We All Overate, How About You? Part 2 of 2

Bruce and Sharon pivot to chatting about the publishing of short work. And the rise of the novelette. Bruce takes pride in his work figuring out the Anatomist’s Apprentice. Sharon continues her tour of Peter Pan inspired books. They talk about the upcoming release of Silver magic, Bruce’s next title. Bruce also updates his progress on Proud Waves Be Stilled, his upcoming historical fiction.

Things and people that get mentioned:

• http://www.maxbrallier.com
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessa_Harris
• https://cynthialeitichsmith.com
• (Silver Magic, by Bruce Davis) brickcaveclick.com/utkjaw

This episode was originally recorded December 11, 2022

 

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About Sharon Skinner

Sharon Skinner is the author of numerous books and a number of short stories, including the Tavara Tinker Series. Her most recent title, The Exile's Gift, is available now from Brick Cave Media. She is online at https://sharonskinner.com or https://bookcoachingbysharon.com

About Bruce Davis

Bruce Davis is the author of many books and several short pieces of fiction. He writes science fiction, fantasy and non fiction. His most recent title, Silver Magic, is currently available from Brick Cave Media. He is online at https://brucecdavis.com

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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
Short story and novella now, there's There's an outlet.
Novelette. That's always good. But it's well, we're seeing a lot
more of them, I think, than than I think I would do or I'm
seeing a lot more of them than I'm seeing. I think there's a an online
publishing phenomena that that goes for that.
Right. Right. It's just the right length that you can

(00:21):
post it on a lot of these media sites without
having too big a file or or too many words. Well, that
makes sense. And it's the kind of thing that can conveniently
be broken down into 2 or 3
short posts on, like, Reddit or,

(00:42):
the the Kindle Well, I liked it. Kindle Vela, you know. I
liked it. It only took me a few hours to read it. Right. So it
it was it was well written. It's Alex Harrow, of course. It was well written.
I really enjoy her writing. I I read, The
Last Kids on Earth by Max Brailler and,
Brailler. And if you haven't if your grandson has not hit

(01:02):
that that, series yet since he
likes the bad guys. It's the bad guys. Right? I think he is. He
might very much like the last kids on earth because basically about a
bunch of kids who have a tree house that they've built,
after the zombie apocalypse. But it's not just the zombie apocalypse because there's all
these monsters that have, you know, crocked up as well and it's

(01:25):
just all these these middle school kids mainly who are
having to fight all these monsters. It's quite entertaining.
And then I read a historical fiction
kind of along the lines of a detective, The Anatomist's
approach to I love that book. Yeah. So I thought that was

(01:45):
quite good. That's the first in a in a series
involving The Anatomist. What I loved about
that book was the,
the mores and the the the science of the
time Right. And the way that that that's brought into
the story. And, Yeah. I thought she did a

(02:08):
nice job of layering of that in. That's Tessa Harris. Yeah. Yeah.
I so and then there's I yeah. I thought
that was really interesting the way that it was pulled together
and the challenges that they were facing. And, of
course, you know, it it may reminded me of
a book that I read a long time ago called, The Killer

(02:30):
of Small, The Killer of Small Shepherds. Okay.
Which is Sounds familiar. Yeah. You we've I'm sure we've talked about it
because it's this book about the birth of forensic science
Okay. And about a case of a serial
killer, A killer of little shepherds that's what
it was. Killer of little shepherds and it was about a serial

(02:54):
killer in France and
fascinating stuff. And then the one that I just So so if I could interrupt,
the one the one thing I pat myself on the
back, I know I figured out
what the poison was in the very beginning of the book. Oh,
did you? Describe it. Oh, I know what this is. Oh, it I know

(03:16):
what this is. I know how they killed this guy. In the anonymous Yeah. Yeah.
Okay. Yeah. Yeah. And it's like, oh, I don't know what's gonna happen
here. Interesting. So I didn't, but, of course, I'm I I didn't make the
connection to the old lady's madness. But I thought that was pretty
that was a nice twist. Yes. That was a nice twist. That was well played.
But I I knew what the poison was. It's just like, oh, who done

(03:38):
it? Yeah. How did they yeah. How did they get this into him?
Yeah. Yeah. And then the most recent thing I finished was,
another middle grade called Sisters of the Never See, which is a,
by Cynthia Lettich Smith and it's a
rewrite or or a version of the Peter
Pan story. So since, you know, Lost and Found is

(04:01):
Yes. Based on Peter Pan, I've been reading a lot of,
other derivatives and, you know, books that are based on that. And
this one was is actually more of a feminist take on it. And,
also, she's Native American and so she
she focused a lot on cleaning up some of that mess. Right?
So from the original story. So I thought that was really well done

(04:23):
and she but she used the narrative voice that was very
similar to Berry's. So I thought that was, I thought she
handled that really well, very definitely. That's hard to do. Particularly,
that time frame voice, that's Well, this is That can
very quickly become kind of campy or
or overdone Yeah. To to write in

(04:46):
that Victorian style. But but it really wasn't because it's set contemporary.
But she used that narrative voice that is, you
know, almost the dear reader. And you might be wondering why.
You know, all those those types of, structures
that he used, but more in a contemporary. Yeah. I

(05:06):
just thought she handled it very definitely. So so that's what I've
been reading. Well
and writing, or are you taking a break? I'm I've
I've on break right now because I'm in the
editing phase of some things and a proof
copy for the upcoming book.

