Future Best Seller

Phillip and J.H. recap their time at the World Fantasy Convention and interview a gaggle of incredible guests including: Author William Chamberlain Author Tracy S. Morris Author & Writing Coach Sherry Peters Author Erin S. Bales Author & Publisher Joshua B. Palmatier Author Evan Braun

Welcome to our first ever Halloween episode. It's super spooky. If you find bad puns and terrible ghosts noises creepy, then you're sure to be terrified! Join J.H. and Phill as they talk about why they love Halloween and give some tips on writing creepy scenes. News: A comic legend gets the last laugh Ebook revenues are down. Sad clown face. Shocking news - Some people bribe reviewers. Whu...

News: KDP announces your old reports are going away. Sad face Publishing is the 2nd most impacted industry from pirates. Arrrggh Society of Authors call out Spotify AI News: Bowker and DeepZen collab on A.I. audiobooks coming to the U.S. . Dem robots sound like people Tools: J.H. Shares her tools for keeping organized Creatives on F.I.R.E. Phill is happy the stock market is down Best Buy credit ca...

This week we're celebrating the release of J.H.'s folk album and her latest novel! The album is Once Upon a Time , and the band is called Wildwood Minstrels . The novel is Jack of Crows . Both release this week! News: The writer strike is over! Books-a-Million same day delivery Spotify launches its new audiobook service in the U.K. & Austrailia AI News: 183,000 books used to train A.I....

In this special episode, the Future Best Seller crew joins a fellowship of hobbits, dwarves, and elves to celebrate Hobbit Day! Join us for an episode that is all things Tolkien!

Author and Editor Bryan Thomas Schmidt returns to the show to tell us about his new book, Shortcut . Guest Chat: Bryan walks us through the research and efforts put into the development of Shortcut Inspiration and origin of the story Working with Hollywood What does Bryan's writing process look like? News: Internet Archive Drama Children aren't reading as much From Pirates to Librarians Bo...

J.H. and Phill talk about how they've designed their writing lives, and offer some helpful tips so you can develop yours. From bad habits, to day jobs, to the challenges they've faced, they get into the grit of pursuing an author career while having to hold down day jobs. News: Big 5 Profits Clarkesworld Subscriptions Draft2Digital - How to Avoid Author Scams with Victoria Strauss Amazon p...

Artist Harold Neal joined us this week for a chaotic good episode! The Barbarian of Suburbia returns! Phill rambles about tires for some reason Guest Chat: Harold's villain origin story What led Harold to his unique style Advice for the budding artist News: Has BooTok peaked? Writers Strike Update AI News: In our 3rd installment of, What Could Possibly Go Wrong: AI generated books about mushro...

Guest Chat: Tommy's villain origin story in horror Inspiration and research Finding your Author Voice Writing a series Advice for Newbies News: Live longer by reading Letter to the Federal Trade Commission Bids open for World Con 2025 More author scams. Yay! New qualifications for SFWA membership Maui Fire Book pt 1 Maui Fire Book pt 2 AI works and copyright Tools: The Author Newsletter Creati...

Our guest this week runs a horror themed book review channel on Youtube called Bookworm of the Damned . Alex Brown has also been an author, editor, and short film creator. Also Phill has been diagnosed with Carpal Tunnel Syndrom and he's oddly happy about it. Guest Chat: Bookworm of the Damned Short Films: Cigarettes & Granny's House Why Alex stepped away from the author world Editing...

Chrisafer abandoned us and the pod gods were not pleased. We casted our pod anyway. Author A. Lee Martinez joined us this week for a chaotic episode that was so good we recorded it twice! Guest Chat: - A. Lee Martinez's Brilliant Book Titles: Gil's All Fright Diner , A Nameless Witch , the Automatic Detective , In the Company of Ogres - That time Lee almost gave up writing to pursue juggli...

Author Abigal Linhardt joined us this week for a conversation so good we managed to break Chris. He required a hard reboot mid-show. Guest Chat: - Abigail's Dark Fantasy Series - Season of the Runner - Why Phill loves the Witcher - Ghost writing - Narrating audiobooks - Altered Reality Magazine - Abigail's writing process News: - Amazon Monopoly? - Fantasy Magazine Shutting down. Boo. Sad....

