The Episodic w/ Michael Finney

This episode is about determining what to write, setting expectations and goals, plus finding time to write.

In this session, the narrative voice, using POV and characterization for immersion, getting work done and released.

Clawson Smith joins the program to discuss his writing development, the literature scene, and his new book "Prey for the Birds".

In this session, we discussed project progress, the Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing 2025 literary contest, the Taco Bell Quarterly, and writing movements through the 20th century 

In this session, we talk about translating your work between formats like books or articles, photography, audiobooks, music, and film.

In this session, we discussed writing process and getting finished work out the door such as audiobooks and utilizing Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing

The brothers Forbes, Zach and Joshua, join the program to discuss their writing process as a team of brothers, their career in writing, and the Continuum series of books they write together.

During this session, we talked about building a catalogue of releases, creating audiobooks, and the North American Fantasy Based Book Sale I am curating for May as well as alittle discussion on literary agents and ghost writing

Heidi and I led a discussion on the particulars of curating your writing environment to set the mood for creativity.

This session we talked about poetry, getting work done, and building an audience via social media

Angry Penguin joins the program to discuss his work within the generative artificial intelligence art community and the platform Glif, which makes it possible to build and run custom workflows in the browser.

A good roundtable of discussion of projects that everyone is working on currently and alittle about language translation or transcription, potentially for audiobooks.

On this episode, Billy Mays III joins the program to discuss his musical career as Infinite Third and eyepillow as William Labyrinth and celebrate the 15th anniversary of his first album release, "Gently," which is currently being prepared for a vinyl release.

We talked about branding and audiobooks during this session as well as organization in service of getting projects done.

During this workshop we discussed getting your book into markets, engaging with readers and community, as well as promotions.

On this session we discussed the Based Book Sale, the value of reviews on Amazon and Goodreads, analytics monitoring, and audiobooks vs physical reading.

On this episode, John Slaughter joins the program to talk about his path in writing and his debut release, "Crimson Veil".

This episode features a number of live poetry readings in addition to conversation about developing projects.

This episode is about getting your new projects going early in the year. We outline a few methods to get started to get something on the blank page with pen or keyboard.

This session we discuss progress on new projects, beta readers, and having a website to promote our work or to engage with readers.

Hans Schantz joins the program to discuss ultrawideband antennas, the history of physics, his writing career, and the Based Book Sale.

First session of 2025, we talked about new projects and goals for the year.

Heidi and I lead a discussion on how to get people to read or listen to your work in advance of publishing, how to source those opportunities and what to do with the feedback

Heidi and I talk with Mike from On Point Publishing about his role as a literary agent and what it means to work with one as a writer seeking to get your work publishing.

A decent year of reading, fiction-heavy, I would say, but there is a mix of other material in there as well. Also happy to note there are a good number of books in the mix from folks I know. As always, looking for recommendations and have plenty on my plate for the coming year already. I'll probably do alot less short stories and have a considerably lower count overall but that's alright. ----- Action Story - Shawn Clyne The Skull - Philip K. Dick The Gun - Philip K Dick AI for Brands - Tery Spataro, Frank Sikernitsky, Whitney Tindale Interview w/ Tery God Emperor of Dune - Frank Herbert Beyond the Door - Philip K. Dick Beyond Lies the Web - Philip K. Dick The Intention Experiment - Lynne McTaggart The Eyes Have It - Philip K. Dick The Crystal Crypt - Philip K. Dick Dreamer of Dune - Brian Herbert But Have You Read the Book? - Kristen Lopez The Hanging Stranger - Philip K. Dick Piper in the Woods - Philip K. Dick The Defenders - Philip K. Dick The Monkey's Paw - W.W. Jacobs The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis The Art of Thinking Clearly - Rolf Dobelli Escalante's Dream - David Roberts Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka A Mind for Numbers - Barbara Oakley Sheepskin, Volume 1 - Dr. John T Parce Interview w/ Parce We Are Electric - Sally Dee Automaton - TR Hudson Interview w/ Hudson On Writing - Stephen King Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut The Silmarillion - JRR Tolkien Against the Day - Thomas Pynchon Video review

This session we talk about progress through the year as it is the last session of 2024 as well as screenwriting and music

This episode is as advertised: Channels for distribution and ways to build an audience for your new book

This episode gets into using KDP, creating audiobooks, Royal Road, and allowed us to check in on the progress of our works before getting into the new year.

Tony Mugavero, CEO of Rad TV, joins the program to discuss his career in creativity, content, and technology that has led to the development of the streaming video distribution platform.

On this session we checked in about progress on our work, discussed the writing community and addressed how audio factors into both.

GET THE BOOK Exploring the National Parks across the United States is an opportunity that should not be taken for granted. To understand the profound notion of stewardship, in terms of responsibility and accountability, we must know the land as intimately as possible. This album seeks to nurture further the seeds planted in the previous entries of the series. Captured in photographs are views of seven parks around the country that accompany the author's writing about experiences and thoughts while traveling through them. Parks included: Hot Springs Big Bend Guadalupe Mountains Carlsbad Caverns White Sands Great Sand Dunes Gateway Arch

This session we talked about developing longer projects and creating in multimodel ways, which starts with writing ideas that can translate from headphones to screen and the printed page.

Heidi and I go into the process and mechanics of getting your print, ebooks, and audiobooks out into the world through the distribution platforms available to self-publishing authors.

We talked about our projects, multimodal distribution and how to find community online.

Ricky Olkusz and Tom Tiernan join the program to discuss their work, the writing craft, and their partnership on Mt Timeless Review.

This episode gets into branding and SEO in service to being an author.

Heidi and I go over the progress we're making on our projects and address what it takes to get rolling as an indie author.

Broad discussion about distribution and marketing, doing the work in general.

The ebook and the original short film are now available on Amazon Kindle and Amazon Prime. Audiobook out shortly. Have a look!

A chill hangout, Heidi and I talk shop about media distribution and design.

This month Heidi and I discuss process and progress on the way to getting out projects advanced. Working environment matters.

This session went into a bit about idea development and distribution. Join us again on Wednesday for another Twitter Space.

Gabriel Karkovsky joins the program to discuss his approach to photography, gallery experiences, and his career in print, television and film.

This session covers a bit on KDP and using advertising to promote sales of your books. Join us again on Wednesday to talk on the Twitter Space.

Heidi and I have started doing a monthly workshop to discuss getting work done and out the door to readers. It also serves as a way to check in on the progress we are making on our work through the rest of this year.

Every two weeks we hold a Twitter Space for writing to talk about their work and their books or to ask questions. Join us on Wednesday this week.

This is the audio from the 3 documystery series videos Chrissie Pressman and I produced. What do you think happened all those years ago?

Every two weeks chat about writing. This episode Ricky read us a chapter from a new book he is working on. Join us again on Wednesday

Mack Stokes joins the program to discuss his art career, how he has used blockchain and NFTs to expand his reach, and a major project that will be releasing soon

Alittle technical difficulty with Twitter Spaces but a Good talk on Scriptwriting and using Amazon for book advertising. See you again on Wednesday.

This episode features Leo Crane, we talk about his career and development as an artist as well as how technologies like AI and blockchain are changing the market landscape. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mdf-365/message