We Make Books Podcast
73 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsA Podcast About Publishing
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Episode 23 - Writing With A Buddy - Your Editor and Your Second Book
December 03, 2019 08:00 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MBHi everyone, and thank you for tuning in to another episode of the We Make Books Podcast - A podcast about writing, publishing, and everything in between! In this episode we are talking about a book we hope everyone writes one day: Your second book, the one you are going to work on under contract and with an editor. Writing while working with an editor is very different from when you were off on your own, they have things like opinions and deadlines and they’re going to want to hear what yo...
Episode 22 - Magical Gummy Dollars - Thinking About Your Publishing Income
November 19, 2019 13:06 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MBRekka: 00:00 Welcome back to We Make Books, a podcast about writing, publishing and everything, everything, everything in between. And sometimes after. Kaelyn: 00:07 Sometimes after. I'm Kaelyn Considine. I am the acquisitions editor for Parvus Press. Rekka: 00:12 And I'm Rekka, I write science fiction and fantasy as RJ Theodore. Kaelyn: 00:16 And today we're talking about that after. Rekka: 00:17 Huh. Whoa. Yeah. So folks, Kaelyn: 00:21 Yeah, just... This is a little bit of a heavy epi...
Episode 21 - Circle of Know These People - All About Writing Communities with Miri Baker
November 05, 2019 08:30 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MBHi everyone, and thank you for tuning in to another episode of the We Make Books Podcast - A podcast about writing, publishing, and everything in between! First episode of November and some of you are probably 1/6 of the way into NaNoWriMo. If so, you no doubt know just significant your involvement in writing communities can be with help, support, and encouragement. But writing communities aren’t just for when NaNoWriMo rolls around and no one knows that better than our guest on today’s p...
Episode 20 - 50,000 Words in 30 Days - The Obligatory NaNoWriMo Episode
October 22, 2019 09:00 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBHi everyone, and thank you for tuning in to another episode of the We Make Books Podcast - A podcast about writing, publishing, and everything in between! November is (somehow) just around the corner and for a lot of people in the writing community it’s that magical time of year: NaNoWriMo! In this episode, we talk about all aspects of this highly anticipated month. What is NaNoWriMo? How and when did it start? What do you have to do to participate and what should you have when you are ...
Episode 19 - What Are You Working On Next? - Your Second Big Idea
October 08, 2019 08:00 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MBHi everyone, and thank you for tuning in to another episode of the We Make Books Podcast - A podcast about writing, publishing, and everything in between! We’ve recovered from Submissions September and we’re back to our regular schedule this week! And after going through the whole process of preparing and submitting your novel, we thought what better to talk about than what comes next? Writing, editing, and publishing after your debut book is different in every way - the writing, editing,...
Episode 18: We Have Regrets - Seven Episodes of Submissions September Concludes with Listener Questions!
September 30, 2019 07:59 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBHi everyone, and thank you for tuning in to another episode of the We Make Books Podcast - A podcast about writing, publishing, and everything in between! This is the final week of Submissions September, for real this time! We’re rounding out the month with a short episode of questions, concerns, and follow ups. We got a few inquires and responses over the course of the month and thought it would be a good idea to wrap up with an episode where we answer them. Thank you so much to everyon...
Episode 17 - What is Going On Over There? - The Other Side of the Submissions Process
September 24, 2019 08:30 - 39 minutes - 45.5 MBHi everyone, and thank you for tuning in to another episode of the We Make Books Podcast - A podcast about writing, publishing, and everything in between! Week Four and the final official episode of Submissions September! We will be back next Monday for one more episode to answer some questions we received. But for today’s episode, we’re talking about the other side of the submissions process. Who is reading these manuscripts? Do they have a process? What are they looking for? Rekka a...
Episode 16 - Agents of Literature Part 3 - An Interview with Agented Authors
September 19, 2019 08:30 - 45 minutes - 41.2 MBHi everyone, and thank you for tuning in to another episode of the We Make Books Podcast - A podcast about writing, publishing, and everything in between! Week Three of Submissions September and the final episode of Agents Week! For Part Three we got we spoke with three more agented authors to hear about their journey and experience in signing with their literary agent. This time we’re chatting with AJ Hackwith, Jennifer Mace, and Nino Cipri who share stories, wisdom, and anecdotes about ...
Episode 15 - Agents of Literature Part 2 - An Interview with Agented Authors
September 18, 2019 05:54 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBHi everyone, and thank you for tuning in to another episode of the We Make Books Podcast - A podcast about writing, publishing, and everything in between! Week Three of Submissions September and we’re on part two of Agents Week! For this episode we got to talk to three agented authors to hear about their journey and experience in signing with their literary agent. Tyler Hayes, Sam Hawke, and Caitlin Starling were all kind enough to tell us their stories, share their experiences, and even ...
Episode 14 - Agents of Literature, Part 1: An Interview with Literary Agent Caitlin McDonald
September 17, 2019 08:30 - 32 minutes - 30 MBHi everyone, and thank you for tuning in to another episode of the We Make Books Podcast - A podcast about writing, publishing, and everything in between! Week Three of Submissions September and oh boy did we really run with it this time! This week we are bringing you not one, not two, but three episodes and they’re all about those mysterious creatures known Literary Agents. Who are they? What do they do? How do you summon one? For this episode, we sat down with Literary Agent Caitlin ...
