Next: Living a writing life

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Next on Copper Robot, we're talking with Jeff Vandermeer. His recent "Booklife" is all about how to maintain a creative career as a writer in the age of blogs, Facebook, podcasts and Twitter. He talks about the outer life of writers, include dealing with publishers, finding and dealing with agents, and getting publicity. And he talks about writers' inner lives, including maintaining creativity and keeping a work-life balance. Jeff has been a publishing professional for 25 years, as a fiction writer, book reviewer, editor, publisher, publicist, teacher, and creative consultant.

WHEN: Wednesday, February 17, 6 pm Pacific/Second Life time. **NEW DAY AND TIME**

WHERE: The lovely Seaside Theater, World2Worlds Island in Second Life.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/World2Worlds/223/36/26

Watch the live video on the Web

http://copperrobot.com/video/

Or listen to the podcast later at the Copper Robot blog.

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Jeff has quite an impressive list of credentials: Novels published in 15 languages, multiple award winner, and listed on multiple best-of-year lists.

"Booklife" came out in the autumn, since then, he's published "Finch," a science fiction mystery about a detective in a city of sentient funguses, and "The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals."

Booklife
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=1788206963&searchurl=sts%3Dt%26tn%3DBooklife%26x%3D0%26y%3D0

Finch
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=1813833006&searchurl=an%3DJeff%2BVandermeer%26sts%3Dt%26tn%3DFinch%26x%3D-349%26y%3D-199

Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals
http://www.tachyonpublications.com/book/KosherGuide.html

Join us for a lively discussion, of interest to aspiring writers, professional writers looking to manage their careers, and people interested in learning about the lives of writers. Also, I think Jeff's insights are useful to *any* entrepreneur looking to start and build a business -- every business requires publicity, every business requires sales, every business requires balancing professional and personal needs, and that makes Jeff's advice broadly applicable.

And we'll talk about steampunk and funguses and other cool stuff.

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