In this podcast Nick Mamatas talks about Editing Clarkesworld, Common Story Mistakes, Writing a Novel in Eight Weeks, and much more.
About Nick Mamatas
Nick Mamatas is the author of a number of novels: Move Under Ground, Under My Roof, Sensation, The Damned Highway (with Brian Keene), Bullettime, Love Is the Law, The Last Weekend, and I Am Providence, three collections; 3000MPH In Every Direction At Once and You Might Sleep…, The Nickronomicon; and the novella Northern Gothic. He is also the editor of the anthologies The Urban Bizarre, Phantom #0, Spicy Slipstream Stories (with Jay Lake), and Haunted Legends (with Ellen Datlow). As part of his day job, he co-edited the Locus Award nominee The Future Is Japanese (with Masumi Washington), Phantasm Japan (with Masumi Washington), Hanzai Japan (with Masumi Washington), and Mixed Up (with Molly Tanzer).
Show notes
- [04:50] Interview start/life lessons growing up
- [08:00] First experiences with story
- [11:00] Reading 7–8 books at a time
- [25:00] Editing Clarkesworld
- [27:30] How much to read before putting down a bad story
- [35:45] Common story mistakes
- [41:10] Television point of view in Dan Brown novels
- [53:00] Max Booth III, via Patreon, asks what chapters Nick would add to Starve Better if reissuing it
- [56:10] Strategies for writing a novel in eight weeks
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