Are you intimidated by the art of storytelling? Are you afraid to release your primal voice, struggling to release the magic already inside you? Joining us this week are Johnny B. Truant, Sean Platt, and David W. Wright: three authors who have written over three million words together.  They believe well-told stories come from a fun, exciting, and inspirational place. Readers want to care about the characters you create, and what situations you put those characters in. What readers want most is to be ENTERTAINED. Sean Platt and David W. Wright are known as the Kings of Serial Fiction. Together they have co-authored five series: Yesterday's Gone, WhiteSpace, ForNevermore, Available Darkness, and Dark Crossings. Their first series, Yesterday's Gone has received over 200 5-Star reviews, and has spent time on Amazon's list of the Top 100 Best Reviewed Fiction Books of All Time. (Sean Platt) Johnny, Sean, and David are also the hosts of The Self-Publishing Podcast and Better Off Undead podcasts each week. They are currently working on an exciting new Kickstarter project called Fiction UnBoxed that demystifies the process of writing fiction.  Watch a novel be born live in 30 days in this fascinating publishing experiment. See everything they do right, along with every mistake, dropped ball, and off-color joke. Unwrap the magic with Fiction UnBoxed. FICTION UNBOXED IS LIVE!  (If you're going to fund the project, you may want to do it early, before all of the early-bird discounts get snapped up.) CLICK HERE TO JOIN US: http://selfpublishingpodcast.com/fiction-unboxed And please, add to our Thunderclap if you haven't: http://selfpublishingpodcast.com/thunderclap Author Bios: Sean Platt Co-founder: Collective Inkwell, Realm & Sands Sean loves writing books, even more than reading them. He  might have never started writing if not for a gift from his wife on his 30th birthday. She bought him a Macbook, and told him to get started doing what she knew he was supposed to do.  She gave Sean the unparalleled gift of her unflagging support, fueled by the unflinching belief that he was born to tell stories. In addition to authoring dark horror and sci-fi with Dave at CI and  genre benders with Johnny at Realm & Sands, Sean writes for children under the name Guy Incognito, and has more than his share of nose. He has indie-published more than two dozen fiction titles. Nonfiction credits include the freelancer's guide, Writing Online, the indie how-to Write. Publish. Repeat., and the memoir Writer Dad. Sean lives in Austin, TX with his wife, daughter, and son. Johnny B. Truant Co-Founder of Realm & Sands Johnny B. Truant is an author, blogger, and podcaster who, like the Ramones, was long denied induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame despite having a large cult following. He originally made his online home at JohnnyBTruant.com but is recently moving to RealmandSands.com to continue his work in making the Internet more awesome. Before Realm & Sands, Johnny wrote Fat Vampire and The Bialy Pimps. Then, Sean convinced him it was way more fun to write collaboratively and publish more than a million words in a year. He (mostly) agreed, and since then they've written Unicorn Western, The Beam, Robot Proletariat, Cursed, Namaste, and the three LOL comedies together. Johnny would like to live in Austin, but is unfortunately stuck in Ohio for the time being. David W. Wright Co-Founder of Collective Inkwell David W. Wright is an author and cartoonist who writes thrillers, horror, and sci-fi. David writes humorous and heartfelt posts about parenthood at Blogger Dad, and about publishing at Collective Inkwell . He lives on the east coast with his wife, four year old son, and the laziest, most annoying cat not named Garfield. Though he is Eeyore to Sean's unrelenting Tigger, the duo have managed to reinvent serialized fiction on Amazon with their golden age of TV inspired serials, Yesterday's Gone, WhiteSpace, ForNevermore, and Available Darkness. We know nothing more about Dave other than that he is involved in [REDACTED], lives in [REDACTED] with [REDACTED], is personally responsible for [REDACTED], and carries a decoy wallet at all times. If you can't make the live show the video replay will be on YouTube (subscribe here:http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0v8qRfWSfyOm2km05rt3uQ).

• published: 24 Apr 2014
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