Creative Writing Career

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Justin Sloan has moved the Creative Writing Career podcast to a new 2.0 version, rebranded as CREATIVE WRITING LIFE. Enjoy! iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/creative-writing-life/id1488636423

Dakota Krout joins Justin to discuss his books, what LitRPG is, and how to enjoy family life while still writing often and a lot.

Evan Currie joins Justin to discuss science fiction, self publishing, and his journey as an author.

Michael J. Sullivan joins Justin to talk writing epic fantasy, world building, and his adventures in both indie and traditional publishing.

Justin sits down with Joe Solari to talk the business of writing, including when to incorporate and... taxes!

Justin had the chance to sit down with superhero author Lucas Flint!

Evan Skolnick joins Justin to discuss writing for video games, breaking in, and attending the GDC.

Bobby Stein of Arena Net (Guild Wars 2) joins us to talk writing for MMO video games, breaking in, and more.

David Varela joins us to discuss his career with video games such as Zombie Run, and how he made it.

Author Ken Lozito shares his views on craft, marketing, and the magic behind his First Colony series

Tails of Dystopia with Samuel Peralta, Chris Pourteau, David Bruns, and Sean Quigley

Author Josh Hayes from Keystroke Medium on his new Richard Fox collaboration

Tim C Taylor on the UK and US Market and Opening Your World to Other Writers.

Richard Fox joins us to talk Winning a DragonCon award, Audiobooks, and Military Science Fiction

Author JR Handley joined us to talk about his military science fiction, writing in anthologies, and collaboration.

Author Monica Leonelle on Branding, Pivoting, and Being an Author

Author Jason Pinter joined us to talk writing Thrillers and Running a Publishing Company

Author Glynn Stewart discusses his science fiction / fantasy series.

Justin and Kevin discuss the eclipse, genre hopping, and editing techniques.

Gentry Race and Jonathan Yanez come on the show to talk collaborations and why they're partnering with Justin.

Justin and Kevin discuss Horizontal vs. Vertical networking strategies, how you succeed as an author, reviews, how Justin is an action star, and more!

Jason Anspach and Nick Cole discuss writing their hot Military Scifi series, Galaxy's Edge

Justin and Kevin go off about the concept that anyone's success is anyone's other than their own, just because they have help along the way. Then they talk audiobooks.

Comic Artist Fred Van Lente Released the Novel Ten Dead Comedians!

Scott King on Going From Screenwriter to Novelist and Writing Cross-Genre

The amazing magic and vampire hunter author CN Crawford (half of the team, anyway) joined us on the show!

Amy Duboff the Queen of Scifi Talks Writing Space Opera

Nicholas Sansbury Smith on Writing Trackers, Hell Divers, and Traditional vs Self-Publishing

Selling Screenplays, Adaptations, and Three-Way Collaborative Writing with George S Mahaffey jr.

Author Brandon Barr joins us to chat about his upcoming series in the Age of Magic universe and more!

Rhett Bruno shares his experience writing Scifi and traditional publishing, as well as his thoughts on trying out self publishing.

The amazing Rysa Walker shares her experience writing time travel books, creating amazing audiobooks, and hosting a series with Kindle Worlds

Not a full episode - just a couple minutes of Justin sharing why he's going full-time.

Scott Lynch talks his fantasy, writing epic fantasy, and more!

Children's book author Esther Goldenberg shares her experience writing books for kids, with a focus on encouraging kids who might not otherwise enjoy reading.

Join us as we discuss Kidlit, writing on Wattled (she was discovered because of her insanely high number of followers), traditional vs self-publishing, what it's like to have an amazing agent like Laurie McClain, and more!

Author Join Ryan Dalton as he shares his advice on writing YA time travel, how it works going with a small press and how he's succeeded in doing so, and tells us about his upcoming new release.

Dave Chesson of the Kindlepreneur and KDP Rocket shared with us his advice for how to become a writer and, once you do, how to find the right keywords and categories on Amazon. And more!

Join us as we discuss how to break into video games and table top gaming as a writer, and why writers conferences are important.

Star Brigade author C.C. Ekeke talks worldbuilding in scifi and fantasy, building and managing an author newsletter, and more.

Author Chris Fox joins the guys to discuss Writing Fiction VS Non-Fiction, Anthologies, Writing Fast, and more.

Justin and Kevin discuss how to get started as a writer in the new year.

JP Cawood shares her experience writing for television and publishing scifi and fantasy books, and includes a link for a free book!

Author CM Raymond starts off the new year by sharing with us his advice on building an audiobook newsletter and what to do with it, and joins Justin in a discussion on craft and commercial writing.

Justin and Kevin discuss how to achieve your writing goals, which ones they accomplished in 2016, and what's in store for 2017.

Author Wendy Spinale shares her experience doing readings at Barnes and Noble, publishing in the Peter Pan world, and going traditional as far as publishing

May Sage shares her wisdom regarding the publishing world, hitting on such topics as Fairy Tales, Boxsets, Anthologies, and Facebook Ads.

Michael Anderle and Justin discuss their collaboration in the Kurtherian Gambit world, starting with Justice is Calling.

Author David Bruns talks what it's like to write in other universes, how to leverage Kindle Worlds to expand your reach, and collaborative writing.

Author J.A. Cipriano talks writing Tough Guy Urban Fantasy, making it big, audiobooks, and more related to the creative writing career.