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Episode 11 – Interview with Tee Morris and Will McDermott – Part 1

Recorded at:

The Maryland Regional Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention
Balticon 39: May 27 – 30, 2005

with Paul Fischer
Balticon 39 Interview with authors Tee Morris and Will McDermott
From Sunday, May 29, 2005

• Very different backgrounds as authors.
• - Tee came in blind
• - Will came in through the gaming industry

• Selling Out vs. Putting Food on the Table debate
• Tee talks about podcasting Morevi
• Will – Most authors don’t get a choice to sell out
• We define “selling out”
• My tech book on Cisco routers.
• Adobe Premire stuff. Book written by Tee. Paul’s basis for software piracy.
• Will’s novels in the “Magic the Gathering” series. He talks about how much he earned as a writer in the last 3 years.
• You can make money as an author, but you can’t make a living.
• The differences between independent publishers vs. large established publishers like Wizards of the Coast.
• Tee’s Book, Podcasting for Dummies written with Evo Terra
• Paying for podcasting vs. advertising revenue
• Paul’s hatred of invasive marketing
• Real passion works better than mass marketing
• TWiT is asking for $20 per year from their listeners.
• Tee is asking for $5 per person donations on his website. Paul thinks Tee needs to make it closed ended.
• Tee had 10,000 downloads of Morevi for May 2005.
• We further define “selling out”
• Cliffhanger ending!

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