Writing Excuses 9.45: Tools for Writing from Oral Storytelling
M. Todd Gallowglas is a writer and a storyteller who has spent years doing traditional oral storytelling at renaissance fairs. He joined us at FantasyCon/Westercon 67 before a live audience and talked...
3 Nov 201417min
Writing Excuses 9.44: Getting in the Writer’s Mindset with Peter Beagle
We were thrilled to have Peter Beagle join us for an episode, recorded live at Westercon 67. We talked about the writer's mindset, and how to get into it. Peter schooled Brandon before the episode eve...
27 Okt 201418min
Writing Excuses 9.43: Writing Mysteries
Live from Westercon 67 and Fantasy Con, Mette Ivie Harrison and J.R. Johannson join us to talk about writing for the mystery genre. We begin by talking about the key differences between thrillers and ...
20 Okt 201417min
Writing Excuses 9.42: The Convention-Author Relationship, with Deirdre Saoirse Moen
How does a convention play into your career as an author? How might you expect to be participating in programming? How, in short, do you get to be on panels? Deirdre Saoirse Moen, who organizes fan-r...
12 Okt 201427min
Registration is open for the 2015 Out of Excuses Writing Workshop and Retreat
Registration is now open for the 2015 Out of Excuses Writing Workshop and Retreat. For the last two years the event has had a very limited size, and as a result has sold out very quickly. For 2015 we...
9 Okt 20148min
Writing Excuses 9.41: Fan Writing, with Christopher J. Garcia
Hugo Award-winner Christopher J. Garcia, publisher and editor of The Drink Tank, joins us for a discussion of fan writing, . We start with a definition of terms - fan writing technically covers everyt...
5 Okt 201416min
Writing Excuses 9.40: Understanding Royalties, with Paul Stevens
Paul Stevens, an editor at Tor, joined us in front of a live audience at Westercon 67 to talk about royalties. After a brief definition of the term, he explains how royalties are calculated, how they'...
28 Sep 201422min
Writing Excuses 9.39: Publicity for Books
Patty Garcia, Director of Publicity for Tor & Forge books, joins us in front of a live audience at Westercon 67 to talk about what publicity activities look like for commercially published genre ficti...
22 Sep 201421min
