1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,520 This is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyzer. You can find all my work at MJMunoz.com 2 00:00:05,520 --> 00:00:09,120 including the plethora of podcasts I'm about to publish. 3 00:00:09,120 --> 00:00:12,160 This episode of Story Over Everything is episode 15. 4 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:16,240 It's going to be published April 21st, 2023. 5 00:00:16,240 --> 00:00:22,560 And in it I am asking how do you plan to publish, or rather market your books? 6 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:25,280 And I'm going to let you know right away. 7 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:36,480 I plan to market my books via podcasting and by reviewing and by staying in touch with certain pop culture media 8 00:00:36,480 --> 00:00:42,160 that is current and relevant. And some of it will be current and relevant, and some of it will be not so current and relevant. 9 00:00:42,160 --> 00:00:51,680 And that's basically the plan. But I will elucidate a little bit as I can. 10 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:55,840 As I have the ability to say something. 11 00:00:55,840 --> 00:01:08,160 So that's my plan. And I guess before I continue, I would like to hear what your plans are for marketing your books and your writing and yourself as an author. 12 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:12,720 And I'd be curious to hear what other people's tactics are. 13 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:24,640 Mine is basically this. I don't feel like I... Well, as an unpublished author, as somebody who doesn't have a degree or anything like that, I don't have a body of work or an accreditation to point to. 14 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:28,720 Did you see that bird? Yeah, I saw it. It was very cool. 15 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:36,400 So I'm going to build a body of work for myself to point to. 16 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:44,800 And I plan on writing books primarily, but also doing podcasts where I review things, discuss things. 17 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:52,320 Again, these things will be pop culture relevant and therefore tangentially relevant to what I'm into. 18 00:01:52,320 --> 00:02:06,320 So, for example, I am... Well, actually, I'm a little bit of a failed podcaster because I have hours and hours and hours of podcasts banked up already. 19 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:14,560 That I was trying to be cheap. I was trying to be cheap or economical, frugal, however you want to say it. 20 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:26,080 And I basically ended up spending a lot of time and energy building up a backlist, building up a backlog of things that some people have listened to. 21 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:34,080 But I've gotten very little attention in the dozens. And I don't need dozens to make a career as an author. I need hundreds or thousands. 22 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:41,920 So, basically all the stuff that I've watched or... Yeah, I guess basically watched. 23 00:02:41,920 --> 00:02:48,160 Read to some extent too, but more watched. I haven't done so many analysis. 24 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:53,920 I haven't done so much analysis on anything I've read. Except maybe some comic books. But regardless. 25 00:02:53,920 --> 00:03:02,320 Or maybe I could use those too. Anyway, I can basically repurpose a bunch of my old content that I never really used on a large scale. 26 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:14,960 Because I didn't put budget or... Well anyway, if I get on iTunes, if I get on all these different app stores, if I get a fully official podcast service, which I do have now. 27 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:20,560 I'm paying X amount of dollars a month for it. And I can have as many podcast feeds as I want. 28 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:34,000 Well I figure I can use that to establish podcast feeds and basically I'll just pull all my old material and I'll release it at whatever pace I determine will work best for me. 29 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:41,360 And I think I'm actually going to recut them. Because some of them I wasted a lot of time on. So I will work on them. 30 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:50,960 I'll re-listen to them and I'll hear what I can cut out and I will chop the intro and outro and I'll put a new intro and outro. 31 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:56,880 And I think I'll just do that. I think that's clever and I'll just pull it down from wherever I had it placed before. 32 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:04,720 Either pull it down or repurpose, update it. That technicality I'll have to think about some more later. 33 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:12,080 But that's not for now. Because I just need the broad plan and once I figure out what I'm going to do I can figure out the details of executing it. 34 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:21,520 But I'd like to make myself a subject matter expert on certain things that are germane to what I'm talking about. 35 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:26,960 And maybe I'll kind of pace myself and I'll eventually do that plan of re-releasing everything. 36 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:36,720 So that I can focus and really concentrate on building up a market and building up a group of people. 37 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:41,920 Like building up an email list and such. Because I think the email list is the best thing to do for an office. 38 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:46,080 That's what I keep hearing. And I was even listening to... Oh yeah, Narwhal. 39 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:57,120 I was hemming and hawing a bit about how much I will share about my plan to, you know, recut and reuse this information. 