Today the duo doing Geek Gab brought on #PulpRev author Adam Smith to talk about his new novel, Burrito Avenger, and much more.
A key point came up in the conversation, and that's the need for authors currently underground like the #PulpRev crew to commit to quality. Why? To ensure that when the boost up out of the underground comes that your odds of meeting audience expectations is maximized, and thereby create greatly increased demand for your work henceforth. Mistime that and you end up turning your name into a bad brand.
That's one of two things we all need to do. The other? The perennial problem with authors: selling. We're independents, so we've got to do this ourselves. We can, and should, take as much control as we can over that aforementioned attention issue; knowing when to sell matters as much as knowing whom to sell to, how, and why. This doesn't come naturally or easily to many of us, yet it's still our responsibility because no one will do it for us, so we need to embrace the suck and just get on with learn the skills already.
The combination? Simple, more of us need to accept that we are in a scene and work together as a team for mutual benefit. Brian Niemeier and Rawle Nyanzi are good about this, so following their example here's a very basic thing all of us can do: post links to our fellow's works.
Come have a laugh if you miss the earnest action films of the 1980s from Hollywood. He's enabled Matchbook Pricing, so getting it print also allows for a much cheaper Kindle version for when you can't bring the dead tree copy with you, and that's a fantastic deal.
any idea were geek gab can be downloaded (as an audio file)….SoundCloud has apparently removed that option.
ReplyDeleteNo clue. Ask Daddy Warpig.
DeleteYou can use youtube-dl for that, but you're going to have to work in the command line. Download the youtube-dl exe from here and put it wherever you want to download the audio files to. Then navigate to that location in cmd and use this command:
Deleteyoutube-dl -f 137 "whatever the URL is for the episode"
That command will give you the audio only, and you have to wait until the stream is over before trying to download it. It's best to wait at least 5 minutes after the stream is done and also reload the page because the URL usually changes.
That's how I do it, anyway.
I used to use a firefox extension but I haven't used it in years; last I knew an update broke the extension and to get it working again I had to manually adjust settings in the browser, and do so again every time a new update came out. But there's probably something like that for whatever browser you use.