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This is the second half of Tracy Hickman’s interview on ‘Fear the Boot’ podcast this week.
- (0:19) The role of online communities in finding, building, and sustaining an audience. If you’re interested in Dragonlance, be sure to check out the Dragonlance Nexus.
- (3:44) The value of art, entertainment, and ideas on the internet. Why free may not always be the best price. Tracy’s plan for nurturing new authors in this environment.
- (14:34) Tracy’s experience of co-authoring with his wife. The importance of a continual feedback loop in the creative process. The struggles of writing and the joys of having written.
- (19:43) The Dragonlance movie. Watching other people take over your creative properties, and the “original bad deal” that gets you published.
- (25:17) Whether Tracy ever plans to do anything more that’s directly in the RPG market. His new book series, starting with Song of the Dragon.
- (29:20) What’s up with the dragons? That question leads into a discussion on the monomyth, cognitive dissonance, and the human penchant for narrative.
Hosted: Chad, Dan, Pat, Wayne.
You can visit this episode on the Fear the Boot episode web page or listen to it right here…
Hickman on Fear the Book – Part II
Chapters 11, 12 and 13 of Eventide are available now on our Elite Dragon’s Bard Website. These chapters are entitled, respectively, The Higwayman, Guilty Associations and Dirk’s Last Ride. They all deal with Jarod Klum becoming entirely TOO notorious in the town … and our learning the truth about the dreaded Highwayman and his tragic tale.
Coming next is Chapter 14: Broken Wishes and Mended Hearts wherein a broken wish is used to find a suitor for one of the Wisherwomen of the Well — with unexpected consiquences.
As we’ve been working on the Dragonsbard project, we’ve been acquiring quite a bit of experience (actual experience rather than those meaningless points one acquires in so many games) in this new field of Serial Publishing.
Serial Publishing sounds like a crime but is actually the revolutionary concept on which Dragonsbard was built: publish like the Dickens — literally and literarily — so a group of elite subscribers and provide them with the book at the end of their subscription. It is a concept pioneered by Laura and me (which has meant that we have taken our share of the arrows, as they say) and which has many people in the literary publishing field very interested. Taking on traditional publishing has been daunting but our growing success (modest though it is right now) is turning heads.
But for us the most exciting part is that we can teach other writers how to not only duplicate the system that drives dragonsbard.com … but how to make it work for their books as well. An author experienced with our system can actually have a new novel distribution system set up and operating in a single day … but the most important part – promotion – takes much longer.
That’s why I’m announcing our Scribe’s Forge Publisher Workshop here first. I’m in the process of writing a workbook for Scribe’s Forge Publisher which I hope to have ready for the fall. In the meantime, however, as I am developing the workbook, I’m willing to share all I have learned about online Serial Publishing with you at a 1/3 discount to our anticipated Workshop price. If you’re curious, you can read more about it on the Scribe’s Forge website.
Believe me … this is NOT a ‘get-rich-overnight-tell-your-boss-off-and-buy-an-island-somewhere’ program. However, if you’re a writer who would like to find a way to get your work not only in print but being READ while making money commensurate with your success, you may want to make the investment. Check it out!
Tracy Hickman was interviewed on the ‘Fear the Boot’ podcast this week, with the first half of his interview available now.
- (0:32) Who Tracy Hickman is and where you probably know him from.
- (3:41) The story of how Tracy’s wife and a missed ride got him into gaming.
- (8:25) The current trend in complexity and execution of roleplaying games. Be sure to check out both X-treme Dungeon Mastery and Killer Breakfast.
- (27:41) Raising his son in the hobby, and the experience of co-writing X-treme Dungeon Mastery with him.
- (30:56) The strangest places he’s seen his own material, and the unique relationship between an author and reader.
- (36:52) The impact of social networking and new media on the publishing industry … with a discussion on the dragonsbard series.
I hope you’ll join us there for the second half of the interview next week in which we talk more about new media, Dragonlance (including the movie), community building, my upcoming projects, and more! Hosted: Chad, Dan, Pat, Wayne.
You can visit this episode on the Fear the Boot episode web page or listen to it right here…
Tracy Hickman – Part 1
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