40 00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:09,520 But I'm actually considering the fact that Story Over Everything is a, you know, a chronicle of how I'm doing all this. 41 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:18,400 So yeah, I'll tell you the nitty gritty of the marketing and the thinking out loud that I'm going to do regarding how exactly I'm going to market all this stuff. 42 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:27,120 So let me give you a couple examples. So right now I have... You know, I don't know how many Kamen Rider reviews I have. 43 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:31,280 So Kamen Rider is a Japanese television show and movie franchise actually. 44 00:05:31,280 --> 00:05:41,920 In May 31st of 2023, Fathom Events is going to be having a special screening of Shin Kamen Rider, which was done by Hideaki Anno of Evangelion fame. 45 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:54,720 If you know anime at all, Evangelion, you would know he was part of Studio Gainax, which did big things like FLCL and Karakano, which is an adaptation of like a romance, which is fabulous actually. 46 00:05:54,720 --> 00:06:04,240 But anyway, yeah, so Anno is like a really big deal. He's maybe an entour. He did Shin Ultraman, which came out I think last year, 2022. 47 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:08,480 And he did Shin Godzilla, which came out in like 2018, 2019, something like that. 48 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:17,120 And that's a big deal because Godzilla and Ultraman are like kings of tokusatsu. Tokusatsu is a genre I'm into. 49 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:22,160 Kamen Rider is also big in tokusatsu. And I feel like there was one other... They were doing this initiative. 50 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:31,040 It's the Shin Japan Heroes universe, and it's Godzilla, Ultraman, Kamen Rider, and I feel like there's one more. 51 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:34,800 But Godzilla is, you know, the big monsters. Ultraman is a giant who fights monsters. 52 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:38,800 Kamen Rider is a little guy who fights monsters, but still he fights monsters nonetheless. 53 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:45,840 And that's about all I can say in a short fashion. It's Japanese special effects stuff, live action for the most part. 54 00:06:45,840 --> 00:06:53,840 The focus of the Ultraman a little bit is the giantness, and the focus of Kamen Rider is that he transforms into this other... 55 00:06:53,840 --> 00:07:01,760 He transforms into a superhero, a super-powered man basically, and he was gonna be brainwashed to do evil. 56 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:08,240 And he was saved from that, and then he becomes a hero protecting life above all else, even above justice and above... 57 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:10,720 I can't remember what else, but it's a very interesting thing. 58 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:15,120 But he's basically a karate bug man, themed after a grasshopper, and Anno's doing this movie. 59 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:20,240 And again, he's doing Shin Godzilla, Ultraman, and Kamen Rider, and who knows if he'll do... 60 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:24,960 I don't think there's any rumors or talk of him doing a Shin Super Sentai, which would be... 61 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:30,000 Super Sentai became Power Rangers, and that was all... Power Rangers, you know, Super Sentai rather, 62 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:33,200 and Kamen Rider were both created by the same man, Isshinomori, who created... 63 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:37,600 He's a manga creator who went on to create a character called... 64 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:45,440 Plotrine, Beautiful Mask Plotrine, who I believe inspired Sailor Moon, which is a huge anime phenomenon 65 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:49,360 that basically made the career of Naoko Takahuchi. I don't know what else she did, 66 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:52,320 but I think Sailor Moon's all she had to have done, you know. 67 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:58,720 That was her achievement, or... It was her achievement, and I think a lot of that was based off of Plotrine, 68 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:03,120 which again, was developed by Isshinomori, who also did things like Cyborg, 69 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:06,800 so again, if you're into anime or manga at all, you'll know some of these things that I'm mentioning. 70 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:13,440 Kiter, which is huge, in its own way. But anyway, that's just some of what he did. 71 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:17,920 He did other stuff, or more serious, more... Like, he literally did an adult thing, 72 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:22,000 which I don't plan on reading, because I don't really need that. 73 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:27,120 But anyway, he did that, and he did something called Gilgamesh, which I don't think has anything 74 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:32,560 to do with the actual, you know, epic of Gilgamesh, but it is something I plan on reading. 