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Stark Reflections on Writing and Publishing

By: Mark Leslie Lefebvre
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  • Perspectives and reflections on the writing and publishing life. Mark Leslie Lefebvre, a writer, bookseller, digital publishing advocate, professional speaker, and publishing consultant explores inclusive and collaborative opportunities for writers and book publishing professionals via interviews, discussions, and reflections about the industry. (Mark's personal website is www.markleslie.ca)
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  • EP 360 - Foreign Rights Licensing with Roseanne Cheng of DropCap

    EP 360 - Foreign Rights Licensing with Roseanne Cheng of DropCap
    May 17 2024
    Mark interviews Roseanne Cheng, an award-winning author, ghostwriter, and book marketer who is passionate about educating authors and publishers about the power and opportunity of having their books elevated to the international market. They talk about her writing life, her author mentoring life, and about how DropCap Marketplace is a great bridge between indie authors and the licensing foreign language rights through traditional agencies and book scouts. Prior to the interview, Mark shares a personal update, comments from recent episodes, and a word from this episode's sponsor. Learn more about this self-publishing/WIDE-publishing focused cruise. In their interview Mark and Roseanne talk about: Roseanne's background and passion for helping writersThe first book Roseanne published (The Take Back of Lincoln Junior High) back in 2013 when she was teaching full-time and how it will always have a special place in her heartWorking with Wise Ink Creative Publishing and the great respect that Roseanne has for the women who run that businessThe various lessons learned with writing and publishing a book and how you can turn the things that you learned (via various mistakes you've made) into positives by helping others on their own journeysTaking on the role of Marketing Director at Wise Ink by leveraging her own experiences to help shepherd other writers through the process of releasing a new bookWorking with authors to create their own custom marketing plans based on their goalsMeeting and connecting with a dear friend, Josie, and teaching one another things they were each good atCreating an online school with Josie called Evergreen Authors in about 2019How the pandemic ended up helping these courses and various other online teaching and Roseanne's ghostwriting business to really take offThe genesis of her first book, The Take Back of Lincoln Junior HighReading the novel after taking a long break (focusing on the endless work and much sleeplessness of raising small children) and recognizing that it was really goodHow Roseanne's role as a teacher helped prepare her for the work she does in helping authorsThe co-authored book BUZZ: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO BOOK MARKETINGRoseanne's books THE EVERYGREEN AUTHOR: MASTER THE ART OF BOOK MARKETING and PORTABLE MAGICThe importance of asking your readers: "Where do you buy books?"The WIDE FOR THE WIN message of being in as many places as possibly and opening as many doors as possible and how it really resonated with RoseanneGetting involved in the "Rights" side of publishing and the entire distribution network that she had not yet been tapped intoA story about the first time Roseanne received an email from a foreign publisher who reached out because they were interested in the foreign language rights to her workThe creation of DropCap Marketplace as a match-making service between indie authors/small publishers and agents and book scoutsThe various other marketing resources available for authors on the DropCap siteHow DropCap marries technology with relationship resources within the industryThe special coupon code for Stark Reflections listeners. STARK20 - to get 20% off the listing at DropCap marketplaceAnd more . . . After the interview, Mark reflections on Roseanne's passion for helping writers and the importance for indie authors of recognizing where they can DIY and where they might be better off leveraging experts in a particular area of publishing. Links of Interest: Roseanne Cheng's Website Roseanne's Books Evergreen Authors WebsiteDropCap Marketplace Use coupon STARK20 to get 20% off Cruising WritersStark Publishing Support for Authors Via Margins AgencyScribeCount (Mark's Affiliate Link)Mark's YouTube ChannelBuy Mark a CoffeePatreon for Stark Reflections How to Access Patreon RSS Feeds An Author's Guide to Working With Bookstores and LibrariesThe Relaxed Author Buy eBook DirectBuy Audiobook Direct Publishing Pitfalls for AuthorsAn Author's Guide to Working with Libraries & BookstoresWide for the WinMark's Canadian Werewolf Books This Time Around (Short Story)A Canadian Werewolf in New YorkStowe Away (Novella)Fear and Longing in Los AngelesFright Nights, Big CityLover's MoonHex and the CityOnly Monsters in the Building The Canadian Mounted: A Trivia Guide to Planes, Trains and AutomobilesYippee Ki-Yay Motherf*cker: A Trivia Guide to Die Hard Roseanne Cheng is an award-winning author, ghostwriter, book marketer, and Director of Business Development DropCap Rights Agency. A lifelong reader and writer, she began her work in book publishing as a Marketing Director for an indie publishing house based in Minneapolis and eventually co-founded Evergreen Authors, an online school teaching authors the business of writing and marketing their creative work. In her current role with DropCap, she has the unique pleasure of matching global rights buyers with titles that have the potential to positively impact their communities. She is passionate about educating ...
