Our interview today is with Robert Marckini, author of You Can Beat Prostate Cancer.

To learn more about Proton Treatment for prostate cancer, please visit www.protonbob.com.

There have been a lot of changes at Lulu.com, and we go over most of them:

Site re-design
Re-designed publishing wizard
Lulu Studios, our new photobook tool
New content-rating system
New features for Lulu Groups

For a detailed look at all these changes and more, (complete with visuals) check out the Lulu Blog.

Today's interview is with Drew McLellan, co-author of The Age of Conversation. Find out more at their website - www.ageofconversation.com

Also, if you can't get enough of Mur and me (and really, how could you?), hop on over to the Geek Fu Morning Show for more of our witty banter.

We're back, after a false start, with our new weekly schedule--we promise!

Lulu.TV will be at Dragon*Con over Labor Day weekend in Atlanta, GA. We'll be speaking on panels, recording interviews, and filming as much of the madness and mayhem as we can--including the second annual Parsec Awards for excellence in speculative fiction podcasting. If you see us, come say hi!

This Day In Alternate History is now taking script submissions! And we pay! For more information, see the submission guidelines in the show notes of TDAH episode #33.

You can find this week's interview at timecode 16:07.

Dave McKae, coauthor of In Pursuit of Pitching Perfection. For more information, please visit his storefront www.pitchingperfection.com.

Recorded on Wednesday, July 25--Mur's birthday, but preparations for attending BlogHer Con delayed things a bit.

Mur and I start things off talking about all kinds of things, like The Order of the Digital Trebuchet, Christiana Ellis's campaign video, and, of course, This Day in Alterante History.

Interview with Caroline Okun. She's the editor of the amazing Sixdegrees magazine of design, and the graphic designer at Lulu.TV. Find out more about Sixdegrees at www.sixdegreeszine.com.

...Hronk!...Brrpt!

Here's our new promo for the TDAH video podcast. If you're a podcaster, please feel free to play it in your show. In fact, play the heck out of it!

May the fire knives be with you.

-Jason

After an unplanned hiatus, we're back! With sound effects!

No time stamps today (except for the featured interview), since I want to get this ol' podcast up and running again ASAP.

Mur and I have been crazy busy with our new jobs at Lulu.TV. Check us out at:

This Day In Alternate History
Zombies in the Workplace
Writer Stalking

We are also looking for a few good creators for The Order of the Digital Trebuchet!

15:12 - Interview with Dr. Jill Taylor, author of My Stroke of Insight: A Brian Scientist's Personal Journey.

For discussion on the pros and cons of self-publishing (and for an excellent podcast on writing and publishing in general), be sure to check out The Writing Show.

Upcoming events that Mur and I will be at as official Lulu.TV representatives:

Blogher - July 27-29, Chicago, IL
Dragon*Con - Aug 31-Sep 3, Atlanta, GA
Podcast and New Media Expo - Sep 28-30, Ontario, CA

Copyright and the Media: What You Need to Know

Recorded live at Balticon 41.

The panelists are:

Command Line - www.thecommandline.net
Matthew Wayne Selznick - www.mwsmedia.com
Jason Adams - lulu.libsyn.com, www.randomsignal.com
J. C. Hutchins - www.jchutchins.net
Mur Lafferty - lulu.libsyn.com, www.ishouldbewriting.com

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License

Interview with Brian Fies, author of Mom's Cancer and winner of the 2007 Lulu Blooker Prize for Comics.

Publisher: Abrams Image ($12.95, hardcover)

The Mom's Cancer blog - www.momscancer.com

For more information, visit the Lulu Blooker blog.

Interview with Colby Buzzell, Overall Winner of the 2007 Lulu Blooker Prize for My War: Killing Time In Iraq.

Publisher: Berkley/Penguin ($15.00, paperback)

The My War blog - www.cbftw.blogspot.com

For more information, visit the Lulu Blooker blog.

1:08 - Jason is a bit unnerved by his new Mac.

2:39 - The CHANGE (no Mur, not that change!)--Mur and I have joined Lulu.TV, but fear not, we're not leaving the show! In fact, we plan to make Lulu Radio bigger and better than ever.

7:40 - Mur and I had an amazing time at Balticon 41. There were a ton of podcasters there and we participated in several panels including: self-publishing, copyright, and, of course podcasting.

My Balticon Flickr set.
 
Check out the Balticon Podcast for interviews with this year's guests.

12:00 - Interview with Ronnie Blackwell, author of Serve It Cold, recorded live at Balticon at its Podiobooks.com launch party.

18:47 - Impromptu call-in interview with Matthew Wayne Selznick, author of Brave Men Run (also available as a podiobook).

Our own Mur Lafferty will be on Matt's podcast Writers Talking--June 28, 2007.

