EP 6: Best Selling Authors Take Over The Future Best Seller Podcast, Featuring Gerald Brandt and Bryan Thomas Schmidt

Future Best Seller

This week we've got not ONE, but TWO, best selling authors on the podcast! We are joined by Gerald Brandt, author of the Quantum Empirica and the San Angeles trilogy. And Bryan Thomas Schmidt, an author and renowned anthology editor who has worked on IP's such as Aliens Vs Predator, Jonthan Maberry's Joe Ledger series, and the upcoming Robots Through the Ages. Buy their books!

- Pitching, editing, and managing anthologies.

- Author Rule #1: Don't be an @$$hole.

- Gerald's villain origin story - How he acquired representation and sold his first novel.

- Advice for new authors.

- Pantsing Vs Plotting.

NEWS:

- Bryan sings to us.

- Audio Books sales hit records in the U.K..

- Draft2Digital announces expanded distribution with Gardners.

- Review Bombing is back. Yay...

- Black Lawrence Press picks up Nomadic Press authors who don't have a home after Nomadic Press had to shut the doors.

- The Grammys lay out their rules about A.I..

TOOLS:

- Bryan tells us about a tool he uses call TypeItIn to make editing more efficient.

- Gerald shares what he uses to manage his writing process.

CREATIVES ON FIRE:

- Working a full time job while writing.

- Credit Card Debt.