Podcasts by The Dragon Page "Cover to Cover"
Conversations with the Creators of Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature
Further podcasts by Michael R. Mennenga, Summer Brooks, Michael A. Stackpole
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Cover to Cover #470: Amazon vs Hachette, or Authors Are Doing It For Themselves from 2014-06-30T17:58:04
Mike and Mike talk more about the fight between Amazon and Hachette, continuing from Show 468 and including comments from your feedback via Facebook.
They talk more about how d...
Cover to Cover #469: Talking with Kevin J. Anderson from 2014-06-23T18:49:16
Kevin J. Anderson joins Mike and Mike to talk about his newest novel, The Dark Between the Stars. It's the first of his new series, "Saga of Shadows", which takes place 20 years after the events of...
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Cover to Cover #468: Amazon vs Hachette, Or Who Moved My Marketing? from 2014-06-16T20:31:55
The contract dispute between Amazon and Hachette has Mike Stackpole a little fired up, and the conversation revolves around the details some of the blowback that midlist and new authors are feeling...
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Cover to Cover #467: Talking About "Reading Rainbow" from 2014-06-10T00:08:03
Sam Roberts joins Mike and Mike to talk about LeVar Burton's Kickstarter efforts to bring "Reading Rainbow" to new audiences using newer technologies and methods that weren't available when the sho...
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Cover to Cover #466: Changes in Book Selling from 2014-06-02T20:08:03
Mike and Mike recap the technological and book-selling shift since they last talked shop in 2012, including the shift from big format bookstores to local stores & specialty stores that promote even...
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Cover to Cover #465: Catching Up and Moving Forward from 2014-05-19T17:07:23
Mike and Mike pop in for a quick visit, and have fun with not remembering anything they talked about or did for the show 2 years ago.
They chat about what's been going on since...
Cover to Cover #464: Understanding Character Growth from 2012-03-05T18:30:14
Discussing the News: Mike S talks about Amazon's Kindle Select program that allows Kindle owners to borrow ebooks, and the payment method they're using to compensate authors for the loans, but it's...
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Cover to Cover #463: Techniques for Managing the Details from 2012-02-20T23:11:28
Mike S also recommends that everyone go out and purchase digital picture frames, scan in the covers of all their books, sit it on your shelf and have it display your book covers as slideshows.
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Cover to Cover #462: Deconstructing the Story from 2012-02-07T00:35:43
Mike S points out that the real kidney punch to B&N was done by Apple a few weeks ago with their ebook textbook deals, and the guys talk about how these deals could change how teachers teach and ho...
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Cover to Cover #461: Building Your Audiences from 2012-01-30T22:56:32
Discussion: Mike S talks about the importance of developing a private audience, separate from the groups you're cultivating on Twitter, Google+, Facebook, and other social networks.
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Cover to Cover #460: Information Management and Story Questions from 2012-01-16T22:33:17
Mike S brings up some salient points about the legal tussle going on between HarperCollins and Open Road Media over the definition of "ebook" because of a new electronic version of Julie of the Wol...
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Cover to Cover #459: How and Where to Get Started from 2011-12-26T18:30:58
Would you be interested in receiving PDFs of sample chapters from authors, writing prompts or assignments or items of that ilk? Let us know your thoughts on that!
Mike S lays o...
Cover to Cover #458: Prepping and Planning A Story from 2011-12-12T15:30:57
Listener Questions: Tad from Mesa is one of the few who has an old edition of Mistress of Dragons and he's interested to see how the new version evolves, really enjoyed Stackpole's At the Queen's C...
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Cover to Cover #457: Listener Questions from 2011-11-28T19:01:09
The new "Cover to Cover" will be switching to an every other week schedule, mostly to give the guys and the listeners time to do the actual work required... MRM doing the writing for Mistress of th...
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Cover to Cover #456: DIY EBooks (We're Not Dead Yet!) from 2011-11-14T21:35:27
Mike M and Mike S jump back in the saddle, chatting about what they did on their extended summer vacations: Stackpole went to a few conventions (Gencon, Origins), and published his first digital or...
