Happy Happy Wednesday and welcome to the Daily with Sillstein here on anchor on today's show We're going to do to do the regular format authors corner recommend a book by an indie author And then I'm gonna go into my author news then I'm gonna speak of Stephen King on writing a memoir of the craft and then the wrap up I did want to make a note that now you can support the podcast You you can make a donation also give feedback call in You can leave a review through iTunes or on on anchor leave a review of and give Feedback of what you think of the podcast and you can support it by either donating ninety nine cents I think it's four ninety nine or nine ninety nine so the podcast can get supported I appreciate the downloads and all of you tuning in so thank you. Thank you so much on another note Unfortunately the interview with James Matthew buyer's author the dark bar from stitch-mount publication author poet editor Everything teacher educator will have to be postponed till next week He had a family thing to take care of and he himself wasn't feeling well So I wish you nothing, but what I hope everyone gets well James your children as well as you and I hope to see you Hopefully soon and we wish you nothing but positive vibes and prayers and hope you get better soon So you can be here on our show so shout out to him now. We're gonna begin with the author's Corner which is also slash books you recommend I'm going to stick against with the indie author and I'm gonna recommend an author that I got to me through the Great Lakes book Bash last year when I got to go to Kalamazoom, Michigan shout out to all the authors and Contributors and anyone that participated The helpers and everyone that was there we got to meet they were wonderful especially Rachel Brownell who coordinated the event with all the wonderful amazing authors and one author that stood out that I got to Meet is Heather Mullins. I wanted you to hopefully go out and check out her books She is a crime thriller fiction writer.
She writes also she has romance in her books They're called the Baldoni files. So be sure to check out Heather Mullins. If you don't know about Heather Mullins Please go ahead and check her out. She's on Amazon I believe she has other platforms where her books are available But a little bit about Heather Mullins.
I shout out to her She has always loved to read and has been writing forms and stories in childhood And she truly enjoys doing so much with other indie authors and fully supports the outstanding community She uses her outgoing opinionated personality to help write and run multiple blogs Heather is a full-time student working together bachelor's human services specializing in substance abuse counseling She's an Air Force veteran and enjoyed fighting for her country. Heather supports many different groups that help out other veterans So that's amazing and I don't I don't mean to put you on the spot Heather But I wanted to give you an author kind of spotlight and also speak about your books She's a mother of three wonderfully crazy kids and has been married for 13 years I'm going by the editorial review on Amazon and when she is in plain taxi She is living vicariously through the lives of characters in any number of books So shout out to Heather Mullins and I hope to have her on my podcast one day And please check out her books and that's what was the author corner slash books I recommend and other spotlight all in one and so thank you very much And we'll be right back with the daily with Stilstein here on anchor. Happy Happy Wednesday Now it's time for my author news on the daily with Stilstein here on anchor All right, I want to make a little bit a dramatic there with that voice But anyway for my author news what I have worked what I've been working on is my newest thriller Which will be out next year? You've seen the cover shout out to Michael Dangerman Which I hope I can have on the show as well because I want him to speak about the artist part of of his creativity and his work And I do believe that on the daily with Stilstein We can have insight to that and have him you know speak about his art I had him on my other podcast and I hope to have him on the daily with Stilstein soon And I'll let you know when I can do that But as I said before I'm getting all sidetracked here Battered mine is my newest Thriller that should be out hopefully April of 2019 and I've been working on it and hopefully get it perfected So that way I can share some excerpts with you guys as we go About the novel and then hopefully get the arcs ready to go Hopefully by January or February in that way by April.
