S5:E3 - Andy Patton & Serial Publishing

About this episode

Rachel S. Donahue interviews Andy Patton about the intersection of productivity and creativity in the context of serial publishing.

Rachel S. Donahue interviews Rabbit Room’s Andy Patton (Darkling Psalter) about where and how the logistics of productivity overlap with the creative process, and much much more having to do with 3.5x-speed-audiobooks, the Toyota Way, LitRPG, and yellow slime (yes, yellow slime!) and the various niche corners of the internet where LitRPG represents a new kind of publishing model, that’s really a revamp of a very old model: Serial Publishing. Note: Bandersnatch Books has recently joined forces with Flicker.Press a serial publisher for all things good, true and beautiful Mentioned in this episode: Flicker.Press Darkling Psalter Housemoot Andy Patton - The Rabbit Room, Director of Operations The Toyota Way L’Abri Fellowship Yellow Slime Mold LitRPG Dungeon Crawler Carl - Matt Dinnaman Royal Road Patreon Lo-Fi Chill Music by Andrii Poradovskyi from Pixabay Click to learn more about Bandersnatch Books ! www.bandersnatchbooks.com Special Thanks to: Son of Laughter for our theme song: “Cricket in a Jar.” Evelyn Warnemuende for our artwork. S.D.G. Morgan for audio engineering: sdgmorgan.substack.com & bammerhab.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with…

People in this episode

Host: Rachel S. Donahue

Guest: Andy Patton

Topics covered

• productivity
• creative process
• serial publishing
• LitRPG
• audiobooks
• niche publishing
• internet culture

Keywords

• productivity
• creative process
• serial publishing
• LitRPG
• audiobooks
• Flicker.Press
• Darkling Psalter
• yellow slime
• Dungeon Crawler Carl
• Patreon

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Rabbit Room, Flicker.Press, L’Abri Fellowship, Patreon, Bandersnatch Books

Products: Dungeon Crawler Carl

Books & works: Darkling Psalter

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