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Cover to Cover #455: M D Lachlan from 2011-05-30T23:36:04
Interview: This week, Mike and Mike chat with MD Lachlan about the first book in his new series from Pyr Books, Wolfsangel. What happens when you take a werewolf story and combine it with Norse myt...
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Cover to Cover #454: Bradley Beaulieu from 2011-05-17T02:03:55
Interview: This week, Mike and Mike chat with Brad Beaulieu about his new novel, The Winds of Khalakovo, an epic fantasy series from Night Shade Books in the same vein as George R. R. Martin's "A S...
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Cover to Cover #452: Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris from 2011-05-03T17:35:42
Interview: This week, Mike and Mike chat with Tee Morris and Pip Ballantine about their new collaborative novel, Phoenix Rising: A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel, sort of a steampunk flavor...
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Cover to Cover #451: Listener Feedback from 2011-04-26T18:46:58
It's an all voicemail episode! Hopefully everyone who's had questions or comments will have them answered here. [Read more...]
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Cover to Cover #450: William F. Nolan from 2011-04-19T00:24:54
Interview: This week, Mike and Mike chat with legendary SF author William F. Nolan (Logan's Run) about his latest collection of novellas, Kincaid: A Paranormal Casebook. The stories are a blend of ...
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Cover to Cover #449: Alex Bledsoe from 2011-04-12T17:30:38
Interview: This week, Mike and Mike chat with Alex Bledsoe about his new book, Dark Jenny from Tor Books. While it's the third book set in this universe featuring many of the same characters, it's ...
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Cover to Cover #448: Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson from 2011-04-05T14:01:51
Interview: Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert join us this week in the middle of their book tour to talk about Hellhole, their most recent collaboration and the first in a trilogy set in a new ori...
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Cover to Cover #447: Justin Gustainis from 2011-03-22T15:45:32
Interview: This week, Justin Gustainis joins Mike and Mike to discuss his new projects, including the recently released Those Who Fight Monsters, an occult detectives anthology he edited for EDGE S...
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Cover to Cover #446: Patricia Briggs from 2011-03-15T17:48:02
Interview: This week, Patricia Briggs joins the guys to talk about her newest book, River Marked, the 6th and newest book in her Mercy Thompson series. In this story, she not only explores Mercy's...
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Cover to Cover #445: Jon F. Merz from 2011-03-08T03:46:52
Interview: This week, our guest is Jon F. Merz, and the latest book in his Lawson Vampire series is The Kensei. Lawson is fixer in the vampire world, and his primary mission is to protect the secre...
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Cover to Cover #444: Electronic Sales and More from 2011-03-01T05:46:42
Voicemail: Web Genii mentions a blog post that talks about measuring the numbers of book torrent downloads, and wants to know if electronic book sales currently count towards the New York Times Bes...
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Cover to Cover #443: Alan Dean Foster from 2011-02-22T15:00:26
Interview: This week, our guest is Alan Dean Foster, and his latest SF novel is The Human Blend, and his newest book is a memoir, Predators I Have Known (coming out as a first print digital edition...
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Cover to Cover #442: Angela James, Carina Press from 2011-02-15T02:32:17
Interview: This week, Angela James, Executive Editor of Carina Press, joins us to talk about the digital book marketplace, and some of the changing trends in reading habits, reading formats, and o...
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Cover to Cover #441: Mercedes Lackey from 2011-02-08T14:35:49
Interview: This week's guest is Mercedes Lackey, whose newest anthology Trio of Sorcery from Tor Books is a collection of two stories featuring her popular urban fantasy heroines, Diana Tregarde an...
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Cover to Cover #439A: Gadgets and Getting Started in Electronic Publishing from 2011-01-17T16:30:24
Voicemail: Trampas finds irony in Summer reading the description of a book featuring characters named Sunshine and Rayne; Mike in Germany asks if there's a "dummies" level guide th...
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