75 00:08:32,560 --> 00:08:37,680 But anyway, because my interests are varied, I'm into... Well, I'm into, and I want to make, 76 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:44,560 comic books and tokusatsu stories and other things. I figure, basically, what I'm going to do is take 77 00:08:44,560 --> 00:08:48,640 all these things that I've been working on over the years that I haven't taken and really turned 78 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:52,480 into something, or I haven't exposed it to a very big audience, and I will repackage them 79 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:59,920 slowly as time goes on to help me basically spin up this stuff into marketing material for the 80 00:08:59,920 --> 00:09:03,600 things that I'm working on. For example, the Grow Bug series of books that I have. It's 81 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:07,600 Sheldon's Picture Book series that I have that I've talked about here on Story Over Everything 82 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:14,240 previously. It focuses on... Well, basically, it's all homage to tokusatsu characters. So, 83 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:20,560 I mentioned Godzilla, Ultraman, Kamen Rider, Super Sentai. Each one of the Grow Bug books, 84 00:09:20,560 --> 00:09:25,360 that's the first four, they're inspired by those franchises and things that appear in those 85 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:29,760 franchises. And the fifth Grow Bug book is actually inspired by Digimon, which is something I'm 86 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:37,280 currently covering on MJWindows.com by making an audiobook or reading, narrating, chapters of this 87 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:42,960 Digimon book that is going to be coming out all this year long of 2023, or at least it started 88 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:48,720 in April of 2023, and I believe it will continue until April of 2024. I don't have proof of that, 89 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:53,200 but they did say it would be a year, but a year is relative. The Persona games are supposed to take 90 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:57,360 place over a year, and they take place over like nine months. So, it could be something kind of 91 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:02,720 similar. Hey, we started in the spring, we finished it in the winter, or you know, late fall, and 92 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:05,600 that's good enough for us. That's a year. We're going to call it a year. So, I don't know about 93 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:13,120 that, but I do know that being that one of the Grow Bug books is based on Digimon, and there's 94 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:19,040 this Kamen Rider movie coming out, and I want to cover Kamen Rider in a weekly fashion as well. 95 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:25,600 And, you know, there's this dub of Ultraman that's coming out right now. There's the dub of the 96 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:30,080 Ultraman movie, which will come out, I hope, 2023, but they're also dubbing one of their television 97 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:34,400 shows, which I watched the whole thing of it already. I already did reviews on it, and I could 98 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:40,400 just repackage them and just not mention it's the dub, or I could do a fresh new dub review and just 99 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:45,040 have two series reviewing the same show, one that I read the subtitles on, one that I listen to the 100 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:48,560 dub on. I don't know how I feel about that necessarily, but it actually kind of doesn't 101 00:10:48,560 --> 00:10:54,080 sound like a bad idea, but I can basically use all these tokusatsu things that I like, that I'm into, 102 00:10:54,080 --> 00:11:02,720 to help me market my tokusatsu-inspired children's books, which I am in the process of finishing the... 103 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:07,680 well, I'm in the process of finishing. I feel like I'm gonna have to do some rewrites, because 104 00:11:08,560 --> 00:11:12,080 what I was gonna do, which I've mentioned before again on Story Over Everything, is 105 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:19,440 rewrite or reuse the Grow Bug books, the five Grow Bug books, and just basically paste them into 106 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:25,200 the body of a prose novel, and because I wrote them very much like prose, some less so than other, 107 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:29,440 but basically they're prose with pictures, and when you have the pictures, it'll elevate what you're 108 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:34,160 seeing or what you're reading, and it all works together. That's how I decided to write them. 109 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:39,120 I decided not to rely heavily on the imagery and have the imagery there to be dazzling 110 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:47,200 while you read my words. All the books done by Ruth Sanderson, who does these wonderful oil paintings, 111 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:52,720 they're absolutely gorgeous, and does children's... or retellings of children's books, 112 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:57,760 or children's stories like Cinderella, and I can't think of anything else at the moment, but 113 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:02,400 the Cinderella is gorgeous. It's absolutely a beautiful book, and there's tons of text in those. 114 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:06,960 The page count or the word count on those must be much higher than modern-day picture books, 115 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:11,360 and even though these are going to be picture books, I still want them to be, you know, verbose enough. 116 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:16,320 Some of them are here. One is around 940, and I've got one that clocks in to like 2500, 117 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:20,800 and I'm okay with that because I think it works for the story, and I'm an indie author, 118 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:24,800 indie publisher, so I feel comfortable, you know, pushing myself, pushing the limits, 119 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:30,240 and going ahead and doing that. But anyway, regardless, my plan was to upcycle those five 120 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:35,280 books and just copy and paste them into a prose novel that goes into the lore and deals with the 121 00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:41,120 world of the grow bugs, and I tried doing that. I'm basically to the part now where I could just 122 