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A visit with Lionel and Patricia
A visit with Lionel and Patricia
POST SCRIPT It’s been well over a year since I wound up the Galaxy 666 Podcast, but I wanted to add this post script. I completed the podcast while living in Japan, and now I’ve moved onto Germany. This summer, my family and I had a chance to get back to England and Cornwall (we used to live in Cornwall), and I had the great fortune of being able to meet Lionel and Patricia Fanthorpe at their…
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Thanks and goodbye
Thanks to everyone who came out and tried the Galaxy 666 Podcast--the podcast of the worst novel ever written. Although the podcast will live forever on YouTube, Wordpress and internet archives, I'm closing down the rest of operation. It's been fun tumbling with you. See you at the next project! TEWG
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Five Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Got Published
Getting published is an experience unlike any other, and although it’s been a rollercoaster ride of awesomeness, there are some rules of the game which I wish I’d known prior to signing on the dotted line.
1. It’s OK to argue with your editor. Encouraged, even. Your editor has one job: to make the story better. Naturally, the author wants this too, which means disagreements are bound to arise. An editor who lets just anything slide isn’t doing their job, but at the same time, the author should have major influence. Arguing means both sides are passionate, and that’s awesome. Think of it as like a stellar collision: when two stars are pulled into each other’s gravitational fields and collide at sufficient speeds, their collective awesomeness coalesces. Out of this exploding nebula of extra-terrestrial excellence, an even brighter, bigger star emerges. Pretty cool, huh?
2. You’re allowed to be embarrassed. It’s a natural reaction to people’s amazement. “You wrote a book?” friends and family exclaim, delighted. You want to refute – less out of modesty than just sheer awkwardness – but they’re having none of it. Everyone is super happy for you, which is nice, of course, but sometimes, their happiness makes you want to curl up under a rock somewhere. Writers are solitary creatures, after all. We dwell in the shadows cast by the light of our computer screens, entertaining ourselves with thoughts of strange and horrible things happening to the people in our heads. (Note: no, we don’t need to be institutionalized.)
3. Marketing is hard… and doesn’t necessarily work. I’m the sort of author who doesn’t mind the odd cover reveal or book tour, but coordinating interviews and guest spots is a mammoth task in itself. And there are no tangible rewards, either, since it’s impossible to know the reasons behind readers purchasing your book. Was it because they liked the cover? Or were they enchanted by the interview in which you gushed about your Celine Dion obsession? Who knows. It’s all part of building your brand, though, which is why I hired a publicist to organize the release day blitz for UNTOUCHABLE.
4. Bad reviews aren’t the end of the world. I suppose I can’t really talk. The lowest review I’ve gotten is four stars, though I’m anticipating an end to the streak any day now. Why? Every author – seriously, every single one – gets lacklustre reviews. It’s nothing to be ashamed or upset about. As a matter of fact, I don’t mind bad reviews provided they’re constructive and offer suggestions. As writers, we’re always improving our craft, and reviews allow our most important critics – readers – to help us do just that. Got a bad review and want to feel better about it? Just head over to Goodreads, click on your favourite book and scroll down til you find the inevitable one-star and two-star reviews. It just goes to show that it’s impossible to please absolutely everyone. (Also, whatever you do, never respond to bad reviews. For that matter, don’t even respond to wonderful ones. It’s unprofessional and kind of stalkerish.)
5. It’s OK to be dissatisfied. I used to think getting an acceptance meant a publisher arriving in a helicopter, six-figure contract in hand. Nowadays, I realise how crazy I was. Most writers dream of publication their entire lives, and when it finally happens, it can be depressingly anti-climactic. That’s fine. Just remember to be grateful for the little milestones – like getting to see your cover for the first time. Or hearing the delighted squeals of readers who received an ARC. Or even just noticing a spike in your Amazon rankings. These are things that all authors get to experience, not just the Big Six elite.
And don’t forget: at the end of the day, you have the privilege of calling yourself an author. Embrace it.
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Literary Pet Peeves
I need to make my book seem intellectual:
The protagonist goes to college.
They get drunk, take drugs.
Discuss philosophy.
I need to make my book relatable:
The protagonist has a failing marriage.
And 2 kids.
They don’t care about anything but their kids.
