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:
I kicked us off by asking Bill’s thoughts, as a reader, on generating interest in my previous books as if they were new ones. There’s just “something” about new books that’s hard to move over to old books, even if readers may never have heard of the older books. I want to know how to re-introduce my not-this-year releases to readers who might love them … but who might be bogged down in the miasma of “this is old, so why bother?”
We then talked about how to write branching-narrative books, of which the old Choose Your Own Adventure books were a prime example. Emma talked about her experience writing that kind of books for an app called Zory, which uses a “vines” instead of “tree branches” style of branching — more like a video game than a book.
We then talked about how impossible it is to write short stories. WE NEED MORE WORDS THAN THAT, PEOPLE!
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