It's ready to go So we'll be working on that and you'll learn more about my character Hopefully on my blogs and and get them updated so y'all can see what I've been working on and I can't wait to share this book with you guys I'm also you know looking into possible ways of traditional publishing. I haven't done it yet But that's the that's where I'm thinking of heading and I may do a show about literary You know that when you write your query letters and when you you try to book an agent Maybe try to get people that I can speak about on this whether traditional and indie and what what are the pros? What are the cons? I'm also working on that as an author to try to do and then also work with the copy house writers Which shout out to them, which is a group that I work with that are amazing starting with our you know our Captains and co-captains and everyone the staff and everyone there editors Jess Knoppel Caitlyn Haynes Alexandra palette and all the editors wonderful editors that we have we have so many so many amazing people that work with us And I don't mean to leave anyone out and writers and they're all just wonderful so I hope to have them all here I work with a great group of people and They're wonderful and hopefully I'll get them to speak about their books and things that are coming up and especially the editors I know Jess Knoppel is working on that for us and we want to go ahead and and have them speak about editing whenever they can They've been on my other podcast I hope to have them again And I'll set all that up and hopefully they'll be able to come and give their insight And I want to say to the all the copy house writers community editors writers team advertisers my team that I work with Keeley and Caitlyn and in Tracy Hicks and Jess Knoppel and all the one and Alexandra palette and I can't think of everybody Christopher Barlett and So many people in the poetry department Emily shout out to you And it's just there's so many wonderful people that that you get to work with that help you and you're able to you know To do so much so shout out to all of them And I don't mean to leave anyone out So don't feel like I left you out and you know to all the former people that used to work their Luke savage Luther savage and all the wonderful people that are there now So hopefully we'll get to create a group to come and work with us on our show and have more authors come in D as well as traditional and artists like Michael Dangerman or if you feel like you have something to say about your poetry or anthologies I know there's some wonderful indie authors that are have now taken out anthologies You're welcome to the show.
Hopefully you'll come and share your work as well But like I said, that's what I've been working on as an author my book I'm trying to create more podcasts and just trying to get more more people involved in the podcast to come to the show and speak about Especially using the book by Amy Peters the writers devotional I learned a lot about the editing process and the writing process and the different things that help us and speak about national novel Month for those that are participating now I would love to have you on the show to come and share your experience of if it was your first year your second year third year fourth Year fifth year, you know, however many years you've been doing it come talk to us So hopefully and all of that and I'll have more news as I go But this was my author news and also slash which shows to come So we'll be right back with the writing tip section of the show which is on Stephen King on writing We'll be back on the daily with Silverstein happy Wednesday and welcome to the daily with Silverstein here on anchor And now we're back with the writing tip section of our of our podcast with the daily with Silverstein on anchor using the book by Stephen King on Writing now We had talked a lot about on writing and what its thoughts were about writing and if I repeat certain sections I do apologize But I want to make sure that everyone gets as much as you can out of the Stephen King on writing book If you have not purchased it It is called Stephen King on writing a memoir of the craft and it is a wonderful wonderful book Here we go to Page we're gonna start here with Page 224 and I'm gonna go into where he says as a reader I'm a lot more interested in what's going to happen than what already did Yes, there are brilliant novels that run counter to this preference or maybe it's a prejudice Rebecca by Daphne de Muir For one a dark adapted eye By Barbara Vine for another but I like to start as where one dead even with the writer I'm on A to Z man serve me the appetizer first and give me dessert if I eat my veggies That's what he says even when you tell your story in this straightforward manner You'll discover you can't escape at least some backstory in a very real sense every life is in media's rest You introduce a 40 year old man as your main character on page one of your novel And if the action begins as a result of some brand new person or situations exploding onto the stage of the spellows life a road accident Let's say or doing a favor for a beautiful woman who keeps looking sexily back over her shoulder It says did you know the opal adverb in the sentence, which I could not bring myself to kill Yeah, I guess he means when he says sexily back You'll still have to deal