Life of Fiction, The Podcast

It’s always a treat if you get to meet with a brilliant author and talk into the night.

…and you get to be a fly on the wall.

This episode is a live, uncut conversation with Writer/Author Drew Briney. He’s a good friend that surprised me — let me know he was in town — so we met at a park, talked and laughed for hours…and we did a podcast.

Writing Styles

Worldbuilding

Character Development

Writing Conventions

Comic Con

Consequences

…and so much more.

Have a listen, and you’ll notice that our natural state in one another’s company is high energy and creative wildfire. Better yet, this is only PART ONE!

Enjoy.

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We publish five days a week. Catering to our readers is what we do. Videos, artwork, articles, this podcast, and of course, the exclusive release of serial fiction, providing a new chapter each week. We’re always looking for ways to increase the value and enjoyment our community experiences.

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…and remember:

You are MORE than you THINK you are!

I woke up this morning, because God woke me up…

No buttons. No plugs. Just a message.

Pleas share it.

For lovers of fiction, especially fantasy and science fiction, WorldAnvil is THE best place to discover new worlds on the internet.

Quite the claim, I know, but I’ve watched this community grow since 2019, and I’m telling you, Summer Camp is the best way to discover new worlds and new writers, anywhere.

Listen to the podcast and click on the link below to check out the Summer Camp main page…with links to THOUSANDS of new adventures:

>>CLICK HERE TO SEE WA SUMMER CAMP ENTRIES<<

TIP: Choose a prompt you find interesting, then click on “List all Entries” and you’ll be taken to a page about that prompt, with all the submitted entries.

Have fun!

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We publish five days a week. Catering to our readers is what we do. Videos, artwork, articles, this podcast, and of course, the exclusive release of serial fiction, providing a new chapter each week. We’re always looking for ways to increase the value and enjoyment our community experiences.

Come to LifeOfFiction.com and become one of our subscribers. That way, you'll never miss a thing.

Thanks for listening to the podcast. Please tell a friend about us.

…and remember:

You are MORE than you THINK you are!

Substack is, IMO, the best publishing platform on the internet…but like any platform, writers are exploiting a hack, to gain not-so-honest social proof…

This problem is a bit beyond me and I wanted to make sure my logic wasn’t faulty, so I got some help. One of the characters that will eventually be revealed is an AI named “Cryo64”.

He was invented back in 2005, so I thought, with all the AI’s being used today, why not break out Cryo64 a tad early from the Chronicles of a Hero storyline and get some help?

Have a listen to find out how THAT went…*sigh*

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We publish five days a week. Catering to our readers is what we do. Videos, artwork, articles, this podcast, and of course, the exclusive release of serial fiction, providing a new chapter each week. We’re always looking for ways to increase the value and enjoyment our community experiences.

Come to LifeOfFiction.com and become one of our subscribers. That way, you'll never miss a thing.

Thanks for listening to the podcast. Please tell a friend about us.

…and remember:

You are MORE than you THINK you are!

Every fictional story requires worldbuilding. What makes children so amazing, is their imagination is not crippled by limitations of reality or logic.

One of the most enjoyable aspects of worldbuilding in my own home is spending time with my creative children. They get a good measure of that from both myself and my wife, and it’s fun to see it come out in different ways.

Today I wanted to share a conversation I had with the Lord of Monsters, my 9 year old son, Roman. He shares his thoughts and creations we are considering for the new serial adventure on LifeOfFiction.com called The Underlings. This is a story for younger children and their parents, and it’s growing in popularity quite fast.

If you are writing yourself and want to side step issues with writers block, organization of your creations, or would like special ‘trigger questions’ to force your mind to BE creative, check out the product links below (proceeds support Life Of Fiction):

Advanced Worldbuilding - a creative manual (trigger questions)

Digital Version of Advanced Worldbuilding

Printed Version of advanced Worldbuilding

Advanced Worldbuilding Journals (400 page paperbacks)

Advanced Worldbuilding Journal: A custom reference journal for creative writers

Advanced Worldbuilding Characters

Advanced Worldbuilding Events

Advanced Worldbuilding Animals

Boundless Journal (the ONLY worldbuilding journal you’ll EVER need)

Custom PDF version (unlimited variations for writers and GMs)

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We publish five days a week. Catering to our readers is what we do. Videos, artwork, articles, this podcast, and of course, the exclusive release of serial fiction, providing a new chapter each week. We’re always looking for ways to increase the value and enjoyment our community experiences.

Come to LifeOfFiction.com and become one of our subscribers. That way, you'll never miss a thing.

Thanks for listening to the podcast. Please tell a friend about us.

…and remember:

You are MORE than you THINK you are!

Today I got to have a nice conversation with Höbin Luckyfeller and the ever-present Death (as in THE).

I love doing this podcast, but even more so when I am joined family and friends.

…even if they don’t always agree with each other.

This week, we got to answer a question from - Jessica Thompson, Age 16, from New York. She asked: “Do you want each book to stand on its own, or are you trying to build a body of work with connections between each book?”