I need to make my book exciting:
I’ll invent a really cool fantastical concept!
…And have a detective investigate it.
He can be divorced.
I need to make me book appeal to young girls & their mothers:
“Hello, I see that you are completely and utterly average.”
“Well, I have billions of dollars and the secret to eternal youth.”
“I’m dangerous, and only you can tame me.”
Ceres Spots Continue to Mystify in Latest Dawn Images
NASA - DAWN Mission patch. June 22, 2015
Image above: A cluster of mysterious bright spots on dwarf planet Ceres can be seen in this image, taken by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft on June 9, 2015. Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA. The closer we get to Ceres, the more intriguing the distant dwarf planet becomes. New images of Ceres from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft provide more clues about its mysterious bright spots, and also reveal a pyramid-shaped peak towering over a relatively flat landscape. “The surface of Ceres has revealed many interesting and unique features. For example, icy moons in the outer solar system have craters with central pits, but on Ceres central pits in large craters are much more common. These and other features will allow us to understand the inner structure of Ceres that we cannot sense directly,“ said Carol Raymond, deputy principal investigator for the Dawn mission, based at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Image above: NASA’s Dawn spacecraft took this image, which includes an interesting mountain in the upper right, on June 6, 2015. Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA. Dawn has been studying the dwarf planet in detail from its second mapping orbit, which is 2,700 miles (4,400 kilometers) above Ceres. A new view of its intriguing bright spots, located in a crater about 55 miles (90 kilometers) across, shows even more small spots in the crater than were previously visible. At least eight spots can be seen next to the largest bright area, which scientists think is approximately 6 miles (9 kilometers) wide. A highly reflective material is responsible for these spots – ice and salt are leading possibilities, but scientists are considering other options, too.
Image above: A variety of craters and other geological features can be found on dwarf planet Ceres. NASA’s Dawn spacecraft took this image of Ceres from an altitude of 2,700 miles (4,400 kilometers) on June 5, 2015. Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA. Dawn’s visible and infrared mapping spectrometer allows scientists to identify specific minerals present on Ceres by looking at how light is reflected. Each mineral reflects the range of visible and infrared-light wavelengths in a unique way, and this signature helps scientists determine the components of Ceres. So, as the spacecraft continues to send back more images and data, scientists will learn more about the mystery bright spots. In addition to the bright spots, the latest images also show a mountain with steep slopes protruding from a relatively smooth area of the dwarf planet’s surface. The structure rises about 3 miles (5 kilometers) above the surface. Ceres also has numerous craters of varying sizes, many of which have central peaks. There is ample evidence of past activity on the surface, including flows, landslides and collapsed structures. It seems that Ceres shows more remnants of activity than the protoplanet Vesta, which Dawn studied intensively for 14 months in 2011 and 2012.
Image above: This image, taken by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft on June 14, 2015, shows an intriguing mountain on dwarf planet Ceres protruding from a relatively smooth area. Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA. Dawn is the first mission to visit a dwarf planet, and the first to orbit two distinct targets in our solar system. It arrived at Ceres, the largest object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, on March 6, 2015. Dawn will remain in its current altitude until June 30, continuing to take images and spectra of Ceres in orbits of about three days each. It then will move into its next orbit at an altitude of 900 miles (1,450 kilometers), arriving in early August.
Fly Over Dwarf Planet Ceres
A new video animation of dwarf planet Ceres, based on images taken by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, provides dramatic flyover views of this heavily cratered, mysterious world. The images come from Dawn’s first mapping orbit at Ceres, at an altitude of 8,400 mile (13,600 kilometers), as well as navigational images taken from 3,200 miles (5,100 kilometers) away. The images provided information for a three-dimensional terrain model. The vertical dimension has been exaggerated by a factor of two, and a star field has been added in the background. Dawn’s mission is managed by JPL for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Dawn is a project of the directorate’s Discovery Program, managed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. UCLA is responsible for overall Dawn mission science. Orbital ATK Inc., in Dulles, Virginia, designed and built the spacecraft. The German Aerospace Center, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Italian Space Agency and Italian National Astrophysical Institute are international partners on the mission team. For a complete list of mission participants, visit: http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission More information about Dawn is available at: http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/ and http://www.nasa.gov/dawn What are those unusual bright spots on Ceres? Cast your vote: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/dawn/world_ceres/ Images (mentioned), Video, Text, Credits: NASA/JPL/Elizabeth Landau/Tony Greicius. Greetings, Orbiter.ch Full article
FINALLY! A full length documentary about NASA’s voyage to the never-before-seen Pluto. We’re only 3 weeks away!
