One-Drink Book Club

The One-Drink Book Club is an informal, (almost) weekly series in which fellow author Emma Lee Jayne joins me and our other creative friends to talk about the life, business, and art of writing and making books … for the duration of one Friday-afternoon drink. In this episode, we talked about: * Do we ever put real people in our books, either as homage or revenge when we’re pissed off at them? * W...

The One-Drink Book Club is an informal, (almost) weekly series in which fellow author Emma Lee Jayne joins me and our other creative friends to talk about the life, business, and art of writing and making books … for the duration of one Friday-afternoon drink. In this episode, we talked about: * My discovery that I can’t write a branching-narrative story, but not for reasons you might expect. * Mi...

The One-Drink Book Club is an informal, (almost) weekly series in which fellow author Emma Lee Jayne joins me and our other creative friends to talk about the life, business, and art of writing and making books … for the duration of one Friday-afternoon drink. In this episode, we talked about: * The “Artisan Author” approach, which I’ll be giving a presentation on in Las Vegas in November, and the...

The One-Drink Book Club is an informal, (almost) weekly series in which fellow author Emma Lee Jayne joins me and our other creative friends to talk about the life, business, and art of writing and making books … for the duration of one Friday-afternoon drink. In this episode, Emma and I really only covered one topic: How to talk to our artistic children about the self-doubt, creative blocks, and...

The One-Drink Book Club is an informal, (almost) weekly series in which fellow author Emma Lee Jayne joins me and our other creative friends to talk about the life, business, and art of writing and making books … for the duration of one Friday-afternoon drink. Here’s what we talked about in this episode: * It’s back to school time! We now have quiet times in which to write, though the chaos contin...

The One-Drink Book Club is an informal, (almost) weekly series in which fellow author Emma Lee Jayne joins me and our other creative friends to talk about the life, business, and art of writing and making books … for the duration of one Friday-afternoon drink. Here’s what we talked about in this episode: * I kicked us off by asking Bill’s thoughts, as a reader, on generating interest in my previou...

The One-Drink Book Club is an informal, (almost) weekly series in which fellow author Emma Lee Jayne joins me and our other creative friends to talk about the life, business, and art of writing and making books … for the duration of one Friday-afternoon drink. Here’s what we talked about in this episode: * We were light on crew today, having only me and Bill in attendance. It’s okay, though; we im...

The One-Drink Book Club is an informal, (almost) weekly series in which fellow author Emma Lee Jayne joins me and our other creative friends to talk about the life, business, and art of writing and making books … for the duration of one Friday-afternoon drink. Here’s what we talked about in this episode: * When is a story or a story world complete? Robert asked about Firefly, Stargate, and my Vamp...

The One-Drink Book Club is an informal, (almost) weekly series in which fellow author Emma Lee Jayne joins me and our other creative friends to talk about the life, business, and art of writing and making books … for the duration of one Friday-afternoon drink. Here’s what we talked about in this episode: * We have reader questions! Robert asked for Emma’s take on the romance in the show Firefly, a...

The One-Drink Book Club is an informal, (almost) weekly series in which fellow author Emma Lee Jayne joins me and our other creative friends to talk about the life, business, and art of writing and making books … for the duration of one Friday-afternoon drink. Here’s what we talked about in this episode: * Today was just me and Emma again, doing a very unconventional “coffee hour recording” at 11a...

The One-Drink Book Club is an informal, (almost) weekly series in which fellow author Emma Lee Jayne joins me and our other creative friends to talk about the life, business, and art of writing and making books … for the duration of one Friday-afternoon drink. Here’s what we talked about in this episode: * Today was just me and Emma, so we got really book-geeky and “inside baseball” in the absence...

The One-Drink Book Club is an informal, (almost) weekly series in which fellow author Emma Lee Jayne joins me and our other creative friends to talk about the life, business, and art of writing and making books … for the duration of one Friday-afternoon drink. Here’s what we talked about in this episode: * Bill asked how we describe scenes in our books that we find difficult to explain, which led...

The One-Drink Book Club is an informal, (almost) weekly series in which fellow author Emma Lee Jayne joins me and our other creative friends to talk about the life, business, and art of writing and making books … for the duration of one Friday-afternoon drink. Here’s what we talked about in this episode: * To open things up, we talked about how the ODBC now has a brand-new home on its own unique f...

