In this episode of Storyline Sessions, Hungarian-born SFF author and the winner of the best Fantasy Choice Award in Hungary Norbert Zsivicz talks about his novel Sealed Empire, experience with translations, mixing genres, building an audience and much more.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Find Norbert here – https:\/\/www.sealedbooks.com\/en\/the-book<\/a>, https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/authornorbert\/<\/a><\/p>\n Follow Storyline Sessions Podcast on Instagram – https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/storyline.sessions\/<\/a><\/p>\n Listen to Storyline Sessions on Spotify or Deezer – https:\/\/taplink.cc\/storyline.sessions<\/a><\/p>\n Riverside.fm<\/a> affiliate link (I receive a recurring commission with no additional cost to you): https:\/\/www.riverside.fm\/?via=marko<\/a><\/p>\n Timestamps:<\/p>\n 00:00 – Start<\/p>\n 01:26 – Conversation start<\/p>\n 01:41 – Serbian vs Hungarian<\/p>\n 02:22 – Fantasy scenes in Europe<\/p>\n 05:44 – Self publishing as an author in Hungary<\/p>\n 08:46 – Winning an award as a newcomer<\/p>\n 10:02 – English translation and finding an international audience<\/p>\n 13:46 – Mixing genres and worldbuilding<\/p>\n 17:31 – Using multiple POVs and timelines<\/p>\n 19:51 – The cover scene<\/p>\n 21:13 – World map<\/p>\n 23:20 – Prologues – yay or nay?<\/p>\n 25:34 – Comparing original and the translation<\/p>\n 27:25 – The setting – medieval fiction and history<\/p>\n 30:47 – Planning the end – how to get from A to B?<\/p>\n 32:26 – Showing his manuscript to others and trusting yourself<\/p>\n 34:21 – Dealing with reviews<\/p>\n 36:28 – Using a pseudonym or writing under your name?<\/p>\n 38:38 – European SFF<\/p>\n 41:00 – Marketing as a self published author – finding your audience<\/p>\n 44:20 – The unavoidable AI talk<\/p>\n 48:00 – Working on scripts for streaming shows and films<\/p>\n 52:33 – Gaming<\/p>\n 54:35 – Series timeline and future plans<\/p>\n 59:03 – Outro<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In this episode of Storyline Sessions, Hungarian-born SFF author and the winner of the best Fantasy Choice Award in Hungary Norbert Zsivicz talks about his novel Sealed Empire, experience with translations, mixing genres, building an audience and much more. Find Norbert here – https:\/\/www.sealedbooks.com\/en\/the-book, https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/authornorbert\/ Follow Storyline Sessions Podcast on Instagram – https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/storyline.sessions\/ Listen to…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":389036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[673],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-storyline-sessions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}