28:48 - Mur and Matt share an unauthorized in-joke.

31:46 - In response to Robert's email, one of our Balticon panels was recorded: Media and Copyright: What You Need To Know. Courtesy of The Command Line podcast, I have put the recording in this feed, so check your podcatcher!

33:32 - Our Bad, Your Feedback - All kind of weird recording stuff going on in this episode, sorry if the levels are a bit off.

34:29 - "Fire Knives With Me...or as Agent Cooper says, "They got a cherry pie there that'll kill ya."" A poem by Michael Baumgarten of wwwmybabymonsters.com.

39:25 - Mur tries out a new method of asking for feedback.

40:23 - Interview with Andrew Losowsky, author of The Doorbells of Florence, winner of the 2007 Lulu Blooker Prize for Fiction.

46:43 - Ooops...almost forgot about A-Kon.

49:29 - (Hidden track!)

1:55 - The Winners of the 2007 Lulu Blooker Prize have been announced. Special congratulations to Lulu author Andrew Losowsky's The Doorbells of Florence, winner of the Fiction category.

6:25 - Two Lulu authors are nominees for the 2007 Eisner Awards
Paul Friedrich - Onion Head Monster Attacks (Best Humor Book)
Brad Guigar - Phables (Best Digital Comic)

10:06 - New product: framed art

17:27 - New site feature: social bookmarking - Digg, del.icio.us

21:38 - Interview with Phil Ribaudo, author of The Road Letters

30:00 - Our Bad, Your Feedback
Grace M. says..."The Fireknifist=bad"

31:50 - a very special haiku from P.G. Holyfield, read by the author

32:52 - Mur loves pie!

34:56 - Mur and I will be guests at Balticon 41!

36:20 - The Writers Notebook with Mur Lafferty - Creative Commons

44:55 - Topic for discussion: Which is the business end of a fire knife?

Community manager, Nick Popio, joins us for discussion on the newest Lulu.com site features.

2:40 - The new Content Rating System

11:28 - New storefronts--migrate before we do it for you!

14:12 - multi-file upload tool

16:55 - Interview with Boris Mordkovich, co-author of Pay-Per-Click Search Engine Marketing Handbook.

24:36 - Our Bad, Your Feedback

Comments from the blog: Steve (are you a lulu or a cake?) and Chris

28:37 - Calling for submissions to the first annual Lulu Radio Fire Knife Anthology! Stories, poems, art, anything! We are also taking submissions for the title (unless you really like "The Fireknifist", in which case let us know!).

30:15 - Voice mail from Nobilis--a lulu is dangerous and mighty!

31:50 - Email from Matt--use POD to offer multiple versions of your book: color, hardback, large-print, illustrated, limited-edition variant cover...the sky's the limit!

39:19 - The Writer's Notebook with Mur Lafferty - Spelling and grammar are important!

45:15 - Lulu and copyright

We're trying something new for the shownotes this week...time stamps! Let us know if this is helpful.

2:22 - Lulu is pleased to announce our new partnership with Getty Images. Read the press release.

4:49 - April 23, 2007 is International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day. Join us in supporting free online Science Fiction. Check out Mur's newscast from...THE FUTURE!!!

12:12 - Take our new survey--Blogisms: The Good, The Bad, and The Ridiculous, for the chance to win a Lulu ISBN distribution package OR a free copy of each of the three winning blooks from the 2007 Lulu Blooker Prize.

18:27 - Interview with Henry Baum, author of North of Sunset.

24:58 - Our Bad, Your Feedback

Apologies to Slim Palmer (and Albert!) and David Cowles for getting small, yet crucial, details wrong in recent podcasts.

27:46 - Thanks to Mike in the UK for his thoughtful and constructive email.

34:30 - Thanks to Grace for saying so many nice things about us (well, Mur mostly)!

36:21 - In lieu of The Writers Notebook, we discuss Grace's question about writing on the computer versus in a notebook/on paper.

40:07 - Another phone message from our pal C.A. Sizemore in Arizona.

Thanks to everyone who wrote (or called in). Keep the feedback coming!

The podcast this week features an interview with caricaturist David Cowles, whose book,  The Art of David Cowles, presents work that has been published everywhere from Entertainment Weekly to The New York Times.

Adam Guida, forum admin and bug hunter extraordinaire, joins us today to discuss new site releases like the storefront migration tool and fixes to search. We also talk about the Internet phenomenon, Second Life, and put out the call for anyone familiar with it to give us advice on how best to build a Lulu presence in the metaverse.

On The Writer's Notebook with Mur Lafferty: using Lulu to make copies of your manuscript to give to your friends and first readers.

We cover a lot of ground in this week's podcast...

