19.47.5: Interview with Andrew Buckley of the StoryCentric podcast (BONUS EPISODE)
Writing Excuses
Mary Robinette Kowal, DongWon Song, Erin Roberts, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
What does it mean to be building a career as an author in this day and age? We talk with author and speaker Andrew Buckley about everything from author brands to conferences while we ask Andrew to give us advice on how to get comfortable talking about yourself. In addition to hosting the StoryCentric podcast and speaking at conferences, Andrew is a speculative fiction author, with a focus on paranormal fantasy for young adult readers. He also has a background in marketing and business.
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Credits: Your hosts for this episode were Mary Robinette Kowal,Erin Roberts, and Howard Tayler. Our guest was Andrew Buckley. It was produced by Emma Reynolds, recorded by Marshall Carr, Jr., and mastered by Alex Jackson.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of writing excuses has been brought to you by our listeners, patrons, and friends. |
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| 0:11.8 | www.com |
| 0:11.8 | Slash-Riding Excuses |
| 0:13.8 | Season 19, Wildcard |
| 0:17.6 | This is writing excuses. |
| 0:23.3 | Why are you so special? |
| 0:25.2 | I'm Mary Robinette. |
| 0:26.7 | I'm Aaron. |
| 0:27.8 | I'm Howard. |
| 0:29.6 | And we are joined today by our special guest, Andrew Buckley. |
| 0:33.6 | Andrew and I met at a conference in the before times where we paneled together. |
| 0:39.2 | And I was really impressed with how intelligently he was approaching his career. |
| 0:47.2 | He's got a background in marketing. |
| 0:48.9 | And I'm going to invite Andrew to introduce himself and tell you a little bit about that and his own writing. |
| 0:54.5 | Thank you, folks. Thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate this. Yeah, I am a, God, one of |
| 1:01.9 | these days. I am a speculative fiction author, I think, is my primary, and then I have a whole |
| 1:09.3 | bunch of other stuff that I do around that. |
| 1:11.4 | So I primarily write paranormal fantasy for middle grade and young adults these days, |
| 1:17.2 | but I also have a spy thriller adult novel coming out this year, and I write horror as well. |
| 1:23.2 | I write fairy tale fantasy. I always consider myself an author of rather silly fiction, |
| 1:27.2 | because it's all pretty silly stuff. |
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