Comments on: Writing Excuses Episode 29: Talking Publishing with Lou Anders

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By: Bill Shaw

Bill Shaw — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:59:43 +0000

Hi Guys,

Are you aware that none of your recent episodes are coming through VIA the Zune Podcast Feed? Also, this particular episode is currently being truncated at the 1 minute mark (611059 (597kb)) I’ve tried several times through RSS feeds and by direct download

Cheers.

Bill.

By: frustrated (still)

frustrated (still) — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:30:36 +0000

that’s a negative…

And man, I wish I was pulling it at 150. I seem to pull at about 20KB/s.

Listening to it in-page, I actually was able to hear about how the guy’s story was ‘tonally the same’ as his previous. And that was about as far as it got. I’m now trying to download this version.

The first try stalled out at 584K, for some reason.

Try #2 came through, though, after about 20-some minutes. Woo! I can listen now!

By: Tamren

Tamren — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:26:42 +0000

Still no dice. The download starts fine at my normal 150kbps but then the connection seems to get cut off because all of the activity lights will go dark for about 3 seconds. The connection then resumes but the speed spirals down to 20-25kpbs. Then the cycle repeats, the lowest it got for me was 10kbps before I canceled.

Better than last time but still unworkable.

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:49:53 +0000

Whoo hoo! I got it! Thanks!

By: admin

admin — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:41:08 +0000

ok, there’s an 11meg version up, I had accidently left the bit rate at 256k

By: admin

admin — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:35:00 +0000

odd, the file is 30 megs which may be why some people are having issues with it, i’ll see if I can re-render it.

Another thing to try from Dan and my experents is to do a save as then try to listen to the flash version.

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:42:53 +0000

I still can’t get this one to download. It tells me the file is nearly 30 MB large, which is much larger than the other files have been, and I can’t get more than 9 MB of it downloaded no matter what I try.

By: John Brown

John Brown — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:53:50 +0000

Loved this one, guys. Especially since I’m going through it for the first time with my editors. I can add a data point on a couple of issues.

1. My agent did go through a round of edits with me. She was a former senior editor and Harper Collins / Avon.

2. My acquiring editors (Hartwell and Hauge-Hill) have focused almost 90% on story edits as stated in the podcast. I did one edit based on Hague-Hill’s comments. Now I’m doing a second based on Hartwell’s.

3. Was talking to Hartwell at WorldCon and he mentioned the dark masters thing. If it had just been the assistant editor wanting to acquire, she would have had a limit it what she could have gotten. Or it would have taken speical approval. So different editors have different limits to what they can acquire.

4. I’ve loved working with both of my editors so far. They’re insightful and everything they’ve said so far has clearly made my story better.