
The Artsy Raven Podcast
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JF Garrard (writer, editor and publisher) interviews authors, editors, agents, publishers and other art industry professionals about what inspires them to create and what led to their success. Writers on the podcast will showcase their work by reading from their book. If are an author, a potential author or a reader who just wants to hear about what goes on in a writer's mind and the..
The Artsy Raven Podcast
3d ago
Daphne Gray-Grant, publication coach, speaks about common writer problems, how to write faster and why changing font size is a good idea!
Daphne Gray-Grant grew up in the newspaper business: her parents owned a struggling weekly where she worked from the age of 16, even while completing an honours degree in political science at the University of B.C. Eventually, she left the family business to become a senior editor at a major metropolitan daily — The Vancouver Sun — where she worked for 10 years. After the birth of her triplet children in 1994, she became a communications consultan ..read more
The Artsy Raven Podcast
1M ago
Leah Paulos shares her insights and tips on how authors can build an effective author platform, how to break through the noise around them and what authors can do to focus on their target audience.
Leah Paulos is the Founder and Director of Publicity at Press Shop PR and Book Publicity School, and has worked at the intersection of books and media for over 25 years. Twice named a top PR firm by the Observer, Press Shop PR has worked on many notable books and #1 bestsellers including MARCH by Rep. John Lewis and ON TYRANNY by Timothy Snyder.
Leah began her career as a magazine editor at ..read more
The Artsy Raven Podcast
1M ago
Suyi Davies Okungbowa discusses if it is possible to pass on the craft of writing from a professor’s perspective, common pitfalls he sees in his classes and why it’s important to treat literature as its own medium.
Suyi Davies Okungbowa is an award-winning author of fantasy and science fiction. His latest books include Warrior of the Wind (sequel to Son of the Storm in the Nameless Republic epic fantasy trilogy) and the novella Lost Ark Dreaming. He lives in Ontario, where he is a professor of creative writing at the University of Ottawa.
At time 25:45 he reads from Lost Ark Dreaming.
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The Artsy Raven Podcast
2M ago
D.G. discusses what copyright is, what authors should look for in contracts and scenarios affecting books if a publisher goes out of business.
D.G. Valdron is a wayward Maritimer and denizen of the Canadian prairie. Growing up he spent his youth working at a Drive in Theatre and was raised on a steady diet of B-movies and pop culture. Valdron has had the usual assortment of quirky writing jobs, mechanic, carpenter, bricklayer, projectionist, cook, waiter, woodcutter ditch-digger, journalist, school teacher, and for many years now a lawyer specializing in the field of aborigin ..read more
The Artsy Raven Podcast
2M ago
Liam Ma is an emerging actor and multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto. He is a McGill University Engineering Alumnus specializing in Biomechanics and Sustainable design. Liam will be officially making his onscreen debut starring in the upcoming series Streams Flow from a River about a dysfunctional Chinese Canadian family, who when trapped by freak snowstorm in their rural Albertan hometown, are forced to confront the events of a decade prior that tore them all apart. The series will premiere on April 1st, 2023 on SUPER CHANNEL.
On The Artsy Raven he discusses the concept of self, the exp ..read more
The Artsy Raven Podcast
3M ago
On The Artsy Raven, Tao Wong talks about the differences between LitRPG, Japanese light novels, wuxia and xianxia, why he started writing his own stories after being inspired by the wuxia genre and offers marketing tips to other indie authors.
Tao Wong is a full-time author in the scifi and fantasy genres, writing predominantly in the LitRPG and xianxia sub-genres. A multiple times international Amazon bestseller, he is best known for the System Apocalypse and A Thousand Li universes, with over 40 full-length novels and numerous shorter works published. Tao was a finalist for the Ki ..read more
The Artsy Raven Podcast
3M ago
Mike Bockoven explains how a trip to Disneyland inspired his horror novel - FantasticLand, why he writes in a first-person interview style and how he uses small increments of time to write in hyper focus mode.
Mike Bockoven writes thriller/horror novels while his kids are in gymnastics class or at piano lessons. He lives with his wife, Sarah, two daughters, Emaline and Tessa and an exceptionally dumb wiener dog names Sherlock. He lives in Grand Island, Nebraska. In the podcast notes we will list his website and social media links, so check them out after you finish this po ..read more
The Artsy Raven Podcast
4M ago
Kim Fahner talks to the Artsy Raven about her roles as Poet Laureate for the City of Greater Sudbury and First Vice-Chair of The Writers' Union of Canada, spreading poetic graffiti across Sudbury and the family rumour that inspired her historical fiction book, The Donoghue Girl.
Kim Fahner lives and writes in Sudbury. Her debut novel, The Donoghue Girl, a piece of historical fiction, is being published by Latitude 46 in September 2024. Kim's most recent book of poems is Emptying the Ocean (Frontenac House, 2022) and she was Poet Laureate for the City of Greater Sudbury from 201 ..read more
The Artsy Raven Podcast
4M ago
Kim Fahner talks to the Artsy Raven about her roles as Poet Laureate for the City of Greater Sudbury and First Vice-Chair of The Writers' Union of Canada, spreading poetic graffiti across Sudbury and the family rumour that inspired her historical fiction book, The Donoghue Girl.
Kim Fahner lives and writes in Sudbury. Her debut novel, The Donoghue Girl, a piece of historical fiction, is being published by Latitude 46 in September 2024. Kim's most recent book of poems is Emptying the Ocean (Frontenac House, 2022) and she was Poet Laureate for the City of Greater Sudbury from 201 ..read more
The Artsy Raven Podcast
4M ago
After ten years as a professional actress, Beth Kaplan left the stage to earn an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC. She’s the author of four nonfiction books: a biography, two memoirs, and a guide to creative writing that's the textbook for her courses. Her new memoir “Loose Woman: my odyssey from lost to found” was launched in September 2020. She has taught memoir and personal essay writing at Ryerson University for 27 years and also for 14 years at the University of Toronto, where in 2012 she was given the Excellence in Teaching award.
On the Artsy Raven Beth shares her tips on memoir ..read more