Hybrid Pub Scout Podcast · Episode 74 — Troy Lambert, Education Lead at Plottr If you’ve ever created a Pepe Silvia conspiracy board, or if you’ve ever painstakingly recorded your scenes on index cards and spread them out, only for your cat to obliterate them, you now have other options. Plottr was created by software … Read more
I always like to say, “You’re a temporarily abled person.” People can be temporarily disabled, and you can become disabled at any time. In our organization alone, we have people who are born disabled and people who have become disabled due to illness or accidents. So, leading with that sort of compassion and understanding … Read more
If you thought one horror-themed episode this season was enough, you thought wrong! If there’s one thing we’ll always do, it’s our annual Halloween episode. This week, we venture into the spookier (and less witch-hunty) side of grimoires. What are they? Who used them? Do they really count if they’re published using a printing press … Read more
The personal essay collection about horror films and queerness you didn’t know you needed (but now you do). When Joe Vallese conceived of an essay collection about horror movies and queerness five years ago, he figured there must already be one out there. Turns out, there wasn’t! So, Joe set about coralling a chorus of … Read more
Going beneath the surface of a subject obviously means getting a deeper understanding as you explore. Sometimes, those deep-dives reveal inconvenient facts. In my case, submerging myself in the world of publishing revealed that “hybrid” has an enormously loaded meaning in the field, one that has nothing to do with what Hybrid Pub Scout is … Read more
Debut author Sierra Elmore talks about self-publishing her Mean Girls remix, Death by Society. My biggest piece of advice is not to give up, because there are people in this world who want to see your stories. They want to see you succeed. Guest Bio Sierra Elmore writes YA contemporary and thriller novels about girls … Read more
In a recent consultation, a client asked me a shrewd question: What is the main thing you see authors do that delays publication? In publishing, there are many places where a project can stall. That shouldn’t be too big of a shock if you’ve worked in any industry where a project passes through multiple sets … Read more
Emily talks to Ruthie Hanson about her experience running a successful Kickstarter for her upcoming TV project, Ladies of Fortune, as well as writing books, screenplays, and fanfiction. One of the things I try to encourage as much as possible is for the production of genuine, sincere art…Any chance to get more joy into the … Read more
I had the good fortune of speaking with Jeff Borschowa on the Clientology podcast. We talk about feeding horses, not maxing out every day, being patient with yourself during the writing process, and (obviously), why publishing a book is a great way to get clients!
Let’s get this out of the way first—I know a book doesn’t die once it is published. The end of production is the beginning of an entirely new life of promoting and selling it. However, I’m a production person, and once I’m done with posting that book online, my work is mostly done, except, of … Read more
