WRITEBRAIN - J-F. Dubeau

Paul couldn't make it for this wonderful episode 36, but fear not gentle listeners, for JF is not left alone to have conversations with plush toys this time. Instead, he's kept in line by guest Sam Morgan from the JABerwocky literary agency.

Sam explains the job, purpose, care and feeding of a literary agent and gives us a great primer of what to expect from an agent, how best to approach one without spooking it away and some best practices for agent hunting.

Check out some of the books from authors represented by Sam.

• Dusk fall by Christopher Husberg
• Steal the Sky by Megan E. O'Keefe
• Mechanical Failure by Joe Zieja

This week the boys have a special guest in Jamison Stone. Turns out Paul and JF lied when they said episodes would get shorter. We had so much fun talking to Jamison about his book, his passion for cosplay, his audiobook and the events he attended that we went a little long.

I won't say it's required reading, but you should definitely pick up a copy of Jamison's book, Rune of the Apprentice. Oh, you've read it? Go review it on Amazon and Goodreads, etc.

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Back again!

The boys are back and this week they talk about what kind of good habits you need to have if you want to be a steady and/or prolific writer. How do you get all those words out regularly if NaNoWriMo is going to be over in a few days. The answer is: NaNoWriMo is all the time and JF believes in magic.

Enjoy the show!

Writer, magician, podcaster, author of the Jessica Blackwood books, star of A&E’s ‘Don’t Trust Andrew Mayne’ and all around renaissance man; Andrew Mayne himself is our guest and he’s here to help YOU guys.

While we could talk to Andrew endlessly about his varied and fascinating career, it’s none of the achievements listed above that we wanted to talk to him about. Because being an award nominated tv star wizard isn’t enough, Andrew has also been working on a project for us, writers.

Join us for this episode where we discuss AuthorPage.com. A website where authors at all points in their career can build a site, share stories and build an audience.

But why read about it here when you can hear it from the man himself. Download the show and enjoy.

When you’re done, check out all of Andrew’s other projects at the links below.

andrewmayne.com

weirdthings.com (Where you'll find more about the AfterThings podcast we discuss)

authorpage.com/andrewmayne

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The irony of this show is that we talk about plotting and preparing for a book project, but we prepared nothing. Or not much. We followed what I'm going to call the 'Paul Inman Method'. Why? Listen to find out!

Who are these two guys?

It’s the WriteBrain guys! They’re back! They don’t explain it in the podcast but JF has been extremely busy traveling to exotic but dangerous locals to feed and help the people that live there. Paul grew a beard. In short, they were both very busy. The important thing is: WriteBrain has returned.

Back but… different?

As times change so does WriteBrain. We’re one year in and it’s time for an overhaul. We’re going be focusing more on the art of writing and publishing but since we’re not experts, we’re going to try to make friends with some experts and have them on to help us out.

We’re also going to have more of our author friends come on and tell us about their books.

It’s gonna be a good time.

This week, after yet another long hiatus, the boys have company. Brian Guthrie, author of Rise (out now!) joins the show to talk about his book, his inspirations and more importantly; how insane DragonCon is!

It's a great show and might just be the genesis of how WriteBrain shapes up in the future. The important thing to remember is to go pick up Rise or, if you already have it, go review it on Amazon, Goodreads and everywhere else!

Paul came back from SDCC and he won't shut up about it... and that's a good thing! Because it's fascinating. The guys talk about writing short stories but that's not what you want to hear. Oh no, Paul also got the privilege to talk to both Dave Barrett, the author of It's All Fun And Games along with Zachary Tyler Linville, author of Welcome To Deadland.

Inkshares is a changing and the last few weeks have seen some important upheaval for the company. One contest ends and another is already going on, but more importantly, there's someone new at the helm and we have him on the show to help answer some of YOUR questions about the direction of Inkshares and how it impacts your books.

The guys are honoured to have Adam Gomolin as a guest who shares with us about Inkshares, past, present and future.

NOTE: With Paul in Vegas and a ton of technical difficulty, it's a miracle we got this done at all. Thanks for you patience Adam!

Whoa! We're back... and I'll be damned if I remember what we talked about. It's been a crazy week guys and I'm sorry I don't have a better description of the episode, but with Paul gone, I don't know what I'm doing.

I miss you Paul...