Episode 13: My Entire Novel in Three Hundred Words - The Dreaded Query Letter
September 10, 2019 08:00 - 47 minutes - 43.9 MBHi everyone, and thank you for tuning in to another episode of the We Make Books Podcast - A podcast about writing, publishing, and everything in between! It’s Week Two of Submissions September and we are talking about query letters! What are they? What purpose do they serve? Why are they so freaking hard to write?? Your query letter is an incredibly important part of your submission and Rekka and Kaelyn take a dive into what makes a good QL, so dos and don’ts, and some insight into Rekk...
Episode 12: Is This Ready For Other People to See? - Submitting Your Manuscript
September 03, 2019 09:00 - 40 minutes - 46.4 MBHi everyone, and thank you for tuning in to another episode of the We Make Books Podcast - A podcast about writing, publishing, and everything in between! This is a big day, not only is it the first week of Submissions September, but we have something much more important happening: Today is the release of next novel, Rekka’s Peridot Shift Trilogy, ‘SALVAGE’! It’s an amazing book and we’d love for you to check it out. On the WMB side of things, this is the first week of Submissions Septembe...
Episode 11: Your Life Changes, Except It Doesn't - The Debut Author
August 20, 2019 08:20 - 48 minutes - 55.2 MBHi everyone, and thank you for tuning in to another episode of the We Make Books Podcast - A podcast about writing, publishing, and everything in between! This week, we’re talking about a special state of being: The Debut Author. Who are these mysterious creatures, caught between a new chapter of their lives and the rest of their careers? What do the fates and their futures have in store for them? And how the heck do you kill all of this time waiting for your book to be released?? Being a...
Episode 10 - What If They Don't Like It? - Life, Death, and Book Reviews
August 06, 2019 11:12 - 51 minutes - 59.4 MBHi everyone, and thank you for tuning in to another episode of the We Make Books Podcast - A podcast about writing, publishing, and everything in between! This week, we’re talking about those wonderful, terrible things called reviews! Our last episode was pretty facts and numbers driven so this week, we wanted to talk about something a little more personal: Reading what people think of your book. Reviews are so much harder to deal with than we think they will be and in this episode we talk...
Episode 9: I Get Paid for This, Right? - The Money Episode
July 23, 2019 07:00 - 50 minutes - 69.7 MBHi everyone, and thank you for tuning in to another episode of the We Make Books Podcast - A podcast about writing, publishing, and everything in between! This week, it’s the Dreaded Money Episode! That’s right, we’re talking about advances, royalties, and how you get your money. This seems to be a bit of a taboo topic for a lot of writers, but it shouldn’t be! You wrote something and you should get paid for it! Rekka and Kaelyn go through all that, talk about some personal experience, and ...
Episode 8: Why Do They Smell Better? - Advance Reader Copies (ARCs)
July 09, 2019 07:00 - 35 minutes - 41 MBHi everyone, and thank you for tuning in to another episode of the We Make Books Podcast - A podcast about writing, publishing, and everything in between! This week we’re talking about ARCs or Advance Review Copies! What are they? Why do we print them? Who gets them? Why do they smell better than your average book?? Rekka and Kaelyn discuss all of those things, tell a few funny stories, and spend more than a little time getting side tracked talking about ARCs they’ve received. We Mak...
Episode 7: Will My Editor Tell Me It's Sh*t?
June 24, 2019 09:00 - 43 minutes - 40.2 MBHi everyone, and thank you for tuning in to another 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. We’re back to our usual format this week and we’r...
Episode 6: The Long Road for The Ragged Blade - Traditionally Publishing a Self-Published Book
June 11, 2019 12:23 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MBHi everyone, and thank you for tuning in to another 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. Like last week, this week we are doing something ...
Episode 5: Everyone Here Is So Nice - Interviews from the SFWA Nebula Conference
May 28, 2019 07:22 - 1 hour - 77 MBHey everyone, welcome to another episode of the We Make Books Podcast, a show about writing, publishing and everything in between. This week’s episode is a little different. We made the perilous journey to the City of Angels and we’re coming to you live from the Nebulas in Los Angeles, California! (Well, Los Angeles adjacent anyway.) We had an amazing weekend and while we were there, we took some time to talk to some of the people attending the Nebulas and get their advice, insight,...
Episode 4: What Are Your Intentions Toward My Book?
May 14, 2019 10:23 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBHi 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 final episode of the launch, Rekka an...
Episode 3: I Finished My Draft! Now What?! (Part 2 of 2)
May 14, 2019 10:23 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBHi 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. We kick off the podcast series with a discuss...
Episode 2: I Finished My Draft! Now What?! (Part 1 of 2)
May 14, 2019 10:04 - 40 minutes - 36.7 MBHi 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 th...
Episode 1: An Author, an Editor, and a Dinosaur Walk Into a Shed…
May 05, 2019 15:12 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBHi 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 t...