Kobo Writing Life Podcast

At a recent visit to Kobo's home office in Toronto,  Hugh Howey was interviewed by KWL Director Mark Lefebvre in front of an audience of about 150 people (60 of which were local Kobo Writing Life authors) for a  Kobo in Conversation video.  Here are some highlights from the discussion.             Introduction of Hugh Howey and Mark Lefebvre by Tracy Nesdoly, Senior Director of Communications at K...

KWL Director Mark Lefebvre interviews Moses Znaimer, co-founder and former head of CityTV, the first independent television station in Toronto, Canada, the current head of ZoomerMedia ( Zoomer Magazine ) and the author of The Zoomer Philosophy . Mark and Moses discuss:          How Moses rarely stops to look back because he is always on to looking at the next thing that he is working on          ...

Camille Mofidi, European Manager for  Kobo Writing Life interviews Italian author Vieri Tommasi Candidi about his Who's Jo Spatacchia? Series and the unique method by which he had released this in two languages with a regular and enhanced version for different audiences.   During the conversation, Camille and Vieri discuss:   Developing projects along with talented artists            The concept o...

KWL Director Mark Lefebvre and US Manager Christine Munroe were joined by NYT bestselling author, professional speaker, and entrepreneur Joanna Penn. Joanna is an invaluable resource for indie authors through her blog, The Creative Penn , and podcast  of the same name. Listen in as Joanna shares insights about: How Joanna began her journey as a fiction writer through NaNoWriMo in 2009. Why she def...

Christine Munroe interviews Brooklyn-based author Nathaniel Kressen, who took a truly unique approach to self-publishing his debut novel Concrete Fever and won over local independent booksellers along the way. Tune in to hear about:   Why Kressen decided to hand-craft hard copies of his novel, and the misadventures he encountered as he mastered the bookbinding process What he learned by meeting Je...

Mark Lefebvre, KWL Director, interviews Melissa Yuan-Innes , author of the hot-selling Hope Sze Medical Mystery series about...     Melissa's role as an emergency physician and the role this plays in helping develop her fiction and the character of Hope Sze Melissa's latest book, TERMINALLY ILL which is coming out February 1, 2014 (and is available for pre-order) How the beloved yet frustrating ci...

Camille Mofidi, European Manager for Kobo Writing Life interviewed three authors that Kobo sponsored for the 2013 Frankfurt Book Fair Author Walk of Fame :  Emily Bold , Kristie Cook and Hugh Howey. This is the third in the series of three interviews and features international bestselling author Hugh Howey .  In the interview, Camille and Hugh discuss: Hugh's start into writing, the multi-faceted...

Camille Mofidi, European Manager for Kobo Writing Life interviewed three authors that Kobo sponsored for the 2013 Frankfurt Book Fair Author Walk of Fame :  Emily Bold, Kristie Cook and Hugh Howey. This is the second of the series of three interviews and features bestselling New Adult paranormal romance author Kristie Cook . Camille and Kristie discuss: Kristie's bestselling series Soul Saver An e...

Camille Mofidi, European Manager for Kobo Writing Life interviewed three authors that Kobo sponsored for the 2013 Frankfurt Book Fair Author Walk of Fame :  Emily Bold, Kristie Cook and Hugh Howey. This is the first of the series of three interviews and features bestselling romance author Emily Bold . Camille and Emily discuss Emily's continued growth and rise not just in Germany but around the gl...

Christine Munroe, US Manager for Kobo Writing Life, interviews Darcie Chan, author of the NYT and USA Today bestselling novel,  The Mill River Recluse . Christine and Darcie discuss: Darcie's dedication to this novel, which she finished writing almost 10 years ago, and her unique experience from experimenting with self-publishing to signing a deal with a traditional publisher The exciting moments...

Kobo Writing Life Director Mark Lefebvre interviews Terry Fallis, multi-award winning author of The Best Laid Plans , The High Road   and Up and Down .  Mark and Terry talk about: •    How they met when Mark was a bookseller at McMaster University's bookstore, and Terry, a former McMaster student self-published The Best Laid Plans in 2007. •    Mark's comparison of Terry's writing to John Irving •...

Kobo Writing Life Director Mark Lefebvre interviews Johnny B. Truant author of the Fat Vampire series, and co-author of The Beam and Unicorn Western .   The two discuss: How Johnny is continuing and concluding the Fat Vampire saga, which began as a joke during a discussion on the Self-Publishing Podcast , but became a series featuring a loveable, sympathetic and genuine hero (Reginald) rather than...

  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...