Spotlight on PUBLISHING

Maxim_the_cat_by_Mamaguri_at_flickrWhere it’s at, where it’s going…

Do you have a fictional masterpiece trapped in the back of your mind, just dying to be read by mobs of screaming fans? Do you get a little buzz every time you think about seeing your name on the cover of an actual published novel?
Hey, me too!
But…do you feel slightly less buzzed when you think about dealing with editors? agents? online booksellers? the whole nasty, soul-destroying process of bulldozing your beloved story through the frigid slush pile of modern publishing, and into the sweaty, grasping hands of soon-to-be fans and personal stalkers?
Hey, me too!
Fortunately, there are a lot of generous people out there who are willing, through the magic of podcasting, to share their experiences and knowledge with aspiring Stephen Kings and J. K. Rowlings such as ourselves.
In this ‘Spotlight on Publishing’ series, you’ll find links to the best interviews and discussions that I’ve found on the web. You’ll take a front-row seat as writers, publishers, agents, and other industry insiders trade their experiences and battle scars. By connecting you to them, I hope to make your journey less intimidating, and (hopefully) a lot more fun.
Enjoy ☺

Continue reading

Director Spotlight: AKIRA KUROSAWA

FilmMad-Society-mastheadIf you’re a fan of Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa, or you’re just curious about his work, you might want to head over to FilmMad Society. In two of their recent podcasts, they looked at his early masterpieces Rashomon and Yojimbo. Find a quick overview of the podcast episodes below…

Continue reading
https://eclecticaudio.wordpress.com/2013/06/
eclecticaudio.wordpress.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2020-34
110001
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:WCEMDKFQ7LYLQYO5JOAD6PFY3JYEQVS2
<urn:uuid:043b403c-ef6f-4b27-81ed-44fa18a71c6d>
2020-08-04T11:57:01Z
192.0.78.12
text/html
sha1:OLFQZSOPUS5JYVWMNKNYU7UQ6V2YC2VR
<urn:uuid:ad1d7146-7fa7-48e9-b86e-ae839019208e>
https://eclecticaudio.wordpress.com/2013/06/
response
<urn:uuid:a254bb6d-6c10-46b3-a0d9-45665cb28259>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-34
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for August 2020
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-51.ec2.internal
software: Apache Nutch 1.17 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/