Podcast appearances and mentions of John Bond

How can you tell where the real innovation in publishing is happening right now, and why is it emerging from the indie side first? How do you market your own book when you've spent 35 years marketing everyone else's? John Bond talks about Going Indie and what he's learned about authors who last. In the intro, my thoughts on writing with AI, Charles Dickens and encouragement for the 3-year-old dancing to K-Pop at the wedding, UK copyright law, The end of an era — Hugh Howey; Notre Dame, Paris; Today's show is sponsored by Bookfunnel, the essential tool for your author business. Whether it's delivering your reader magnet, sending out advanced copies of your book, handing out ebooks at a conference, or fulfilling your digital sales to readers, BookFunnel does it all. Check it out at bookfunnel.com/thecreativepenn This show is also supported by my Patrons. Join my Community at Patreon.com/thecreativepenn John Bond is the co-founder of Whitefox, a premium publishing services agency, and has over 35 years in traditional publishing, from bookselling to marketing and management. He's also the co-author of Going Indie: Publishing Your Book Your Way, with James Silver. You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below. Show Notes Why 2012 was a watershed moment for publishing in the UK Whether the snobbery around self-publishing has finally gone How to co-write a book with someone, and why there's no formula The pride swallowing involved in getting endorsement quotes for your own book The shadow economy of indie sales that no industry chart measures The hallmarks of writers who build a long-term career You can find John at wearewhitefox.com. Transcript of the interview with John Bond Jo: John Bond is the co-founder of Whitefox, a premium publishing services agency, and has over 35 years in traditional publishing, from bookselling to marketing and management. He's also the co-author of Going Indie: Publishing Your Book Your Way, with James Silver. So welcome back to the show, John. John: Thank you, Jo. Thanks so much for having me. Jo: You were last on the show in 2022. You've been on a couple of times, but just set the scene. Tell people a bit more about you and your long background in publishing. John: I suppose I could say I started as a marketing manager at Penguin back in the early 1990s in London, and that role eventually evolved into running sales and marketing, as it often does. I did that at Penguin and at HarperCollins. Then I ran one of the publishing divisions at HarperCollins, including 4th Estate, and published Hilary Mantel and Jonathan Franzen and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and others. I left that in 2011 and set up Whitefox in 2012, and it's a classic startup story. It was somebody I worked with at HarperCollins. We sat around a kitchen table, came up with an idea for a business, which was Whitefox, and that's grown into the creative agency that it is today. Jo: So back then, did you think, “I can do this better”? Was that the impetus, “I can do publishing better than Penguin and HarperCollins”? John: No, I thought we would solve a problem. There's something very attractive about that whole startup mentality and beginning something from scratch. I mean, I was in my early 50s. I'd had a long career in traditional publishing. On the plus side, I knew a lot of people, and I thought I could get meetings, people would reply to my phone calls or my emails. On the downside, I didn't necessarily have the energy of a 20 to 25-year-old. I knew a lot of people and I knew quite a lot of things, and I also knew what problems something like Whitefox could solve. We set up with this idea that if we could galvanise and organise the diaspora of freelancers in the publishing space and make them available to anybody that wanted to make a book, that that would be quite a powerful thing. These incredibly creative, wonderful people who were below the radar and were not particularly valued or managed or utilised properly. I thought if we could access that and make that available not just to traditional publishing people who know about these people, but to individual authors, businesses, brands, people that wanted to make a book, and if you added a layer of our expertise from traditional publishing, that could be quite powerful, I suppose. That's what I was thinking back then. Jo: It's funny, though. You said these wonderful freelancers who were not particularly valued or managed or utilised properly. That could also apply to a lot of authors in traditional publishing. John: Totally. Totally. But if I'm honest, I don't think I was thinking about that. What's really evolved since we started, even in that 2011, 2012 period, is so much has happened to independent writers, indie authors. The whole ecosystem has become much more vibrant, and what is accessible to those writers is much greater. I'd like to think we've played a part in that. What that's done is put power back into writers' hands, and that quickly became apparent in the business as a byproduct of what we'd set up. Jo: Yes, and 2012 I do think in the UK was a pivot point, because I got into self-publishing in 2006/2007 when the Americans did with the beginning of the Kindle and the iPhone. Really the American ecosystem grew first. I happened to be in Australia, and so I think I was able to escape the negativity of the vortex in the UK, which took a number more years to embrace self-publishing as a force to be reckoned with as opposed to an embarrassing thing in the corner for vanity press. Do you see 2012 as a changing point in UK publishing? John: I think we'd just come out of the Kindle moment, hadn't we? There were all sorts of conversations going on about how that was going to change things forever. I think no one quite knew what the upshot of that was going to be, but we knew that it was incredibly disruptive. In 2012, Penguin, as it was then, before Penguin Random House, had offered to buy Author Solutions for $115 million, presumably seen as some kind of defensive measure as to what the market was going to evolve into. I think it felt like a real period of change. In the UK, James Daunt took over running Waterstones, and he was then ultimately going to run Barnes & Noble. It felt like a bit of a watershed. I think we were lucky in that sense, that maybe in the UK and in London, what we were creating coincided with an opening up of opportunity and creativity, and people wanting access to more tools to be able to do things themselves. Getting this idea that you invest in your own talent and what that could mean for your ability to do things quicker, better. Some of it was happenstance, but lucky for us. As you say, we then became aware that in a sense a lot of these things had come to fruition earlier on the US side. In London, that whole idea of setting up something that wasn't a traditional rights-owning model, but where you wanted to be working with people creatively, felt actually really exciting and timely. Jo: And when you started to work with independent authors, probably a couple of years after that, you started to work with a lot more indie authors and things really started to change in terms of the business side. Did you feel any of the snobbery from the traditional industry? Like you mentioned, you have a lot of contacts, a lot of connections. I came to your wonderful launch party and there were just people from all over the industry. I wondered if you got any kickback, or if anyone raised their eyebrows a little bit at who you were choosing to work with? John: Oh, definitely. And I would say I really think that's gone. You may think differently, Jo, but from my perspective, I think there has been such an evolution in the nearly 15 years that we've been going. So any of that residual snobbery, looking down your nose at people that were going DIY, producing multiple books, learning from every single publication. We've spoken about this before. I remember you sat on the panel of a FutureBook conference in the UK, which was run by a trade magazine, with this idea of looking at the, in quotes, “digital future of the business.” It felt like there were a lot of things being talked about, but not a lot of action on the traditional side. I suppose some sort of awe that there was some magic going on with people who were making a success of self-publishing. But then quite a lot of people looking down their noses at things that shouldn't get through the gatekeepers. I do think that's gone. Or if it's not completely gone, I can see it on the way out of the door, because there's no room for that when agents are struggling to sell books to publishers because publishers are looking at the next indie author, the next Freida McFadden, the next Sarah J. Maas, the next Rebecca Yarros. So whoever it may be, or wherever they're publishing, whatever they're doing now, wherever they may be, knowing that a lot of those people will already be publishing and be on not their first, second, third or fourth, but potentially their 10th or 11th book. It's a race to see who can help those authors, as a traditional publisher would see it, amplify what they're doing. I think the idea that there's an us and them, if it did exist then, which it certainly did in certain publishing quarters, is gone. I used to go to those conferences, like the FutureBook Conference, and certain publishers would talk about publishing, and when they meant publishing, they meant a really tiny area of quite literary, traditional imprints. That's what publishing meant. They didn't even mean publishing to mean educational publishing, or children's publishing, or academic publishing, and certainly not Kindle or POD or whatever. So I think that's had to change for very good, sound, commercial, economic reasons. Jo: Yes, you're right. I definitely have heard, as we go to similar events sometimes, and you do hear agents used to talk a lot more about finding books very occasionally in a slush pile, or doing courses so you could meet people and do pitch events and all this. Now it's often build an audience on BookTok or whatever, and sell lots of books, and traditional publishing as an amplifier, as you said. That's how I always hear them pitch it now, the question of— What can traditional publishing still do when indie authors can do so much? It does seem to be, well, we can amplify you, we can get you into traditional press, we can get you in traditional bookstores, we can help you with film and movie deals, that kind of thing. So that's really interesting, because that's actually changed quite a lot. They don't now seem to say, “Oh, well, we can make sure we pay you,” or, “We are editorial success as such.” John: I think they don't say editorial success or quality or indeed marketing, because that was what used to be said. I think there's an understanding that a lot of indie writers are better marketeers of their own books than traditional publishers, and if you go into the publishing machine, then you'll get your slot. It lasts for a certain period of time and then that moves on to another book. Whereas obviously if you're writing your own book and you're marketing your own book, you're able to do that yourself 24/7 wherever you are in the world, and you will know more about your readers and your audience and how that evolves than a traditional publisher would. What they probably mean now is, as you said, as much as anything, distribution, or even physical distribution. Because to be part of that process, I think that is still where a large conglomerate is able to wield some muscle, with this idea that if you physically want to see your book in bricks and mortar retailers in X outlets around the world, that's potentially easier to do if that is your aim, via a traditional publisher. So it is constantly evolving, because it used to be that marketing was the silver bullet, and I don't think that's the case anymore. Jo: No. We'll come back to marketing, shall we? Struggling with marketing. So let's get into your book. You recently co-wrote Going Indie with James Silver, Publishing Your Book Your Way. Obviously you already knew a lot about indie authors, so I wonder, what did you discover in the process of researching the book and the interviews you did? And I was one of your interviews. Did anything come up that surprised you, since you're already pretty embedded in the world? John: I would say some of it was reinforcing what I knew. So how everything is so intertwined, how in some ways unlinear everything is. People are doing lots of things in a different order to the way that traditionally writers would perceive this relay race of a manuscript gets passed to an editor, an editor