The Episodic w/ Michael Finney

Angry Penguin joins the program to discuss his work within the generative artificial intelligence art community and the platform Glif, which makes it possible to build and run custom workflows in the browser.

A good roundtable of discussion of projects that everyone is working on currently and alittle about language translation or transcription, potentially for audiobooks.

On this episode, Billy Mays III joins the program to discuss his musical career as Infinite Third and eyepillow as William Labyrinth and celebrate the 15th anniversary of his first album release, "Gently," which is currently being prepared for a vinyl release.

We talked about branding and audiobooks during this session as well as organization in service of getting projects done.

During this workshop we discussed getting your book into markets, engaging with readers and community, as well as promotions.

On this session we discussed the Based Book Sale, the value of reviews on Amazon and Goodreads, analytics monitoring, and audiobooks vs physical reading.

On this episode, John Slaughter joins the program to talk about his path in writing and his debut release, "Crimson Veil".

This episode features a number of live poetry readings in addition to conversation about developing projects.

This episode is about getting your new projects going early in the year. We outline a few methods to get started to get something on the blank page with pen or keyboard.

This session we discuss progress on new projects, beta readers, and having a website to promote our work or to engage with readers.

Hans Schantz joins the program to discuss ultrawideband antennas, the history of physics, his writing career, and the Based Book Sale. Connect with the hosting author and filmmaker at ⁠https://michael-finney.com

First session of 2025, we talked about new projects and goals for the year.

Heidi and I lead a discussion on how to get people to read or listen to your work in advance of publishing, how to source those opportunities and what to do with the feedback

Heidi and I talk with Mike from On Point Publishing about his role as a literary agent and what it means to work with one as a writer seeking to get your work publishing.

A decent year of reading, fiction-heavy, I would say, but there is a mix of other material in there as well. Also happy to note there are a good number of books in the mix from folks I know. As always, looking for recommendations and have plenty on my plate for the coming year already. I'll probably do alot less short stories and have a considerably lower count overall but that's alright. ----- Ac...

This session we talk about progress through the year as it is the last session of 2024 as well as screenwriting and music

This episode is as advertised: Channels for distribution and ways to build an audience for your new book

This episode gets into using KDP, creating audiobooks, Royal Road, and allowed us to check in on the progress of our works before getting into the new year.

Tony Mugavero, CEO of Rad TV, joins the program to discuss his career in creativity, content, and technology that has led to the development of the streaming video distribution platform.

On this session we checked in about progress on our work, discussed the writing community and addressed how audio factors into both.

GET THE BOOK Exploring the National Parks across the United States is an opportunity that should not be taken for granted. To understand the profound notion of stewardship, in terms of responsibility and accountability, we must know the land as intimately as possible. This album seeks to nurture further the seeds planted in the previous entries of the series. Captured in photographs are views of s...

This session we talked about developing longer projects and creating in multimodel ways, which starts with writing ideas that can translate from headphones to screen and the printed page.

Heidi and I go into the process and mechanics of getting your print, ebooks, and audiobooks out into the world through the distribution platforms available to self-publishing authors.

We talked about our projects, multimodal distribution and how to find community online.

Ricky Olkusz and Tom Tiernan join the program to discuss their work, the writing craft, and their partnership on Mt Timeless Review.