Episode 112 features Essa Hansen for the third time, who's returning on the other side of the publication of her Graven trilogy. We discuss taking a break, process, reception and promotion, what has been learned, burnout and much much more...

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• Finishing a book trilogy as a writer
• Taking a break
• Burnout
• Success
• What's next?
• Marketing and promotion
• Fan interaction and reception
• What have you learned?
• A new paradigm, perhaps?
• Balance
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

EssaHansen.com

Sound Design with Nia Hansen Episode 21

Nophek Gloss with Essa Hansen Episode 32

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@EssaHansen

@AgentPalmer

@ThePalmerFiles

Other Links

Celebrating Sydney and The Arts with Anthemic Play It Safe

Lots of Love and Laughter in Grace Allen Biography by George Burns

You can also hear more Palmer occasionally on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier or as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette.

Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions.

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Episode 111 features Jon Reddick owner and founder of GenX Grown Up, a small multimedia kingdom of videos, podcasts, and blogs, who is here to discuss being an independent media mogul, self-employment leaps, keeping things for yourself, and much much more...

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• What do you do?
• The jump from hobby to full-time
• GenXGrownUp
• Broadcasting background
• RetroDaze Connections
• On camera comfort
• Promotion
• GenXGrownUp Broadness
• YouTube
• Vlogging
• Accountability
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

genxgrownup.com

GenXGrownUp on YouTube

GenXGrownUp on Patreon

GenXGrownUp's Discord Server

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@genxgrownup

@AgentPalmer

@ThePalmerFiles

Other Links

You Can't Spell "National Champions" Without NIL

Klosterman's Raised in Captivity Like an Adult Version of Sideways Stories from Wayside School

You can also hear more Palmer occasionally on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier or as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette.

Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions.

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Episode 110 features NJ Sullivan a co-founder of Lantern Audio Works, creator of audio dramas and the written arts, who is here to discuss a lot of things related to life and the art of creation.

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• Lantern Audio Works
• Writing
• Person v Persona
• Authenticity
• Reading
• Building Community
• Sound
• Stories
• Good Ideas
• Ingenuity, Time, and Money
• Editing
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

LanternAudioWorks.com

Lantern Audio Works on Bandcamp

NJ Sullivan Amazon Author Page

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@AgentPalmer

@ThePalmerFiles

Other Links

PROMISE by Palmer

Wired Highlights an Industry that Failed John Belushi which Continues Today

You can also hear more Palmer occasionally on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier or as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette.

Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions.

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Episode 109 features the return of Edward O'Hare, who has been my guide through my Star Trek journey, and we're going to reflect on my adventures with the original cast, before I embark upon The Next Generation.

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• Star Trek: The Original Series
• Star Trek: The Animated Series
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
• Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
• Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
• Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
• Ed prepares me to watch Star Trek: The Next Generation
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

WickedTheory.com

AgentPalmer.com/StarTrek

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@AgentPalmer

@LilEddieOHare

@ThePalmerFiles

Other Links

Palmer's Trek: Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country

Coupland is Ever-Timeless in the Buzzworthy Generation A

You can also hear more Palmer occasionally on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier or as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette.

Special Guest Producer: Bill Sweeney.

Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions.

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Episode 108 features Eric Smith a literary agent and author, who has written books of all kinds and represented all kinds of authors. He's here to discuss the publishing industry, his writing process, reading habits, and much much more...

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• Literary Agent
• Author
• Publishing
• Traditional Media
• Reading
• Young Adult Fiction
• Decision Making
• Juggling Priorities
• The Writing Process
• Musicals
• Books
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

EricSmithRocks.com

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@AgentPalmer

@ericsmithrocks

@ThePalmerFiles

Other Links

Odds' Crash the Time Machine Reminiscent of 'Cheerleader,' Eels, and Cars

Rocket Men Defines Apollo 11 Mission Better Than Anything Else I've Read

You can also hear more Palmer occasionally on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier or as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette.

Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions.

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Episode 107 features Rob Mallows the man behind The Deighton Dossier website and blog, who is here to talk about Len Deighton, Bernard Samson, Harry Palmer, as well as collecting books and feeding our reading habit, spy fiction, spybrary and much much more...

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• Len Deighton
• Reading
• Collecting
• Harry Palmer
• Bernard Samson
• Starting a website
• Spybrary Connections
• La Carre, Fleming, and Deighton
• The Cold Ward
• Human Intelligence
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

deightondossier.net

spybrary.com

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@AgentPalmer

@DeightonDossier

@ThePalmerFiles

Other Links

Palmer's Trek: Star Trek V The Final Frontier

Eric Idle Presents a Sortareminder to Laugh Through Life

You can also hear more Palmer occasionally on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier or as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette.

Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions.

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Episode 106 features Nicholas W Fuller, an author who is working on his next book while raising two kids, recording interviews for YouTube, and still finds time for that pesky day job. We discuss his writing process, compare our gaming stories, talk about coding, incomplete trilogies, too much media, reading on a kindle, and much much more…

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• What's your process
• Plotter v. Pantser
• Speech to text
• Editing
• The Writing Process
• Waking Habits
• Self-Employed
• Our gaming stories
• Roads not taken
• Depreciated Syntax
• Name of the Wind
• Too much media
• Incomplete trilogies
• Kindle
• One book at a time
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

NicholasWFuller.com

YouTube.com/@NicholasWFuller

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@AgentPalmer

@NicholasWFuller

@ThePalmerFiles

Other Links

It's Easy to Love the 1955 Dodgers When Reading Praying for Gil Hodges

Charity is a Fitting End or Even a Beginning to Deighton's Samson Series

You can also hear more Palmer occasionally on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier or as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette.

Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions.

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Episode 105 features Will White, an animator, artist, writer, and video creator who not only has experience in the studio system for animation but also has had his hand in YouTube as well with his channel WillBits. We discuss how Will became an animator, creating videos and animations on YouTube, appeasing the algorithm, supporting independent creations, throwing away good stuff, and does everyone really has a story in them, and much much more…

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• Will's Animation Story
• Cartoons
• A VHS trick to watch movies frame by frame
• Pre-Flash and Flash
• Do you have to draw?
• Webtoons
• Vtubers
• Fixing, Editing, and Retakes
• Webcomics
• Growing from bad writing
• Supporting the Independents
• YouTube
• VidCon
• Algorithm
• The tedium of animation
• Everyone has a story
• Execution matters
• An exploitative system
• Fans not fanatics
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

YouTube.com/WillBits

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@AgentPalmer

@will_bits

@ThePalmerFiles

Other Links

Palmer's Trek: Fourth Major Star Trek Movie Really Does Feel Like a Voyage Home

Almost a Decade Later, Mitchell's Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse Remains Relevant

You can also hear more Palmer occasionally on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier or as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette.

Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions.

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Episode 104 features Matt Gilhooly host of The Life Shift Podcast, an instructor for higher education, and someone who is also working toward bringing conversation back. We discussed education and expected life paths, perfection, being creative, long-form content in all forms, the act of listening, celebrating things, moving on to what's next and so much more...

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• Education
• Expected life paths
• Higher Education Expectations
• What comes next
• Engaging the brain
• Learning with and without structure
• Perfection
• Podcasting
• Challenging creative outlets
• Reading
• Communication
• Conversation
• Listening
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

MattGilhooly.com

The Life Shift Podcast

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@AgentPalmer

@thelifeshiftpod

@ThePalmerFiles

Other Links

No Matter which Football you Love, Captains and Quarterbacks Offer Emotional Journeys for Viewers

The Mystery of The Codex is Always on the Periphery

You can also hear more Palmer occasionally on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier or as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette.

Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions.

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Episode 103 features the sultry voice of David Cook, who you may know from his work on The Edge of The World Broadcast, but who hopes you'll know him as a movie trailer voice down the road. We discuss music and voice-over, comedy, entertainment, training and learning, inspiration, finding your sound, knowing your instrument, nuance and so much more...

Throughout the conversation, we discuss:

• The Edge of the World Broadcast
• "I don't do voices"
• I started as a singer
• Growing up geek
• Good music is good music
• Perfect Pitch
• Living in a household of musicians
• East Coast vs. West Coast club scenes
• "I love listening to me"
• Nuance
• And much more

Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode

The Edge of the World Broadcast

David Cook's YouTube Channel

David Cook's Soundcloud

David Cook's Instagram

AgentPalmer.com

Tweets

@AgentPalmer

@SmoothCrooner

@ThePalmerFiles

Other Links

The Story of the Femmes was the better of the Tours de France in 2023

Palmer's Trek: Star Trek III The Search for Spock

You can also hear more Palmer occasionally on Our Liner Notes, a musical conversation podcast with host Chris Maier or as co-host of The Podcast Digest with Dan Lizette.

Music created and provided by Henno Heitur of Monkey Tongue Productions.

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