passes on. That's just not how it is or needs to be anymore. I still think there is—not even a misconception—but I think there's a received wisdom that when you're talking about self-publishing, you're talking about fiction. The majority of books that Whitefox produces are not fiction, they're non-fiction. Some of them are quite mainstream, some of them are quite niche. That idea of connecting to your audience and your followers, and being slightly more scientific about how you find readers in your non-fiction niche, I think is still unspoken about in a way, in that genre fiction tends to be what people automatically assume the conversation is about. This probably doesn't surprise you, but I was pleasantly surprised to have it confirmed to me quite how much swapping and sharing there is of skills and knowledge in that space. I'm not saying indie writing is egoless at all, but there's quite a lot of sharing of knowledge and what works, and collaboration, which I think is great to see. Again, if you've, as I did many years ago, come out of corporate conglomerate publishing, traditional publishing, there's less of that by the very nature of the kind of organisation. And look, we just talked about marketing a little while ago. I do think this whole idea that the cutting edge of experimentation, it's not traditional publishing, it's indie writers. They are looking at not just how to find readers, but how to fulfil orders, how to make commercial sense of what they're doing from the absolute outset and get-go of what they're doing. And just how now the lines are blurring between what would be classified as traditional digital publishers and the writers who are doing their own thing, or doing their own thing on behalf of a few other writers. Those lines have completely blurred. There used to be this traditional hardback, paperback, X number of books a year, a year after hardback there's a paperback. This is the model we have been doing for centuries, and people doing things on their own. I think that's blurring massively, and the Venn diagrams of people's areas of expertise are just overlapping massively. Jo: Well, I think you're right there, and certainly the hardback special editions with sprayed edges and foil. A lot of us now are doing that first and not putting out the other, or putting out the rest of it at the same time. I dare say probably there are more indie authors with sprayed edge hardbacks than there are traditionally published authors. John: I'm sure that's right. And what's interesting is if you go to a traditional book printer, they are loving the direct communication with writers, that's not coming through traditional channels and traditional relationships. It's great business, it's interesting. I think that's something that's even developed in the last couple of years, that cutting out of some of the middle men required. Jo: Yes, and in terms of supporting freelancers and small publishing houses and printers and stuff, the other thing I've heard is that indie authors pay upfront, or they pay quickly, compared to some of these big publishers who are asking for long lead times and steep discounting. So actually a lot of these independent businesses are doing better under indie author work than they were under traditional. John: I think that's right, and that's what I mean also about the sharing of information and this collaborative idea of sharing creative knowledge. I mean, I'm making it sound like a kind of 19th century cooperative, which it isn't. I'm not suggesting that for a second. It's this idea that there's a lot of people learning a lot of things and there's a keenness to share some of that information, because if you've developed your own readership for your unique creative product, some of those learnings are very exciting. The printers I've spoken to love working on those kinds of things, because they are also being challenged to come up with new ways of developing ever more innovative physical product. Jo: Yes, I think it's a fun, creative time for sure. Things like Kickstarter, which you came on and talked about crowdfunding years ago, and I've obviously done. I think, what am I on now? Seven? I've just done my seventh. John: Wow. Jo: It's so much fun. But now what's happening is traditional publishers are arriving on Kickstarter and all that kind of thing. So we really see a blurring. Let's come back to your book, so Going Indie. You co-wrote it. Now obviously there are lots of positive sides of collaboration, but in terms of any challenges with collaboration and co-writing and the writing process of doing this? Because I've done this several times and I've found it very challenging. So tell us about the collaborative writing process. John: We thought a lot about it before we took it on. What I would say, having done it, is I am assuming there is no formula for how you do this. At Penguin I worked with a married couple who were crime writers, and they wrote books together. They merged their names so it appeared to be one name. I could not tell you, and they didn't share what that process was, whether they were writing different chapters or … I don't know. So I can only speak from my own experience. James is an established journalist. He's great with deadlines. He was very good at chivvying me along when I needed to be persuaded to hit the deadlines that I'd promised. I write blogs, I write newsletters, I write content for our website, but this is my first book. I've never written anything of this length. So in a way it started with the structure. It started with this idea that we would play to what we perceived as our respective strengths in terms of writing. We absolutely were not each writing every third word or anything like that. It was a process of trust in different parts. I thought, James had done some research and will be better at writing that. He deferred to me on areas that he took to be my areas of expertise. We did every interview for the book together. We went over the notes from those before they became part of the interviews for the book. And some of the book's elements are diagrammatic, so those are very easy to collaborate on. I think we tried to be professionally, creatively constructive with each other. So it was raising an eyebrow rather than shouting at each other if we didn't agree about something. A lot of it was down to the editing, and I don't know what your experience was like with a co-writer, but a lot of it came down to: here is something which is quite baggy. How do we, between us, make this as tight as we possibly can? I don't mean copy editing or proofreading. I mean the actual sort of, how do we get this into a pithy, usable, practical but discursive book? We didn't ever set out for this to be a pure reference book at all. We wanted to take a snapshot of what was going on. So a lot of it was genuinely trying to do some research and get people to feed into what was going on from lots of different perspectives, which is why we wanted to get mainstream traditional publishers, we wanted to get agents, we wanted to get indie writers, we wanted to get people who have all sorts of experiences and perspectives. That's what makes it what it is, which is, here's what we think are some of the interesting discussion points of what's going on now. Jo: It is a fantastic snapshot. I think it's really interesting—and obviously you also have seen my book, Successful Self-Publishing, which is on its fourth edition—this is one of the difficult things with snapshot type books. So have you already thought about that? I know this one has just come out, but have you thought, “Oh no, in five years we have to do it again”? John: Well, I think we thought we're going to have to address AI, which we do in the book, and we really tried to caveat that with saying, look, so much may change so quickly, and here we are talking about what we know now. We obviously tried to set the context for where we are now, and we tried as much as possible to make something which would last as long as we can. I think what we did think was, we have tried to make it as international a perspective as possible. But at the same time, we are a London-based agency, and a lot of the views will be from people based in the UK. So I think what I would like to explore is something that looks at potentially somewhere like the US, where I think there'll be different people that would perhaps have different perspectives on different things. So I think we thought about potentially there being future iterations of the book, but not yet. Jo: Not yet. This is the challenge with non-fiction, of course. On that, I would say what you just said around the US and stuff, the successful UK authors all use the same systems as the US. So I wouldn't say that the US … I mean, we all have the US companies we all use. I say Kobo is obviously Canadian, but I would say that we use the same ways of doing things. Obviously you might interview a different author, but … John: That was all I meant. I meant interviewing. Because we've interviewed agents and authors and publishers and they are largely UK based. So it was the idea that maybe there are some perspectives on things rather than systemic. Jo: Differences. John: Yes. Just that. Jo: So then I guess another challenge, we've kind of nodded to it so far, is marketing. So let's talk about the challenges of getting this book out in terms of publishing and marketing. Because you've been on the inner circle side, trying to do that for other people's books, but your own book, this is a whole nother thing. So tell us about that. John: Well, how do you do it, Jo? I mean, honestly, I've loved some of it. I get how you become completely obsessed with your book and trying to make sure that you can get it into the hands of the people that you want to get it into the hands of. We've got some great endorsement quotes, which was a task that, how can I say this? I would call it pride swallowing. The idea that you really try and get people to say nice things about your book and, if they don't reply, you think, “How much do I pester them? How much do I annoy them by asking them again nicely?” And the absolute sheer unadulterated joy when they come back with something positive that you can use and utilise in some way. So that whole process of waiting for feedback, I suppose, and hoping that people are going to like what you've done and help you spread the word for it. We had a launch event, we've given books away. We've published the book as ebook and POD. I think one of the great things about that is it's enabled us to be completely adaptable and make changes right up until the last minute. That drove everybody in my team completely crazy because we were making changes up until the last minute. So, is the book definitely going to be available on publication date? What's it going to do? You know, all of that kind of stuff. Also, just getting this idea that I suppose you can never stop. Is that a very obvious thing to say to a writer? It probably is. You just can't stop, because if you go, “Right, well, I've done it,” complacency is the enemy. Just as soon as you've got that quote, or someone said that they're going to give you an opportunity to talk about it on a platform, it's just another day and you've got to keep thinking about how you can spread the word and tell people that it exists. Jo: Yes, well, I think that's right, and particularly non-fiction, which unless it's very timely and you must get it out right now. But other than that— Most books you just have to keep marketing for years. Then just as you say, when do you stop? Well, you kind of never stop unless you want to, unless you want to retire and just give up, basically. Dean Wesley Smith, who's a big writer in the US and a kind of a mentor of mine in past years, he talks about it as this massive sea of books. And when a book arrives, he pictures it coming down and landing on the water. So the day you launch, it's landed on the water, and then it begins to sink. Then there are all these other books coming down. It's like this rain of books, and your book is sinking as soon as it lands. And your job is to keep it afloat somehow. John: Keep it afloat. Jo: Yes. John: I think you're right, and it's such an interesting perspective for us, who work with a lot of people who have one book. You know, they've spent 10 years writing it. It's their life story. It's their memoir. It's their self-help book. It's their book that accompanies them on their speaking journey, or whatever. Then there are the people who are writing constantly and can't stop writing because they're exercising that creative muscle all the time and wanting to get better, and wanting to improve and learn and understand