In this episode of Storyline Sessions, internationally best-selling author and the host of The Greatest Podcast in the Multiverse Herman Herman Steuernagel talks about his 10th novel The Bartender Between Worlds, changing genres in writing, experience with podcasting and much more.<\/p>\n
Find Herman here – https:\/\/linktr.ee\/hermansteuernagel<\/a><\/p>\n Follow Storyline Sessions Podcast on Instagram – https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/storyline.sessions\/<\/a><\/p>\n Listen to Storyline Sessions on YouTube – https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@StorylineSessions<\/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 01:05 – Conversation start<\/p>\n 01:16 – The power of podcasting and building a writing community<\/p>\n 05:20 – If he was starting now, what would he do differently<\/p>\n 07:27 – Why Sci-Fi?<\/p>\n 08:42 – Switching from YA to adult fiction<\/p>\n 09:55 – Using tropes in writing<\/p>\n 11:12 – Switching genres<\/p>\n 14:20 – Why did cozy fantasy get popular?<\/p>\n 16:05 – Introducing The Bartender Between Worlds<\/p>\n 18:18 – The appeal of standalone novels<\/p>\n 20:42 – Herman’s writing process<\/p>\n 24:16 – (Not) using beta readers<\/p>\n 25:31 – Experience with editors<\/p>\n 26:55 – Dropping two books at the same time<\/p>\n 30:14 – Audience feedback, reviews and getting into libraries<\/p>\n 33:44 – Trying Kickstarter and promoting your work<\/p>\n 37:31 – Audiobooks<\/p>\n 38:47 – Getting the right cover art<\/p>\n 41:52 – Authors doing their own marketing<\/p>\n 44:09 – Trends in fantasy<\/p>\n 46:35 – Exploring the multiverse<\/p>\n 48:31 – In a parallel world, how would a different decision affect your life?<\/p>\n 52:03 – Cocktail recommendation<\/p>\n 53:00 – Outro<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In this episode of Storyline Sessions, internationally best-selling author and the host of The Greatest Podcast in the Multiverse Herman Herman Steuernagel talks about his 10th novel The Bartender Between Worlds, changing genres in writing, experience with podcasting and much more. Find Herman here – https:\/\/linktr.ee\/hermansteuernagel Follow Storyline Sessions Podcast on Instagram – https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/storyline.sessions\/ Listen…<\/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-389043","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\/389043","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=389043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389043\/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=389043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}