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EP 379 - Simplifying Your Life & Work with Dre Baldwin

Stark Reflections on Writing and Publishing

Release Date: 09/13/2024

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Stark Reflections on Writing and Publishing

EP 381 - Showcasing Independent Bookstores, Publishers, And Authors with Andrew Snook

Stark Reflections on Writing and Publishing

Mark interviews Andrew Snook about his writing and editing work as well as Canadian Independent Publishers magazine, which is celebrating its first anniversary. Prior to the interview Mark welcomes new Patrons, shares comments from recent episodes, a personal update, and a word about this episode's sponsor This episode is sponsored by FROM PAGE TO PLATFORM by Matty Dalrymple and Michael La Ronn. You can learn more about the book at . In their conversation, Mark and Andrew talk about: Celebrating the first year of publishing Canadian Independent Author Andrew's first ventures self-publishing...

EP 380 - Passion Project Publishing with Brianna Wodabek

Stark Reflections on Writing and Publishing

Mark interviews Brianna Wodabek, Assistant Manager of Digital Marketing at HarperCollins about her lifelong love of reading, books, and writing, and her evolution in the book industry. Prior to the interview Mark welcomes new Patrons, shares comments from recent episodes, a personal update, and a word about this episode's sponsor This episode is sponsored by FROM PAGE TO PLATFORM by Matty Dalrymple and Michael La Ronn. You can learn more about the book at . In their conversation, Mark and Brianna talk about: How Brianna always loved reading and writing, but also knew that she wasn't...

EP 379 - Simplifying Your Life & Work with Dre Baldwin

Stark Reflections on Writing and Publishing

Mark interviews Dre Baldwin the CEO and Founder of Work On Your Game Inc. about his books and his experience helping others in finding their own paths to success. Prior to the interview Mark shares comments from recent episodes, a personal update, and a word about this episode's sponsor This episode is sponsored by FROM PAGE TO PLATFORM by Matty Dalrymple and Michael La Ronn. You can learn more about the book at . During the interview, Mark and Dre talk about: The importance of the simplification process as a great place to begin The 80/20 rule and the less-than-smooth ways we have of not...

EP 378 - Multimedia Storytelling with Dominician Gennari

Stark Reflections on Writing and Publishing

Mark interviews Dominician Gennari, a writer, storyteller, composer, and musician about his multimedia book and novella opus, The War for Ascension. Prior to the interview Mark shares comments from recent episodes, a personal update, a word from this episode's sponsor, as well as a word about a previous episode sponsor. NEWS: Please note that the Feb/March 2025 Writers Retreat at Sea from Cruising Writers has been cancelled. During their conversation Mark and Dominician talk about: How Dominician's creative and artistic voice started with music at about the age of 13/14 Discovering...

EP 377 - Pivoting Your Publishing Dreams with Denise Massar

Stark Reflections on Writing and Publishing

Mark interviews Denise Massar, a writer, an adoptee, and a mom via birth and adoption about her new memoir MATCHED and the ten-year journey she took getting it published. Prior to the main content, Mark shares comments from a recent episode, a personal update, and a word from this episode's sponsor. This episode is sponsored by . During their conversation Mark and Denise talk about: How Denise had been "big five or die" when it originally came to her publishing dream and how and why that changed over the years Some of the feedback that Denise's agent got back on submission of her memoir in...

EP 376 - Dianne Scott on Writing Historical Mysteries

Stark Reflections on Writing and Publishing

Mark interviews bestselling and award-winning author Dianne Scott about her Christine Lane Mystery series which is set on Toronto Island in the 1960s. Prior to the main content, Mark shares comments from a recent newsletter he sent out asking writers to share their thoughts on the collective noun for a group of editors, a personal update (including the launch of his new ), and a word from this episode's sponsor. This episode is sponsored by . During their conversation Mark and Dianne talk about: How, after writing a creative writing piece in University that was supposed to be a research...

EP 375 - One Hand Kickstarting

Stark Reflections on Writing and Publishing

Mark shares some behind-the-scenes insights and helpful tips offered to him for his forthcoming Kickstarter. He also loses it briefly after discovering that 40 minutes of in depth and detailed recording was lost due to a tech issue with Audacity crashing. Prior to the main content, Mark shares comments from recent episodes, welcomes a new patron, and introduces a word from this episode's sponsor. This episode is sponsored by . Mark's Kickstarter, coming very soon, is for the 20th Anniversary edition of his book One Hand Screaming. Links of Interest: (Preview link as of Aug...