why this works and why that hasn't worked. Just getting a glimpse into what it must be like for that person for whom writing is not a hobby. I kept saying to myself, “This is not something you're doing as a hobby.” I want this book to be of value to people, and if I'm investing that time and effort into something that I want to get out there, you've got to commit to whatever it is you need to do to make sure you're not sinking. Jo: Yes. John: I will now not be able to get that image out of my head. Jo: Yes. I know there's people listening who don't have a mind's eye, which I always find fascinating, but for those of us with a mind's eye, you can now picture that and you will never forget it. The other thing, I guess, is that, having done a lot, over 40 books now, the inevitable thing is you cannot keep pushing all of those books back up to the surface. So when you do get the bug as such of writing, the most interesting thing for all of us is always the next book. It's always like, ooh, the next thing I'm doing, I'm very excited about. So you do have to pick your battles on marketing. So have you got the bug, do you think? Are you thinking of other books in general? Because as you said, you must be, I guess, in your 60s. John: I am. Jo: You could retire. John: I am. You were talking about that long career. I could. I mean, I really love doing it, and I would love to do more. I think one of the things that surprised me was just how many ideas came up while we were doing the book about tangents that one could take it. I have no desire to write a novel. I don't want to do that. I wouldn't be very good at that. I do think there are some interesting spaces around where there's a kind of intersection of creativity and learning, and how you can develop books that would help people who are trying to achieve different things in different sectors of publishing. So without getting too granular about it, this book doesn't really address brands who want to become publishers, and I think that is something that our business has developed into working with, not just individuals, but businesses and brands. I think there's definitely spin-offs of this book which are not about repeating what we've done so far. And this whole idea of what you've been doing for a long time, what we've been doing since 2011, 2012, it's evolving now at such a speed. I mean, who would have known what was going to come out of TikTok? As you talk about TikTok to Shopify, that whole kind of new ways of finding readers, of taking books to market. As you said, Kickstarter, crowdfunding. There's all sorts of things that I think will emerge, because in a funny sort of way traditional publishing at the moment feels quite conservative with a small c. I mean, the bestsellers. Dan Brown is number one in the bestseller list this week in the UK as I speak, who has been a bestseller forever. And obviously new writers come along the whole time, but the market feels a little bit as if it's waiting now for innovation. I think if that innovation's going to happen, it's probably going to happen in the indie space before it happens in mainstream publishing. So people are coming to us and thinking, does that represent a trend? Does that represent something which could be a way of looking at something a little bit deeper, doing some research around and creating something which is not a long book, not a massive thesis, but something which is indicative of something which could be useful for people. Jo: Just coming back on the Dan Brown is in the bestseller list. I think this is completely to do with the way that traditional publishing measures things. For many years, more than a decade, probably since the beginning of Kindle, certainly the beginning of Kindle Unlimited, there is a shadow economy, I call it, or a parallel economy. I would say that almost zero of my own personal sales are measured by any industry standards. Anyone who makes any money from Kindle Unlimited or Kickstarter or Shopify, or selling direct in any form, or selling books at conventions, none of this is measured by any traditional things. As you know, the New York Times list, for example, does not include Amazon sales in their bestseller list. So you've got indie authors in the UK who are incredibly successful who have to decide, say, someone like LJ Ross, for example, decides, “Okay, I'm going to set up a proper imprint with Gardners or whatever so that I can get in bookstores so that I can hit a Sunday Times list or something.” So I would say that seeing things like Dan Brown on a bestseller list has almost no meaning in the shadow indie economy. John: No, you're absolutely right. We're not even able to see audiobook sales. Jo: Yes, audio. Any kind of borrows, like Spotify. John: No, you're completely right. I suppose I was making a broader cultural point, that it doesn't feel like there's an enormous amount of innovation going on or risk taking within what I would call mainstream trade publishing. And there doesn't seem to be the need to be, because there will be more consolidation. Small companies will be bought by big companies, so there's growth through acquisition. There's still a hope that something will take off that is a surprise, and there's still an enormous reliance on established brands who, even through the traditional metrics of how you measure them, are probably selling less, but still at the top of the pile. I suppose that's what I was meaning. Jo: Yes, and I agree with what the industry looks at as signals. It's just, as we said, a lot of these signals are invisible. So coming onto innovation, at London Book Fair this year there were a lot of sessions on AI, and you mentioned AI briefly, and there is a chapter in Going Indie on generative AI. And of course there's a lot of negativity and drama and lawsuits and this, that and the other. But at the same time, at London Book Fair, a lot of traditional publishers talking about using it, and of course they always say, “Oh, we use AI only in marketing and business, not with the creative or editorial.” Everyone makes this distinction. What are your thoughts on what's happening and where's it going with AI? Is a lot of this stuff not happening in public and just going on behind closed doors? John: I think so. We do have a chapter in the book on AI. We've generated summaries of every chapter using AI, which we explicitly said in the book as well. We've got our Ten Commandments of what we think are useful guidelines. I think that there has to be an enormous amount being done, whether it's experimentation or speeding up for efficiency's sake, or things that slow you down, within mainstream publishing. There has to be more than just the guardrails around the creative process. And clearly when we're talking about metadata, book description, cover copy, presumably royalty calculations, presumably if you're trying to grow your newsletters. There has to be an enormous amount of activity going on. We're driven by the market, so we do not commission. Writers come to us and they either want to work with us and we want to work with them, or that doesn't happen. So we're in a sense seeing what the market is seeing, and that is a whole range of things. As I've said before, there's a lot of sweeping generalisations out there, which if you look back to that Kindle moment, we were talking a little while ago about what was going on in 2010/2011, about the enormous broad brush strokes that were being perceived as a result of Kindle. Kindle has affected some areas of publishing, it's affected some not at all. I think it will be absolutely fascinating when the sweeping generalisations stop and there becomes, I suppose, even more transparency. The thing that people are looking for, isn't it? A little bit less opaqueness as to what is really being done. Because everybody's being so careful about what they say they're doing and what they're not doing. I suppose ElevenLabs is the one where people are openly engaging on the audio side. I mean, everyone is being so careful and cautious. Jo: Me too. John: What do you think? We spoke a bit about AI within the book, and I'm interested to know what you think. Jo: Well, I've obviously been openly talking about it since 2016. I openly talk about using it, and I've got my Patreon community where we talk about how we're using it, and tips on how to use it. But then, because I have been writing and publishing since 2007, 2008, I'm very strong in my creative voice. I'm very strong in my understanding of what I consider to be my level of output, and what I publish under my own name is what I publish under my own name. John: Totally. Jo: So the problem is for people who are less confident, I think, in what they're doing creatively perhaps. I know some people feel like they're scared it will take over or something. When you're as strong-minded as me, it's not taking over anything. John: It's not going to take over anything. And the other side of the coin is how many people are finding Whitefox using ChatGPT. Jo: Mm. John: I'm thrilled that we are emerging, through very detailed briefing of AI, as something that is worth engaging with. Jo: Positive marketing. John: Yes, exactly. As you say, I think there's a lot of negativity, and I think it will settle down eventually. I think less hysteria. Jo: Yes, hopefully sooner rather than later. So as we come to an end, you've been in the publishing industry a long time and seen a lot of people who have disappeared, but also those who've lasted. I wondered if maybe you could comment on those who last, because I definitely feel like I'm in my 50s now, and I want to keep doing this. I'm pretty obsessed with— What are the hallmarks of people who have a long-term career? So reflections on that. John: Oh, that's such a good question. I think there's some common characteristics and themes. So I think authenticity, I think this idea of being continually curious. I think there are people who can't help but create, and this idea that once you've sort of expelled once, that's enough. I think there's people that just can't stop creating, whatever you do with it. But this idea that the more you do, the better you get, the more you evolve and keep an open mind. I think there's definitely entrepreneurial writers who love this idea of keeping their readers engaged, and how that conversation is something that evolves and that collaboration evolves, is fascinating. I think if you love that, and you listen, there's always an opportunity to keep building on what you do. I love the writers who we work with. I can think of a writer who we're working on his fourth novel at the moment, and he is a bundle of positivity. No matter the trials and tribulations, the things that have gone wrong, his expectations definitely not being met with his first book. He definitely has this idea that he wants to keep writing, he wants to get better, and he is getting better. It isn't a journey that has a beginning and an end. It's something that will continue for as long as he wants to write. Every single book that he has published, he has learned and gained confidence, gained a network of connections that he's utilised himself now to not make the first half a dozen mistakes he made on the first book. Who knows where it will end up? But certainly the satisfaction he's getting, and the sales he's getting, are growing as he becomes savvier and quicker to make the right choices and decisions. So I think that's my honest answer to that. I think there are definitely people who think, “Phew, I have really wanted to do this book. Now I can rest easy. I've done my book.” Then there are people who really, whatever their objective, whatever the definition of success is from the get-go, just can't help creating. I do love that and respect that. I don't think our book falls quite into that category, because I think it's a slightly different thing. I think there are people who are still making a success of what they do and redefining that as they go on, and who are really open to ideas and input from different people and are not closed off. I love working with those people. Jo: So where can people find Going Indie and everything you do online? John: Well, Going Indie is available online at all good bookshops. It's available at Amazon and anywhere you buy books online as ebook and POD. Our website is wearewhitefox.com, and you'll find information about not just our book there, but a lot of other things that we're doing on that site. Jo: Brilliant. Well, thanks so much for your time, John. That was great. John: Thank you so much, Jo. It's been a pleasure. The post Going Indie, Publishing Innovation, And The Challenges Of Book Marketing With John Bond first appeared on The Creative Penn.