…and yes, Death did make a plug for one of our partners: Restoration Roastery. Not only do you get the best coffee around, every order helps women who have been rescued from human trafficking. Visit their site at https://restorationroastery.com

Join Our Community

We publish five days a week. Catering to our readers is what we do. Videos, artwork, articles, this podcast, and of course, the exclusive release of serial fiction, providing a new chapter each week. We’re always looking for ways to increase the value and enjoyment our community experiences.

Come to LifeOfFiction.com and become one of our subscribers. That way, you'll never miss a thing.

Thanks for listening to the podcast. Please tell a friend about us.

…and remember:

You are MORE than you THINK you are!

There is a new serial being launched on Life of Fiction, starting July 2nd, 2024. It’s called The Underlings!

In this first episode of Season 3, Jaime and Höbin explain the changes to the show, the backing of the G.R.R. (Gnome Resistance Revolutionaries), and share the new project launched earlier this week.

Better yet, Jaime did a podcast episode with this two youngest children, Roman (age 9) and Ruby (age 5).

The Underlings is a fantasy serial for kids 5+ and their parents, to provide a fun interactive ‘story time’ within the family. If you’d like to get a taste for the story and sample the audio version, provided with each episode, you can find it here:

https://www.lifeoffiction.com/p/underlings-s1e1-tag-youre-it

Join Our Community

We publish five days a week. Catering to our readers is what we do. Videos, artwork, articles, this podcast, and of course, the exclusive release of serial fiction, providing a new chapter each week. We’re always looking for ways to increase the value and enjoyment our community experiences.

Come to LifeOfFiction.com and become one of our subscribers. That way, you'll never miss a thing.

Thanks for listening to the podcast. Please tell a friend about us.

…and remember:

You are MORE than you THINK you are!

A special thanks to Death (as in THE) for saving my life. For those who have never seen a 2500 carnivorous red-back ape…bring an extra pair of shorts.

This is the last episode for Season Two of Life of Fiction, the podcast, and it’s been a fantastic adventure. I hope you have enjoyed the episodes as much as I did making them. Höbin and I have learned a great deal. How to make podcasts, what we can do, what we can’t, what is out of our control, and how to work with what we have.

It’s all good. We now have a solid starting point for to bring you a better program.

If you have questions, suggests or comments, good OR bad (because we want to improve, so you won’t hurt our feelings), shoot us an email at [email protected].

Join Our Community

We publish five days a week. Catering to our readers is what we do. Videos, artwork, articles, this podcast, and of course, the exclusive release of serial fiction, providing a new chapter each week. We’re always looking for ways to increase the value and enjoyment our community experiences.

Come to LifeOfFiction.com and become one of our subscribers. That way, you'll never miss a thing.

Thanks for listening to the podcast. Please tell a friend about us.

…and remember:

You are MORE than you THINK you are!

You have to look past the selling platforms to connect with your readers. Today I’m going to provide you with a template to do just that.

Make sure you go to Life of Fiction and take advantage of the links provided for this episode:

https://www.lifeoffiction.com/p/s2-e29-your-sales-strategy-outside-amazon

In today’s episode,  we will go over how I interact with readers, and why. If you want to exist outside the ‘norm’ of Amazon, there’s a mindset authors need to make for selling stories.

• Use the tools / platforms available (free is best / 1st option).

• If you don’t own the tools and/or platforms, they can change or vanish.

• Continue to build an independent system of ‘plug & play’.

• Make sure to build direct connections with readers.

• Teach readers, over time, how to find you…incase others get in the way.

You cannot guarantee success, but you can increase the chances of success by strategically planted ‘seeds’.

If YOU have questions, comments or suggestions, you can send them to [email protected] and we will answer them for you on the podcast.

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Remember…Thank you for the great question, Bradly!

If YOU have questions, comments or suggestions, you can send them to [email protected] and we will answer them for you on the podcast.

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Remember…

You are MORE than you THINK you are!

There is no guarantee of success. No one can promise you that, and if they do…they’re just after your money. There is, however, something you can do to give yourself an ‘unfair advantage’…

Plant seeds.

In today’s episode, we go over the mind shift and perspective to take advantage of tools and resources that far too many authors ignore. You have more options and control in your hands, than authors have had at any other time in history.

Why not set yourself up for success?

Links We Talk About

If you’d like to read more about the debate over Digital vs Print books and how it will affect you and your readers, check out this article:

https://scanse.io/blog/ebooks-vs-printed-books-statistics-sales-trends/ 

Setting up your payment processors:

Paypal

STRIPE (the better option to Paypal, IMO)

Setting up your hub store:

You have many options, but I chose to use a free service that I could grow with, and that was ‘Ko-Fi’ (“coffee”).

Jaime’s Ko-fi (just study how I have my store set up to give you ideas)

If YOU have questions, comments or suggestions, you can send them to [email protected] and we will answer them for you on the podcast.

Come to LifeOfFiction.com and become one of our free subscribers. You'll get weekly emails so you never miss and podcast, article or art we share with the community!

Remember…Thank you for the great question, Bradly!

If YOU have questions, comments or suggestions, you can send them to [email protected] and we will answer them for you on the podcast.

Come to LifeOfFiction.com and become one of our free subscribers. You'll get weekly emails so you never miss and podcast, article or art we share with the community!

Remember…

You are MORE than you THINK you are!