In this episode of Storyline Sessions, the author of Harbinger of Justice and a YouTube channel host Andrew Watson talks about how he got into the Booktube\/Bookstagram community, inspirations and the process behind his debut novel, as well as its reception.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Timestamps:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
00:00 – Start<\/p>\n
00:37 – Conversation start<\/p>\n
00:51 – Spooky season video collab and reading horror<\/p>\n
02:25 – Starting with BookTube and creating a community<\/p>\n
07:11 – Filmmaking, visual mediums and choosing writing<\/p>\n
08:56 – Getting into self-publishing<\/p>\n
10:45 – The reality of traditional publishing<\/p>\n
14:22 – Choosing his editor and cover artist<\/p>\n
16:07 – Process of working with the editor and cover artist<\/p>\n
20:20 – Fantasy cover trends and using maps<\/p>\n
22:28 – Book reception after first 3 months<\/p>\n
25:12 – Choosing your POVs and writing process<\/p>\n
28:50 – The Shadowbinders Trilogy and beyond<\/p>\n
31:50 – Magic system and worldbuilding<\/p>\n
35:22 – Ancient Egypt influence and other inspirations<\/p>\n
41:56 – Potential adaptations of Harbinger of Justice<\/p>\n
43:19 – Picking topics for videos and algorithm<\/p>\n
45:50 – Applying different knowledge to writing and being visual<\/p>\n
48:57 – Reviewing other authors from the community<\/p>\n
53:17 – Book festivals<\/p>\n
55:07 – Signed books<\/p>\n
59:36 – Books, going digital and attention spans<\/p>\n
1:03:32 – Working on the next book<\/p>\n
1:04:47 – Beta readers<\/p>\n
1:10:35 – Pressure after the debut and not rushing<\/p>\n
1:13:06 – The trend of making everything a franchise<\/p>\n
1:15:37 – What to expect from his future work<\/p>\n
1:17:10 – Outro<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
You can find Andrew on YouTube at https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@the_fools_tale\/videos<\/a> and Instagram at https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/the_fools_tale\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Follow Storyline Sessions Podcast on Instagram – \/ storyline.sessions – <\/a>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/storyline.sessions\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/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>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In this episode of Storyline Sessions, the author of Harbinger of Justice and a YouTube channel host Andrew Watson talks about how he got into the Booktube\/Bookstagram community, inspirations and the process behind his debut novel, as well as its reception. Timestamps: 00:00 – Start 00:37 – Conversation start 00:51 – Spooky season video collab…<\/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-389055","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\/389055","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=389055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389055\/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=389055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}