Hi everyone, and thank you for listening to the launch episodes of the We Make Books Podcast - A podcast about writing, publishing, and everything in between!

We Make Books is hosted by Rekka Jay and Kaelyn Considine; Rekka is a published author and Kaelyn is an editor and together they are going to take you through what goes into getting a book out of your head, on to paper, in to the hands of a publisher, and finally on to book store shelves.

In this episode, Rekka and Kaelyn continue their discussion on the production process of a book, picking up from when your book gets picked up by a publisher!

We Make Books is a podcast for writer and publishers, by writers and publishers, and we want to hear from our listeners! Hit us up on our social media, linked below, and send us your questions, comments, concerns, and any theories you may have about how much Godzilla a Godzilla Would Godzilla if a Godzilla Could Godzilla Ghidorah!

Thank you for taking the time to listen to this introduction, the first batch of new episodes drops on May 14th, so be sure to subscribe so you don’t miss it.

A transcription of this episode can be found below.

We hope you enjoy We Make Books!

Twitter: @WMBCast  |  @KindofKaelyn  |  @BittyBittyZap

Instagram: @WMBCast 

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=== Transcript ===

Rekka: 00:00 Welcome to the We Make Books podcast. I'm Rekka Jay

Kaelyn: 00:03 I'm Kaelyn Considine

Kaelyn: 00:04 and I am a science fiction author

Kaelyn: 00:06 and I am a science fiction and fantasy publisher and editor. This is the first official episode of our podcast. We previously recorded an introductory episode, which if you haven't listened to already, we highly recommend you go back and listen to,

Rekka: 00:20 that's like our mission statement and what we hope to achieve with this podcast and the format that it's going to take. So, um, since we're still early on and it's not too much to go back and binge everything since this is episode one, um, we invite you to go back and just and listen to that episode and that will really tell you what we are getting into. But of course by listening to this episode, you also get a taste for that. But this one's not quite going to be our normal format.

Kaelyn: 00:42 No, this is going, we're a little bit of a departure from what will be our normal format. Uh, we'll tell you a little bit more about it, the start of the show. Um, this intro is a little longer because we just, you know, have a couple of things we want to say, but in this episode we're going to be taking you through some broad steps of the publishing process and we just wanted to start this with the disclaimer that we know these are broad steps. We know we're oversimplifying, glossing over things, not giving every single detail. And that's the point because we just want to give you an idea of here's all the things that are happening and these things are what we're going to be talking about more specifically as the podcast continues on.

Rekka: 01:19 Right. Kaelyn was inspired to the idea for this podcast by somebody saying, "I don't even know what I would do with my finished draft." So this is going to be a very, uh, it's like a two-part mini series that we're starting off the whole podcast with of like, here are all the steps that are coming your way and we hope that you're going to say, oh, I didn't know about that.

Kaelyn: 01:41 Yes

Rekka: 01:41 Or like, okay, okay, okay, this is, this is good. I'm feeling good about this. You know, like, and then

Kaelyn: 01:46 Bam.

Rekka: 01:47 Bam.

Kaelyn: 01:47 I've never heard that word before. What is that?

Kaelyn: 01:49 Yeah, what is that, so definitely if you are confused by anything, make a note of it and tweet us @wmbcast on twitter or email [email protected] and let us know that like that is something that you have never heard before or something that you've always been confused about and we can definitely add that to our slate of things that we're going to take a deeper dive into, wh

Hi everyone, and thank you for listening to Introductory Episode of the We Make Books Podcast - A podcast about writing, publishing, and everything in between!

We Make Books is hosted by Rekka Jay and Kaelyn Considine; Rekka is a published author and Kaelyn is an editor and together they are going to take you through what goes into getting a book out of your head, on to paper, in to the hands of a publisher, and finally on to book store shelves.

In this kick off episode, Rekka and Kaelyn take a few minutes to introduce themselves, talk about their vision for the podcast, and tell the story of how each of them ended up here.

We Make Books is a podcast for writer and publishers, by writers and publishers and we want to hear from our listeners! Hit us up on our social media, linked below, and send us your questions, comments, concerns, and any theories you may have about “The Rise of Skywalker”.

Thank you for taking the time to listen to this introduction, the first batch of new episodes drops on May 14th, so be sure to subscribe so you don’t miss it.

A transcription of this episode can be found below.

We hope you enjoy We Make Books!

Twitter: @WMBCast  |  @KindofKaelyn  |  @BittyBittyZap

Instagram: @WMBCast 

Patreon.com/WMBCast

=== Transcript ===

Music: 00:07 [Music]

Rekka: 00:07 Yeah I'm ready are you ready?

Kaelyn: 00:07 No, but let's do it anyway.

Rekka: 00:07 Fist bump, we can do anything.

Rekka: 00:16 All right. Inauguraguh-gull [stumbles and laughs]

Kaelyn: 00:23 God, we publish books. [laughter]

Rekka: 00:25 We don't read them out loud though, that's not our job.

Kaelyn: 00:27 That's a good point. Yeah. Inaugural episode.

Rekka: 00:31 I'm gonna leave that to you to say.

Kaelyn: 00:32 Okay. It's not actually the inaugural though.

Rekka: 00:37 Mine doesn't count. I was alone.

Kaelyn: 00:39 No but I mean it's the intro.

Rekka: 00:41 Oh, fair.

Kaelyn: 00:41 So, all right, let's just get started and we'll, we'll see how

Rekka: 00:46 We'll see how it goes and whether this ends up the episode nobody ever hears.

Kaelyn: 00:51 The black file, we're going to have to start one of those.

Rekka: 00:54 Exactly. That's what Patreon's for.

Kaelyn: 00:55 Yeah. Yeah. Are you already recording this?

Rekka: 00:59 Mm-hmm.

Kaelyn: 00:59 Okay.

Rekka: 00:59 I have been. Of course I have, this was, this was the deal. [laughter]

Kaelyn: 01:02 [laughter] Okay. So, hello everyone listening and welcome to the introductory episode of the We Make Books podcast. My name's Kaelyn Considine--

Rekka: 01:15 And I'm Rekka Jay.

Kaelyn: 01:16 --and we both make books. Um, I work for Parvus Press, which is an independent publishing company, as their acquisitions editor and also editor of various books that we publish and...

Rekka: 01:31 ...and Rekka Jay writes science fiction as R. J. Theodore and I happen to also be published through Parvus Press. A little bit of nepotism here. That's fine.

Kaelyn: 01:42 No, it's just, we're just lucky that we got to publish some of your amazing books. One out, another two coming.

Rekka: 01:48 Yes that's true.

Kaelyn: 01:48 We know it. We definitely know how lucky we are. Um, so Rekka, why don't you go ahead and get us started with what we're doing here?

Rekka: 02:00 Well, I mean we, are we starting into the backstory? Is this the origin story of We Make Books?

Kaelyn: 02:05 No, we'll save that for once we've got them hooked, I think.

Rekka: 02:08 Okay.

Kaelyn: 02:09 Yeah.

Rekka: 02:09 We want them to already think they found something of value.

Kaelyn: 02:11 Yeah, no, we're gonna--we're gonna save that for after we [laughter]

Rekka: 02:16 So, We Make Books as a concept is something that, I mean really, it should already exist.

Kaelyn: 02:24 It should. I was, we were actually both very surprised that it didn't

Rekka: 02:29 and we were looking, we didn't we weren't taking this lightly

Kaelyn: 02:32 --we looked, yeah, we--we spent quite an amount of time looking

Rekka: 02:34 We were looking for a reason to say, oh ne