with the first 40 years of the guy's life at some point How much and how well you deal with those years will have a lot to do with a level of success? Your story is she's with whatever readers think of it as a good read or a big bad boy Probably JK Rowling author of the Harry Potter stories is a current champ when it comes to back story back story You could do worse than read these noting how effortlessly each new book recaps when it's gone before also the Harry Potter novels Are just fun pure story from beginning to end your ideal reader can be of tremendous help when it comes to figuring out How well you did with a back story and how much you list you should and how much you should add or subtract on your next draft You need to listen very carefully to the things the things you don't understand and then Ask yourself if you understand them if you do and just didn't put those your I'm sorry You need to listen very carefully to that the things Your ideal reader didn't understand and then ask yourself if you understand them You do and just didn't put those parts across your job on the second draft is to clarify You don't if the parts of the back story your ideal reader query are hazy to you as well Then you need to think a lot more carefully about the past events that cast a light on your character's present behavior And we'll be right back with more on writing tips section of the daily with so Stein here on anchor using the book by Stephen King on writing a Memoir of the craft and now we're back to the daily with so Stein here on anchor More on writing tips with we're on the segment of writing tips using the book by Stephen King on writing a memoir of the craft So we left off where he says On page 225 if you do and just didn't put those parts across your job on the second draft is to clarify If you don't if the parts of the back story your ideal reader query are hazy to you as well Then you need to think a lot more carefully about the past events that cast a light on the characters present behavior And he also he goes on to say on to 26 You also need to pay close attention to those things in the back story that board your ideal reader in bag of phones For instance for instance main character Mike Noonan is a 40-ish writer who has the book opens It's just lost his wife to a brain aneurysm. We start on the day of her death But there's still a hell of a lot of backstory here much more than I usually have in my fiction This includes Mike's first job as a newspaper reporter the sale of his first novel his relationships with his late wife's brawling family He's publishing history and especially the matter of her summer home in western Maine How they come came to buy it and some of its pre Mike and Joanna history Tabitha my ideal reader read all this with a parent enjoyment But there was also a two or three page section about Mike's community service work in the year after his wife dies a year in Which his grief is magnified by a severe case of writer's block tabby didn't like the community service stuff who cares She asked me I want to know more about his bad dreams not how he ran for city council in order to help get the homeless alcohol It's off the street. Yeah, but he's got writer's block I said when a novelist is challenged on something He likes one of his darlings the first two words one of his darlings the first two words out of his mouth I almost always yeah, but this block goes on for a year Maybe more he has to do something and all that time doesn't he I guess so tabby says But you don't have to bore me with it Do you out game set and match like most good ideal readers tabby can be rootless when she's right?
I cut down Mike's charitable contributions and community functions from two pages to two paragraphs turned out that Tabby was right As soon as I saw it in print I knew three million three million people or so have read bag of bones I've gotten at least four thousand letters concerning it and so far not a single one has said hey turkey What was Mike doing for community for community service work during the year? She couldn't write the most important things to remember about backstory are that everyone has has a history and most of us and Most of it isn't very interesting stick to the parts that are that are and don't get carried away with the rest Long-life stories are best received in bars and only then an hour or so before closing time and if you are any of you are buying So in that retrospect, you got to remember that because I as an editor I've done editing work for other authors and I have said You know when they go into a type of scene with the characters and there's like for example husband and wife feuding or or a person Quarreling with a child or or with a teenager or something something that's dramatic that they're having a discussion a family like when you're let's just say if you're in a in a family and people are quarreling and and and these people aren't getting along but you never mentioned it in the book It would be good to mention it just as a backstory But like Stephen King said Stephen King says he didn't say you know to go into every little Part of that character maybe go in my in my you know This is from my opinion go into a flashback about what happened? What rip what cost that rip between that relative and the other say cousins or brothers or spouses or exes? What was the you know?
