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The Pulp Writer Show

著者： Jonathan Moeller
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 Hosted by Jonathan Moeller (author of the FROSTBORN and SEVENFOLD SWORD fantasy series and the SILENT ORDER scifi series), the Pulp Writer Show discusses how to write, format, publish, and sell your novel. Sometimes there are jokes.Copyright Jonathan Moeller アート マネジメント・リーダーシップ リーダーシップ 文学史・文学批評 経済学
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  • Episode 326: 6 Lessons For Indie Authors From STAR TREK

    Episode 326: 6 Lessons For Indie Authors From STAR TREK
    2026/10/26
    In this week's episode, we examine six business lessons indie writers can learn from the long-running STAR TREK science fiction franchise. This coupon code will get you 25% off the ebooks in the Ghost Exile series at my Payhip store: FALLEXILE The coupon code is valid through November 16, 2026. So if you need a new ebook this fall, we've got you covered! TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 326 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is October 22nd, 2026 and today I'm discussing six things that indie writers can learn from the long-running Star Trek science fiction franchise. Before we get into that, we will have Coupon of the Week and a progress update on my current writing, publishing, and audiobook projects. First up, it is time for Coupon of the Week, and this week's coupon code will get you 25% off the ebooks in the Ghost Exile series at my Payhip store. That coupon code is FALLEXILE. As always, you can get the coupon code and the links to my Payhip store in the show notes for this episode. This coupon code will be valid through November 16th, 2026, so if you need a new ebook to read as we exit fall and head into winter, we have got you covered. Now let's have an update on my current writing, publishing, and audiobook projects. I am very pleased to report that Elven-Warlock, the seventh book in the Rivah Half-Elven Thief series, is now available and you can get it at Amazon. It's also available for Kindle Unlimited, (excuse me, Kindle Plus subscribers because one of the indie publishing news items this week is that Kindle Unlimited has been renamed to Kindle Plus and contains some audiobooks. So you can read more about that in the news.). But for me, Elven-Warlock is now out in Amazon and Kindle Plus and it is doing well. So thank you all for that and thank you all for enjoying the Rivah series. Now that Elven-Warlock is out, my next main project will be Blade of Rifts. I'm pleased to report I reached the 30,000 word mark just before I started recording this episode. I think the book will be about 100,000 words long, so I am about 30% through the rough draft. If all goes well, I'm very much hoping to have it out before American Thanksgiving at the end of November, if all goes well. We'll see if I can pull that off or not. My secondary project is now Cloak of Silver, which will be the 16th book in the Cloak Mage series. I am 1,000 words into it as I record this. It will be my new main project once Blade of Rifts is done and it will probably end up being the first book I publish in 2027, but we'll see how the next two and a half months go. In audiobook news, Brad Wills is still working on Blade of Visions and we should have some more updates on that before too much longer. So that is where I'm at with my current writing, publishing, and audiobook projects. 00:02:32 Main Topic: Lessons From Star Trek Now let's move on to our main topic, which has been part of a series, which has been six things indie writers can learn from large media companies. We did Disney two weeks ago. Last week we did Nintendo. This week we're doing something slightly different, a long running science fiction franchise, specifically the Star Trek franchise. I'm not going to talk about specific plot points for the most part or the creative highs and lows of the franchise. I think everyone can agree that the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode The Inner Light was among the best of the series along with Deep Space Nine's In The Pale Moonlight and the episode in Voyager where Janeway and Tom Paris turned into giant lizards may have been among the low points. However, once you have 60 years of Star Trek movies and TV shows, some of them are going to be really good and some of them will be less good, but we're not going to focus on that. We're going to instead focus more on the overall business decisions that Star Trek as an intellectual property has made in its 60 years, which are applicable to indie authors in many ways. #1: Continuity Lockout One of the most common criticisms of modern Star Trek is that it's too difficult for new fans to find a good entry point and that even new series rely heavily on references to older ones in a way that make new viewers feel confused or left out. A good example of this would be how The Doctor from Voyager returned in Starfleet Academy on Netflix. While The Doctor is a great character, to fully understand his character in Starfleet Academy, you need to remember him from Voyager in the '90s, which was a long time ago. Another example would be Strange New Worlds, which is considered to be among the best of modern Star Trek, but it calls back to Kirk and Spock and Captain Pike and a lot of other characters from the original series. This can make new viewers feel confused or left out. I talk about the idea of continuity lockout more in Episode 274 of this podcast, which is entitled Avoiding Marvel Continuity Lockout Syndrome...
