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The Dead Robots' Society — 298 episodes

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Title
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Publishing Industry News...Now With AI!

2

How Do You Climax?

3

Sciency-Solutions and Technobabble

4

Slimmin' Down and Toe-Taggin'

5

The Lesson of John Wick

6

John Wick Is Boring

7

Love, Lust, and Sex

8

Repeat The Plot?

9

Space Opera With Dinosaurs!

10

Topic? What Topic?

11

Happy New Year! Now Get To Work!

12

2026 Approaches...

13

Karmic Monsters

14

Websites, Social Media, and Stores--What Do You Need?

15

Influence and Reimagination

16

Author Nation Autopsy

17

Going Solo

18

What's Going On?

19

Zero Drafts and Lovecraft

20

Sea Turtles and Deadlines

21

We're Gonna Need A Bigger Starship!

22

Audible 2 Scamaloo and Going Wide

23

Alien:Earth and Worldbuilding

24

Audible Is Destroying Livelihoods!

25

Pruning Season

26

Sticking To It

27

What's Up, Doc?

28

Art In Darkness

29

Good Writing Neighbors

30

The Public Domain Is Your Playground

31

Tropeic Topics

32

Author/Genre/Reader Expectations

33

Squirrel!

34

A Lesson On Audiobooks

35

ACTION!

36

Audio Tags and Dark Romance

37

The Title Problem

38

Indies vs Traditional Publishing

39

Don't Sidequest Your Plot!

40

Keepin' It Real

41

RPGs and Plot

42

Binge Writing, Recovery, and Creativity

43

Amazon Shenanigans -- We Own Nothing

44

Provocateur Writing and Attraction Marketing

45

Monkey Dances For Art & Money

46

Social Muckery, Recycling, And Fluffy

47

I Are Not An Editro

48

Rifts and Horrors - Brainstorming with Antowan

49

What The **** Is that?

50

Episodes, Sagas, and Standalones

51

Creativity and the Holiday Hustle

52

So You Wanna Start A Patreon...

53

Attack of the Pitch Deck! We Mean It!

54

You're Busy! Now What?

55

Life, Loss, Art

56

Reviews, Comments, and Criticisms

57

Five Senses, Infinite Words

58

What is "Punk?"

59

Dreams, Nightmares, and Fantasies

60

Titles, Names, and Genres

61

Websites, Recycling, and Devastating Feedback

62

Attack of the Pitch Deck!

63

Who Am I?

64

Failure To Release

65

Outline? What Outline?

66

Plot Bunnies Ate My Lettuce!

67

Wrap It Up!

68

The Slog

69

Is It Bad?

70

Charlie Brown Gives Dirty Magick

71

Star Travel and Hand-Wavium

72

What's My Brand?

73

Maps, Wikis, And Renderings -- what do you actually need?

74

Dystopia! Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying About The Present

75

Getting Back On Track

76

Illicit Futures

77

Reset!

78

The Genre Bunny Left Me Eggs

79

Design The Race and Run It

80

Guard Your Rights

81

How Do You Measure Success?

82

The Book Is Published...Now What?

83

Rights Grabs - When Distribution Networks Go Bad

84

Scum and Villainy!

85

Multipass!

86

2024 - The Unexpected Mess

87

Nanites, Stasis, and Printing Meat

88

A DRS Holiday Diatribe

89

Abusing Your Betas

90

PLANS!

91

20Books Hangover

92

Just Say November

93

Editors, Covers, and Audio -- What to do when the book is finished

94

Plotications!

95

Myopic Productivity

96

"Ask Me Anything"

97

That's A Bad Influence! - Episode 654

98

Alternate Worlds With James Peet

99

James Carpio Gives Good RPG

100

Don't Be Candide

101

Space Western Stormin'

102

Your Best Is Just Good Enough - DRS Episode 648

103

Cadence and Promises - DRS Episode 647

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Backstory Hell - DRS Episode 646

105

Organizing Reality - DRS Episode 645

106

Some Things Don't Stay in Vegas - DRS Episode 649

107

Prepare, Prepress, Publish

108

Firsts With Rick Shaw - DRS Episode 643

109

Deus Ex Whatkahina? - DRS Episode 642

110

Pitch Deck Returns! - DRS Episode 641

111

Instead of Pitch Deck, Here's Us! - DRS Episode 640

112

Patreon, BMAC, and Kofi - DRS Episode 639

113

AI Seances, Bad Haircuts, and Surprises

114

Advice For Paul - Episode 637

115

Science! Story Bibles! Newsletters? - DRS Episode 636

116

Sidekicks, Overlords, and Too Damned Many Words - DRS Episode 635

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Expectations - DRS Episode 634

118

Frazzlement and Hospitals - DRS Episode 633

119

In All Seriousness... - DRS Episode 632

120

Off the Rails - DRS Episode 631

121

Character Complexity

122

Planning, Goals, and FAILURE

123

Plot This!

