How We Grew Our Storytelling Podcasts to 1,000,000 Downloads

Seems to us that if you’re a podcaster, especially a fiction podcaster, the title above should be irresistible. It certainly was for us.

a Project Hatch Interview with Travis Vengroff and Kaitlin Statz

We had been working to create podcasts as a hobby and side hustle for about a year and a half before we came up with the idea to brand ourselves as a single company (or duo) creating multiple shows. As we create more shows, we established Fool & Scholar Productions as a way to organize our works and establish brand recognition. read article

Seth Godin’s Top 5 Rules For Success

Worthwhile reading for anybody trying to make it to the top of the ladder, regardless of what ladder you’re trying to climb. Have at it!

Brought to us all by Behind the Brand read article

3rd & Fairfax: The WGAW Podcast

by TVWriter™ Press Service

We’ve talked about this before, but here’s a reminder for all of our visitors who are into podcasting and podcasts in general, and podcast fiction specifically: The Writers Guild of America West has you covered, baby, with a site that we think will blow you away.

Here’s what you could have learned, and who you could have learned it from, in the month of November: read article

‘Neo Cab’ may well be the best written game of all time…so far

NOTE FROM LB: Having rediscovered video gaming (because I’ve ended up owning a gaming laptop that I love…and almost can afford), I fully intended to write a full review of the game Neo Cab, which is being released this week, and which without a doubt is the deepest, most subtle exploration of humanity and characterization I’ve ever encountered in a video game.

As luck would have it, however, Sam Machkovech of ArsTechnica.Com had already done it. So…here it is!

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How To Turn Your Book Into A Podcast

Makoto Tokudome walks us through a thoroughly modern yet incredibly important set of steps in book marketing. As another TVWriter™ minion said when we talked about this post, “Maybe we should call it, “Podcasting Your Book for Fun and Profit.”

by Makoto Tokudome

Are you a self-published author? Are you looking to get your book into other mediums such as audio? read article