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    16 分
  • Episode 325: Six Lessons For Indie Authors From Nintendo

    Episode 325: Six Lessons For Indie Authors From Nintendo
    2026/10/19
    In this week's episode, we take a look at six lessons indie authors can learn from the successes and failures of Nintendo. This coupon code will get you 50% off the audiobooks in the Half-Elven Thief series, (as excellently narrated by Leanne Woodward) at my Payhip store: ELVENFALL The coupon code is valid through November 9, 2026. So if you need a new audiobook this fall, we've got you covered! TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 325 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is October 16th, 2026 and today I'm discussing six things that indie writers can learn from Nintendo, both good and bad, which is kind of a follow-up to last week's episode, which was six things indie writers can learn from the Disney Corporation, both good and bad. Before we get into that, we will start off with Coupon of the Week and then a progress update on my writing, publishing, and audiobook projects. So first up is Coupon of the Week. This week's coupon code (in anticipation of the upcoming release of Elven-Warlock) will get you 50% off the audiobooks in the Half-Elven Thief series (as excellently narrated by Leanne Woodward) at my Payhip store. That code is ELVENFALL. This coupon code will be valid through November the 9th, 2026, so if you need a new audiobook for this fall, we have got you covered with the Half-Elven Thief series. Now for an update on my current writing, publishing and audiobook projects. I am very nearly done with the first round of editing on Elven-Warlock. The cover is ready as well. If you're on my website or my social media, you should be able to see it. As soon as I finish recording this podcast, I'm hopefully going to be able to finish up the first round of editing and then start on the second. I believe this episode is going live on the 19th of October and hopefully Elven-Warlock should be out on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited a day or two after that, if all goes well. In any event, I definitely want to have it out the week of the 19th of October. Once Elven-Warlock is out, my secondary project right now is Blade of Rifts, which will get promoted to my main project and I'm currently 13,000 words into that. In audiobook news, as we mentioned last week, Cloak of Summoning and Ghost Armor Omnibus Two (both of which are narrated by Hollis McCarthy), are now available at their respective audiobook stores. For new projects, Brad Wills is now recording Blade of Visions and if all goes well, that should be out sometime next month. So that is where I'm at with my current writing, publishing, and audiobook projects. 00:02:12 Main Topic: 6 Lessons Indie Writers Can Learn From Nintendo Now let's move on to our main topic this week, six lessons indie writers can learn from Nintendo. Last week, you might recall, we did the same thing with Disney Corporation looking at lessons indie authors can learn from Disney Corporation, both good and bad. We're going to do the same thing with Nintendo, which is one of the biggest entertainment companies in the world. I thought today about six ways writers can learn from Nintendo's best and worst corporate decisions. Admittedly, while there are things to criticize about Nintendo the way there are about Disney, I do on a personal level like Nintendo more than Disney, and I do have a fairly long history with Nintendo stuff. In the '80s and the '90s, I had an NES and a Super Nintendo, and so played quite a few Super Nintendo games. I actually beat Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past back in the day. I'm not entirely sure what happened to that Super Nintendo console. My brother told me a while back that he sold it, but I don't think that's what actually happened, but it was 30 years ago and I don't remember what happened, so it really doesn't matter. So from about 1998 to 2019, I did not play a console game at all. Whenever I played games, it was PC games or nothing. However, in 2019, to reward myself for publishing my 100th book, which was Dragontiarna: Knights, I got a first generation Nintendo Switch and really enjoyed it. As you know, buying a Nintendo Switch in 2019 was probably a good idea because next year was COVID. So I finally beat a bunch of games on the Switch that I never had the chance to beat the first time around. I finished Skyrim. I beat Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, which was a pretty good Metroidvania. I beat Metroid Dread. Then with the Nintendo Online stuff, I went back and played a lot of the old NES games and Super Nintendo games I never had the chance to beat back in the '80s and '90s. I beat the original Marios. I beat Super Mario World, all four of the original Castlevanias from Nintendo and Super Nintendo. I thoroughly enjoyed the Switch. In 2025 when the Switch 2 came along, I got one when the opportunity presented itself and have been playing it pretty regularly when I have time (which is less and less these days) ever since. So while I didn't play any console games of any ...