Lulu blog
Jack London Writers Conference
Mur and I will be guests at Balticon (Memorial Day weekend, 2007)!
National Cherry Blossom Festival Photo Contest
Greensboro, NC author meetup - Saturday, March 31, 2007

The 2007 Lulu Blooker Prize short-list has been announced. The finalists include several Lulu authors:

Zach Miller - The Definition of Awesome: Another Joe and Monkey Collection
J.A. Eddy and Dean Esmay - Methuselah's Daughter
Andrew Losowsky - The Doorbells of Florence
Slim Palmer - Albert The Third

POD review blogs:

POD-dy Mouth...RIP
POD Critic
POD People

Interview with Gary Kosman, co-author of Bonding While Learning--a publication from national education organization America Learns.

The Writer's Notebooks with Mur Lafferty: How to set, and stick to, self-imposed deadlines.

This podcast was supposed to be posted the day before, or on, St. Patrick's Day. However, due to some technical and scheduling problems, it's a day late--sorry it's not quite as timely as it could have been.

For our big 25th show, we unveil our new format. Mur Lafferty will join me as co-host from here on out. We hope this change will liven the show up a little bit, but still remain informative and helpful to new and veteran Lulus alike.

First up, we discuss Lulu Groups and, specifically, the new Group for people interested in podcasts--Addicted to Podcasting. Also, we talk about the new storefronts. For more information about Groups and storefronts, see the latest Lulu Community Newsletter (vol. 31).

This week's creator interview is with Kevin R. Smith, author of Sundowners: The History of the Black Prizefighter.

The Writer's Notebook with Mur Lafferty: writing when you just don't feel like it.

Announcing the first Lulu Radio contest! The first person to call in to the comment line -- 206-984-1POD -- with the source of the following quote: "Free when you call from work!", wins a free Lulu t-shirt!

Books for St. Patrick's day:

How to Brew Irish Beer by Ed Martin
Irish Pubs 2007 by www.GreenDragonArtist.com
Beer Inside by Mike Snyder
Shillelagh: The Irish Fighting Stick by John W. Hurley

Lastly, we mark the holiday with a fun drinking song--"Lilly the Pink", performed by The Brobdingnagian Bards (Special thanks to B-Bard Marc Gunn!)

This week's podcast is packed with content! Our first interview is with Shane Glines, artist and cartoonist, whose beautiful book S Curves: The Art of Shane Glines is currently number 11 in the all-time Lulu Top Sellers list. You can find out more about Shane's work at his website www.shaneglines.net, and check out his recent mention on the popular and influential blog BoingBoing.net.

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Our second interview is with blogger Melinda "Mindy" Roberts, who has published her popular mommy-blog as a blook--Mommy Confidential: Adventures from the Wonderbelly of Motherhood.

On The Writer's Notebook with Mur Lafferty, Mur takes on the sensitive issue of jealousy and envy and how those common emotions can be detrimental to your relationships with your fellow writers. Don't forget, you can hear more from Mur at her own podcast--I Should Be Writing.

Lastly, we have an interview with Gail Jordan, PR director here at Lulu.com. Gail and I discuss how to write a press release and how to approach journalists in a professional manner. You can find more self-marketing and PR tips at our Services Marketplace, and can email pr@lulu.com with any specific questions you might have on how to best promote your work.

In this week's podcast, we bring you an interview with Bob Wirz--sports marketer, baseball aficionado, and, now, Lulu author.
His first Lulu book--Independent Minor Leagues: '2006 Season in Review'--is based on Bob's blog, Independent Baseball Chatter.

Speaking of "blooks," Cory Doctorow (the lead judge of the 2006 Lulu Blooker Prize) spoke at Duke University recently on the subject of privacy in the Internet Age. You can listen to the entire lecture here.

The Writer's Notebook with Mur Lafferty: Reviews and critiques--how to give them...and how to take them.

This weeks podcast features an interview with Larry Holderfield, aka mckenzee, creator of the webcomic Sinister Bedfellows. The print edition includes short-stories written by his friends in the webcomics community. This interview was recorded live at WTH Con in Greensboro, NC. Also attending the convention were several other webcomics creators who publish on Lulu:

Joe Kemenda - Feral Chicken
Matt, Dave, and Stephanie - The Dada Detective
Philip Wright - Furmentation
Jamie Robertson - The Clan of the Cats
Jennie Breeden - The Devil's Panties

Most of these artists and writers (including Larry) are members of the North Carolina Webcomics Coffee Clatch - www.ncwccc.com.

To accompany the interview, we have a song (played by permission of the artist) -- "Eudora Welty's Photographs" by Semicolon

This week in The Writer's Notebook with Mur Lafferty: Some simple advice on writing workshops.

1. Do your research--Make sure you find one that's right for you and be sure to familiarize yourself with the authors who are running the workshop.
   
