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Summary: 3-9 minutes of advice from Paul Levinson on writing, succeeding, navigating the media This Podcast was created using www.talkshoe.com
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used to be definitely not - but times have changed - I'll tell you why...
the pros and cons of podcasting vs. blogging: which you choose to do depends upon your comfort zone and in what ways you want to reach people
Very important - but most authors have very little control over the covers of their books...
The logic is people would find it easier to distinguish my science fiction and my scholarly writing - but the answer is no. For two reasons: 1. Using one name maximizes your publicity. 2. I want the girl who ignored me in 7th grade to see the error of her ways when she walks into a book store.
Seen the movie? Not sure what happened at the end? Or, you are, but the person who saw it with you disagrees? Here's the lowdown, in just a little more than a minute...
The short answer: not enough people love them. The longer answer: network advertisers care only about numbers of people watching, not about how much the viewers love the shows. But there's good news: more and more TV is available on the Internet.
The pros and the cons of this magnificent experiment in encyclopedia making, in which everyone in the world - including you, if you like - can be a writer and editor.
Copyright is complicated because it attempts to protect intellectual property - information - which has an amazing characteristic: you can take it from its original place, but it's still there...
Copyright is a relatively recent development in human history - it started as a privilege that monarchs dispensed to printers ... the right to make copies...
Less a mini-scientific treatise and more an appreciation, but I do cover the difference between black, green, and white tea, and how to prepare it.
I've been on The O'Reilly Factor a few times in the past few years. People often ask me how I manage to get a word in edgewise. Here I give some advice, along with an example from my January 2004 appearance on The Factor, in which O'Reilly and I went head-to-head over Catherine Bosley, former news anchor for a local CBS station in Youngstown, OH, who was taped taking off her clothes in a wet t-shirt contest in Florida while on vacation. (Preview: I think she did nothing wrong.) You can see the actual interview over on YouTube - search on O'Reilly and Levinson - or go to www.youtube.com/user/PLev20062006 - or, if you'd like a more quiet setting, at paullevinson.blogspot.com or lightonlightthrough.com
I'm author of five novels, including The Silk Code, which won the Locus Award for Best First Science Fiction Novel of 1999, and my current novel, The Plot to Save Socrates. Here I offer a four-minute tutorial on how to sell a novel. The salient points are do not send it in over the transom, and you do not necessarily need an agent. What you do need is the editor to know you, or at least who are, prior to sending your novel. (This is a sequel piece to my 3-minute How To Write A Novel.)
I'm author of five novels, including The Silk Code, which won the Locus Award for Best First Science Fiction Novel of 1999, and my current novel, The Plot to Save Socrates. Here I offer a three-minute tutorial on how to write a novel. The salient points are that you have to actually write and not let life get in the way, and you have to finish what you start writing.
