Celebration time! In this week's very special episode, we're celebrating Phill's transition from corporate jerk to full-time author, and getting into the nitty gritty on how Phill and J.H. have slowly grinded this pipe dream into a reality. It's episode 42, and it's about life, the universe, and everything.

Literary agent Stacey Kondla joins the pod this week to talk about agenting, concerts, and parrots. On a related note, Phill might be part parrot. Stacey provides some great advice for anyone out there in the querying trenches.

News:

• The Never-Ending Story will never end
• Library fines paid in cat pics
• Reading the newspaper is cool again?
• The U.K. publishing sector

Tools:

• The value of a robot voice reading your stories to you

Creatives on F.I.R.E.:

• Do's and dont's of querying
• What Phill has learned transitioning to a full time author

Author Paula Lafferty joins the podcast this week and shares her success with finding an audience on TikTok and running an exceptional Kickstarter for her debut novel, La Vie de Guinevere.

And Phill has an exciting annoucement!

Paula's TikTok

La Vie de Guinevere Kickstarter

News:

• Writer Beware warns about impersonation scams
• Book clubs
• TikTok and the fed
• Spotify adding Countdown pages to audiobooks

AI News:

• The Publishers Association pens a letter to the robot overlords

Writing Tools:

• TikTok & Instagram - Building an audience
• Kickstarter - Running a big ole campaign

Creatives on F.I.R.E.:

• Putting our money where are mouths are