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EP 407 - An Evening With A Drink And A Friend With Kevin J. Anderson
- 2025/03/20
- 再生時間： 1 時間 22 分
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Mark has a virtual beer with Kevin J. Anderson while they talk through various aspects about writing and publishing. This episode is from a live chat that was hosted on the evening of Sunday March 16, 2025. This episode is sponsored by Superstars Writing Seminars: Teaching you the business of being a writer which takes place in early Feb 2026 in Colorado Springs, CO and where Mark will be a guest speaker. Use code: STARK100 to get $100 off your registration. In their chat Mark and Kevin talk about: The loss of author and poet Danny Peart, Neil Peart's brother and how the first story Kevin and Neil wrote together named the main character after Neil's brotherMark and Kevin's Rush and beer connectionKevin's "music starter kit" to his grand-kidsThe significance of the Rush album Grace Under Pressure to both Kevin and MarkHow the Columbia Music Record Club is what led to Kevin discovering Rush (because he was looking for sci-fi style album covers and Rush's 2112 jumped out at him)The back-story to Kevin's Terra Incognita novelsWriting a novel that was a tie-in to a Rush albumHow Kevin has been able to leverage Kickstarter to produce products that no New York publisher would likely ever get behindThe way a tribute song "No Words" about Neil Peart led to a new friendship and collaboration with KevinThe music behind the Terra Incognita trilogyKevin's Kickstarter for Terra Incognita funding in 14 minutes, but the ultimate goal of earning back the high investment he has already put into itThe number of novels that Kevin has writtenBenefits of being able to order books directly from the author versus going through the multiple layers of traditional publishingSuperstars Writing Seminars, the conference that Kevin, his wife Rebecca, Dave Farland, Eric Flint, and Brandon Sanderson started more than 15 years agoThe Masters of Creative Writing with a focus on Publishing that Kevin teaches at Western Colorado UniversityThe annual anthology that this program publishes thanks to sponsorship from Draft2DigitalThe latest musical collaboration Kevin recently announcedKevin coming to Toronto's Massey Hall for RushFest on August 1, 2025What books Kevin and Mark are currently working onFavorite advice for running a Kickstarter and the real costs of shipping and handlingKevin's love of hiking and dictating when he writesAnd more . . . Links of Interest: Kevin J Anderson's Website WordFire PressKevin's Terra Incognita KickstarterWestern Colorado University Publishing Masters Superstars Writing SeminarsBuy Mark a CoffeePatreon for Stark Reflections How to Access Patreon RSS Feeds Mark's YouTube channelMark's Stark Reflections on Writing & Publishing Newsletter (Signup)An Author's Guide to Working With Bookstores and LibrariesThe Relaxed Author Buy eBook DirectBuy Audiobook Direct Publishing Pitfalls for AuthorsAn Author's Guide to Working with Libraries & BookstoresWide for the WinMark's Canadian Werewolf Books This Time Around (Short Story)A Canadian Werewolf in New YorkStowe Away (Novella)Fear and Longing in Los AngelesFright Nights, Big CityLover's MoonHex and the CityOnly Monsters in the Building The Canadian Mounted: A Trivia Guide to Planes, Trains and AutomobilesYippee Ki-Yay Motherf*cker: A Trivia Guide to Die HardMerry Christmas! Shitter Was Full!: A Trivia Guide to National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation The introductory, end, and bumper music for this podcast (“Laser Groove”) was composed and produced by Kevin MacLeod of www.incompetech.com and is Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0