The One-Drink Book Club is an informal, (almost) weekly series in which fellow author Emma Lee Jayne joins me and our other creative friends to talk about the life, business, and art of writing and making books … for the duration of one Friday-afternoon drink.
Here’s what we talked about in this episode:
To open things up, we talked about how the ODBC now has a brand-new home on its own unique feed — no longer tied to the Art of Noticing podcast. Now we can be crude. But actually, we can be more REAL.
Bill asked us which of our books would convert nicely into video games, on the heels of Fallout. Shockingly, we both had candidates in mind.
I told some stories about my new “marketing” angle, which should be in quotes because it doesn’t feel like marketing at all. It’s just communicating with humans … and finding our ideal readers.
Emma read a piece from an online column about the new preciousness of real things in an AI-led, increasingly digital world … and we theorized what it means for us as authors, our readers, our connections, and the value of our books.
Most of the remainder of the episode was us talking about a different way of seeing ourselves as authors: as true connectors, as those willing and eager to connect with real people not just as fans but as humans … and about NOT ignoring most of the globe’s readers in the way almost all American authors tend to do.
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