EP 374 - WMG Publishing Editor Round Table

Stark Reflections on Writing and Publishing

In this episode Mark has a round-table discussion with the seven other editors in the August 2024 WMG Publishing Anthology Workshop. Prior to the main content, Mark shares a word from this episode's sponsor. This episode is sponsored by . The WMG Publishing Anthology workshops help authors see behind-the-scenes on how editors compile and select stories for anthologies. This in-depth and in-person experience involves a panel of editors (for August 2024 it was a panel of 8 editors) debating the merits of stories written by the attending authors. In this round-table discussion, Mark chats with...

EP 373 - Musings on Getting a Masters and Getting Married

Stark Reflections on Writing and Publishing

In this solo episode, Mark reflects and muses on the past couple of weeks where we got his Masters in Creative Writing with a concentration on Publishing (July 26th in Gunnison, CO) and got married to his partner Liz (July 29th in New York City, NY). Prior to the interview, Mark thanks Patrons and Buy Me A Coffee buddies, welcomes new patron Jo-Ann Carson, shares comments from recent episode, and announces the winner of the mindset coaching session with Thorn Coyle. Links of Interest: Use coupon STARK20 to get 20% off The...

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Mark interviews Dre Baldwin the CEO and Founder of Work On Your Game Inc. about his books and his experience helping others in finding their own paths to success.

Prior to the interview Mark shares comments from recent episodes, a personal update, and a word about this episode's sponsor

This episode is sponsored by FROM PAGE TO PLATFORM by Matty Dalrymple and Michael La Ronn. You can learn more about the book at https://theindyauthor.com/platform.

During the interview, Mark and Dre talk about:

The importance of the simplification process as a great place to begin
The 80/20 rule and the less-than-smooth ways we have of not being able to drop the 80%
How, over time, Dre has accumulated little pieces of wisdom that have ended up being part of the training and coaching that he does
The first question that Dre often asks which is: What is your goal?
The challenge of being inundated with so many messages which results in trying to work on more than one priority
How Dre has always been a big reader and a bit of a closet computer geek
The appeal of self-generated media and being able to articulate his ideas
Putting videos on YouTube about the basketball he was playing professionally and how other players began to take advantage of his advice and coaching
How even people who weren't playing sports could benefit from those basketball videos, which led to Dre recognizing he could help people beyond athletes
How a lot of Dre's mindset stuff started to come out around 2009/2010
Blogging his ideas and starting to put out his books
How discipline is the most important hallmark of the professional
The way people can fall off their structure and the importance of finding the structure that works best for you
Coaches being one of the ways that people can find/apply the proper structure
How a true professional holds themselves accountable to a structure
Shortcuts as something that can come from the right coach
The way that a coach can KEEP a professional athlete good
Human beings doing better work when accountability is involved
The importance of showing yourself the same respect you would show to a "boss" or some other supervisor or superior you report to at work
How the two golden questions related to your goal (What do you want and why do you want it?) help you build that bridge to the structure that can get you there
Knowing that he had always wanted to write a book and combining that with the fact he knew he already had an audience via his YouTube channel
The reason Dre didn't really pursue traditional publishing and decided to publish it himself in 2010
Dre's book Buy Me A Game (which is available as a free download)
Publishing about 19/20 books between 2010 and 2017
Doing an in person speaking gig in Atlanta all on his own dime and what opportunities that led to, including a New York publisher (McGraw Hill) who was interested in publishing a book for him. That book was Working on Your Game
Why Dre wasn't interested in reliving that experience again without the right offer/contract in place
Adapting part of the traditional publishing editing process into his own procedure for self-publishing his books
Why Dre prefers to have direct sales of his books on his own website
How in business the most valuable thing you have is your customer list
Dre's book The Third Day: The Decision That Separates The Pros From The Amateurs
How a professional shows up and delivers even when they don't "feel like it" - that's what makes them a professional
The fact that most people don't hear something you say - repeating it or exploring it in different ways can help
And more . . .

After the interview Mark reflects on several of the points Dre brought up in the conversation, including re-leveraging your own IP by exploring a single topic into further detail and the fact that a professional always shows up.

Links of Interest:

Dre Baldwin is CEO and Founder of Work On Your Game Inc. He has given 4 TEDxTalks and has authored 35 books.

Dre’s content has been consumed over 103 million times. His daily Work On Your Game MasterClass has amassed over 2,900 episodes and over 7.3 million listeners.

Dre had a 9-year professional basketball career, playing in 8 countries. Dre’s framework is the "roadmap in reverse" for professional Mindset, Strategy, Systems & Accountability.

The introductory, end, and bumper music for this podcast (“Laser Groove”) was composed and produced by Kevin MacLeod of www.incompetech.com and is Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

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