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The Shared Desk — Episode #16: Making Tough Choices (with P.J. Schnyder)

 

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So it’s been a while since we have sat down and recorded a Shared Desk, but how about this — when we finally got a chance to record a Shared Desk, we did it with the lovely P.J. Schnyder. This episode is about tough choices we make as authors in bringing about the demise of a character. Why do we do this to our creations? Is it for shock value? Is it for impact? And do we really care in the end?

 

00:00 — Introduction

  • A brand new Shared Desk, and this time we brought a friend!
  • Who is P.J. Schnyder?
  • The way to a woman’s heart: Meat and Explosives
  • Letting the drop-in’s fly!
  • And God said “Okay, Tee, enough with the drop-in’s!”

02:46 — Making Tough Choices

  • What happened between Shared Deskepisodes
    • Making a book trailer
    • The Steampunk World’s Fair
    • Balticon
    • Blogworld and B.E.A.
    • …or what we remember of Blogworld and B.E.A.
  • The dangers of drinking with agents, editors, and new friends…
  • Getting complaints — a second one from a book critic — concerning a choice Pip and I made in The Janus Affair…
  • Do we create characters simply to kill them?
  • Evoking the name of Joss and when he kills beloved characters in his works.
  • When do authors cross a line?
    • Did J.K. Rowling go too far (or not far enough) in The Deathly Hollows?
    • Tee’s gripes on Farscape and clever twists on bringing characters back
    • Jumping genres and discussing a gratuitous death (or was it?) on M*A*S*H*
  • We do care about the characters we kill.
  • Do we write for entertainment, or to make an impact?
  • TANGENT: Waxing happily about random drop-in’s for computers and future shows…

20:51 — Writers Off the Clock

  • Sonic Boom is away at summer camp…so we have been indulging…in watching movies…
  • Tee and Pip are talking about John Carter. (P.J. is talking about porn, we think…)
  • A pleasant surprise of John Carter
    • Terrific characters
    • A lot of charm
    • Fantastic visuals
  • Tee, Pip, and P.J. go into Disney’s bungling of John Carter‘s marketing
  • This movie had a lot going for it! (Even the credit sequence was good!)
  • Bringing it back to marketing of books — when it works, when it doesn’t, and when it boggles the mind….
  • What does P.J. do to relax?
    • Shout-out to his special man, Ord
    • The Good as Gold Tournament
  •  How does P.J. manage her time?
  • Shout out to Stella Price!

36:23 — The Wrap-Up

  • Drinks to mix, food to prepare, and stuff to blow up!
  • Time to plug away!
  • And here’s where we drop a little surprise on P.J. Schnyder as we all wait to hear from The Parsec Awards…
  • What’s coming up for us…
    • Pip has Hunter and Fox out and Wrayth coming soon…
    • Pip is aiming to start a new series in November
    • Now that The Janus Affair: A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novelspacer  is out, Tee & Pip work on Dawn’s Early Light
    • Tee is looking up  Tales from the Archives: Volume 2 launches on April 10 with new stories from the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences
  • Upcoming Conventions
    • Dragon*Con
    • The Baltimore Book Festival
    • …and FenCon (once again!)
  • P.J.’s Upcoming Conventions
    • Otakon
    • Authors After Dark
    • …and maybe Dragon*Con
  • …and Pip shows up Tee on the Creative Commons tag. Again.
RELATED LINKS
  • Linnea Sinclair’s Savvy Authors workshop
  • Patricia Briggs
  • M*A*S*H* (the feature film)
  • Destined to Play (The “If you liked 50 Shades of Grey…” book)
  • Write or Die
  • Gimmie Shelter
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3 Responses to The Shared Desk — Episode #16: Making Tough Choices (with P.J. Schnyder)

  1. spacer Ginny Lurcock
    July 11, 2012 at 7:52 am

    I still stand by my statement that it was hard to read. Not so much because of the what, but because of the how.

    Really though, you introduced a character and in the same book killed her off and weeks later I’m still going through the grieving process. That’s not a complaint it’s a compliment.

    Ok… it is a little bit of a complaint… but I’m coming to terms with it.

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  2. spacer Jason G. Banks
    July 18, 2012 at 7:43 am

    just getting around to catching up on my podcast loved the episode was missing you in my headphones. Hope the Boom loved the fire works. also I must say i feel it is unfair you guys got to hang with the lovely Miss Schnyder and got Manly man on the grill…

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