Living an Epic Life Podcast Episode 5: Audible and the Writer’s Quick-Start Guide

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Here’s Episode 5 of my podcast series Living an Epic Life!

In this episode we’ll learn about a great offer from Audible — a free ebook and 30-day free trial. Also, I’ll talk about a list of resources for writers transitioning from writers-who-just-want-to-write to writers-who-also-want-to-get-published.

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Writer’s Quick-Start Guide

Writers at Stonecoast!

(PHOTO: by Jim Kelly)

A friend of mine, who writes a lot and is now moving to get their work published, asked me for some help on some writing procedural matters. Not information on how to write, but, for example, how to create a pdf document, how to create Kindle book, and how to format a manuscript for submission. Nuts and bolts questions that are outside the craft of writing, but questions that . . . → Read More: Writer’s Quick-Start Guide

Why I classified my new podcast as “philosophy”

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So I’ve started this new podcast series called Living an Epic Life. I’m only a few episodes in and at first I was just exploring new ground, but by the third episode the idea behind the series solidified. At that point I thought it was worth adding to iTunes so that listeners could more easily subscribe to the episodes.

But I discovered in the iTunes-podcast-creation process that I had to “classify” my . . . → Read More: Why I classified my new podcast as “philosophy”

Living an Epic Life Podcast Episode 4: Sir Richard Branson, Sharpening the Sword, and Fitness

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Here’s Episode 4 of my podcast series Living an Epic Life.

In this episode we’ll hear wisdom from Sir Richard Branson and Abraham Lincoln on what’s behind successful people being successful, what it means to “sharpen the sword,” and a look at one way to keep your fitness edge even while on travel.

Tom De Haven and the “Krazy Kat Goes to Kollege” Lecture

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Tom De Haven, author of 18 books, regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review, and Professor in the VCU Department of English, will be giving the lecture, “Krazy Kat Goes to Kollege: Comics in the Curriculum (and what it means)” as the 2011-2012 Elske v. P. Smith Lecture.

WHEN: Wednesday, February 29, 2012

TIME: 7:00PM

WHERE: VCU Student Commons, 907 Floyd Avenue, Richmond Salons I and II, Richmond, Virginia.

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