The Author's Lighthouse Podcast: Recent Episodes
Karen Schober
The Author's Lighthouse is a podcast to help new and aspiring authors navigate the choppy waters of publishing. Hosted by Author Karen Schober.
This week we discuss how to develop characters and what word counts mean.
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This week we discuss ebooks, what they are, and getting the basics of creating and distributing them. And we talk about royalties and how much an author can earn from both print and ebooks from online retailers.
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/90285-in-post-trial-brief-prh-attorneys-say-doj-failed-to-prove-its-case-against-s-s-merger.html
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This week we discuss my favorite writing and production programs plus look at what an Oxford comma is.
Below are links to the programs discussed in the show and other links as well:
https://www.libreoffice.org/
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365
Scrivener - https://bit.ly/Scrivener-ALH
Atticus - https://www.atticus.io/
Vellum - https://vellum.pub/
ProWritingAid - https://bit.ly/ProWritingAid-ALH
Grammerly - https://grammarly.com/
Adobe - https://www.adobe.com/
https://www.ibpa-online.org/page/hybrid-publisher-criteria-download
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This week how we write and prepare for our stories is discussed - do you plot things out, write by the seat of your pants, or something in between?
We touch on what a trope is and discuss the anti-trust hearing about the merger between Penguin/Random House and Simon & Schuster.
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Links
https://www.patreon.com/AuthorsLighthouse
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trope
https://self-publishingschool.com/tropes-and-cliches-in-writing/
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/90032-doj-v-prh-all-our-coverage.html
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Discuss what to do when the words aren't coming out at wonderful as they are in your head. Do you quit or push forward? Also, explain the dust jacket and the parts that make it up.
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References for today's show:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/08/salman-rushdie-violently-in-attacked-on-stage-in-new-york.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_jacket
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Books to look into (With affiliate links):
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
On Writing by Stephen King
Information about em and en dashes came from - https://prowritingaid.com/art/2294/em-dash-vs-en-dash.aspx
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This week's show discusses both the types of publishing for today's authors and the term Genre.
This week we discuss why you need to discover who your ideal reader is and how to create them. The term of the week is trim size and of course publishing industry news.
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Welcome to the first episode of The Author's Lighthouse. Besides learning a little about Karen, we talk about the four pillars of publishing, this week's news in publishing, and learn what a hero is.
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