.scifiexplorations.com

Keystroke Medium Anthologies

     Kingdoms of Iron and Stone - https://amzn.to/2GjbE6I 

     Horizons Beyond - https://amzn.to/2SrJ6uX

     Farthest Reach – https://amzn.to/2UZINeo

The Writing Dream – and How to Make it to Happily Ever After – Keystroke Medium’s first non-fiction book. https://amzn.to/2UZINeo

If you enjoy this podcast, please leave us a review and rate the show on iTunes, Podbean, Stitcher, or wherever else you found us!

Jacob Close comes on the show to talk up his newest project, the scifi thriller Tinfoil. We WILL also be talking about the bean!

We're doing the putting together thing with master word assembler Drew Avera!

Josh, Chuck, and special guest host Steve Beaulieu sit down to talk about antagonists, from the mundane to the megalomaniacal.

Hosts: Josh Hayes, C. Steven Manley

[00:00] Opening remarks

[03:50] Sponsor #1: Deranged and Questing: The Necromancer’s Idiot Apprentice with Andy Peloquin [https://www.twitch.tv/andypeloquin]

[07:40] Weekly update—Sloppy Seconds Edition Steve: Kids are in school. Luna Missile Crisis in ebook/print in September. [https://amzn.to/32QSRsu] There’s a sequel in the works!

Chuck: A nice message on Instagram. Plugging away at Jack Dark #2. Listen to his Paragons Trilogy for free on Audible! [https://amzn.to/3hJbMvk]

Josh: Pitched a book idea to a major publisher with a short story for the tone. Almost finished with Tranquility #1. Looking for beta readers.

[19:20] Main Event—Antagonists! Example: Benjamin Linus from Lost [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Linus] Example: Sand dan Glotka from Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Trilogy [https://amzn.to/34NJj3Y]

-Low key vs. Over the top villains.

-Manipulative villains are interesting rather than over-the-top Example: Captain Hook in Peter Pan [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Hook]

-Steve wants to hate the Joker, no sympathize with him (as in the new Joker movie) [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7286456/]

-You can call a character evil. Sometimes readers just want that. Example: Voldemort in JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series [https://amzn.to/2YSomBd]

Ramsey Bolton in George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series [https://amzn.to/2Ga4MJY]

-The sense of ‘Me First’ mentality to the villain. You don’t need to sympathize, though you can understand.

-You don’t have to hate the bad guys, but you can see both sides. Example: The Americans [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2149175/]

-Antagonist vs. Villain

-You can have protagonists do villainous things Example: The Punisher [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5675620/]

-Difference between having to do something bad and wanting to do something bad. Example Dakota Meyer [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_Meyer] Example: Alonzo in Training Day [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139654/] Example: Thanos in Marvel Cinematic Universe [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4154796/]

-What is the villain’s perspective? How is it seen by others?

-Structuring the villain’s arc as a version of the hero’s journey

-Can you think you’re a hero with the wrong information that makes you a villain?

-Are you a hero or a villain based on the status quo? Example: Colonists seen as villains by the British Empire in the American Civil War.

[41:39] Sponsor #2: J. Clifton Slater’s Muted Implications (Clay Warrior Book 12) [https://amzn.to/2YMCETB]

[43:30] Main Event—Antagonists, continued! Example: Cigarette Man from The X-Files [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106179/]

-The decline of the ‘Freak of the Week’ episodic villain stories and the long arc of antagonist/villain Example: Battlestar Galactica reboot [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407362/] Example: Babylon 5 [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105946/]

-Villains who are meant to be a ‘Pinnacle Villain’ but turn out to be not all that massively villainous because he’s overly humanized. Example: Raoul Silva in Skyfall [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1074638/] Example: Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/]

-Steve disagrees!

-Sadistic villains Example: Dolores Umbridge in JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series [https://amzn.to/2YSomBd] Example: Hands of Blue in Firefly [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303461/]

-The polite villain. Example: Hans Gruber in Die Hard [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095016/]

-Alan Rickman’s great villain performances as Hans Gruber, Sheriff of Nottingham, and even Severus Snape. Example: Darth Vader in Star Wars [https://www.imdb.com/star-wars/]

-The difference in the ‘original’ Vader of the original trilogy and the ‘origin story’ Vader of the prequel trilogy.

-Severus Snape as the ‘gray hero’ and trying to judge Rowling’s characters as adults vs. how they were written for children and the evolution of her writing from the first novel to the last.

[1:11:45] Closing remarks

Become a Medium today! https://keystrokemedium.com/mediums/

Don't forget to Like and Subscribe and get involved with the mayhem and shenanigans in the live chat! http://www.youtube.com/c/keystrokemedium

If you have any thoughts or ideas for show topics or if you have authors you'd like to see on the show, let us know. Visit our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/KeystrokeMedium

For all the latest and greatest KSM Gear, check out our store at: https://keystrokemedium.com/ksm-store/

Also, subscribe to Sci Fi Explorations for the best discounted and free books we come across through our contacts: http://www.scifiexplorations.com

Keystroke Medium Anthologies

     Kingdoms of Iron and Stone - https://amzn.to/2GjbE6I 

     Horizons Beyond - https://amzn.to/2SrJ6uX

     Farthest Reach – https://amzn.to/2UZINeo

The Writing Dream – and How to Make it to Happily Ever After – Keystroke Medium’s first non-fiction book. https://amzn.to/2UZINeo

If you enjoy this podcast, please leave us a review and rate the show on iTunes, Podbean, Stitcher, or wherever else you found us!