By the Glory of Google, I found audio of me talking about copyrights and self/Internet/guerrilla marketing at last year’s Penguicon.  These were recorded by, and feature, Rick “The Time Traveler” Jackson, who is also president of the Science Fiction Oral History Association.  The audio is hosted on Rick’s website, Brain Plucker.

Copywhat? Copyrights! Open Source Licensing in Literature – we chat about copyright issues, especially when it comes to Internet.

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Selling Your Soul – Marketing Your Work on a Limited Budget – we chat about marketing your own stuff while trying not to break the bank (features Jim C. Hines and David Crampton)

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Guerrilla Marketing — The Art of Self-Promotion – along the same lines of the panel above, but touches on other marketing ideas (features Michael “FREON” Andaluz).  I found this one via some sort of MP3 grabber site (and was alerted by Google), so I have the audio hosted on my site, as I can’t find an entry for it on any of Rick’s websites.

 

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(all audio recordings are © 2009 Rick Jackson)

Give these a listen and enjoy!  I love being on panels and talking about these subjects.  I’ve certainly learned plenty about promotion over the past few years.

It is true, I got a shout out in Visual Lounge’s blog post yesterday (by Betsy Weber).

Very cool.  Betsy shared one of the tips I mentioned when I spoke about podcasting at DemoCamp Lansing. In this case, it was the using dog training clicker to mark mistakes in your audio track.

I use this when recording episodes for the Magic of Eyri Podcast and it is super helpful.  The click creates a pair of spikes in the audio’s track, making the mistakes easy to spot.

I can’t take credit for coming up with this idea however, it was shared with me by the fellows at EscapePod while talking shop at last year’s Penguicon.  I’m happy to of had the chance to pass this tip on to others though.

If you are a podcaster (or do anything with sound recording), I can’t recommend this tip enough: it’ll be the best $3 you’ll ever spend (you can also tap the microphone or snap your fingers, but the advantage of the clicker is that the spike will always look the same).

This Sunday, instead of the next (exciting) episode of the Magic of Eyri Podcast (“Double Trouble”) I shall be running the audio from the panel discussion about fantasy writing I was a part of at the Delta Township District Library on September 1st.

Joining me in splendid 64 kps glory are Jim C. Hines and Phil Kline.  I haven’t listened to the audio yet, but I’m sure it turned out just fine (or fine enough for this purpose).

I’m curious how this will turn out and if people will like it or not. This will not be a regular feature, but I know people do enjoy this sort of thing (listening to writers talk about writing)–otherwise no one would ever attend any of the panels I’m on. I keep meaning to record non-podcast stuff to have at the ready if I ever need filler in case I don’t have an episode ready or something comes up (illness, vacation, pirate-ninjas).

Regular transmission of episodes will continue on September 27th.