Part 1 of my conversation with guest Matt Phillion as we discuss the power of the written word.

Show notes:

• Check out Matt's book Echo and the Sea

• Everything's great

• Content has a different meaning these days

• Gotta grab readers much more quickly

• We read full articles more infrequently

• Rarely go directly to newspaper sites

• Jay: Use Feedly, which is like the old Google Reader RSS feed aggregator

• RSS feeds are archaic now

• Facebook's News Feed is pretty light on actual news

• People "liking" products on social media

• Matt: Shorter stories seem to do better than longer novels

• e-readers are good and bad

• Internet publishing took away the gatekeeper so anyone can publish now

• Now there's so much out there, you can't tell the good from the bad

• Paperbacks are making a comeback, like vinyl

• Putting "girl" in a book title is trending

• Dino erotica is a thing

• Fun with keywords

• Doing chart battle with werewolf smut

• Jay: Finally got a Kindle last year

• Matt: Amazon is the devil that pays on time

• To be continued

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The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at his fine music blog Clicky Clicky. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.