I’d be more interested in hearing about post, not sure I’d really need a 45+ minute podcast on book covers.

Epistolary (letter) book – Sorcery and Cecelia, by Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevermer (which started as a game involving writing letters back and forth, and when they were done, they edited it down to a young adult novel)

Epistolary (blog post) book – Alison Hewitt is Trapped, by Madeleine Roux. Zombie novel that came out last year. Not only is it blog posts (on a magical version of the internet that didn’t go down), but it even has comments, and responses to the comments.

A present tense book that worked well: Changer, by Jane Lindskold. I was half-way through before I even *realized* it was present tense (which I normally hate). When well done, you shouldn’t even notice the tense.

And I could see using second person in a short story where it’s half a conversation. (“And you did what next? Really, when you went into the room you saw x? Incredible!”) In fact, I’m tempted to write one, just to see.

Oh, and a book that has a really interesting point of view is Synners, by Pat Cadigan. The book is from the point of view of a character with multiple personality disorder. What the publisher did in laying out the book was that they used a (subtly) different font for each of the characters, so you could always tell whose POV it is based on the font.

(and wow! I’m almost caught up on episodes. Sad to see Eliyanna go, but Paul was a lot of fun)

When I was young I thought fiction writer’s just sat down at their typewriters (showing my age) and wrote down the story as it came to them. This was a difficult process for me. Now I am somewhere down the middle. I outline, but I don’t let the outline totally rule the story. My outlines are living documents of where I think the story should go, but the process of writing inevitably brings inspiration and I would be remiss to slam the door on this muse, stating emphatically that is not in my outline. Sitting at my computer (yes I did join the 21st century) I feel I have somewhat of a roadmap, even if that roadmap may change mid-journey

I certainly miss Eli, but I’m excited to have Paul as the new co-host. I like hearing about self publishing. You guys need to continue the conversation about covers. I am also very interested in hearing about the back covers, formatting advice and dealing with Amazon, Smashwords and the like.

I’m looking forward to hearing both Terry’s and Paul’s Roundtable episodes. I’ve requested to be a guest writer as well, and offer up my own story so Dave, Brion, whichever crazy guest host they can convince to join us, and I can sift that pan for some literary gold.

If you don’t laugh, please seek professional help.

I think it’s a perfect example of 2nd person because it really couldn’t be told any other way and have the same impact.

http://m.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/04/this-week-in-fiction-junot-diaz.html

I think most of the nonstandard forms do better in a short story format than a longer one.

On purpose????

Oh, the horror!