John Bond is an author, publishing consultant, former editor, former librarian, and lover of books who has been immersed in books and the expression of ideas for over 35 years. His new novel is "To the End of Reckoning," high-concept speculative thriller that asks what happens when history stops being debatable. As a Publishing Consultant, John brings a deep understanding of getting started on writing and then publishing a book. He is also the author of a three book series, The Little Guides, which cover writing a book, but also authoring journal articles and giving poster presentations (by Bloomsbury Publishing). We talk about books, Stephen King, nightmares, Isaac Asimov, his book "To the End of Reckoning," the craft of writing, plotting, where ideas come from, taking inspiration everywhere we find it, screenplays, recording audiobooks, how the industries of writing and publishing are changing, libraries, poetry, Riverwinds Consulting, self-publishing, querying agents, differnt types of editors, what makes a book great, creating realities in books, speculative fiction, literary fiction, sleep, goodreads, and more.

Our guest speaker, John Bond, brings a teaching: "Do the Work of an Evangelist". John is the Global Ambassador for Dynamic Church Planting International and the Founding Director of Sonlife Ministries, which trains and equips Indigenous Christ-centred leaders and ministries. With decades of ministry experience, John brings a wealth of wisdom and biblical insight.

Ian Cheeseman was the BBC's Manchester City correspondent for nearly 25 years and has been a fan all of his life. Here he hosts his weekly podcast, Forever Blue, where all things Man City are discussed. Sponsored by Counting King, experts in business finance. Ian talks to former City player Kevin Reeves and two members of the Forever Blue podcast team plus Lindsay Sainty the widow of former City coach John Sainty and the co-author of his book John Sainty, Last Man Standing. The look back on City's 1-0 defeat at Aston Villa and look back on Sainty's time at City as Head coach to John Bond. To buy a "It's Great to be a Blue" TShirt go via this linkbuytickets.at/itsgreattobeablue/storeIf you'd like to support Ian's work you can message him by DM on twitter @iancheeseman

In this very special episode, we celebrate the life and career of John Sainty – a man whose influence reached far beyond the clubs he played for and coached.From his early days as a player at Tottenham Hotspur, Bournemouth, and Aldershot, to coaching roles at Manchester City, Burnley, Chester, and of course Stockport County, John left his mark on English football.Joining us to share memories and stories are:

Have you ever wondered what it takes to turn your book idea into a published masterpiece? Or how to choose between traditional, self, or hybrid publishing? In this episode of Late Boomers, we chat with the incredible John Bond, a seasoned editor, publisher, and author. With over 500 books published and as the mastermind behind the Little Guides series, John shares his journey from a book-loving child to a publishing consultant helping authors shine.We dive into the nuts and bolts of getting published, from finding your motivation to understanding the market and choosing the right agent. John's insights on the evolving role of authors in marketing and the timeless debate of ebooks vs. paper books are not to be missed. Whether you're an aspiring author or just book-curious, this episode is packed with wisdom and encouragement to fuel your literary dreams.Tune in and let's embark on this publishing adventure together!John's BioJohn Bond has been in publishing for thirty plus years, first as an editor, book publisher, then Chief Content Officer, and now a Publishing Consultant at RiverwindsConsulting.com. He is the author of a series of books on writing with Bloomsbury Publishing/Rowman & Littlefield. His newest book is: The Little Guide to Getting Your Book Published: Simple Steps to Success. He is also the host of the YouTube channel “Publishing Defined.”Connect with JohnWebsite YoutubeLinkedInOther

Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern are joined by John Bond, founder and executive director of Whitefox Publishing, and Toby Mundy, literary agent and former publisher, to explore and evaluate the business of publishing. Toby reflects on his career, from founding Atlantic Books, now as a literary agent and serving as Executive Director of the Baillie Gifford Prize. Against the backdrop of the London Book Fair, they discuss how shifts at book fairs reflect broader industry changes. Toby and John offer an insider's view of the publishing business, from its ongoing challenges to the role of commissioning editors, where the money is, and what makes a book a success. Julia also sits down with Hannah Bickerton, the new Managing Director of Whitefox, to discuss book marketing in an evolving industry and the potential role of AI in publishing's future. This episode is brought to you in association with Whitefox, exceptional publishers for exceptional stories. Learn more at wearewhitefox.com. The Nowhere Office is a Fully Connected Production in partnership with Sandstone Global Productions. Music by Julian Brezon. Discover more at workathon.io. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 1: Luke Chennel - John Bond (1912-1989) and his wife Elaine bought the faltering magazine Road & Track in 1949. Over the course of his ownership and editorship, Bond built the magazine into a major cultural force. This presentation examines the dimensions that Bond engaged with his editorial viewpoint from a wholistic cultural lens. Bond built a durable version of car culture, the practices and values of which remain in many forms today, though under challenge from old and new trends in the automotive industry.  Bond's version of car enthusiasm stemmed directly from two sources: his education at the General Motors Institute and his enthusiasm for European racing. Road & Track's coverage of the foreign motorsports scene for some time was the only widely available source material for an American audience. Luke argues that Bond's two decade editorship (1951-1972) of Road & Track created the foundational dimensions of traditional “car guy” culture, with its familiar and clubby atmosphere familiar to those “in the know,” but also acted in an exclusionary way to women, casual automobile and racing enthusiasts, and those who might have appreciated automobiles from other dimensions than their mechanical design or performance on certain tests. Finally, the presentation examines Bond's version of car culture in a contemporary light, considering the roles of the changing nature of racing and its relationship to road vehicles, the renaissance in electric vehicles, and debates about mobility in the contemporary climate. Part 2: Kristie Sojka - will explore the progression of gender representation within the time that John Bond owned and edited Road & Track magazine. It will examine all aspects of the publication between the years of 1951-1972, including cover art, article content, photographs, and advertising. The presentation will compare and contrast the first ten years of Bond's editorship with the last ten years to identify any potential changes in female representation. With the historical perspective of developing gender politics of the time period, the presentation will consider whether these societal shifts had any impact on women's representation within the pages of the publication. Part 3: Ken Yohn - will explore car culture from an anthropological perspective, as a complex whole combining both behavior and the material objects integral to the behavior. This formulation of culture thus includes material artifacts, rituals, customs, language, beliefs, institutions, and techniques, among other elements. This presentation will address two main questions. As presented in Road & Track, what are the essential elements (behavior and artifacts) of car culture? Second, can we learn anything, or draw non-obvious conclusions about car culture by adopting this type of anthropological perspective? ===== (Oo---x---oO) ===== 00:00 Introduction and Overview 00:26 John Bond and the Rise of Road & Track 02:24 Luke Chennel's Personal Journey 03:51 John Bond's Influence on Car Culture 07:13 Bond's Vision for American Sports Cars 10:19 The Role of Racing in Car Development 15:07 Kristie Sojka on Gender Representation 23:56 Advertising and Gender in Road & Track 31:56 Disappointment in Female Representation 32:41 Dedication to John and Elaine 33:01 Ken Yon's Anthropological Perspective on Car Culture 34:12 Exploring Car Culture Through Different Lenses 37:01 Defining and Undefining Car Culture 43:11 Intergenerational Transfer in Car Culture 50:58 Q&A Session and Final Thoughts 57:34 Sponsors and Closing Remarks ==================== The Motoring Podcast Network : Years of racing, wrenching and Motorsports experience brings together a top notch collection of knowledge, stories and information. #everyonehasastory #gtmbreakfix - motoringpodcast.net More Information: https://www.motoringpodcast.net/ Become a VIP at: https://www.patreon.com/ Online Magazine: https://www.gtmotorsports.org/ This episode is part of our HISTORY OF MOTORSPORTS SERIES and is sponsored in part by: The International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC), The Society of Automotive Historians (SAH), The Watkins Glen Area Chamber of Commerce, and the Argetsinger Family - and was recorded in front of a live studio audience.

Julia Hobsbawm and Stefan Stern are joined by John Bond, founder of Whitefox Publishing to discuss the business of publishing.  We hear about how the industry has changed since the 1980s and 1990s when huge advances were handed out at the drop of a hat and books were acquired on professional instinct. That's been replaced by data-driven metrics and a clearer understanding of what consumers want. The episode provides advice for anyone looking to have a book published, explaining the current market, the steps involved and the roles that agents play. The episode features clips for Rebecca Frayn's novel Lost in Ibiza and Emily Ross and Alastair Crowl's Just Evil Enough. Both are published by Whitefox. This episode is brought to you in association with Whitefox—exceptional publishers for exceptional stories. Learn more at wearewhitefox.com. The Nowhere Office is a Fully Connected Production in partnership with Sandstone Global Productions. Music by Julian Brezon. Discover more at workathon.io. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Sarah Fowler, Cabin Crew Manager and John Bond talking about a really great little idea...a document that you can use the next time you fly.  If you join our Lovefly Facebook group, you can download a copy of it.  www.lovefly.co.uk FB - Lovefly Insta - @loveflyhelp #fearofflying #flyingwithoutfear    Intro music 'Fearless' Daniel King

Mini Rabbit goes camping in their garden. But it doesn't go exactly to plan.