124

Space Bacon!

125

Cow Tipping And Historical Inaccuracies

126

Monkeys With Typewriters

127

Process? What's a Process?

128

Agency with Character

129

"Read" Vs Perform - AI In Audiobooks

130

V Joins DRS

131

Robert Jeschonek Gives Good Story

132

What is Reality?

133

Process, Plot, and Cats

134

Drafts And Cliffhangers

135

Goodbyes, Inspiration, Reader Expectations, Culture Drift

136

Epiphanies, Plans, and WTFs

137

Stations, Names, and Cats

138

Character, Story Expansion, and Plot

139

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions

140

Audio Plans, Genre Hell, and Duds

141

Change, Aliens, and Story

142

Kickstarters, Hard Sci-Fi, Social Evolution

143

Covers, Cats, Pacing, and Memes

144

Length, Girth, And Other Writing "Tips"

145

DRS Live! 2022-01-15

146

Bah

147

Rants, Edits, Dune

148

Edits, Deadlines, and Oceania

149

M2, Porno, and Others

150

Paul Said "F*** ACX!"

151

Schedules, Audiobooks, and F*** ACX

152

EPISODE 600!

153

Questions With Few Answers

154

A Heinlein Journey with J Daniel Sawyer

155

Magic Systems for Writers/GMs with C.R. Rowenson

156

Starbarian Hordes! with Robert Jeschonek

157

Cornycopia

158

Driving and Narrating

159

More Serial Madness

160

Serials and Vella with Kevin McLaughlin

161

Tech Refresh

162

F1v390

163

Surmise the Demise

164

Time For A Tech Refresh?

165

Fiv390

166

Deus Ex Mababble

167

Building Blocks of Character

168

Humanity Divided

169

Super Tights

170

Supes

171

Robert Jeschonek and Space Opera

172

Jake Bible Gives Good Horror

173

Revenge!

174

F*** Starships! (REDUX)

175

Out of Context, and Out of Our Minds

176

F*** Starships!

177

Cornucopia of Insanity

178

Technosocial Hazards

179

Space:1975 with Robert Jeschonek

180

Mixology

181

Lessons Learned

182

DRS Live! A Conversation With David Wood

183

DRS Live! A Conversation with Veronica Giguerre

184

We Promise Babble and Snark, Not Virii

185

Subtlety Like A Sledgehammer

186

Interview With Author Chris Fox - Bonus Episode

187

Gods and Monsters

188

Pick Your Battles!

189

Dystopia!

190

From Word To Series

191

More than a few words with Yudha!

192

Words! Meanings! Ideas! - DRS Episode 567

193

Cultural Mirrors and Amish Porn - DRS Episode 566

194

DRS Episode 565 - Networking and Social Anxiety

195

DRS Episode 564 - Revising Our Revisions!

196

DRS Episode 563 - Pacing, Action Beats, Adventure!

197

DRS Episode 562 - SEQUELS!?!!

198

DRS Episode 561 - Paul on pain meds

199

DRS Episode 560 - Catching Up

200

DRS Episode 559 - Catching Up

201

DRS Episode 558 - Universal Squirrels

202

DRS Episode 557 - And...more tech support hell

203

DRS Episode 556 - More than a few words with Glynn Stewart

204

DRS Episode 555 - Just Call Tech Support

205

DRS Episode 554 – Interview With Charles E "Chuck" Gannon

206

DRS Episode 553 - Babbling Amidst A Sea of Characters

207

DRS Episode 552 - Incorporation? LLC? WTF? Interview With Joe Solari

208

DRS Episode 551 - Sex Robots, Ethics, Drivelings, and Brain Bleach

209

DRS Episode 550 - Common Sense Characters

210

DRS Episode 549 - Malorie Cooper Sees The Future

211

DRS Episode 548 - Sick and Stupid

212

DRS Episode 547 - Who Owns The Content? (GoT)

213

DRS Episode 546 - Revenge of Archivos!

214

DRS Episode 545 - Do Androids Dream Of Fleshy Humans?

215

DRS Episode 544 - Klingons Make Everything Better!

216

DRS Episode 543 - Own Your Content!

