33: Getting The Details Right with Eric James Stone

Nebula Award winner and Hugo Award nominated author Eric James Stone was our guest tonight to discuss what elements make up a "Hard" Science Fiction story or novel. Eric also shared with us elements aspiring authors must include if they want to write a credible hard SF story and errors he has seen as an assistant editor of Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show that would cause an editor not to consider an author's story for publication. For all of these topics and more from Eric James Stone, press "Play" below:

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21 David Farland: Authors and New Media

Tonight we were privileged to once again recieve a word from our Sponsor, David Farland. For this call, David was kind enough to illuminate for us the un charted waters of New Media, or "non traditional" media (Internet related media and e books) and how these new forms of information collection and distribution are already (and will potentially) change publishing as an industry and novel and short-story writing as a career.

Some of tonight's topics of discussion were:

• Potential benefits and challenges of New Media for both established and aspiring authors.
• Being more than an author: other facets of e publishing that are involved in publishing a book the New Media route.
• Market trends: Where will they go?

For over an hour of discussion about this game changing development in the publishing world from a true industry professional, just push "Play".

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