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 i

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