We're joined this week by award winning author, JC Crumpton . - How we met JC - The "My Body Is Ready" / "We Aren't Mature Enough For The Filk Circle" story. Previous Guest Shoutouts: - David J Pedersen mentioned us on his blog over at djpwrites.com ! - Gary Phillips's One-Shot Harry is up for a Macavity Award ! - Bryan Thomas Scmidt's Robots Through the Ages is...

This week we have our first musical guest! Marc Mills, otherwise known as Marco from Music the Gathering , joins us to talk about telling stories through song and the life of a traveling minstrel. Let's Play! - What to do about the beginning? How to start your stories. GUEST CHAT: - Marc gives us his villain origin story. - Music the Gathering . - Marc and the Echo Folk. - Marc shares his expe...

“In the tradition of Dashiell Hammett . . . Makes us feel that the war he’s waging is for our own salvation.” — Walter Mosley Gary Phillips has over 20 novels to his name. A best selling and award winning crime fiction, historical fiction, and pulp author, his latest novel, One-Shot Harry , has more accolades than you could haul in a dump truck. The sequel, Ash Dark As Night, will be out in 2024....

Guest: Julie Jones is an award winning author who came to SoonerCon with us! Shoutout to the wonderful people who put on SoonerCon year after year! Shoutout to all of our friends who attended! Panels, programming, costumes, and all the shenanigans we got up to at the con! News: - Writer Beware of... Writer Beware imposters? - SFWA Market Report reminder. - Let's help out Clarkesworld. - TikTok...

Special Episode - Every week we do a segment called Creatives on F.I.R.E. where we focus on interweaving the concepts of financial independence with what we know about building our author business. In this special episode, we've broken out Phill's Authors on F.I.R.E. presentation and focused an entire episode on the 2nd path to achieving our dreams. We're going to talk about saving, in...

This week we've got not ONE, but TWO, best selling authors on the podcast! We are joined by Gerald Brandt , author of the Quantum Empirica and the San Angeles trilogy. And Bryan Thomas Schmidt , an author and renowned anthology editor who has worked on IP's such as Aliens Vs Predator , Jonthan Maberry's Joe Ledger series , and the upcoming Robots Through the Ages . Buy their books! - P...

-Author David J Pedersen joins us this week! - Soonercon is this weekend! -An absurd voicemail. Can you guess which parts the translator got wrong? -The best part of the concert. -David J Pedersen: Watson's World, Writing with Parkinson's, gotAngst on Youtube, David's writing & early reader process. -News: Book sales are back down, Harper Collins is trying to buy Simon & Schust...

Authors don’t pay publishers. Should you query with a story you’ve already published? Book-it, but for adults! Tracy S. Morris gives us a teaser about what she’s cooking up. Tracy shares her knowledge about working in shared universes, co-authoring, and writing alternate history. Cormac McCarthy. Vivendi acquires Lagardère. Library of Congress’s 23rd National Book Festival. Chris tries to appease...

J.H. has a big announcement! Secret, secret Project. Super secret Project! Until next year, Oklahoma Renaissance Festival! Book sales are up! SFWA's Open Market Report. Barnes & Noble. Amazon KDP category changes. EPUB V3.3. It turns out you can't steal other people's intellectual properties. weird, right? A.I. be running wild. Writers go on strike and other people get a deal. Soun...

Trains, trains, and mediocre ads. A new level of fame. Moms being moms, and that time Phill's mom made everyone think he died. The boat gods hate Phill but also he might be a mage. Who would ban A Wrinkle In Time? Kindle Unlimited Price Increase. Free Agency. Ryan Reynolds, but he can't make funny. U.S. Book Show. You might be able buy Simon & Schuster unless you're a Batman villai...

The podcast we wished existed when we were starting our writing journey. Casserole. The Oklahoma Renaissance Festival. A most unusual nipple. Knollsy is a beast. Murder she wrote. Amazon KDP raising paperback costs. Ingram Spark removing costs. The writer strike. AI - Serving our robot overlords. Tools for Authors: Scrivener. Creatives on Fire: A 2nd path to achieve my dream.