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Back to Search16.8: Smart Promotion
Season 16 Episode 8
Your Hosts: Dan, Erin, Brandon, and Howard Let's talk about how promote yourself and your work, and how to do it well. The tools we use for this cont…
5 years, 1 month ago
16.7: To Series, or Not to Series
Season 16 Episode 7
Your Hosts: Dan, Erin, Brandon, Howard Let's look a the business considerations of whether that thing you're writing is a standalone story, or part o…
5 years, 1 month ago
16.6: Building Your Brand
Season 16 Episode 6
Your Hosts: Dan, Erin, Brandon, and Howard Branding, in marketing terms for writers, is the process of establishing a recognizable identity—a brand— …
5 years, 1 month ago
16.5: Pros and Contracts
Season 16 Episode 5
Your Hosts: Dan, Mary Robinette, Brandon, and Erin Here's our deep dive into the subject of contracts in the publishing business. We can only go so d…
5 years, 1 month ago
16.4: Networking
Season 16 Episode 4
Your Hosts: Dan, Mary Robinette, Erin, Brandon, and Howard Networking is an invaluable part of any business, and the business of writing is no except…
5 years, 2 months ago
16.3: Publishing Pitfalls
Season 16 Episode 3
Your Hosts: Dan, Erin, Howard, and Brandon Erin Roberts joins us for our third installment in Brandon's business-of-writing series. In this episode w…
5 years, 2 months ago
16.02: Publishers Are Not Your Friends
Season 16 Episode 2
Your Hosts: Dan, Mary Robinette, Howard, and Brandon It sounds like a mean thing to say, but it's not a wrong thing to say. A publisher is a corporat…
5 years, 2 months ago
16.01: Your Career is Your Business
Season 16 Episode 1
Your Hosts: Dan, Mary Robinette, Howard, and Brandon Welcome to 2021, and Season 16 of Writing Excuses. This year we're dividing the year into "maste…
5 years, 2 months ago
15.52: Economy of Phrase, Being the Concentrated Concatenation of Complex Thoughts in Just a Very Few Words Which Must Fit In A Very Very Small Box, With Patrick Rothfuss
Season 15 Episode 52
Your Hosts: Howard, Mary Robinette, and Dan, with special guest Patrick Rothfuss Did we have too much fun applying ironic humor to the title of this …
5 years, 3 months ago
15.51: Feedback—When to Listen, and When to Ignore, with special guest Mahtab Narsimhan
Season 15 Episode 51
Your Hosts: Dan, Howard, Mahtab, and Brandon We're often taught that the best critique group feedback is reactions to the writing, rather than advice…
5 years, 3 months ago