217

DRS Episode 542 - Arcs and Squirrels

218

DRS Episode 541 - A Cornucopia of Crazy

219

DRS Episode 540 - Leah Lederman and "Cafe Macabre"

220

DRS Episode 539 -PoV, Histories, and Choose Your Own Bad Ending

221

DRS Episode 538 - Work, Life, SQUIRREL!

222

DRS Episode 537 - How Dare You Write That!

223

DRS Episode 536 - Transitory Intransigence

224

DRS Episode 535 - F*** Your Adverbs!

225

DRS Episode 534 - Writersplainin' Editorsplainin'

226

DRS Episode 533 - Indie Publishing Topics

227

DRS Episode 532 - What's In A Name?

228

DRS Episode 531 - Q&A

229

DRS Episode 530 - Setting The Stage

230

DRS Episode 529 - Conversation With Author Ian J Malone

231

DRS Episode 528 - Expanding the Universe

232

DRS Episode 527 - When To Cut

233

DRS Episode 526 – REBOOT!

234

DRS Episode 525 – How To Hook

235

DRS Episode 524 - Friction!

236

DRS Episode 523 - "How does this start again?"

237

DRS Episode 522 - "In A World..."

238

DRS Episode 521 - The Multiplot Problem

239

DRS Episode 520 - Find The Topic!

240

DRS Episode 519 - Subplots! (fix)

241

DRS Episode 519 - Subplots!

242

DRS Episode 518 - Mind the Bridge

243

DRS Episode 517 - Whirlwind of Crazy

244

DRS Episode 516 - The Last Word

245

DRS Episode 515 – The First Word

246

DRS Episode 514 - The Swampy Middle

247

DRS Episode 513 - Truth To Character

248

DRS Episode 512 - Characters and Plots and Short Stories

249

DRS Episode 511 - To Scene, Or Not To Scene!

250

DRS Episode 510 - Exclusivity versus Going Wide

251

DRS Episode 509 - More Questions, Some Answers

252

DRS Episode 508 - F*** The Comments

253

DRS Episode 507 - Heinlein's Rules Revisited

254

DRS Episode 506 - Starla Huchton

255

DRS Episode 505 - Plot Complications

256

DRS Episode 504 - LitRPG and GameLit

257

DRS Episode 503 - Interview With Michael J Sullivan

258

DRS Episode 502 - FEAR!

259

DRS Episode 501 - Your Questions, Our Denials

260

DRS Episode 500 - A Live Celebration

261

DRS Episode 499 - 5 Things

262

DRS Episode 498 - AIs and Madness

263

DRS Episode 497 - SFWA and Nebulas

264

DRS Episode 496 - Story Structure and Aquanaught Internet

265

DRS Episode 495 - Team Building

266

DRS Episode 494 -Genre Mashing with Kacey Ezell

267

DRS Episode 493 - Vamp City Brown Style

268

DRS Episode 492 - Lab Rats And Brain Storms

269

DRS Episode 491 -Betas and Side Trips

270

DRS Episode 490 - Stereotypes and Archetypes

271

DRS Episode 489 - Archivos and Storytelling

272

DRS Episode 488 - Foreshadowing and Other Crazy

273

DRS Episode 487 - Musin'

274

DRS Episode 486 - Why's My Line?

275

DRS Episode 485 - I'm not mental!

276

DRS Episode 484 - A Funny Happened On The Way To The Bookstore

277

DRS Episode 483 – Plot Bunnies and Loose Threads

278

DRS Episode 482 - Mech Madness with Chris Kennedy

279

DRS Special - Justin Macumber Tribute

280

DRS Episode 481 - EXPANSION!

281

DRS Episode 480 - The Exposition!

282

DRS Episode 479 - Thieves!

283

DRS Episode 478 - Inventing Language

284

DRS Episode 477 - You've Got Science In My Fantasy!

285

DRS Episode 476 - Carl Hiaasen's "Native Tongue"

286

DRS Episode 475 - Cliff Hangerin' Bastards

287

DRS Episode 474 - Josh Hayes

288

DRS Episode 473 - LEVELING UP!

289

DRS Episode 472 - 5 Impediments

290

DRS Episode 471 - COMPLETION!

291

DRS Episode 470 - Jake Bible Talks Potato Soup

292

DRS Episode 469 - Can you hear me now?

293

DRS Episode 468 - Plot Knots!

294

DRS Episode 467 - DISTRACTION!

295

DRS Episode 466 - Craig Martelle Doesn't Freeze

296

DRS Episode 465 - Verisimilitude!

297

DRS Episode 464 - Your Questions, Our Denials pt2

298

DRS Episode 463 - Your Questions, Our Denials pt1