354: Sons of Caledonia

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

A panelist from the very first episode, Dan Moren is now a published science-fiction novelist. Dan’s book, “The Caledonian Gambit,” was released today. Seven years ago, before The Incomparable even existed, Jason read a draft of Dan’s book… proving that sometimes the road to having your book published can be a long one, but with talent and perseverance it can be done. In this special episode, Jason talks to Dan about how he started writing novels, when he started working on what would become “The Caledonian Gambit”, how he got an agent, the revision process, and where his novel-writing career takes him from here. (The episode doesn’t have any spoilers for the book.)

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 354, May 2017.
0:11.1	Welcome back, everybody to The Incomparable.
0:13.4	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:14.4	This is a special bonus episode of The Incomparable with something that's only been done once before, only a single
0:23.0	guest. At Stan Moore, and he just said, wow, hi, Dan. Hi, Jason. Who was the other single guest?
0:31.4	Well, when we did the Miyazaki overview episode, only John Syracuse and I were on it because nobody else wanted to be on it.
0:40.5	Oh yeah. That's like this show. Nobody else wanted to be on this episode either.
0:43.5	We've come a long way. So people asked me if we were going to cover the fact we've been talking,
0:48.3	you've been mentioning it on various podcasts that you write novels and you've been working on novels
0:53.8	and you're hoping to have a novel published.
0:55.9	And the plan here is that this episode will go out on the day that your first novel is published
1:00.4	officially, although I already received my copy in the mail, as have many people, the printed
1:04.3	edition, the ebook will come out then, it'll be available, should be on shelves and bookstores,
1:08.7	all of these things should happen. And everybody asks,
1:12.5	like, well, are you going to do an incomparable episode and talk about it? It's like, well,
1:15.7	I don't think we should do a regular incomparable episode about the work of somebody who is one of our
1:22.7	panelists, because there's only a couple ways that can go.
1:28.7	Yeah.
1:31.0	One of them could be very, very bad.
1:31.8	Right.
1:37.2	And the other would be super boring because it'll just be nice things about our friend and their book.
1:38.8	And that's also not good. So I decided that maybe what we would do for this episode, this bonus episode, is for you and me to talk about your book and the process of writing your book and the story of you putting this thing together.
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