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    49 mins
  • EP 359 - Capturing the Flow with Aaron Palmer

    EP 359 - Capturing the Flow with Aaron Palmer
    May 9 2024
    Mark interviews author, songwriter, musician, and podcaster Aaron Palmer. Prior to the interview, Mark shares a personal update, comments from recent episodes, and a word from this episode's sponsor. Learn more about this self-publishing/WIDE-publishing focused cruise. In their interview Mark and Aaron talk about: Aaron being tested at an early age and it being determined that he had perfect pitchPicking up a guitar for the first time around 6th gradeThe first big concert he saw when he was in 5th grade was Van Halen - and he was convinced he wanted to do thatA time in life when ambitions outweighed abilitiesHow playing the guitar came pretty naturally to AaronBeing a pretty avid reader when he was growing up, consuming almost anything he could get his hands onThe writing of Michael Crichton and the very cinematic way he had of writing proseBeing in college and having a professor suggest he change his major to EnglishBeginning to write short fiction shortly after thatAaron's podcast Native Tongues and the theme for the showDealing with ADHD and also regularly multi-taskingHow Aaron works through writing down log lines and concepts that are streaming through his mind to return to later to flesh outFinding out that Dave Grohl does something similarThe initial concept of the podcast first coming out about five years ago, then beginning to develop the ideas for it in about August of 203 for a January 2024 launchStarting off with a concept or idea and then later fleshing out the characters and character developmentThe idea of spending more time developing characters once you fully understand the world that they're inReaching to the darker, more speculative or fantastical elements in storytelling out of a relatively mundane, safe, and normal existenceNot taking himself very seriously as a writer or creative personGravitating toward 12-year-old Bacoo rumLoving live music in multiple venues and formsHow Aaron's podcast is helping to tie multiple creative aspects togetherAnd more . . . After the interview Mark reflects on capturing the endless flow of ideas that can come to a creative person and the value of putting a creative work out into the world instead of just holding onto it. Links of Interest: Native Tongues Podcast ApplePodbeanSpotify Native Tongues InstagramEP 358 - The Way of the Parable Writer with Donn KingEP 353 - Tao Wong on the Toronto Indie Author ConferenceEP 349 - Edward Willett of Shadowpaw PressCruising WritersStark Publishing Support for Authors Via Margins AgencyScribeCount (Mark's Affiliate Link)Mark's YouTube ChannelBuy Mark a CoffeePatreon for Stark Reflections How to Access Patreon RSS Feeds An Author's Guide to Working With Bookstores and LibrariesThe Relaxed Author Buy eBook DirectBuy Audiobook Direct Publishing Pitfalls for AuthorsAn Author's Guide to Working with Libraries & BookstoresWide for the WinMark's Canadian Werewolf Books This Time Around (Short Story)A Canadian Werewolf in New YorkStowe Away (Novella)Fear and Longing in Los AngelesFright Nights, Big CityLover's MoonHex and the CityOnly Monsters in the Building The Canadian Mounted: A Trivia Guide to Planes, Trains and AutomobilesYippee Ki-Yay Motherf*cker: A Trivia Guide to Die Hard Aaron Palmer has been described as this generation's Ernest Hemingway. Not because he can write majestic prose, but because he equally loves to drink lots of rum. Aaron enjoys writing screenplays in the horror and thriller genres in which he has an encyclopedic knowledge of. He hosts the podcast Native Tongues, where he talks to writers and musicians about where they came from and how that influenced their voice. He also plays guitar, is into fitness, travel and loves to read. Oh, and he's got a wife and kids he likes. The introductory, end, and bumper music for this podcast (“Laser Groove”) was composed and produced by Kevin MacLeod of www.incompetech.com and is Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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  • EP 358 - The Way of the Parable Writer with Donn King

