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On today’s show I have Derek Williams. Derek is a television producer, director and novelist. We talk about his new book, The Disillusioned as well as his day job in television.

Derek gave me the opportunity to read his book, which is about human trafficking. I give a review of the novel in the Tips and Typos section.

That’s today’s episode. I hope you enjoy it.

Show Notes

00:00 — Opening – Get Published Episode 108 – From Television Producer to Writing About Human Trafficking

Everything has to start somewhere and this is the start of “Get Published”

00:14 — Introduction – Get Published Episode 108 – From Television Producer to Writing About Human Trafficking (continued)

Welcome to the show.

01:11 Promo: Walk the Flames Kickstarter

02:26 -Tips and Typos

Mike talks about vanity presses and money flowing to authors.

05:43 - Promo – Nutty Bites

06:13 — Get Published Episode 108 – From Television Producer to Writing About Human Trafficking (continued)

Mike and Derek talk television, what writers need to do and his book, The Disillusioned

49:57 - Promo - Every Photo Tells

51:06 — Closing

Thank you for listening.

Websites mentioned in this episode:

Derek (DJ) Williams – http://www.djwilliamsbooks.com/

Walk the Flames Kickstarter - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1325849873/walk-the-fire-a-shared-world-sf-anthology-series/

NIMLAS Studios/Nutty Bites - http://nimlas.org/blog/

Every Photo Tells - http://everyphototells.com/

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I’ve spent the past few months working on editing A Method to the Madness: A Guide to the Super Evil. When I first considered putting an anthology out, I thought it would be an easy way to get another book out with my name on the cover. After all, I would only be writing one of the many stories for the anthology. How hard would it be?

Yeah, every time I say something like that, I come to regret mouthing the words. Editing is not my natural state and it was a LOT of work. Just ask my co-editor, Jeffrey Hite. He will tell you.

What ended up happening is, I spent lots of time editing and very little time writing. I lost my writing rhythm.

That really frustrated my muse, especially when I am DYING to get the next Mik Murdoch written.

So, when we wrapped up the editing of the anthology, I started writing again. It feels great!

So, I am now back to writing daily. I am averaging over 1,000 words per day for the past week. Mik Murdoch, which has been sitting at 20% complete (first draft) is now over 27% complete and growing. I am on track to finishing it in March. Good times are being had again on the writing front.

Don’t get me wrong, I loved doing the anthology. In fact, with some of the promotional pieces we are setting up, there is still a lot of fun to be had. I’m looking forward to promotion more than ever before.

But it isn’t writing.

Now I am churning out new material and the sun seems to be shining just a little bit brighter.

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