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    20 分
  • Episode 324: 6 Lessons For Indie Writers From the Successes & Failures Of The Disney Corporation

    Episode 324: 6 Lessons For Indie Writers From the Successes & Failures Of The Disney Corporation
    2026/10/12
    In this week's episode, we take a look at lessons indie authors can learn from the successes and failures of the Disney Corporation. This coupon code will get you 50% off the audiobook of Ghost in the Ashes, Book #7 in The Ghosts series, (as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy) at my Payhip store: FALLASHES The coupon code is valid through October 26, 2026. So if you need a new audiobook this fall, we've got you covered! TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 324 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is October 9th, 2026 and today I am discussing six things that indie writers can learn from the Disney Corporation, both good and bad. Before we get to that, we will have Coupon of the Week and a progress update on my current writing, publishing, and audiobook projects. This week's coupon code will get you 50% off the audiobook of Ghost in the Ashes, Book #7 in The Ghosts series (as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy) at my Payhip store. That coupon code is FALLASHES. As always, you can get the coupon code and the link to my Payhip store in the show notes for this episode. That coupon code will be valid through October 26th, 2026, so if you need a new audiobook as we head into fall, we have got you covered. Now let's have an update on my current writing, publishing, and audiobook projects. I am pleased to report the rough draft of Elven-Warlock is finished. That will be the seventh book in the Rivah Half-Elven Thief series. I've also finished the bonus story that I will release with it called Paladin and Commander. Newsletter subscribers will get a free ebook copy of Paladin and Commander when Elven-Warlock comes out. So I should mention this is an excellent time to subscribe to my new release newsletter since I give away free short stories quite a bit. If all goes well, I am hoping to have the book out before the end of the month. I am going to start editing immediately after I finish recording this episode, so hopefully that won't take too long. My next project once Elven-Warlock is finished will be Blade of Rifts, the seventh book in the Blades of Ruin epic fantasy series. I'm currently 10,000 words into that and I'm very much hoping to have that out before American Thanksgiving, which is at the end of November, but we will see how the rest of October and November go. Quite a bit of audiobook news this week because it seems that ACX has sped up their quality assurance process. So Cloak of Summoning (as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy) is out and you can now get it at all the audiobook stores, I believe- Audible, Amazon, Apple, Google Play, Kobo, Chirp, Storytel, Spotify, the works. It's 13 hours long, so it should be a good nice listen if you wanted to listen to it. Also Ghost Armor Omnibus Two is now in audiobook as well. That is again narrated by Hollis McCarthy and that combines Ghost in the Assembly, Ghost in the Corruption, and Ghost in the Siege into one 37-hour audiobook bundle. So if you get it today, it should be able to tide you over for the week and you get that at Audible, Amazon, and Apple. So that is where I'm at with my current writing, publishing, and audiobook projects. 00:02:42 Main Topic: 6 Things Writers Can Learn From The Disney Corporation So now let's smoothly segue over to our main topic. Our main topic this week is six things writers can learn from the Disney Corporation. I have to admit, whenever someone mentions Disney to me, the first thing that pops into my mind is not Mickey Mouse, it's not Disneyland, it's not Marvel, it's not cartoons. It's a warning against the dangers of corporate consolidation. However, all that corporate consolidation means that Disney is the largest company in the theme park industry and one of the largest in the entertainment industry, which means there's a lot to learn about the actions of the Disney Corporation, both good and bad, especially since they have gone through some public controversies in the 2020s. Since writing is part of the entertainment industry, it's wise to learn from the successes, struggles, and outright failures of a large organization like the Disney company and apply it to our own writing careers. So today I think we will talk about six specific things that writers can learn from the successes and the failures of the Disney Corporation. #1: Be fair to the customer (or to put it more cynically, don't nickel and dime the customer). One of the things that Disney has gotten a lot of criticism for and negative publicity in the past few years for is the massive price increases to its theme parks and the Disney+ streaming service, which is at a time of, as we all know, economic turmoil when many people can't afford extras like entertainment or travel. Doing it now is especially tone deaf. Many people feel like a Disney vacation is no longer attainable or they take on a frightening amount of debt to go to Disneyland. There is a recent online ...
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