Terry, Justin, Scott, and Paul discuss a variety of topics including:

• Finding a supportive writing environment
• What to do when characters do/say unexpected things
• How to find beta readers and how to work with them (including ways to bribe them)

A long time ago I started setting up a store for people who wanted to purchase stories written by the hosts and guests of the Dead Robots’ Society, but apparently I never did much with it, so this morning I decided to rectify that. If you’d like to read my novel STILL WATER, or Terry’s EMPIRE OF BONES, or (the Gods forbid) Paul’s THE BLACK, then here is a link that’ll take you right to them. Thank you in advance, and have a Happy Presidents’ Day!

Terry, Justin, and Paul discuss how they got into writing, their first novels, and give tips on how to get started. Also? Terry and Justin hold an intervention. And reviews suck.

Friend of the show, John Mierau, is offering his tale Asunder for free. You should go get your little paws on it.

Join the Robots and they talk with author Timothy Ward about his works in the world of Sand, created by Hugh Howey. We also discuss what we’d like to have known when we started writing. If only we were so lucky.

Find Timothy at:

http://www.timothycward.com

You can join his mailing list at:

http://www.timothycward.com/join-my-newsletter

And enter for a book giveaway at:

https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/123903-scavenger-evolution

Paul, Terry, Justin, and Scott discuss indie versus hybrid vs traditional publishing and we also discuss marketing with bookbub, and writing for the money. We are also terrorized by Justin’s nipples.

Bookbub pricing:

https://www.bookbub.com/partners/pricing

Terry, Justin, Paul, and Scott discuss how to make action beats, thriller beats, and horror beats. In other words, we pretend we know what we’re talking about.

Terry, Paul, and Scott discuss making protagonist and antagonists fully realized characters. And Terry seeks counseling for his goodie-goodie characters.
Also, is 343 a prime number?

Justin, Terry, and Paul discuss using dream sequences in fiction.

Due to new audio capture software, there might be a couple of audio artifacts in the audio. My apologies

Terry and Scott discuss brainstorm Terry’s upcoming adventure in the world of Libertarian Wank Fiction (LWF). And yes, that is a genre WE ROBOTS ARE PIONEERING!

Terry, Justin, and Scott gather to reflect on their writing during the past year and part the mists of the future to plan to do better.