    EP 358 - The Way of the Parable Writer with Donn King
    May 2 2024
    Mark interviews professor, pastor, speaker, and author Donn King about writing, his podcast, and his books THE WAY OF THE THREE-YEAR-OLD WHY and MEDIUM WELL. Prior to the interview, Mark shares a personal update, comments from recent episodes, and a word from this episode's sponsor. Learn more about this self-publishing/WIDE-publishing focused cruise. In their interview Mark and Donn talk about: Donn's gradual evolution into becoming a writer with starting work at a newspaper when he was 14 years oldAn experience in sixth grade discovering science fiction novels in the library and realizing reading could be fun when you weren't being forced to do itThe first sci-fi novel Donn remembers reading: Robert A. Heinlein's HAVE SPACESUIT WILL TRAVELDonn's first foray into writing short fiction in a 3-ring binder with a pencilLearning about his non-fiction writing from Bob Burg, co-author of THE GO-GIVER a bestselling business parable bookHow elements from writing good fiction apply when writing a parableDrawing upon autobiographical elements even when fictionalizing a parableThe difference between Writer's Block and The Well Going DryDonn's podcast, The Alignment ShowThe Great Realignment and pausing to step back and consider what really brings value to youDonn's book MEDIUM WELL: The Journey From Believing to Believing InThe beautifully inquisitive nature of 3-Year-Olds in Donn's THE WAY OF THE THREE-YEAR-OLD WHYPrincipal Five - Without emotion, there is no motionThe challenges of booking live speaking events when caring for family members who require that additional compassion and careThe reality that none of us have any certainty - we merely live with the illusion of certaintyThe concept of connection before contentAnd more . . . After the interview Mark reflects on a few of the topics that came up in their conversation. Links of Interest: Donn King's WebsiteDonn King's BooksThe Confidence Cultivators Podcast Mark's Guest Spot on Episode 54YouTube Video of Episode 54 EP 357 - 50 Years of Short Stories with Kevin J. Anderson Kevin's Short Story Kickstarter EP 356 - The Midlist Indie Author Mindset with T. Thorn Coyle Thorn's Patreon Site Writers of the Future - Blog Post Announcing Mark as a JudgeStark Publishing Support for Authors Via Margins AgencyScribeCount (Mark's Affiliate Link)Mark's YouTube ChannelBuy Mark a CoffeePatreon for Stark Reflections How to Access Patreon RSS Feeds An Author's Guide to Working With Bookstores and LibrariesThe Relaxed Author Buy eBook DirectBuy Audiobook Direct Publishing Pitfalls for AuthorsAn Author's Guide to Working with Libraries & BookstoresWide for the WinMark's Canadian Werewolf Books This Time Around (Short Story)A Canadian Werewolf in New YorkStowe Away (Novella)Fear and Longing in Los AngelesFright Nights, Big CityLover's MoonHex and the CityOnly Monsters in the Building The Canadian Mounted: A Trivia Guide to Planes, Trains and AutomobilesYippee Ki-Yay Motherf*cker: A Trivia Guide to Die Hard Donn King is "The Confidence Cultivator," a professor, pastor, speaker, and author who lives in the mountains of East Tennessee. He also hosts "The Alignment Show," a podcast to support listeners in living their values so they can value their life. His book, "The Way of the Three-Year-Old Why," the first in the Sparklight Chronicles, came out in 2023, with "Medium Well," the second in the series, came out in early 2024 The introductory, end, and bumper music for this podcast (“Laser Groove”) was composed and produced by Kevin MacLeod of www.incompetech.com and is Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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    55 mins
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