The Survival Guide to Writing Fantasy

You’ve heard The Sarge chat with James Patrick Kelly about the uphill battle of writing short stories in a novel publishing. I decided to revisit the challenges of marketing short stories with a writer that is blazing a trail of his own: Matt Wallace. With multiple Parsec Awards under his belt and an arsenal of short stories strapped across his chest like an action hero, Matt is now setting his sights on the print medium…

Matt is gearing up for his Spring/Summer release, The Next Fix. Along with the latest development of The Failed Cities Monologues and his first collection, Matt also challenges himself in other ways by taking a seat behind the Editor’s Desk.

 

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00:00 — Introduction

• I love doing The Survival Gui—what do you mean I missed March?
• Who was Joe Murphy and what was with the last show?
• Meet Matt Wallace through J.C. Hutchins’ Ultra-Creatives Podcast…
• …but meet the prolific Matt Wallace here on The Survival Guide.

9:18 — Marketing Your Shorts Off: Challenges in Selling Short Stories

• What are the promotional opportunities out there for short story authors?
• NOBODY EXPECTS DR. TRAN: Balticon Memories…
• The perception of writing short stories
• The Failed Cities Monologues
  • Facing the constant ebb and flow of the industry
  • Promoting a collection of monologues
  • How awards help the authors

25:12 — Promos

• The Adventures of Indiana Jim
• Mur Lafferty’s WASTELAND: Book Four of HEAVEN

28:26 — Marketing Your Shorts Off: Challenges in Selling Short Stories (Part II)

• Remaining on a monthly schedule for MOREVI: Remastered
  
• Billi’s Crazy Eights…more coming soon!
• Showing love at The Parsec Awards
• Returning to Matt Wallace with a talk about meeting his characters in the real world!
• Taking a seat behind the Editor’s Desk
• The challenge of writing columns
• The Next Fix from Apex
  • What you can expect from the darkness of Matt…
  • Opinions between King and Barker
  • TANGENT: Geeking out over film
  • “No World for Warriors” in print
• Matt’s Podcasting Presence
• What’s next for Matt?

50:22 — The Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Moment

J.C. Hutchins is a very naughty man who needs to be spanked.

56:41 — Closing

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