As promised, more images from Giovanni Antonio Tagliente’s Lo presente libro insegna la vera arte de lo excellēte scriuere (1545). Tagliente includes a brief treatise on the tools of the trade and proportion at the end of the book, including a woodcut portrait of Pythagoras (?). I also love the white-line woodcuts.
For more on this book, see our first post on it.
Tagliente, Giovanni Antonio. Lo presente libro insegna la vera arte de lo excellēte scriuere de diuerse varie sorti di litere : le quali se fano per geometrica ragione & con la presente opera ognuno le potra imparare impochi giorni p lo amaistramento, ragione, & essempli, come qui seguente vederai / Opera del Tagliente nouamente composta. [Vinegia] : [Giounn'Anionio [sic] e Pietro fratelli de Nicolini da Sabio], 1545. MU Ellis Special Collections Rare Z44 .T127 1545A
Session 71
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Welcome back fellow travelers to Galaxy 666 and our big farewell.
Please have your glasses of alco ready to raise for our final toast.
To our friend Havah for her help in creating the energy that led to the Galaxy 666 Podcast. Your enthusiasm and sense of fun gave this project the great initial boost it needed. It would not have happened without you.
To Darren Nash and the team at Orion Publishing for helping me obtain permission to use Galaxy 666. Thank you so much for this great opportunity. For everyone else, please don’t forget about them at SFGateway.com. They have many more titles from ‘ole Badger Publishing that deserve a look as well.
To my dear friend Kelly for going through every single session as I was producing them and telling me only what I wanted to hear. It was always great to get your caustic and drool comments–hopefully one day we will get that chance to buy telescopes and hang-out doing nothing but watching stars.
To Lionel and Patricia Fanthorpe for their dedication in writing so much so fast in such a crazy way that they have left behind a fantastic body of fun to explore and enjoy. I loved Galaxy 666 and always will. Thank you so much for creating it, and giving me permission to do the podcast.
And finally, to all of you who came out with us on our journey whether that happened now, on 26 June 2015, or sometime in the future. This podcast wasn’t done to create a following, but it always felt great to see that someone else joined. I hope you had fun and found it worthwhile.
Kampai!
We have one more session, and best to get to it, so curl-up, turn up the volume, turn down the lights and prepare to veg out.
See you out there, in Galaxy 666.
Your humble guide, TEWG (Japan, 2014)
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Session 71 Audio link Welcome back fellow travelers to Galaxy 666 and our big farewell. Please have your glasses of alco ready to raise for our final toast.
Session 70
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Welcome back fellow travelers to Galaxy 666.
Here is where we end it, the podcast of the worst novel ever written–an unbridled success. “Success” is a word like “tall,” it means different things to different people. You may be confused at my pronouncement of the Galaxy 666 Podcast as a “success” so I should probably spend a moment defining “success” in this case.
First, and probably most importantly, we did it. We went from an idea over a dinner table with friends to the completion of a 71 session podcast that will now ride wordpress and internet archives and youtube for as long as they exist. Creating the podcast involved getting publisher and writer permissions; learning about face-book, twitter, tumblr, audacity, auphonic, Amazon S3, internet archives, feedburner, youtube, Itunes and wordpress–many of which I had never even heard of prior to this. It involved months of script writing, recording, voice acting (attempted), research and sound editing–much of which was a lot of fun ‘though still demanding. Throughout I received support and input from friends which really made it a great time, and I have now created something to spur the memories of my kids someday so that they recall the fun we had going through Galaxy 666 a long time ago. To me, that’s success.
And I have to say, that is why I also consider Galaxy 666 a success. It has been a joy to me, and certainly I have gone far beyond what poor Lionel and Patricia had ever intended, but it usually is for the reader to add their own thoughts to any book they read.
Now, once more into the breach dear friends, once more.
As always, your faithful guide,
TEWG
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