What was the backstory to that but make sure to make it relevant to the story? You're trying to tell your ideal reader like Tabitha was one that told him and it turned out that it was a good one So remember that on that segment and that's just my own two cents to what he was adding to what he said on his book And we'll be right back with Stephen with a more writing tips on Stephen King on writing a memoir of the craft here on the daily With Celeste in here on anchor and welcome back to the daily here on anchor We're going to do the last segment of the writing tip section on the daily with Celeste in anchor using the book by Stephen King on writing a Memoir of the craft and now he says on page 227 We need to talk a bit about research Which is a specialized kind of backstory and please if you do not need to research because parts of your story deal with things about Which you know little or nothing or little or nothing remember that remember that word back That's where research belongs as far in the background and the back story as you can get it You may be in trance with what you're learning about flesh-eating bacteria the sewer system of New York or the IQ potential of collipups But your readers are probably going to care a lot more about your characters and your story. He says and He continues exceptions to the rule sure aren't there always there have been very successful writers Arthur Haley and James Missioner are the first ones that come to my mind Excuse me whose novels really relies are whose novels rely heavily on Fact and research Haley's are barely died. Sorry are barely disguised manuals about how things work banks airports hotels and missionaries are Combination travel logs geography lessons and history texts other popular writers like Tom Clancy and Patricia Cornwell are more story oriented But still deliver large and sometimes hard to digest dollops of factual information along with a melodrama He says I sometimes think he continues that these writers appeal to a large segment of the reading population who feel that fiction is somehow immoral a low taste Which can only be justified justified by saying well hum.
Yes, I do read Billing name fill in authors name here But only on airplanes and in hotel rooms that don't have CNN also I learned a great deal about feeling appropriate subject here for every successful writer He says of the factoid type however, there are hundreds perhaps even a thousand wannabes some publish most not on the whole I think story belongs in front some research is inevitable you shirk it at your peril So I'm gonna stop here and and then start on the examples of that we're left up on page 228 and we'll be right back with The wrap up of today's show and and again. Thank you for being here on the daily with sills dine here on anchor We're now in the segment called writing tips using the book Stephen King on writing a memoir of the craft and we'll be right back And now it's time for the wrap up here on the daily with sills dine here on anchor happy happy Wednesday Thank you so much for being here So for today to recap on the wrap up of the show We started with the author's corner books. We recommend and slash author spotlight. I focused on indie author Heather Mullins I hope you'll check out her books I gave you the names of a few of them just check her out on I believe she's on Amazon And probably Barnes and Noble and all the other you know look up in the author Heather Mullins and her books are as I said She has a few and among those is chasing liberty and it talks about the Baldoni files so make sure to check out her books and On the next segment I discuss my author news and I talked about my newest thriller coming out next year April of 2019 And I hope to have it ready for you go you guys and all my readers called battered mine So hopefully I'll share more excerpts with you guys And I hope that you all enjoy what you you know what you read with the thriller I hope that you check it out and check out my books chasing clarity closure the diary of the broken father Leave a review and also battered mine coming up soon and I'm also working on a new like shows for the podcast whether it's editors on Editing I mentioned the coffee house writers because I love their process all the staff and everybody there new authors They want to share their insight artists like Michael dangerman that of course He's the cover for battered mine Have you seen it on my pages is amazing?
you know talk about his art and his work and creativity and sharing about editing and writing tips and what else you have to offer and You know keeping up with the writers devotional Which was a book we used a lot here on the daily whistles time on anchor and of the way that she talked about editing and writing and the different processes So we kind of went into you know Author news dealing with my the books coming up that what I've been working on and also the podcast So more of my own news author news by my news So hopefully you you like what we were working on and if make sure to give me some feedback where the podcast of the daily Was so Stein on anchor if you want to call in or just you know leave me an email Still writer zero seven at gmail.com that's still as well W. R. I T. E.
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So I'm hoping and praying that everyone gets well soon So we hope to see you here James Matthew virus and last but not least we discussed the continued on writing tips with the book by Steaming King on writing a memoir of the craft and he today We talked about the backstory and now and we're talking about research and we're gonna go more into that in-depth on my next segment of the show Hopefully I'll be able to do one if not tomorrow for sure by next week And then of course resume the interview with James Matthew virus So thank you so so much for listening and tuning in to the daily with so Stein on anchor I hope you will support the podcast also leave feedback Listen to us here on anchor the daily with so Stein also on you could also check us out on iTunes Through iTunes Google play and there are many other platforms check them out on anchor for the daily with so Stein Thank you so so much and have a very happy happy Wednesday, and I really hope you went out to vote I know that you know changes are coming. I was so glad that we were able to go and I wish everyone a very happy happy Wednesday Thank you again for joining us on the daily with so Stein have a great one