Kobo Writing Life Podcast

Check out the books we're discussing here! Kobo Writing Life Director Mark Lefebvre interviews author Robert Levine, the author of Free Ride: How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back. Mark and Robert discuss the following:   The vision of the orderly process of interviewing subjects for a non-fiction book VS the actuality The hard part being stopping (research and interviews) when you feel that you have enough material Understanding copyright law when you’re not an attorney The stress of publishing deadlines even with a supportive editor behind you What it’s like traveling the globe for research and delivering the finished product The difference between writing for dailies/weeklies/monthlies and writing a book which relies more on the underlying ideas than current events & details The essence of what publishers do in terms of aggregating risk The concept of making it convenient to do the right thing and inconvenient to do the wrong thing The inconclusive nature of the way different generations respond to the concept of copyright, digital and free media The economics of windowing with respect to format releases in publishing The difference in cost between making Iron Man 2 and the book Free Ride Pricing books and eBooks to maximize revenue   This episode also includes Q&A regarding the right price to set for your eBook as well as an overview of one author’s experiment with increasing the price of her eBook on the various eBook retail platforms.   Robert Levine's book Free Ride on Kobo (Please note there are two different links depending on which territory you're in): CA, US, HK, SG, ID, JP, BR   www.kobobooks.com/search/search.html?q=9780385533775 GB, AU, NZ, DE, FR, ES, NL, IT, HK, SG, AT, CH, ID, JP, PT, ZA, BR www.kobobooks.com/search/search.html?q=9781448161331   Robert Levine’s Website http://freeridethebook.wordpress.com/      

Check out the books we're discussing here! Kobo Writing Life Director Mark Lefebvre interviews author Steve Vernon, a writer and storyteller of both written and spoken words and they discuss the following: ·         Aspects of writing a serialized story (Steve’s Flash Virus Series), elements of humour in a thriller/horror story and the perspective of being able to laugh at life.  ·         Steve’s first published story in the mid 1980’s in a magazine that featured “Busoms, beards and big bellied bikers.” ·         Embracing both traditional publishing and self-publishing as a hybrid author and how that syncs beautifully with how Steve really “isn’t a writer, just a windbag who likes to spin yarns” ·         The importance of being able to adapt and continue to learn as a writer ·         A few of Steve’s titles:  Sinking Deeper, Maritime Murder, Tatterdemon Omnibus ·         Steve’s favourite advice for writers ·         Some book recommendations from Steve (The Scorpion Races & The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater) Also included in this episode are Mark’s “Three P’s of Self-Publishing Success” as well as a listener question regarding ensuring your Goodreads reviews appear on Kobo.   Steve’s Blog “Yours in Storytelling” http://stevevernonstoryteller.wordpress.com/   Download Episode One of Steve’s Flash Virus series (FREE) www.kobobooks.com/search/search.html?q=9780988097223   Steve’s Flash Virus Series http://www.kobobooks.com/search/search.html?q=Flash+Virus&t=none&f=series&p=1&s=none&g=both   Steve Vernon’s Books on Kobo http://www.kobobooks.com/search/search.html?q=%22Steve+Vernon%22&t=all&f=author&p=1&s=numpurchases&g=both&l=