Hello and welcome to the Storygrid podcast. This is a show dedicated to helping you become a better writer.

I'm your host Tim Graal and I am a struggling writer trying to figure out how to tell a story that works.

Joining me shortly as Sean Coyne, he is a creator of StoryGrid, the author of the book StoryGrid, and an editor with over 25 years experience.

In this episode, Sean and I continue talking about the state of publishing,

the different options inside of publishing,

and what it would look like if we created a publishing house that we felt like

fixed all the problems that you find in the different versions of publishing

right now.

And so we continue that conversation.

I think you really enjoy the episode.

So let's jump in and get started.

So Sean, last week we started walking through kind of our discussion about what we were going to do when it came to

publishing uh publishing the threshing and it really became this bigger conversation about the

options we have in publishing and it based you know for the part, it comes down to traditional publishing and self-publishing,

which both have a lot of pros and cons.

And so this week I was just thinking we could start with kind of my magic wand thing.

If we could wave a magic wand and create the perfect

publishing situation, what would that look like? And so let's just start there. Like, you've

been in publishing a long time. If I asked you like, okay, wave your magic wand and create the perfect

publishing situation or publishing house or whatever, what would be kind of the tenets of that

thing? What would be, you know, the most important things that you think you would do to make it

kind of beat all the cons of the current

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