The Little Guide to Getting Your Book Published (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) takes prospective authors from idea to draft manuscript to published book in a step-by-step process. The book advises writers on creating a book proposal and then how to find a publisher or agent. Whether a trade non-fiction work, monograph, or textbook, the book is guaranteed to motivate and inspire you to get started on the road to publishing today.  Written by a book professional with 30 years of experience on hundreds of publishing projects, The Little Guide will help you decide which route is right for you: a big publisher or self-publishing. It discusses the secrets on what you need to know when signing a contract, creating a winning title, and how to find the time to do it all. It includes valuable listings of publishing resources and suggested readings you will want to have at your fingertips. The Little Guide answers all of the beginner's questions in a direct and useful fashion. The book can be read all the way through or serve as a spot reference guide as authors wind their way through the process. The book is divided into 32 short, focused chapters. Sections include: “Getting Started,” “Writing Your Manuscript,” Selecting a Book Publishing Model,” “Getting Published,” and “What is an Author Promotional Platform and Why it Matters?” John Bond is a Publishing Consultant at Riverwinds Consulting. To connect with on a proiect, see his website PublishingFundamentals.com. His YouTube channel contains over 100 short videos on academic publishing. Or connect with him on LinkedIn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

The Little Guide to Getting Your Book Published (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) takes prospective authors from idea to draft manuscript to published book in a step-by-step process. The book advises writers on creating a book proposal and then how to find a publisher or agent. Whether a trade non-fiction work, monograph, or textbook, the book is guaranteed to motivate and inspire you to get started on the road to publishing today.  Written by a book professional with 30 years of experience on hundreds of publishing projects, The Little Guide will help you decide which route is right for you: a big publisher or self-publishing. It discusses the secrets on what you need to know when signing a contract, creating a winning title, and how to find the time to do it all. It includes valuable listings of publishing resources and suggested readings you will want to have at your fingertips. The Little Guide answers all of the beginner's questions in a direct and useful fashion. The book can be read all the way through or serve as a spot reference guide as authors wind their way through the process. The book is divided into 32 short, focused chapters. Sections include: “Getting Started,” “Writing Your Manuscript,” Selecting a Book Publishing Model,” “Getting Published,” and “What is an Author Promotional Platform and Why it Matters?” John Bond is a Publishing Consultant at Riverwinds Consulting. To connect with on a proiect, see his website PublishingFundamentals.com. His YouTube channel contains over 100 short videos on academic publishing. Or connect with him on LinkedIn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/communications

The Little Guide to Getting Your Book Published (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) takes prospective authors from idea to draft manuscript to published book in a step-by-step process. The book advises writers on creating a book proposal and then how to find a publisher or agent. Whether a trade non-fiction work, monograph, or textbook, the book is guaranteed to motivate and inspire you to get started on the road to publishing today.  Written by a book professional with 30 years of experience on hundreds of publishing projects, The Little Guide will help you decide which route is right for you: a big publisher or self-publishing. It discusses the secrets on what you need to know when signing a contract, creating a winning title, and how to find the time to do it all. It includes valuable listings of publishing resources and suggested readings you will want to have at your fingertips. The Little Guide answers all of the beginner's questions in a direct and useful fashion. The book can be read all the way through or serve as a spot reference guide as authors wind their way through the process. The book is divided into 32 short, focused chapters. Sections include: “Getting Started,” “Writing Your Manuscript,” Selecting a Book Publishing Model,” “Getting Published,” and “What is an Author Promotional Platform and Why it Matters?” John Bond is a Publishing Consultant at Riverwinds Consulting. To connect with on a proiect, see his website PublishingFundamentals.com. His YouTube channel contains over 100 short videos on academic publishing. Or connect with him on LinkedIn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Reneatha DeEtte GolmonReneatha DeEtte (Little) Golmon, 93, of Waco, Texas and formerly of Beeville, Texas walked into the arms of Jesus Saturday, January 6, 2024.Reneatha was born November 22, 1930, in Canadian, Texas to Eddie Presley Little and Oralee (Morehead) Little. She was a graduate of Canadian High School and then went on to graduate with a business degree from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. While attending Hardin-Simmons, Reneatha fell in love with one of their star football players. On August 15, 1953, she married Bill Golmon. Reneatha became a teacher and Bill became a coach. They were married almost 50 years, living in Big Spring, Grand View and finally retiring in Beeville, Texas.Reneatha was a caring daughter, wife, mother, sister, aunt, and grandmother. She was a longtime member of the First Baptist Church in Beeville, and a part of the Watchcare program at First Baptist of Hewitt when she moved to Waco.Reneatha loved to travel! She enjoyed seeing God's creation everywhere. She loved to see leaves changing colors, waterfalls, snow covered mountains, beaches (from inside an air-conditioned building), and oceans. She LOVED cruises. Once, she even took her beloved caretaker and friend Jamie Perez, and her hairdresser Ducky Bledsoe! Even after her knees started giving out, she'd get on her scooter and she and Tony would travel the world.She was preceded in death by her husband, Bill; her parents; and her sister, Georgia Mae Talley.She is survived by her son, Tony Golmon of Waco who was the best caretaker in the world (his sister says); her daughter, Debra D'Herde and husband Ralph of Hewitt; her granddaughter, Christi Warwick and husband Jim of Hewitt; grandson, Case D'Herde of Hewitt; brother-in-law, Gene Golmon and wife LaJoyce of Dallas; two nieces; four nephews; and many wonderful friends.Visitation will be held from 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday, January 13, at First Baptist Church in Beeville followed by the funeral service at 11 o'clock with Rev. Greg Traylor officiating.Burial will be private. Pallbearers will be Roger Perkins, Billy Burris, Vic Barris, Chuck Knowlton, Richard Zander, Ronnie Gossett, John Bond and Bob Wingenter.We would like to thank Dr. Sam Ralston and staff, Scott & White Medical Center-Hillcrest and St. Anthony's for taking care of her while she was at their facilities. We'd also like to thank Gentiva Hospice, who was there for us at any time we needed them, day or night. Thank you for being so attentive to our wishes. Thank you, Brett, with “The Grandson Home Care.” You and your staff did an excellent job of taking care of our mother. Kelsey was a special bonus to us. Mother enjoyed teasing her and giving her a hard time. They became close buddies. Elizabeth Piech, we could never have done this without you! You have been with us since the beginning. You have put up with us and taught us so much! Thank you for your love and devotion to our mother. Ronnie Gossett, you became the 2ndbest caregiver in the world when Tony needed to go out of town. You became her 3rd child, and you treated her like she was your own mother. Thank you for caring for her and being there for us all these years. We love you!During this time, he married Julie Tandy. They were married almost 48 years, having two daughters, Melissa and Audrey. Bill was a civil engineer and worked in construction for many years.He was a long-time member of Meadowbrook Baptist Church where he was a tireless volunteer. He also gave of his time and talents to Little League Baseball, Shepherd's Heart Food Pantry, Beloved and Beyond Camp, and anyone who needed a hand.Bill was preceded in death by his parents, Bill and Rosalie Morgan. He leaves to cherish his memory his wife Julie, daughter Melissa Buck and husband Cody, daughter Audrey Morgan and partner Miranda, 3 grandchildren; Emerson, Garrett, and Hadley, sister Marsha Hudson and husband J, nephew Jonathan Hudson, and many other relatives and friends who will miss him dearly.In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to Robinson Little League, P.O. Box 11024, Waco, TX 76716.

This is some of the Lovefly core team coming together to look back at 2023, favourite moments and tips. Plus, looking forward to all the exciting things coming up that we are working on to build the lovefly community. More and more help available for nervous flyers. www.lovefly.co.uk/courses/ #fearofflying #lovefly #flyingwithoutfear    Intro music 'Fearless' Daniel King

In this episode of PING, Sara Dickinson from Sinodun Internet Technologies and Terry Manderson, VP, Information Security and Network Engineering at ICANN discuss the ICANN DNS stats collector system which ICANN commissioned, and Sinodun wrote for them. This system consists of two parts, a DNS stats compactor framework which captures data in the C-DNS format, a specified set of data in CBOR format, and the DNS stats visualiser which is uses Grafana. The C-DNS format is not a complete packet capture but allows the recreation of all the DNS context of the query and response. It was standardised in 2019, in an RFC authored by Sara, her partner John, Jim Hague, John Bond and Terry. Unlike DSC, which is a 5 minute sample aggregation system, this system is able to preserve a significantly larger amount of the seen DNS query information and can even be used to re-create an on-the-wire view of the DNS (albiet not 1 to 1 identical to the original IP packetflows)

Listen to this interview of John Bond, founder and publishing consultant of Riverwinds Consulting. We talk about the breadth of services and resources now on offer to publishing scientists — while the industry only grows broader and broader. John Bond : "The one thing I would say helps specifically the middle-tier author (who'll, by the way, be most reluctant to try this) is this: Feel really comfortable sharing your early work on a more frequent and a wider basis. Because these authors tend to be quite shy about sharing work until they themselves think that it's absolutely perfect. And if we're really talking about the best quality ideas and the best quality work — well, sharing the concept with close ties early on, and then a draft or an outline with colleagues early on, and then the draft of it completely written, and then the final version — to do, so to speak, your own peer review early on, so that you head off rabbit holes you might be going down or poor expression of your ideas — that is really essential. Therefore, feel very comfortable with developing that network of people, in your institution, but most importantly, outside your institution." Of interest:  John Bond is a Publishing Consultant at Riverwinds Consulting. To connect with on a proiect, see his website PublishingFundamentals.com. He is the author of a book series with Rowman & Littlefield including The LIttle Guide to Getting Your Journal Article Published: Simple Steps to Success. For the podcast, the publisher has offered the promotional code 4F23LG to save 30%. The rest of the series is also available. His YouTube channel contains over 100 short videos on academic publishing. Or connect with him on LinkedIn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Listen to this interview of John Bond, founder and publishing consultant of Riverwinds Consulting. We talk about the breadth of services and resources now on offer to publishing scientists — while the industry only grows broader and broader. John Bond : "The one thing I would say helps specifically the middle-tier author (who'll, by the way, be most reluctant to try this) is this: Feel really comfortable sharing your early work on a more frequent and a wider basis. Because these authors tend to be quite shy about sharing work until they themselves think that it's absolutely perfect. And if we're really talking about the best quality ideas and the best quality work — well, sharing the concept with close ties early on, and then a draft or an outline with colleagues early on, and then the draft of it completely written, and then the final version — to do, so to speak, your own peer review early on, so that you head off rabbit holes you might be going down or poor expression of your ideas — that is really essential. Therefore, feel very comfortable with developing that network of people, in your institution, but most importantly, outside your institution." Of interest:  John Bond is a Publishing Consultant at Riverwinds Consulting. To connect with on a proiect, see his website PublishingFundamentals.com. He is the author of a book series with Rowman & Littlefield including The LIttle Guide to Getting Your Journal Article Published: Simple Steps to Success. For the podcast, the publisher has offered the promotional code 4F23LG to save 30%. The rest of the series is also available. His YouTube channel contains over 100 short videos on academic publishing. Or connect with him on LinkedIn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science

