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Dec 16, 2023 1 hr 24 min

Published Staff

from Sounds from the Shelves Hosted by Salt Lake County Library

Join us as we talk to some of our talented staff about their creative endeavors. AJ Irving books: Dance Like a Leaf The Wishing Flower The Bi Book - coming soon! Alesha Adamson books: The Dark King and the Eternal Dance The Wolf’s Golden Deception Blake Casselman books: Devil’s Triangle Weird Wasatch Heroic: Tales of the Extraordinary Blake Casselman films: Kiss the Devil in the Dark Adopting Trouble White Wings Flight from Shadow Doppelganger 4 Limbo Jared Anjewierdan books: The Black Chronicles 1 The Long Black 2 Black Holiday 3 Running Black 4 Black Salvage 5 Battles in the Black 6 Homecoming in Black Clockwork Justice Series 1 Penny Dreadful and the Clockwork Copper Planetary Anthology Series: Saturn Armored Heart Keepers of the Wind Jessica Williams Etsy shop: JessicaSketches Mary Jensen books: Lifelines: a Poetry Anthology Chiaroscuro Tales of Tessagonia Series 1 The Blazing Princess 2 Mirror 3 The Princess Test Timestamps: 0:00:00 - Intro 0:00:25 - AJ Irving 0:01:52 - Discovering a passion for picture books 0:02:41 - Creative Process 0:04:46 - Marketing 0:05:48 - Getting published 0:07:15 - Forthcoming book 0:07:56 - Waiting is the Hardest Part 0:08:42 - Reader Reactions 0:10:07 - Alesha Adamson 0:12:46 - Accidental Author 0:16:51 - Writing by Hand 0:19:41 - Did you Get a Developmental Edit? 0:22:21 - Self Marketing 0:24:11 - Future Plans 0:24:47 - Seeing Your Art Out There 0:25:45 - Doing All The Things on Your Own 0:26:39 - Making Connections 0:27:53 - Don't Let Your Struggles Hold You Back 0:28:50 - Blake Casselman 0:30:14 - Screenwriting 0:32:43 - Comics Spark a Love for Reading 0:39:11 - Learn Screenwriting from a Library Book 0:41:08 - Selling a Screenplay 0:48:22 - Marketing Independent Film 0:50:54 - Indie Horror in Post-Production 0:53:49 - Jared Anjewierden 0:56:53 - First Story I Remember Writing 0:57:39 - Let the Character Do What They're Gonna Do 0:58:54 - Publishing Template 1:00:01 - Marketing 1:01:10 - Future Works 1:03:32 - Commas and Spelling and Endings 1:05:39 - A Book Isn't a Book Until It's Read 1:07:20 - Jessica Williams 1:08:41 - Sketching Things Out 1:09:50 - Funny Things on the Internet 1:10:40 - Design to Product 1:12:06 - Favorite Fruit 1:12:48 - Marketing Online and IRL 1:13:29 - Ideas for Miles 1:14:22 - Ideas That Don't Work Out 1:15:02 - Make Someone Smile 1:15:58 - Mary Jensen 1:17:01 - Something and an Author 1:17:41 - Different Sources of Inspiration 1:18:34 - Learning to Self Publish 1:19:33 - Social Media Marketing 1:20:08 - Ten More Books 1:20:57 - Chiaroscuro 1:21:59 - Finding My Audience 1:22:31 - The Act of Creation 1:23:01 - Outro

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Join us as we talk to some of our talented staff about their creative endeavors.

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  1. 0:00 Intro
  2. 0:25 AJ Irving
  3. 1:52 Discovering a passion for picture books
  4. 2:41 Creative process
  5. 4:46 Marketing
  6. 5:48 Getting Published
  7. 7:15 Upcoming book
  8. 7:56 Hardest part of being an author
  9. 8:42 Best Part of being an author
  10. 10:07 Alesha Adamson
  11. 12:46 Accidental author
  12. 16:51 Writing by hand
  13. 19:41 Developmental Edit
  14. 22:21 Self-marketing
  15. 24:11 Future plans
  16. 24:47 Seeing your art out there
  17. 25:45 Doing everything on your own
  18. 26:39 Making Connections
  19. 27:53 Don’t let your struggles hold you back
  20. 28:50 Blake Casselman
  21. 30:14 Screenwriting
  22. 32:43 Comics spark a love of reading
  23. 39:11 Learning screenwriting from a library book
  24. 41:08 Selling a screenplay
  25. 48:22 Marketing independent films
  26. 50:54 Indie Horror in post-production
  27. 53:49 Jared Anjewierden
  28. 56:53 First story remembers writing
  29. 57:39 Let the character do what they want to do
  30. 58:54 Publishing template
  31. 1:00:01 Marketing
  32. 1:01:10 Future works
  33. 1:03:32 Commas and spelling and endings
  34. 1:05:39 A book isn’t a book until it’s read
  35. 1:07:20 Jessica Williams
  36. 1:08:41 Sketching things out
  37. 1:09:50 Funny things on the internet
  38. 1:10:40 Design to product
  39. 1:12:06 Favorite Fruit
  40. 1:12:48 Marketing online and IRL
  41. 1:13:29 Ideas for miles
  42. 1:14:22 Ideas that don’t work out
  43. 1:15:02 Make someone smile
  44. 1:15:58 Mary Jensen
  45. 1:17:01 Something and an author
  46. 1:17:41 Different sources of inspiration
  47. 1:18:34 Learning to self-publish
  48. 1:19:33 Social Media Marketing
  49. 1:20:08 Ten more books
  50. 1:20:57 Chiarscuro
  51. 1:21:59 Finding my audience
  52. 1:22:31 The act of creation
  53. 1:23:01 Outro

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