Mike and Mike talk more about the fight between Amazon and Hachette, continuing from Show 468 and including comments from your feedback via Facebook. They talk more about how different authors a...
Kevin J. Anderson joins Mike and Mike to talk about his newest novel, The Dark Between the Stars. It's the first of his new series, "Saga of Shadows", which takes place 20 years after the events ...
The contract dispute between Amazon and Hachette has Mike Stackpole a little fired up, and the conversation revolves around the details some of the blowback that midlist and new authors are feeli...
Sam Roberts joins Mike and Mike to talk about LeVar Burton's Kickstarter efforts to bring "Reading Rainbow" to new audiences using newer technologies and methods that weren't available when the s...
Mike and Mike recap the technological and book-selling shift since they last talked shop in 2012, including the shift from big format bookstores to local stores & specialty stores that promote ev...
Mike and Mike pop in for a quick visit, and have fun with not remembering anything they talked about or did for the show 2 years ago. They chat about what's been going on since then, and the chan...
DISCUSSING THE NEWS: Mike S talks about Amazon's Kindle Select program that allows Kindle owners to borrow ebooks, and the payment method they're using to compensate authors for the loans, but it...
Mike S also recommends that everyone go out and purchase digital picture frames, scan in the covers of all their books, sit it on your shelf and have it display your book covers as slideshows. WR...
Mike S points out that the real kidney punch to B&N was done by Apple a few weeks ago with their ebook textbook deals, and the guys talk about how these deals could change how teachers teach and ...
DISCUSSION: Mike S talks about the importance of developing a private audience, separate from the groups you're cultivating on Twitter, Google+, Facebook, and other social networks. What's your f...
Mike S brings up some salient points about the legal tussle going on between HarperCollins and Open Road Media over the definition of "ebook" because of a new electronic version of Julie of the W...
Would you be interested in receiving PDFs of sample chapters from authors, writing prompts or assignments or items of that ilk? Let us know your thoughts on that! Mike S lays out some steps to ke...
LISTENER QUESTIONS: Tad from Mesa is one of the few who has an old edition of Mistress of Dragons and he's interested to see how the new version evolves, really enjoyed Stackpole's At the Queen's...
INTERVIEW: This week, Mike and Mike chat with MD Lachlan about the first book in his new series from Pyr Books, Wolfsangel . What happens when you take a werewolf story and combine it with Norse ...
INTERVIEW: This week, Mike and Mike chat with Brad Beaulieu about his new novel, The Winds of Khalakovo , an epic fantasy series from Night Shade Books in the same vein as George R. R. Martin's ...
INTERVIEW: This week, Mike and Mike chat with Tee Morris and Pip Ballantine about their new collaborative novel, Phoenix Rising: A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel , sort of a steampunk fla...
INTERVIEW: This week, Mike and Mike chat with legendary SF author William F. Nolan (Logan's Run) about his latest collection of novellas, Kincaid: A Paranormal Casebook . The stories are a blend ...
INTERVIEW: This week, Mike and Mike chat with Alex Bledsoe about his new book, Dark Jenny from Tor Books. While it's the third book set in this universe featuring many of the same characters, it...
INTERVIEW: Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert join us this week in the middle of their book tour to talk about Hellhole , their most recent collaboration and the first in a trilogy set in a new ...
INTERVIEW: This week, Justin Gustainis joins Mike and Mike to discuss his new projects, including the recently released Those Who Fight Monsters , an occult detectives anthology he edited for EDG...
INTERVIEW: This week, Patricia Briggs joins the guys to talk about her newest book, River Marked , the 6th and newest book in her Mercy Thompson series. In this story, she not only explores Mercy...
INTERVIEW: This week, our guest is Jon F. Merz, and the latest book in his Lawson Vampire series is The Kensei . Lawson is fixer in the vampire world, and his primary mission is to protect the se...
INTERVIEW: This week, our guest is Alan Dean Foster, and his latest SF novel is The Human Blend , and his newest book is a memoir, Predators I Have Known (coming out as a first print digital edit...
INTERVIEW: This week, Angela James, Executive Editor of Carina Press, joins us to talk about the digital book marketplace, and some of the changing trends in reading habits, reading formats, and ...
INTERVIEW: This week's guest is Mercedes Lackey, whose newest anthology Trio of Sorcery from Tor Books is a collection of two stories featuring her popular urban fantasy heroines, Diana Tregarde...