Hey everyone! The One Drink Book Club is usually a benefit for paid members, but I decided to open this one episode up to everyone because it was so fun and covered so much cool ground.
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.
Today, Emma drank a gin and tonic with a splash of cranberry, Mike (new to the ODBC, standing in for Bill) poured himself a vodka tonic without a twist, and I had a glass of Freakshow Zinfandel.
Here’s what we talked about in this episode:
Mike prompted Emma and I with a question: Do writers get creative when they want to decompress like non-writers?
I got a bunch of newly-printed hardback books in the mail and showed off the details that make them special and the excitement that makes me want to do more and more.
My further plans for “making beautiful books” going forward.
Emma’s new “Writing and Taylor Swift” podcast is coming soon, following a hostel-chaos and illness incident.
My plans to form stronger bonds with my cherished readers …
… which rolled into me gushing about my True Fandom of Bob Schneider and his new audio waveform art …
… which led to a really cool discussion of our philosophies on what fans want most, and how we can best give them.
We ended by acknowledging the excellent noises of Mike’s dog Freddy, who sounds like Chewbacca.
If you liked this episode of the ODBC, you should absolutely become a member of this substack. You’ll get new ODBC episodes [almost] every week in addition to the other subscriber benefits and will also be endorsing the arts like a champ and supporting the folks who make the things you enjoy, like me. Membership only costs a few bucks a month and is more soul-fulfilling and karmically rad than buying one more Starbucks quad-shot instead.
Remember: Listening to podcasts on Substack is kind of balls. If you’re going to listen to the ODBC and all other podcast episodes, you really should visit The Art of Noticing podcast on Apple Podcasts (ODBC episodes are on the Art of Noticing feed for members) or on other podcast directories. Subscribing and listening there, rather than here in your browser, is a far better — and far more mobile and multitasking-friendly — way to listen.
(If you’re a paid member, you’ll receive your own private podcast feed that includes all the paid episodes as well as the free ones. Members should listen to YOUR feed, not the one I lined to above.)
ODBC 003 - Beautiful Books, Swifties, and Finding True Fans