Kobo Writing Life Podcast

  Kobo Writing Life Director Mark Lefebvre interviews Jacqueline Garlick, author of Lumière: A Fantasy Steampunk Romance Adventure ( http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/lumiere-1 ). Mark and Jackie discuss: Jacqueline's background in writing and experience working with SCBWI (Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators - http://www.scbwi.org/ ) under the mentorship of Ellen Hopkins ( http...

Diego Marano, UK Manager for Kobo Writing Life interviews Chele Cooke, author of Dead & Buryd . Diego is joined by KWL Director Mark Lefebvre. The trio discuss the following: Chele's start of writing when she moved, at the age of 14, to San Francisco, where she began writing fan fiction in the Harry Potter universe How Chele's degree in creative writing opened her up to different types and styles...

Kobo Writing Life Director Mark Lefebvre interviews Douglas Smith , an award-winning Canadian author of fantasy, SF, horror and supernatural fiction with over 100 short story sales in 30 countries and two dozen languages. Doug and Mark discuss the following: •    Doug's start to writing in 1995 stemming from a "mid-life" crisis •    How Doug's new novel The Wolf at the End of the World ties back t...

Check out the books we're discussing here ! Kobo Writing Life Director Mark Lefebvre interviews Mitch Joel , author of the books Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT DELETE: Reboot Your Business. Reboot Your Life. Your Future Depends on it . The conversation between Mitch and Mark involve the following: Mark's riffing on Mitch's regularly used consistent classic opening for interviews in his Six...

Check out the books we're discussing here !   Kobo Writing Life Director Mark Lefebvre interviews authors Sean Platt and David Wright about their Collective Inkwell properties which include the highly successful serial thrillers Yesterday's Gone , White Space and Available Darkness . Mark chats with Sean and Dave about the following: Collaboration between writers – tools used, the logistics of how...

Check out the books we're discussing here ! Kobo Writing Life Director Mark Lefebvre interviews author Robert Levine, the author of Free Ride : How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back . Mark and Robert discuss the following:   The vision of the orderly process of interviewing subjects for a non-fiction book VS the actuality The hard pa...

Check out the books we're discussing here ! Kobo Writing Life Director Mark Lefebvre interviews author Steve Vernon , a writer and storyteller of both written and spoken words and they discuss the following: ·          Aspects of writing a serialized story (Steve's Flash Virus Series ), elements of humour in a thriller/horror story and the perspective of being able to laugh at life.   ·          S...