Podcasts about fiction unboxed

Aired Monday, 19 October 2015, 4:00 PM ETJoin Simone Milasas, author of Joy of Business, business mentor international speaker, as she speaks with Sean Platt and Johnny B. Truant, the professionals in the Self Publishing Industry, leading a movement of Traditional-Publishing-Worthy Self Publishers.Do you have a book inside of you waiting to be created and actualized? Have you ever wondered how to enter the magical realm of published authors? Or maybe you have self-published but now it just doesn’t seem credible? Meet Sean Platt and Johnny B. Truant, the professionals in the Self Publishing Industry, leading a movement of Traditional-Publishing-Worthy Self-Publishers. Listen in to find out everything you ever need to know about self-publishing (and how to have fun while doing it too)!About the Guests Sean Platt and Johnny B. TruantJohnny B. Truant is a co-host of the top-rated Self Publishing Podcast, co-author of the #1 Marketing bestseller Write. Publish. Repeat: The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success, and the author of well over 3 million words of popular fiction.Sean Platt is a bestselling author, entrepreneur, speaker, founder of the Sterling Stone Story Studio, and co-author (with Johnny B. Truant and David Wright) of Write. Publish. Repeat., the well-loved self-publishing industry guide.Johnny and Sean along with David Wright (#1 horror author of the Yesterday’s Gone series) also launched Fiction Unboxed in 2014 — a record-setting Kickstarter project in which Johnny and Sean wrote a full-length novel in 30 days, starting without any ideas or genre, in front of a live audience, sharing every detail of the process including story meetings, emails, and raw story drafts.The novel birthed through Fiction Unboxed (The Dream Engine, first in the Blunderbuss/Alterra series) went on to spawn what the Sterling Stone team calls “open-source fiction”: an open story world in which any author may write and publish without requiring permission and without paying royalties to the world’s creators.Johnny’s fiction works (mostly co-authored with Sean Platt) include the Invasion series, the political sci-fi serial The Beam, the fantasy/western mash-up Unicorn Western books, the satirical Fat Vampire series, the literary mindbender Axis of Aaron, and too many others to count.Johnny, Sean, and David host their trendsetting, boundary-pushing podcasts every week on YouTube, iTunes, and their independent author website at: http://sterlingandstone.net/

Important links: Eric’s Website: http://ewpierce.com/ Beyond the Gate Anthology (Amazon):http://www.newwriterpodcast.com/BeyondTheGate   Find out More about The Dream Engine, Engine World, and Fiction Unboxed at http://www.sterlingandstone.net     Due to the length of this episode, it will not be available on … NWP – Episode 8 – Interview with E.W. Pierce Read More »

Sean Platt is a bestselling author with over 60 titles to his name on Amazon. Primarily a fiction writer, Sean’s world of words has a very entrepreneurial arm. As the founder of multiple imprints and publishing projects including Collective Inkwell, Realm of Sands, and his newest Sterling and Stone, he works with business partners Johnny B. Truant and David Wright to create and put out multiple series of stories in a plethora of genres, from children’s books, through to fantasy and full out dark horror. The voice behind the popular Sterling and Stone Podcast that used to be called The Self Publishing Podcast and website, he offers advice and insights to folks interested in self-publishing to help them set up their own entrepreneurial adventures. He has also penned the go-to guide for self-publishing success, Write. Publish. Repeat. In 2013, which continues to shine with over 400 five-star reviews on Amazon.   In 2014  with Johnny B. Truant, he completed and published an entire fiction book in just 30 days with their Fiction Unboxed Kickstarter project. And went for it again in November for NaNoWriMo with their Fiction Unboxed 1.5.

Tonight I talk with Hector Elias about the Beyond The Gate Anthology, NaNoWriMo, Cover Design, and our writing processes. Some of the things we mentioned: Fiction Unboxed (http://www.fictionunboxed.com) Scrivener for Beats (http://bit.ly/1tyXMYd) Garret Robinson’s Nightblade (http://garrettbrobinson.com/books/)

Sean did something amazing with his recent book. He open sourced it and is allowing people to write inside the book's world. But that's not the best part. Sean is giving away the copyright and allowing people to own the copyright and royalties to anything they create within his world. It pretty amazing! Hear Sean explain everything in today's episode below. In this Episode We Discuss: Why you need to author a book series to be successful Why Sean decided to open source his “Dream Engine” book world and allow anyone to write books in the world and own both the copyright and royalties What is serialized fiction, how does it work, and is it still popular like it was in 2012 Resources mentioned in this episode: Fiction Unboxed Project The Dream Engine - the Steampunk novel that was written during the Fiction Unboxed Project Sean's two published Amazon Serials, Monstrous & Z 2134 Write, Publish Repeat - a how-to book on writing SterlingandStone website Joanna Penn's website, the Creative Penn About Sean Sean has written more than a dozen books with the help of David Wright and Johnny B. Truant. Some of these books include his most popular series: Yesterdays Gone, The Beam, and Unicorn Western. Recently Sean wrote, The Dream Engine, with the help of Johnny B. Truant during a project they called Fiction Unboxed. Besides writing, Sean enjoys spending time with Sean his wife, daughter, and son. Connect with Sean: You can visit Sean's website: SterlingandStone.net Follow Sean on Twitter Connect With The Podcast: Sign up for the email list and I'll send you my free eBook, 5 Ways You Can Make Money as a Millennial Follow on Instagram: @moneymaker.xyz Follow on Twitter: @moneymakerxyz Enjoy the episode? Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes and leave a 5 star review! The Podcast is also now available to subscribe to on Stitcher Radio.

Sean shares his strategies and systems for writing novels. He shares how he co-wrote more than 1.5 million words last year with his business partner, Johnny B. Truant, by writing out an outline that fleshes out his ideas on paper. Hear the systems he uses in today's episode below. In this Episode We Discuss: What got Sean interested in writing fiction Sean’s gift of telling stories through copywriting Sean’s system for writing online articles fast How and why Sean started a blog How Sean’s refined systems helped him produce more than 1.5 million words last year with his business partner Sean’s outlining system of writing out character descriptions, location scouting, and more How Sean writes out what he calls 300 word “Beats” which are description and background of each chapter in the novel Sean shares how he and his business partner wrote a complete story, from no idea to finished novel, in just 30 days Resources mentioned in this episode: Fiction Unboxed Project The Dream Engine - the Steampunk novel that was written during the Fiction Unboxed Project About Sean Sean has written more than a dozen books with the help of David Wright and Johnny B. Truant. Some of these books include his most popular series: Yesterdays Gone, The Beam, and Unicorn Western. Recently Sean wrote, The Dream Engine, with the help of Johnny B. Truant during a project they called Fiction Unboxed. Besides writing, Sean enjoys spending time with Sean his wife, daughter, and son. Connect with Sean: You can visit Sean's website: SterlingandStone.net Follow Sean on Twitter Connect With The Podcast: Sign up for the email list and I'll send you my free eBook, 5 Ways You Can Make Money as a Millennial Follow on Instagram: @moneymaker.xyz Follow on Twitter: @moneymakerxyz Enjoy the episode? Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes and leave a 5 star review! The Podcast is also now available to subscribe to on Stitcher Radio. Can't wait for Thursday? Listen to Sean explain why he decided to open source his book, The Dream Engine, below.