Listen to this interview of John Bond, founder and publishing consultant of Riverwinds Consulting. We talk about the breadth of services and resources now on offer to publishing scientists — while the industry only grows broader and broader. John Bond : "The one thing I would say helps specifically the middle-tier author (who'll, by the way, be most reluctant to try this) is this: Feel really comfortable sharing your early work on a more frequent and a wider basis. Because these authors tend to be quite shy about sharing work until they themselves think that it's absolutely perfect. And if we're really talking about the best quality ideas and the best quality work — well, sharing the concept with close ties early on, and then a draft or an outline with colleagues early on, and then the draft of it completely written, and then the final version — to do, so to speak, your own peer review early on, so that you head off rabbit holes you might be going down or poor expression of your ideas — that is really essential. Therefore, feel very comfortable with developing that network of people, in your institution, but most importantly, outside your institution." Of interest:  John Bond is a Publishing Consultant at Riverwinds Consulting. To connect with on a proiect, see his website PublishingFundamentals.com. He is the author of a book series with Rowman & Littlefield including The LIttle Guide to Getting Your Journal Article Published: Simple Steps to Success. For the podcast, the publisher has offered the promotional code 4F23LG to save 30%. The rest of the series is also available. His YouTube channel contains over 100 short videos on academic publishing. Or connect with him on LinkedIn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listen to this interview of John Bond, founder and publishing consultant of Riverwinds Consulting. We talk about the breadth of services and resources now on offer to publishing scientists — while the industry only grows broader and broader. John Bond : "The one thing I would say helps specifically the middle-tier author (who'll, by the way, be most reluctant to try this) is this: Feel really comfortable sharing your early work on a more frequent and a wider basis. Because these authors tend to be quite shy about sharing work until they themselves think that it's absolutely perfect. And if we're really talking about the best quality ideas and the best quality work — well, sharing the concept with close ties early on, and then a draft or an outline with colleagues early on, and then the draft of it completely written, and then the final version — to do, so to speak, your own peer review early on, so that you head off rabbit holes you might be going down or poor expression of your ideas — that is really essential. Therefore, feel very comfortable with developing that network of people, in your institution, but most importantly, outside your institution." Of interest:  John Bond is a Publishing Consultant at Riverwinds Consulting. To connect with on a proiect, see his website PublishingFundamentals.com. He is the author of a book series with Rowman & Littlefield including The LIttle Guide to Getting Your Journal Article Published: Simple Steps to Success. For the podcast, the publisher has offered the promotional code 4F23LG to save 30%. The rest of the series is also available. His YouTube channel contains over 100 short videos on academic publishing. Or connect with him on LinkedIn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did you know that dogs are excellent at dressing up in human clothes?!

Mississippi Sports Hall of Famer and former Mississippi State and NFL football great Tyrone Keys was part of the same signing class as the late Johnie Cooks and they played together on some of State's greatest defenses. Keys remembers his late friend and some of the greatest games in Bulldog history.

John Bond joins the show on the Farm Bureau guest line to talk about his time playing at Mississippi State with Johnie Cooks. John shares about the first time he met Johnie. John talks about being hit by Johnie in practice and how he learned Johnie was the real deal. John talks about the intensity that Johnie brought to the locker room. John wraps up the segment talking about beating Bear Bryant and how spectacular his defense was being lead by Cooks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bo talks SEC quarterbacks of the 2000s, and John Bond and Rob Fesmire join the show to celebrate the life of Johnie Cooks in the third hour of the show live in the BankPlus Studio. Bo begins the hour with continuing the discussion from the day before about the top SEC quarterbacks from the 2000s. Bo talks about the list and gives reasons on why he believes A.J. McCarron is too high and Nick Fitzgerald is too low. John Bond joins the show on the Farm Bureau guest line to talk about his time playing at Mississippi State with Johnie Cooks. John shares about the first time he met Johnie. John talks about being hit by Johnie in practice and how he learned Johnie was the real deal. John talks about the intensity that Johnie brought to the locker room. John wraps up the segment talking about beating Bear Bryant and how spectacular his defense was being lead by Cooks. Former Bulldog Rob Fesmire joins the show on the Farm Bureau guest line talking about his friend Johnie Cooks. Rob, a Nashville native, tells stories about playing at Mississippi State in the early 80s with Johnie. Rob shares his experience when MSU beat Bear Bryant in Jackson and how Johnie dared Alabama's sideline to go for it on fourth down. Rob talks about being close to Johnie and the adversity and homesickness that Johnie went through. Rob wraps up the hour sharing how great of a person and a friend that Cooks was to him and to everyone he met. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bo and Blake talk SEC football and baseball in the SEC Insider Hit live in the BankPlus Studio. The guys talk SEC football and the quarterback room at Auburn as Hugh Freeze is looking to upgrade the position after an unimpressive showing during Spring practice. The guys talk about the QB battle in Oxford and how that might differ from the situation down the road in Starkville, where Will Rogers is looking to become the first four-year starter at the position since John Bond. Bo hits on the rumors out of the MSU baseball program that former Houston Astros great Roy Oswalt might be in line to fill the vacant pitching coach position for Chris Lemonis. Bo and Blake debate what, if anything, an interim pitching coach could accomplish in just three weeks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bo and Blake talk SEC football and baseball in the first hour of the show live in the BankPlus Studio. On National Orange Juice Day, the guys get into a weird discussion around cocktail mixers and the time Jackson Meadows chased a bloody mary with a white russian. Bo talks about his lackluster attempt to learn the game of golf by practicing for 30 minutes once every two weeks. The guys talk SEC football and the quarterback room at Auburn as Hugh Freeze is looking to upgrade the position after an unimpressive showing during Spring practice. The guys talk about the QB battle in Oxford and how that might differ from the situation down the road in Starkville, where Will Rogers is looking to become the first four-year starter at the position since John Bond. Bo hits on the rumors out of the MSU baseball program that former Houston Astros great Roy Oswalt might be in line to fill the vacant pitching coach position for Chris Lemonis. Bo and Blake debate what, if anything, an interim pitching coach could accomplish in just three weeks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Writing and publishing are at the heart of most academic and research pursuits. Many potential authors, however, feel lost in the seemingly Everest climbing-like process. There is little formal education that authors receive during their education. In this regard, John Bond's new book's The Little Guide to Getting Your Journal Article Published: Simple Steps to Success (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) seeks to pull back the curtain on the process and provide essential information to lead authors to their goals. The Little Guide answers all of a novice author's questions in a direct and useful fashion. The book can be read all the way through or serve as a spot reference guide as authors wind their way through the process. The book is divided into 29 short, focused chapters. Sections include "Getting Started," "Selecting Potential Journals for Submission," "Writing Your Article," "Submitting Your Article," and "Publication at Last. "Bond brings in a wealth of experience from decades of working in world of scholarly publishing and as a publishing consultant for authors. In this podcast he discusses the contents of his book and the challenges faced in the domain of scholarly publishing today and the simple steps for successful publication. Tune in to listen and get your article published! Sanjay Kumar, Ph.D., is a senior lecturer in the Center for Academic Writing at Central European University. Twitter: @sanju1235 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Writing and publishing are at the heart of most academic and research pursuits. Many potential authors, however, feel lost in the seemingly Everest climbing-like process. There is little formal education that authors receive during their education. In this regard, John Bond's new book's The Little Guide to Getting Your Journal Article Published: Simple Steps to Success (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) seeks to pull back the curtain on the process and provide essential information to lead authors to their goals. The Little Guide answers all of a novice author's questions in a direct and useful fashion. The book can be read all the way through or serve as a spot reference guide as authors wind their way through the process. The book is divided into 29 short, focused chapters. Sections include "Getting Started," "Selecting Potential Journals for Submission," "Writing Your Article," "Submitting Your Article," and "Publication at Last. "Bond brings in a wealth of experience from decades of working in world of scholarly publishing and as a publishing consultant for authors. In this podcast he discusses the contents of his book and the challenges faced in the domain of scholarly publishing today and the simple steps for successful publication. Tune in to listen and get your article published! Sanjay Kumar, Ph.D., is a senior lecturer in the Center for Academic Writing at Central European University. Twitter: @sanju1235 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/communications

