Episodes
Episode 52 – Collaboration with Daniel Willcocks
Jeff shares his progress on Camp NaNoWriMo and looks at the first quarter of sales data for Keeping Kyle. Jeff and Will talk with Daniel Willcocks about his new book Collaboration for Authors: A Complete Guide to Collaborating, Finding a Partner, and Accelerating Your Author Career. Daniel talks about his own collaborations, as well as what he learned from the authors he collected case studies from and the importance of the word “no.”
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Episode 51 – Podcast Fiction with Lauren Shippen
The guys kick off with a brief recap of last week, including the release of the Heart2Heart anthology, and what Jeff’s been up to with Camp NaNoWriMo and the Critical Lens class he just started taking. Jeff talks with author and podcaster Lauren Shippen about podcast fiction. Lauren’s written and produced several shows, going back to 2015 with The Bright Sessions, and she offers some guidance for authors who might be considering working in the podcast format.
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Episode 50 – Story Structure Part 4
The guys kick off with a recap of the past week, including recording an interview with Daniel Willcocks, an interesting invitation from J. Thorn and details on a class Jeff is taking during July. The discussion of story structure concludes with a look at the “Fighting for Love” section of Gwen Hayes’s Romancing the Beat.
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Episode 49 – Story Structure Part 3
Jeff talks about his experience last week with J. Thorn’s Supercharge Your Scene 5-Day Writing Challenge. Will recommends a recent episode of The Rebel Author Podcast where Sacha Black talked with Libbie Hawker about outlining. The discussion of story structure, based on Gwen Hayes’s Romancing the Beat, continues with the “Retreating from Love” section. As always, Jeff shares the plot he’s developed for these story beats.
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Episode 48 – Story Structure Part 2
Jeff recommends the latest episode of Rachael Herron’s How Do You Write? He also talks briefly about J. Thorn’s Supercharge Your Scene 5-Day Writing Challenge, which he will take part in next week. The guys continue their discussion on story structure with the “Falling in Love” phase from Gwen Hayes’s Romancing the Beat. Jeff wraps up the show by sharing the plot points he’s developed for those beats in his Christmas story.
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Big Gay Fiction Podcast
- Episode 451 – “Accidentally Undercover” with Layla Reyne, Allison Temple, and Cari Z
- Episode 450 – Steven Salvatore Talks About His Very Gay Take on “Pretty Woman”
- Episode 449 – Brad Gooch Discusses His “Radiant” Biography of Artist Keith Haring
- Episode 448 – Revisiting a Favorite: “Romancing the Rough Diamond” by Clare London
- Episode 447 – Gregory Ashe Creates the Advanced Ashochism Reader Community