This week in Rhetornots, it's words about words. Oh, Hi everyone. Welcome to Retronauts. I am Jeremy Parish and this is episode 579. I can't believe we've gone 578 episodes without talking about ourselves basically and about our work.

I mean we we talk about it some but it's never before been like it's going to be now.

This episode is all about the stuff that we do, specifically the writing that we do, specifically the writing in print that we do.

Because all of us here on this round table have written and published books.

We are now famous authors and this is a chance for us to

tell you to go buy our work. No, actually it's not. I'm not I don't feel good

about just naked self-promotion. No one wants to listen to that.

So here's the trade-off for this episode.

We're going to talk about the books that we've published, and you're going to hear about that

and hear all about where you can buy those books and support

our existences.

But in return for that, we're going to talk about the process of publishing and about just

what it takes to create a book, to publish a book, to get something like that together.

And the goal here is not just for us to talk about the work we've done,

but hopefully to help inspire or inform people who are interested

in creating their own books, their own publications about gaming or, you know, really whatever,

to go out and get published because it's easier to publish these days than it's ever been before in human history.

Yeah, for sure.

We've made it come a long way since the Gutenberg Press.

And there is self-publishing there are small press houses you know boutique

houses there are larger print companies that still give people contracts and

things like that there are a lot of options out there and there's no one right way to create a book and no one right way to get published. There are probably wrong ways, but we're not going to talk about those. We're going to talk about just our different experiences and how we've gotten there.

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