Writing and publishing are at the heart of most academic and research pursuits. Many potential authors, however, feel lost in the seemingly Everest climbing-like process. There is little formal education that authors receive during their education. In this regard, John Bond's new book's The Little Guide to Getting Your Journal Article Published: Simple Steps to Success (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) seeks to pull back the curtain on the process and provide essential information to lead authors to their goals. The Little Guide answers all of a novice author's questions in a direct and useful fashion. The book can be read all the way through or serve as a spot reference guide as authors wind their way through the process. The book is divided into 29 short, focused chapters. Sections include "Getting Started," "Selecting Potential Journals for Submission," "Writing Your Article," "Submitting Your Article," and "Publication at Last. "Bond brings in a wealth of experience from decades of working in world of scholarly publishing and as a publishing consultant for authors. In this podcast he discusses the contents of his book and the challenges faced in the domain of scholarly publishing today and the simple steps for successful publication. Tune in to listen and get your article published! Sanjay Kumar, Ph.D., is a senior lecturer in the Center for Academic Writing at Central European University. Twitter: @sanju1235 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Writing and publishing are at the heart of most academic and research pursuits. Many potential authors, however, feel lost in the seemingly Everest climbing-like process. There is little formal education that authors receive during their education. In this regard, John Bond's new book's The Little Guide to Getting Your Journal Article Published: Simple Steps to Success (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) seeks to pull back the curtain on the process and provide essential information to lead authors to their goals. The Little Guide answers all of a novice author's questions in a direct and useful fashion. The book can be read all the way through or serve as a spot reference guide as authors wind their way through the process. The book is divided into 29 short, focused chapters. Sections include "Getting Started," "Selecting Potential Journals for Submission," "Writing Your Article," "Submitting Your Article," and "Publication at Last. "Bond brings in a wealth of experience from decades of working in world of scholarly publishing and as a publishing consultant for authors. In this podcast he discusses the contents of his book and the challenges faced in the domain of scholarly publishing today and the simple steps for successful publication. Tune in to listen and get your article published! Sanjay Kumar, Ph.D., is a senior lecturer in the Center for Academic Writing at Central European University. Twitter: @sanju1235 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Show Notes:  https://wetflyswing.com/442 Presented By: Togens Fly Shop, Daiichi, Stonefly Nets, Angler's Coffee Sponsors: https://wetflyswing.com/sponsors Alen Baker is here to take us to the Fly Fishing Museum of the Southern Appalachians. We discover who some of the most famous people are in this region and why they have a drift boat in the museum. We also learn how they are different and similar to some of the museums around the country. Tune in and get ready to reel in some new knowledge! Fly Fishing Museum Show Notes with Alen Baker 03:00 - Alen shares how he got into fly fishing in 1981, noting that he grew up fishing with worm bait. 04:18 - Alen's idea for the Fly Fishing Museum of the Southern Appalachians came to fruition after a trip to Nova Scotia, where he visited the Salmon Museum and was inspired to create something similar for the South. 08:12 - The museum primarily focuses on the people and methods of fly fishing in the mountains, with a special exhibit on Ray Bergman's rod and book called Trout. 10:03 - Alen noted some individuals that have contributed significantly to the history of fly fishing in the Southern Appalachian region, like Fred and Allaine Hall, who were well-known fly pattern creators. 13:05 - The Hall of Fame has expanded to include the Ozarks and is now known as the Southern Fly Fishing Hall of Fame. It includes people like Bernard "Lefty" Kreh, Davy Wotton, Dave Whitlock, and others who have significantly contributed to the fly fishing industry, including conservationists and craftsmen. 14:08 - Other notable museums include the Catskill Fly Fishing Museum, the Fly Fishers International in Livingston, and the American Museum of Fly Fishing. 16:15 - Alen walks us through the museum's Hall of Fame selection process. The museum holds a meet and greet and induction luncheon for their Hall of Fame, followed by a museum tour. They also host a fundraiser to raise money for groups like Casting Carolinas. 19:08 - Bryson City is well known for whitewater rafting on the Nantahala Outdoor Center and the Smoky Mountain Railroad. 20:54 - The new building for the museum will feature aquariums and a cabin-style museum with a vaulted ceiling to house exhibits such as Gary and Wanda Taylor's McKenzie-style drift boat built and run in the southeast. We had Wanda Taylor on the show before. 26:15 - We had a whole mini-season on drift boats before. In one episode, we also had John Bond talk about moving his drift boat to Norway. We also had Jack Dennis in Episode 217. 28:12 - The museum has also established satellite exhibits in various locations to promote the museum and make it more accessible to people who cannot visit the primary site in Bryson City. They currently have seven satellite exhibit locations. 35:14 - Alen wrote My Fly Fishing Playbook and also a book about the museum. He will also write a follow-up book to Fly Fishermen of Caldwell County: North Carolina Life Stories. 38:46 - Alen recommends the Smoky Mountain Fly Fishing and Tuckaseegee Fly Shop for people who want to fly fish in Bryson City. 42:00 - Jim Casada, Don Kirk, and Jim Dean were some of the individuals that influenced Alen in his fly fishing. Don started his own Hall of Fame called Legends of the Fly. 46:18 - If you build it, they will come. -- Alen Baker Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/442

Bo and Blake talk SEC football and the NFL Draft in the first hour of the show live in the BankPlus Studio. The guys get set for an exciting week in the NFL as the draft starts Thursday night and a former MVP quarterback has just been traded. Bo and Blake talk about the expectations for the Jets in a loaded AFC now that they have traded for future Hall of Fame quarterback Aaron Rodgers. The guys talk about yesterday's conversation with Fred Smoot about his experience being drafted by the Washington Redskins and some of the lessons he learned along the way in the NFL. That leads to a discussion about former Auburn and Washington quarterback Jason Campbell, who is now on the Auburn radio network. Bo shares some stories of another SEC quarterback, John Bond, and their late-night practice session back in the 90s. The guys talk about the old days of SEC quarterbacks partying and how that has changed over the years with modern social media. On National Telephone Day, Bo and Blake talk about SEC coaches who are hitting the phones hard, whether it's on the recruiting trail or in their personal life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bo and Blake talk SEC football and the NFL Draft in the SEC Insider Hit live in the BankPlus Studio. The guys talk about yesterday's conversation with Fred Smoot about his experience being drafted by the Washington Redskins and some of the lessons he learned along the way in the NFL. That leads to a discussion about former Auburn and Washington quarterback Jason Campbell, who is now on the Auburn radio network. Bo shares some stories of another SEC quarterback, John Bond, and their late-night practice session back in the 90s. The guys talk about the old days of SEC quarterbacks partying and how that has changed over the years with modern social media. On National Telephone Day, Bo and Blake talk about SEC coaches who are hitting the phones hard, whether it's on the recruiting trail or in their personal life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John is constantly in the Facebook group, offering support and help to others.  Now, he is off on his own travels too.. Practical and inspirational advice.  FB- Lovefly, Insta  @loveflyhelp W lovefly.co.uk  Intro music 'Fearless' Daniel King

Show Notes:  https://wetflyswing.com/419 Presented by:  Mavrk, Zag, Country, Drifthook Sponsors:  https://wetflyswing.com/sponsors Have you ever had to uproot your entire life and go halfway across the globe to chase a dream? That's precisely what John Bond, the owner of Rena Fish Camp, did!  We are digging into Norway Fly Fishing today on the Swing! John Bond is here with us today to take us fishing in Norway and to talk about how he moved his drift boat, gear, and life from Montana to Norway amid COVID. We also find out how streamer fishing changed the game for him. Learn tips and tricks from the Umpqua signature Dragon tier himself as John takes us through the art of swinging for brown trout in Norway. Norway Fly Fishing Show Notes with John Bond 3:47 -  John's interest in fly fishing began early, having spent countless weekends traveling to fishing sites throughout the East Coast with his family. 05:20 - John worked as a butcher and part-time fly fishing guide in Vermont, but his ultimate goal was to move to Montana, a place his parents often talked about. 06:42 - He sold an old rod on Craigslist and made friends with the buyer's two sons, who offered him an apartment in Bozeman.  09:45 - In 2010, during his first streamer fishing trip in Missouri, John was amazed by how fish reacted to his Sculpzilla fly. This experience changed the fly fishing game for him. 11:25 - Just three months after moving to Montana, he invested $5,000 in a boat worth more than his Jeep Cherokee. 14:33 -  In 2013, he caught a 28-inch female brown trout on the Yellowstone River, and the experience changed his fishing game. 15:17 - John is an Umpqua signature tier for the Dragon, previously known as the Beefcake. 17:24 - We delve into John's fly fishing techniques and how he applies them to streamer and nymph fishing. He uses a Scientific Angler Sink Tip fly line.  22:00 - John breaks down the differences between the brown trouts in Montana versus the browns in Norway.   23:41 - A spin fisherman caught a 20-pound brown trout six years ago. John and his friend Christopher got a 25-inch brown on his third day in Norway. 25:05 - John talked about the Yellowstone Angler and James Anderson and how he opened the door to his guiding life back in Montana.  26:05 - John went to Norway with his wife in 2017. They visited Rena Fiskecamp in Norway, where the owners mentioned the camp might be up for sale. John jokingly suggested he would buy it and move to Norway, despite having no plans to leave Montana then. 27:32 - In 2019, John and his wife made the decision to move to Norway after she became pregnant with their second child. 30:37 - John and his friends went salmon fishing on the Orkla River in Norway, which is well-known for its fantastic Atlantic salmon fishing. After that, he went to Matt Haye's Winsnes Fly Fishing Lodge, where he had a brush with death. 35:39 - John tells us more about the Rena Fish Camp. The Rena River is one of the only rivers open to the public by buying a fishing license. 40:08 - We hear the story of how John moved his family, his gears, his brand new Adipose drift boat, and even his dog from Montana to Norway in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.  46:44 - John has been an ambassador with G. Loomis for several years through Yellowstone Angler. He is also an advisor with the Scientific Angler. 48:15 - We get a picture of life in Norway and the differences from life in the U.S. 58:24 - John talks more about his family's lodge and his guiding business on the Rena River. In summer, they have the midnight sun, and people can fish all night during those days.     1:03:00 - Norwegians traditionally have a culture of catching and keeping fish. The practice of catch and release has been steadily gaining popularity over the last 10 to 15 years. 1:04:43 - We hear the best time to visit their fish camp. People come from all over the world to catch Arctic Norwegian grayling.  1:13:45 - John tells the story of how he nearly died while salmon fishing using his brand new G. Loomis Asquith on the Gaula River. 1:17:25 - John ties a variety of flies. Wade Fellen had some luck fishing with the Dragon.  1:17:25 - John ties a variety of flies. Wade Fellen of the Big Hole Lodge had some luck fishing with the Dragon. We also did another episode about Norway with Erlend Nilssen. Show Notes:  https://wetflyswing.com/419    

