This week the Robots chat with suspense author Katia Lief about her books, her method, writing workshops, using pen names, and what her experience has been in publishing her own back catalog. Enjoy!

Katia Lief’s Website

“Why Women Read More Than Men” article mentioned in the show

This week’s promo – http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1723504596/the-dark-wife-audiobook by the fine folks at The Way of the Buffalo Podcast

This week Justin and Eli sit down to catch up with Paul Elard Cooley about his Garaaga’s Children series, how his self-publishing is coming along, what he things of the current state of horror, and about his ebook autographing app. We hope you enjoy!

Paul’s SHADOW PUBLICATIONS Website

MyWriteApp.com – The ebook autographing program Paul created

This week’s promo – The New Fiction Writers Podcast

This week Terry and Justin sit down to chat with erotica author and publisher Selena Kitt to talk about the current state of erotica, what troubles are bubbling the waters today, and where it might be going. Enjoy!

Selena Kitt’s Website
Excessica.com

Dear Author blog post about tonight’s topic

This week’s promo – ESCAPE from Keith Latch

ConJour 4 recently took place in Houston, TX, and we are fortunate enough to have eight panels to offer you. We don’t want to flood you with all of them at once, so instead we’re going to release them two per day over four days. Let us know if you like this release method, or if you’d prefer just getting them all at one time.

So now, without further adieu, here we go…

HOW TO START YOUR OWN PUBLISHING COMPANY

Panelists – Terry Mixon, O.M. Grey, Mel White, Chris Dunbar, and David Doub.

CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT

Panelists – Terry Mixon, Chris Dunbar, Michael Ashleigh Finn, Robert Stickmanz, and Alexis Glynn Latner

PLOT DEVELOPMENT 1

Panelists – Terry Mixon, Michael “Talthos” Willett, P.L. Blair, Rhonda Eudaly

PLOT DEVELOPMENT 2

Panelists – Paul Elard Cooley, Mel White, and Charlie Brown.

PUBLISHING AND MARKETING REALITIES FOR THE EMERGING AUTHOR

Panelists – Michael Ashleigh Finn, O.M Grey, Terry Mixon, Rhonda Eudaly, David Doub

TECHNOLOGY FOR WRITERS

Panelists – Scott Padget, Paul Elard Cooley, Michael Ashleigh Finn

THE BUSINESS ASPECT OF WRITING

Panelists – Michael Ashleigh Finn, Rhonda Eudaly, P.L. Blair, and David Doub.

WORLD DEVELOPMENT FOR SCI-FI, FANTASY, AND HORROR

Panelists – Terry Mixon, Robert Stickmanz, Jason Durall, and Chris Dunbar

This week the Robots sit down to chat with Scott Roche about his 52 Weeks of Indie initiative, as well as other projects and catching up on what Flying Island Press is up to. We had a lot of technical difficulties, so please pardon the sound quality.

Scott’s Website
Flying Island Press
52 Weeks of Indie

This week’s promo – The Roundtable Podcast

This week the Robots sit down with Myke Cole and Van Allen Plexico to talk about the different between magic and super hero powers, how they are the same, and why the difference is important (or not). Enjoy!

Myke Cole’s Website
Van Allen Plexico’s Website

This week’s promo – North Of Reality Podcast

Here are some of the books by the authors we had on this show this week:

And here is that AVENGERS trailer we talked about at the beginning of the show:

This week the Robots talk with Paul Byers about his novels CATALYST and ARCTIC FIRE, and about writing historical fiction. We then close the show with a review of Suzanne Collins’ THE HUNGER GAMES, and we’re joined by Krista Macumber.

Paul Byer’s Website

If you’d like to purchase his books, here are links to the Kindle ebooks:

We also reviewed Suzanne Collins’ THE HUNGER GAMES. If you’d like to read them as well, here are links to the Kindle ebooks:

This week’s promo – AUDIOTIM, Sound Advice For Aspiring Authors

This week the Robots sit down with former co-host Ryan Stevenson to brainstorm his supernatural mystery story, as well as discuss what we’ve been up and what Apple’s iBooks software might mean for self-publishers. We hope you enjoy!

Lifehack’s iBooks Article

This week’s promo – THE MAD SCIENTIST HANDBOOK anthology

This week Justin and Terry talk about the joys of editing and how it can make a bad story good, and a good story amazing. Editing is where the real story gets told, and learning to love it has immediate benefits for every writer. We hope you enjoy the conversation!

This week’s promo -ETERNITY, a podcast novel by Casey S Townsend

This week Justin and Terry talk with John Mierau about writing, podcasting, the importance of social media, and crowd funding.We hope you enjoy the conversation, and please send feedback!

John Mierau’s website, Twitter, Facebook page, and Google+ page.

And here is John’s Indiegogo campaign page. We highly encourage you to help support this talented and giving storyteller.

This week’s promo – The Weekly Podioplex, a podcast about movies from the Chronic Rift Network.