The One-Drink Book Club is an informal, (almost) weekly series in which fellow author Emma Lee Jayne joins me and our other creative friends to talk about the life, business, and art of writing and making books … for the duration of one Friday-afternoon drink. Here’s what we talked about in this episode: * I talked about how I go through “seasons of focus” as a writer, wherein sometimes I’m writin...

The One-Drink Book Club is an informal, (almost) weekly series in which fellow author Emma Lee Jayne joins me and our other creative friends to talk about the life, business, and art of writing and making books … for the duration of one Friday-afternoon drink. Here’s what we talked about in this episode: * Mike was curious how we worked with other people, either as writing partners or for the purp...

The One-Drink Book Club is an informal, (almost) weekly series in which fellow author Emma Lee Jayne joins me and our other creative friends to talk about the life, business, and art of writing and making books … for the duration of one Friday-afternoon drink. Here’s what we talked about in this episode: * Bill started us off by asking about our influences — which authors inspired us, and how much...

The One-Drink Book Club is an informal, (almost) weekly series in which fellow author Emma Lee Jayne joins me and our other creative friends to talk about the life, business, and art of writing and making books … for the duration of one Friday-afternoon drink. Here’s what we talked about in this episode: * I (Johnny) gave everyone the rundown on my currently-running Kickstarter campaign for my new...

The One-Drink Book Club is an informal, (almost) weekly series in which fellow author Emma Lee Jayne joins me and our other creative friends to talk about the life, business, and art of writing and making books … for the duration of one Friday-afternoon drink. Here’s what we talked about in this episode: * Emma found a new used bookstore, causing us to fall into a discussion about the lure of phys...

The One-Drink Book Club is an informal, (almost) weekly series in which fellow author Emma Lee Jayne joins me and our other creative friends to talk about the life, business, and art of writing and making books … for the duration of one Friday-afternoon drink. Here’s what we talked about in this episode: * Emma’s not getting enough done in her quest to change tenses on her re-acquired Harlequin bo...

The One-Drink Book Club is an informal, (almost) weekly series in which fellow author Emma Lee Jayne joins me and our other creative friends to talk about the life, business, and art of writing and making books … for the duration of one Friday-afternoon drink. Here’s what we talked about in this episode: * Bill opened up with a salvo of questions about erotica for Punjabi widows. No, seriously. Th...

The One-Drink Book Club is an informal, (almost) weekly series in which fellow author Emma Lee Jayne joins me and our other creative friends to talk about the life, business, and art of writing and making books … for the duration of one Friday-afternoon drink. Here’s what we talked about in this episode: * Bill kicked things off by asking about prequels that conveniently answer all questions in th...

The One-Drink Book Club is an informal, (almost) weekly series in which fellow author Emma Lee Jayne joins me and our other creative friends to talk about the life, business, and art of writing and making books … for the duration of one Friday-afternoon drink. Today marked two things: The first time that Emma and I were joined by Bill AND Mike for drinks, but also the return of some persnickety wi...

The One-Drink Book Club is an informal, (almost) weekly series in which fellow author Emma Lee Jayne joins me and our other creative friends to talk about the life, business, and art of writing and making books … for the duration of one Friday-afternoon drink. Today, Emma drank a gin and tonic with a splash of cranberry, Mike (new to the ODBC, standing in for Bill) poured himself a vodka tonic wit...

The One-Drink Book Club is an informal (almost) weekly writers’ break-down in which my creative friends and I talk about the life, business, and art of writing and making books … for the duration of one Friday-afternoon drink. INCLUDING THESE TOTALLY MESSED-UP AI SHOW NOTES FOR THIS EPISODE BECAUSE THEY’RE HILARIOUS: The conversation covers topics such as addressing feedback and reviews, accepting...

Today, I’m debuting a new feature for paid members of this site: a weekly audio series called the “One-Drink Book Club.” It’s not the kind of club where we read books and discuss them. It’s the kind where my creative friends and I talk about the life, business, and art of writing and making books … for the duration of one Friday-afternoon drink. In this inaugural episode, I’m joined by soon-to-be-...