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)

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