Paul Tizzard, Fear of Flying Coach, John Bond, Operations Director and Susan Mungeam, Clinical Director look back on 2022. Our favourite bits from the Lovefly Facebook community, some stories and tips and some spoilers about what is coming up in 2023... lovefly.co.uk FB - Lovefly Insta - @loveflyhelp #fearofflying In partnership with Virgin Atlantic Airways, Lovefly offers a range of 30 Day Programmes and Webinars.  Go to www.lovefly.co.uk/shop/    Intro Music 'Fearless' Daniel King     

Hear "The Buck Belue Show" every weekday morning from 10-11a on 680 The Fan and 93.7 FM, the 680 The Fan App available on Apple and Android, with your Smart Speaker by saying Alexa or wherever you get and listen to your favorite podcast! Get the latest on Georgia sports, newsmakers, and more! Buck's BIG Take brought to you by Haug Law Group Tropical Storm Nicole is headed our way Atlanta Falcons take on the Carolina Panthers tonight on Prime Video Quarterback Club put your shades on we are taking a look at Mississippi State QB Will Rogers College Football Top 5 presented by Ace Hardware hitting the top stories around the world of college football Georgia Bulldog Roundtable presented by Georgia's Own Credit Union, Haug Law Group, Georgia Pack and Load, StatHero, T-Mobile and Attorney Ken Nugent J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics Josh Brooks talked with Buck about the life of Vince Dooley and the impact he had on Josh, Hoops getting underway in, Women's Soccer postseason play and more Buck's College Football Nuggets presented by Ace Hardware Georgia Players have been named to some Post Season Award List The Final Word RIP Fred Hickman See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hear "The Buck Belue Show" every weekday morning from 10-11a on 680 The Fan and 93.7 FM, the 680 The Fan App available on Apple and Android, with your Smart Speaker by saying Alexa or wherever you get and listen to your favorite podcast! Get the latest on Georgia sports, newsmakers, and more! Buck's BIG Take brought to you by Haug Law Group Tropical Storm Nicole is headed our way Atlanta Falcons take on the Carolina Panthers tonight on Prime Video Quarterback Club put your shades on we are taking a look at Mississippi State QB Will Rogers College Football Top 5 presented by Ace Hardware hitting the top stories around the world of college football Georgia Bulldog Roundtable presented by Georgia's Own Credit Union, Haug Law Group, Georgia Pack and Load, StatHero, T-Mobile and Attorney Ken Nugent J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics Josh Brooks talked with Buck about the life of Vince Dooley and the impact he had on Josh, Hoops getting underway in, Women's Soccer postseason play and more Buck's College Football Nuggets presented by Ace Hardware Georgia Players have been named to some Post Season Award List The Final Word RIP Fred Hickman See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hear "The Buck Belue Show" every weekday morning from 10-11a on 680 The Fan and 93.7 FM, the 680 The Fan App available on Apple and Android, with your Smart Speaker by saying Alexa or wherever you get and listen to your favorite podcast! Get the latest on Georgia sports, newsmakers, and more! Buck's BIG Take brought to you by Haug Law Group Tropical Storm Nicole is headed our way Atlanta Falcons take on the Carolina Panthers tonight on Prime Video Quarterback Club put your shades on we are taking a look at Mississippi State QB Will Rogers College Football Top 5 presented by Ace Hardware hitting the top stories around the world of college football Georgia Bulldog Roundtable presented by Georgia's Own Credit Union, Haug Law Group, Georgia Pack and Load, StatHero, T-Mobile and Attorney Ken Nugent J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics Josh Brooks talked with Buck about the life of Vince Dooley and the impact he had on Josh, Hoops getting underway in, Women's Soccer postseason play and more Buck's College Football Nuggets presented by Ace Hardware Georgia Players have been named to some Post Season Award List The Final Word RIP Fred Hickman See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hear "The Buck Belue Show" every weekday morning from 10-11a on 680 The Fan and 93.7 FM, the 680 The Fan App available on Apple and Android, with your Smart Speaker by saying Alexa or wherever you get and listen to your favorite podcast! Get the latest on Georgia sports, newsmakers, and more! Buck's BIG Take brought to you by Haug Law Group Tropical Storm Nicole is headed our way Atlanta Falcons take on the Carolina Panthers tonight on Prime Video Quarterback Club put your shades on we are taking a look at Mississippi State QB Will Rogers College Football Top 5 presented by Ace Hardware hitting the top stories around the world of college football Georgia Bulldog Roundtable presented by Georgia's Own Credit Union, Haug Law Group, Georgia Pack and Load, StatHero, T-Mobile and Attorney Ken Nugent J. Reid Parker Director of Athletics Josh Brooks talked with Buck about the life of Vince Dooley and the impact he had on Josh, Hoops getting underway in, Women's Soccer postseason play and more Buck's College Football Nuggets presented by Ace Hardware Georgia Players have been named to some Post Season Award List The Final Word RIP Fred Hickman See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former Mississippi State QB John Bond joins me on episode 74 of Buck's Beat to help preview the Bulldogs game in Starkville. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former Mississippi State QB John Bond joins me on episode 74 of Buck's Beat to help preview the Bulldogs game in Starkville. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mississippi State Football legend John Bond joins the show.  John talks about his new business with Hal Mumme and how they plan to help MS State athletes with NIL deal.  He also tells us about his new Podcast and Youtube show Huddle Up.  You can find his show on twitter @HuddleUp22 or JB himself on twitter @johnbond1313.  Lastly, JB talks about how he thinks the Bulldogs will do this year.This show has been brought to you by Johnny Packer CoffeeSupport the show

Print on demand makes it easy to sell print books without the hassle of storage and shipping — but it's limited to what the established POD printers allow. What if you want to do a special print run, either for a crowdfunding project, or because you want higher quality print production with extras? White Fox […] The post Self-Publishing And Crowdfunding Special Print Editions with John Bond and Chris Wold from White Fox first appeared on The Creative Penn.

John Bond is in the top tier of Mississippi State legends, and he saw his share of glory and agony in the Egg Bowl rivalry. The former Bulldog quarterback joins SportsTalk Mississippi in studio to relive the highs and lows, and to remind the world that it wasn't pass interference in the 1981 game.

A surgeon (Hanif Jetha) returns to the operating table after halftime to find his patient dead during a routine small-big nose operation. Brought to you By: The Sonar Network https://thesonarnetwork.com/

Welcome to the 50th episode of Chase The Vase. On this Memorial Day I am blessed to have Chad Jenkins on the Podcast. Chad was the starting quarterback for Army in the 2001 Army-Navy football game, not long after the Sept. 11 terrorist attack. The 34-year-old, is profiled in All American: Two Young Men, the 2001 Army-Navy Game and the War They Fought in Iraq, a Steve Eubanks book. After football, Chad attended Airborne and the elite Army Ranger school. Soon he was leading men on combat patrols in Iraq. Chad and his men, had to deal with constant ambushes, IEDs, troop morale, and the stress of long deployments and combat. At the height of the Iraq war, Marine corporals and sergeants had a one-in-twelve-chance of being injured. They had a one-in-twenty-four chance of being killed. “They don't come any better than Chad Jenkins,” Army offensive coordinator John Bond said. “He squeezed every ounce of ability out of that 175-pound body every day, every week. He got more out of himself than anybody I've ever been around. He played hurt and he played healthy and all points in between, and you never would know the difference.” (Washington Times.) The traits Jenkins showed as a quarterback — “a dynamic, charismatic personality, a natural leader,” Bond said — serve him and his troops well in Iraq. We discuss the quarterback position, being a leader of an elite Army Ranger and the ability to lead men on and off the field! Come Chase The Vase with us and like, share and comment on the podcast. Happy Memorial Day! Check out www.chasethevasechallenge.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brock-m-bevell/support

Hit singer-songwriter-recording artist, and the King of 'Delta Soul', Steve Azar has made some friends along the way. And as Steve's song "Mississippi Minute" says, "Life goes by so fast that if you blink, you'll miss it... but in a Mississippi minute you can take your sweet time." Each Thursday and Friday on Supertalk Mississippi you can spend a "Mississippi minute" with Steve and his friends from the music, TV, film and sports worlds. This show is a production of SuperTalk Mississippi Media. Learn more at SuperTalk.FM

Nigel Rothband interviews ex City star Kevin Reeves for today's show. citypodcast.net  @citypodcast  Produced by Paul Myers and Mike Leigh  Engineered by Leon Gorman  A Playback Media Production  playbackmedia.co.uk  Copyright 2020 Playback Media Ltd - playbackmedia.co.uk/copyright Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices