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You may not know this, but I have been looking for guests who write outside the normal featured genres on Get Published. Traditionally, I have had lots of Science Fiction and Fantasy writers with the occasional Horror person thrown in for good measure.

This hasn’t been done to exclude all the other genres, I promise you. It is more about who I know in the writing field than any effort to exclude anyone.

That means, I haven’t been networking outside my own chosen genre as well as I should. That is a shame because ALL writers have something to share about their own publishing journeys, market differences and even the various tropes that are inherent to their own genres of choice.

I am happy to have a guest from a new genre today.

My guest today is Nicole Chardenet. She has just released her newest book, Sumer Lovin’ in multiple eFormats with the dead tree version coming out in just a few days.

Sumer Lovin’ is a very different book from what I normally read. It is a comedy of sorts that deals with people trying to find love and lust in Toronto. Definitely not something I normally read. I could tell you what I thought of it now, but that would only spoil the review I will give you in the Tips and Typos section of the book.

Regardless of whether it is normally my thing, Nicole and I had a LOT of fun in the interview. Humour is something I am very interested in and the conversation was great. Oh yeah, and did I mention that Nicole’s first book was self-published? Because of that, she was able to give us a comparison between self-published and tradionally published. It was great!

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

Show Notes

00:00 — Opening – Get Published Episode 102 – Nicole Chardenet Brings Laughs to Love

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

00:14 — Introduction – Get Published Episode 102 – Nicole Chardenet Brings Laughs to Love (continued)

Welcome to the show.

02:01 Promo: BabylonPodcast

03:03 -Tips and Typos

Mike reviews Sumer Lovin’

05:54 - Promo – Nutty Bites

06:24 — Get Published Episode 102 – Nicole Chardenet Brings Laughs to Love (continued)

Nicole and Mike talk about humour, self-publishing vs. traditional publishing, being offended and Sumer Lovin’

45:25 - Promo - Flying Island Press

46:10 — Closing

Thank you for listening.

Websites mentioned in this episode:

Nicole Chardent – http://www.nicolechardenet.com/

Deux Voiliers Publishing - https://sites.google.com/site/deuxvoilierspublishing/

Babylon Podcast - http://www.babylonpodcast.com/

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

Flying Island Press - http://flyingislandpress.com/

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I have had the pleasure (and continue to have) of collaborating with several extremely talented people and I have learned the key to successfully collaboration.

Another ‘C’-word: Communication.

Without proper communication, any project will likely fail. When you are working with another person who is also busy, that failure is practically guaranteed.

Take, for example, the Action Pack Podcast, which is scheduled for release the end of this month. Scott Roche, JR Murdock and myself are each writing a story in serial form with a new episode every month. That means writing, recording and production of the podcast each and every month. If even one of us fails to have our individual story element finished, the whole thing falls down.

That means we need to help each other and the best way to do that is by talking, emailing, and Tweeting each other regularly.

Now, that may sound like a big enough challenge, but we also have thrown in the other elements of music, artwork and eBook publishing. We must ensure that the people who are helping us, like Dan Absalonson (artwork) and JP Losier (eBook) know what’s going on and when we have to hit deadlines. Expectations must be set and results must be guaranteed or the project, once again, falls down.

Then there are the ancilliary elements of the project. For example, the website must be up and the promo must be created. That means we all have to spend more time talking and sharing with each other. Oh yeah, and that promotion piece doesn’t just happen on its own either.

Every step of the way there are potential pitfalls that could stop the project cold. That makes communication between all the contributors, whatever their capacity, key.

It’s important to have the right people on the project, but if no one knows what the others are doing or when things need to be done, the project will fail. So, make sure that, if you are collaborating with anyone, you have your communication plan set out at the very beginning.

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