2. Be nice!--You never know who you'll run into again during your career as a writer.

This week we bring you an interview with the founder and CEO of Lulu, Bob Young. Bob and Rich discuss the Lulu philosophy, the free-market economy, and electric golf carts.

This week on The Writer's Notebook with Mur Lafferty, a selection of blogs and podcasts dealing with matters of writing, publishing and print-on-demand.

Eat Our Brains

Miss Snark, the literary agent

POD-dy Mouth

Pub Rants

The DragonPage (podcast)

The Survival Guide to Writing Fantasy (podcast)

Got a question, comment, or submission? Want to hear your voice on the podcast? Call the Lulu Radio Comment Line: 206-984-1POD

Our featured interview this week is with Christopher Meeks, author The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea, a collection of short stories, and the play Who Lives?.

Also in this podcast, Mur Lafferty talks about the importance of reading to the craft of writing.

Are you subscribed to Lulu Radio yet? Get the feed and have every new episode delivered directly to your computer. It's free!

This week's podcast has two interviews. First, I talk to Stacey Cochran, author of Amber Page and the Legend of the Coral Stone, about how to organize meet-ups and other regional events for Lulu authors.

Next, Rich Burk interviews award-winning journalist Michael Jones about his book Second-Hand Stories, which collects many of his articles about his hometown of Louisville, KY.

Finally, Mur Lafferty brings us advice on how to deal with rejection from publishers.

This week our featured interview is with Joanne Baldwin DVM, co-author of The Havanese. Take a look at the H.E.A.R.T. storefront for books and calendars featuring Havanese dogs.

This show also features the debut of Mur Lafferty's new weekly column on tips and advice for writers--both novice and experienced. Mur is the host of two popular podcasts, I Should Be Writing and Geek Fu Action Grip, and published some of her own writing at Lulu - www.lulu.com/geekfu.

This week's column focuses on three key steps for the beginning writer.

1. If writing is high priority, make time for it!
2. Get you butt in a chair and start writing!
3. Turn off the Internet!

If you have any writing questions you would like Mur to answer, or have any other suggestions or comments, please write us at radio@lulu.com.

For our first podcast of 2007, we bring you an interview with Terri Schinazi, one of the co-authors of Finding the "CAN" in Cancer. For more information about this inspirational book visit the storefront at www.lulu.com/canincancer.

We want YOU to contribute to Lulu Radio! If you have any questions, tips, or suggestions for inclusion in the podcast, please send them to radio@lulu.com.

Happy New Year!

For our last podcast of 2006 we mark the season with a timely interview: Alan Cleaver, co-author (with Lesley Park) of Not a Shot was Fired: Letters from the Christmas Truce 1914, and co-editor of the website www.christmastruce.co.uk. The book is a compilation of actual letters sent home from Allied soldiers druing World War I--first hand accounts of that brief moment when both sides laid down their arms and celebrated Christmas together.

The entry deadline for The 2007 Lulu Blooker Prize is Monday, January 15, 2007. All entries must be postmarked by that day to be considered for the prize!

We close with a song...Silent Night, performed by Michael Silvestri - www.michaelsilvestri.com

This week we talk with Jeremy Robinson, author of the Lulu bestselling novel The Didymus Contingency as well as POD People - Beating the Print-On-Demand Stigma.

Henry Hutton brings us another publishing walk-through, this time How To Make a Calendar. As with Henry's photobook tutorial, the full text version is avalable in the Lulu blog (and the December 06 newsletter).

On the subject of calendars...do you need a 2007 calendar and would like to contribute to a good cause? Here are two Lulu calendars that you might like:

Calendar Girls Get Dressed (Proceeds go to Breakthrough Breast Cancer)

Tastefully Done -  Webcomic Characters Showing It All (Proceeds go to Cancer Research UK)

This week we talk with author Chris Taylor about his book Passing It On: Life Lessons of 130 Great Americans.

Henry Hutton walks us through the publishing process for Lulu photobooks. They make awesome gifts for the whole family! Follow along at home with the original text version (including screen shots). You can find it on the Lulu blog or the November 06 newsletter.

Visit the new Lulu Radio storefront on Lulu.com for the complete podcast archive.

Don't forget to make your Christmas orders before the Holiday shipping deadlines!

A Weekly Podcast From Lulu.com.

Tips and suggestions for finding cool gifts at Lulu:
This week's interview: Leslie House of Knowledge Adventure tells us all about Books By You -- an innovative product which allows children to create their own books and publish them through Lulu.

We wrap things up with a light-hearted song to help put you in the Christmas mood...

Chasing Clay by Kenny Shore

Kenny's Lulu storefront: www.lulu.com/shore 
His website:  www.kennyshore.com