Thinking About Thinking Podcast

Here's Gerald's audio book review of Adultery by Paulo Coelho.

This featurette originally aired on KRLA-AM 890 Los Angeles and now runs to promote the GetPublished! Radio Show half-hour weekly broadcasts on KNNN-FM 87.7 Redding (hellaradio.com) Sundays at Noon Pacific Time.

Here's Gerald's audio book review of Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan.

This featurette originally aired on KRLA-AM 890 Los Angeles and now runs to promote the GetPublished! Radio Show half-hour weekly broadcasts on KNNN-FM 87.7 Redding (hellaradio.com) Sundays at Noon Pacific Time.

Here's Gerald's audio book review of The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes.

This featurette originally aired on KRLA-AM 890 Los Angeles and now runs to promote the GetPublished! Radio Show half-hour weekly broadcasts on KNNN-FM 87.7 Redding (hellaradio.com) Sundays at Noon Pacific Time.

Our guests are Gary Young, president of the Independent Writers of Southern California (IWOSC.org) and Mark Coker, CEO of Smashwords (smashwords.com).

We talk with Gary about why writers might seek the company of their peers in writers' organizations, the how and why of book proposals, and how to get started in self-publishing. Gary's book on bereavement and recovery is Loss and Found.

Mark calls in to help us understand the trends in ebook publishing. His company Smashwords is the fastest-growing ebook publisher, providing access to not only Amazon Kindle but various channels for EPUB (public format) distribution worldwide.

Gerald concludes with a story about how he published his father's memoir Searching for Jonah in hardcover in time for the author's last birthday.

This episode aired on Hella Radio, KNNN-FM 87.7 Redding, Calif. on Sunday, January 15, 2017 at Noon Pacific.

Here's Gerald's audio book review of Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse.

This featurette originally aired on KRLA-AM 890 Los Angeles and now runs to promote the GetPublished! Radio Show half-hour weekly broadcasts on KNNN-FM 87.7 Redding (hellaradio.com) Sundays at Noon Pacific Time.

Here's Gerald's audio book review of Prime Rib and Boxcars: Whatever Happened to Victoria Station? by Tom Blake.

This featurette originally aired on KRLA-AM 890 Los Angeles and now runs to promote the GetPublished! Radio Show half-hour weekly broadcasts on KNNN-FM 87.7 Redding (hellaradio.com) Sundays at Noon Pacific Time.

Here's Gerald's audio book review of The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco about the roots of fascism in Europe.

This featurette originally aired on KRLA-AM 890 Los Angeles and now runs to promote the GetPublished! Radio Show half-hour weekly broadcasts on KNNN-FM 87.7 Redding (hellaradio.com) Sundays at Noon Pacific Time.

Here's Gerald's audio book review of My Voice Will Go With You: The Teaching Tales of Milton H. Erickson by Milton Erickson and Sidney Rosen.

This featurette originally aired on KRLA-AM 890 Los Angeles and now runs to promote the GetPublished! Radio Show half-hour weekly broadcasts on KNNN-FM 87.7 Redding (hellaradio.com) Sundays at Noon Pacific Time.

Here's Gerald's audio book review of Abandoned in Hell: The Fight for Vietnam's Firebase Kate by William Albracht and Marvin Wolf.

This featurette originally aired on KRLA-AM 890 Los Angeles and now runs to promote the GetPublished! Radio Show half-hour weekly broadcasts on KNNN-FM 87.7 Redding (hellaradio.com) Sundays at Noon Pacific Time.

In this special edition of our most popular show to date, Gerald and Cheyenne take you on a field trip to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art – LACMA. It’s behind the scenes at an after-hours closed session of the American Art Council. Gerald is giving a talk on the scandal behind Julius Stewart’s painting The Baptism, which is the basis for his sixth novel, Bonfire of the Vanderbilts.

You’ll find pictures mentioned here on our website getpublishedradio.com. They’re also in the book. He gave the presentation standing in front of the painting.

Now, why are we taking you here? One of our mantras on GetPublished! Radio is that no one is stopping you. Gerald doesn't have a degree in art history – he's just an enthusiastic researcher. But if he had waited for scholars in this field to bless his results or for a mainstream publisher to vet the project – it probably would never have happened. But as it was, he self-published in paperback, ebook, and audiobook.

As you listen, realize that even now the museum doesn’t necessarily agree with all his findings. But they were impressed enough to invite him to speak behind closed doors to this influential group.

Question for your comments: Why has this been our most popular episode?