The Episodic w/ Michael Finney

In this session, we discuss project updates, marketing and promotional tactics for books, as well as crowdfunding like Kickstarter campaigns.

In this session, we begin a new series of discussions about pursuing the craft of filmmaking from the indie perspective by outlining the basics of production, format, and distribution.

Author John Van Stry joins the podcast to discuss how he pivoted his career from engineering to writing, as well as to talk about his new release, Lock & Load (Valley of Fire Book 3) from Raconteur Press.

In this session, we discuss what makes for a successful continuation to a story in the form of both sequels and prequels, and how they fail...

In this session, we give updates on our personal projects, discuss the art of querying submissions, and announce the "Relics" anthology of short stories we are curating with the Based Book Sale!

Author Robert Dean returns to the program with updates on the last two years of his writing career and to discuss his newest release, "Red Eye" from Anxiety Press.

In this session, we discussed successes and failings in 2025 as well as plans for 2026. It's a brand new year for writers to make the turn into authors or for established authors to build their catalog and audience.

In this episode, the Raconteur Press team of owner Ian "LawDog" McMurtrie , illustrator Cedar Sanderson, and senior editor Mike Burke join the podcast to discuss the evolution of their indie mission and what we can expect from the publisher through 2026.

The final session from 2025. We talk about accomplishments from 2025 and plans for 2026 as well as the state of traditional publishing and how Indie authors can grow.

In this episode, author Bowen Greenwood joins the program to discuss his publishing career, philosophy on writing, and the release of his newest book, "Seer's Blade".

We're counting down the last days of the year, I figured it was time to get this knocked out since it was unlikely that I would get anything else finished before the end of December.

In this episode, author Tim McKay joins the program to discuss his work as a writer and editor, the philosophy on the craft (which he also teaches), and, of course, his book releases that include audiobook renditions he produces himself.

This episode delves into the logistics of distributing paperback books, e-books, and audiobooks for self-publishing.

In this session, going wide, suspension/terminations on KDP and ACX, wrapping up 2025 projects and looking forward to 2026, storytelling and mythology.

Author Isaac Young joins the program to discuss his approach to writing, his creative career and philosophy, and his audio series "The Last Human".

In this session, we discuss working on writing projects in phases, staging marketing and materials, world-building, and the creative well.

In this session, author and designer Rian Stone joins to discuss how aspects like cover design and typography of your book creates a thorough reading experience for your audience.

This session gets into the economics of working with KDP for hardbacks, specifically in regards to releasing Daily Historical Facts. Dealing with laying out a manuscript with a lot of pictures and coordinating audiobook releases.

Author Graham Bradley joins the program to discuss his writing career and new release, Fossil Force, which is out now on Raconteur Press.

This session hits some news, project development across the media spectrum that starts with the written word, and the release program for the remainder of the year.

This workshop has updates on our work and gets into sourcing and applying beta readers and beta listeners to the material we are preparing for release.

We discuss design and formatting, particularly the staging of releases over time including ebooks, paperbacks, hardbacks, and audiobooks.

In this episode, author David W. Berner joins the program to discuss his career in media and how he became an author, as well as the publishing industry and his new release "Garden Tools" (a poetry collection).

This session discusses audiobook creation and editing in some detail and gives updates on recent projects that are in the works.

Author Nikolas Victorson joins the program to discuss his writing career and newest publication, "Semperis", which is the first release in a trilogy of novels.

In this session, I discussed working on large projects that take long periods of time and transmuting them into different media formats such as audio, video, and books.

In this workshop session, we discuss the process of polishing your manuscript into shape.

In this session, we talked about the GEN48 film festival, success as an author compared to other art forms like music and film, creation science such as making things as experiments, production costs and pricing, and focusing on getting projects done.

Hans Schantz returns to the program to discuss his new series "Fields & Energy", a historical look at physics and where it went wrong. We also discuss writing, crowdfunding projects, and the Based Book Sale.

In this session, we discussed competing with algorithms and platform changes, as well as merchandising our creations via design assets made for books or other media.

This month, Heidi, Jagi, and I discussed process and progress on the way to advancing our projects. We also gave a progress check-in on the things we're working on.

In this session, we discuss fiction and nonfiction, how to humanize technical ideas through characterization, as well as marketing and branding.

Author Heidi Hill joins the program to discuss her writing career, including a stint as a periodical editor, hosting The Writer's Block for nearly two years, and her fictional series Songless, which has recently expanded with an audiobook.

In this session, we discuss audiobook production, audio equipment, plus the development of media and hardware that enabled the growth trend for audio experiences.

We're halfway through the Writer's Block program for 2025 and decided to revisit a topic from last year (it had been almost a year)How is the progress on your work coming along?

In this session, we recap the Summer Book Sale, discuss audiobook production, and consider the value of having a series of books to promote.

Author Rambo Van Halen joins the program to discuss his new release, "Hollywood Samizdat," being published by Passage Press, his longtime interest in writing, and his career working behind the camera in the film industry.

In this session, we discuss new projects including using Royal Road for distribution, creating a novel of Warhammer 40k fan fiction with extensive use of AI, and audiobooks.

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.