(05:29):
So, actually, there's some copy editing that that
needed to be done to it as well. So, that's Well, that's most of
what I found when I went through the process. A little more than you did.
I'm sure you did. You're a much better copy editor than I am. So I
found a few more things. But that'll all be cleaned up soon.
And your new book will be out

(05:52):
soon. I do hope so. Yeah. So I'd like
to get it on the agenda for
Christmas for folks. Well, I'm sure it'll be ready by then. My hope
is that there will be copies in hand in time for The
Mesa Book Festival. Yeah. December 17th. Yeah. It's coming
up. So that's my that's the hope. That's the goal is

(06:14):
to to see I would like to see that as well. Yeah. But so
that would be great. Well, you know, if,
if all of things align, it Yes. I know. I know. Be an
issue. It shouldn't be an issue. It's getting getting all the
work done and then Well, the work will be done. It's just whether or not
the order The order will go through. Yeah. I know how that is too at

(06:35):
this time of year. That's Yeah. That's the only challenge. But it'll be it'll
definitely available on ebook, and it'll be available by
Christmas. So definitely.
Definitely. We're sitting here looking at our publisher.
I'm excited about it. I'm excited to see this new book come out from you.
Well, I'm always excited for a new book to come out. Right?

(06:59):
I'm gonna take a small break from that universe,
I think. Well, I hope
my my self imposed goal is to finish Proud
Waves Bestilled by the end of the year.
Oh. The end of this year. The end of this year. End of
2022. End of 2022. I've been going hard and heavy.

(07:23):
I am at the beginning of
the climactic events. I have
to struggle a little bit with how to get my characters into the
positions I want them in a way that is
both believable and dramatic. And I gotta
figure out where I'm gonna actually end

(07:45):
this thing and draw the line since the events
go on for another 3 years. Right. It's not like this
just stops. Right. That just changes focus and
things change a bit. But I'm excited. You've been working on
this thing for a while. Well, it's been a year. Yeah. That's about
I started it about this time last year. I said I was gonna

(08:08):
goes way Oh, research could don't even get me started on that, and it
still goes on. I just spent,
gosh, probably a couple of hours pouring over,
maps of 18/60 Liverpool, trying to make sure I got street names
right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, if I'm not that

(08:30):
obsessive, I'm sure there's some reader who will be Somebody will be.
Yeah. You got this wrong. There are no number whatever's
on this road. Exactly. I've I've already been called to task on that
actually from a person who was just perusing. He says, no.
No. There number as that on Piccadilly. There never was. It's
like, oh, okay. If

(08:52):
you say so. Nice. Yeah.
So I I mean, I it's not that I'm not writing at all,
because I did get a few thousand more words written on
dating and demons, but I'm not I'm not
that focused on it because I've got some other things going. And I I want
it. We want silver out in the world. So I do too. That's

(09:14):
my primary focus right right now for the next couple days.
So Well, I,
once I get this done, I may be engaging your services yet again.
I'm available. Price. Yeah. We'll talk. We'll talk.
We I got a friends and family discount. So I'm

(09:37):
looking forward to the Mesa Book Festival. It looks like it's gonna be
pretty big shindig there. I sure hope so.
Yeah. I have yet to hear whether what
when panels are going to happen, but I'm sure we can make that up
as we go along. We often do. Well, I I know
that there are a couple of kid lit panels taking place, 1 in the morning

(10:00):
and 1 in the afternoon. And so those have been filled and I know there
are some other discussions going on. So I haven't seen a final
schedule. Interject as your magical host from the sky.
And there is a specific brick cave panel. So all the brick cave
authors will be together on one panel at some point during the day. Oh, look
at that. Boy. Woo hoo. So that's anyway, that's gonna be

(10:22):
fun and I'm looking forward to it. And,
that's about all I know. Me too.
This time. So it's Well I guess we'll keep it short this
month and because I'm in holiday, so to the year and we've got a lot
of stuff going on. You do have a lot of stuff going on. It'll
be a busy month even if we're not busy here.

(10:46):
We'll be busy elsewhere. Yeah. Indeed. Indeed.
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(11:06):
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