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:45,680 copy and paste into the five books and then continue the rest of my story, but in developing 123 00:12:45,680 --> 00:12:50,080 the story of these grow bugs, which are these, you know, magical guardian angel things that protect 124 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:56,160 children from, you know, terrible things in the night, the story has transformed itself, 125 00:12:56,160 --> 00:13:00,720 and it's come alive, and it's becoming something bigger than I thought it was going to be, and 126 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:07,440 I like that. It gives me pause a little bit because I don't know how far into 2023 I'll be done with 127 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:12,400 writing that book, but I don't plan on spending... I hope I make it... I hope I'm finished by July. 128 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:17,200 It's April right now, but it'd be lovely to be finished within a month or two. I guess that's... 129 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:21,680 Yeah, that's about right. I guess June is the sixth month. It'd be great to be done within two 130 00:13:21,680 --> 00:13:28,080 months. 100% done, because as I'm developing the prose novel and the lore of the grow bugs that 131 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:34,400 it contains, it's kind of expanding the grow bug... the five grow bug books potentially, and I may 132 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:39,360 even have to rewrite the five grow bug books to tell them from the perspective of the grow bugs, 133 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:44,960 and I'm gonna have to try to restrain myself to go ahead and do that rewrite and do it simply and 134 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:51,840 make it like... I don't know, slick and concise, as opposed to blowing it up into something really 135 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:57,520 big, which one of them... I'm so tempted to blow it up into something big because I wrote this whole 136 00:13:57,520 --> 00:14:03,040 backstory and synopsis for how this adventure was facilitated happening with this one kid, 137 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:11,840 and it like ties into my holy heroes books that I want to do too, and honestly there's even a little 138 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:18,320 bit of tying into the holy heroes books in this larger prose novel that I'm writing because 139 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:22,960 I thought, oh I can... I want to have a character like this and like this so that they're a pair of 140 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:28,960 perspective characters, and they ended up feeling a little bit like, or reminding me of, these other 141 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:35,680 characters who I have in the larger holy heroes book series, and it made me think, oh I should 142 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:40,800 include these characters, or I should make it potential so that these characters can go on to 143 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:47,520 you know be involved in these later stories, and I may... I very well may do that, and if I do that 144 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:52,800 will be interesting, but anyway I'm trying not to let myself get distracted, and I'm trying to focus 145 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:57,520 on just writing this stuff, but my overall point is and why I'm talking about this here in the 146 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:02,400 marketing thing is, I'm talking about these tokusatsu things, and there are plenty of people 147 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:11,200 who are close to me demographic, close enough to me demographically, who enjoy this stuff, 148 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:14,800 and who I think as adults would enjoy reading these books, as you know I like them as an adult, 149 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:20,640 my wife isn't into tokusatsu at all, but she thinks they're good stories, so I'm hoping to you know 150 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:25,920 work on that group of people, that cohort, and make them a market, and some of these people, 151 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:29,520 I don't know how many, but saw them who enjoy these things, are having kids and sharing these 152 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:33,280 things with their kids, and I'm hoping to market these books to their kids, and I figure while I'm 153 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:38,960 talking about these these shows, I can include the information about the Girlbugs series inspired by 154 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:44,560 these tokusatsu heroes, and just make a pitch for it, and maybe build up some traction, and you know 155 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:53,120 build up traction for those, get a crowdfunding thing going to fund these books, and I'm hoping 156 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:59,520 that'll work, so I'm hoping I can also pull those people into my my list, especially if I take what 157 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:05,680 I currently have right now that is on the website, and I kind of decommission it, pull it down from 158 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:10,560 there, and then republish that stuff, re-release it, and maybe I can go and track down my other 159 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:14,480 feeds, and somehow terminate them, so that I just have everything going through this one new feed 160 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:20,240 that I'm controlling in this better way, and I can gear the releases towards doing the marketing for 161 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:28,080 that. Another thing to say is I am launching right now, I just started this Red Panda podcast, and 162 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:33,680 I'm going to cover all 120 episodes of Red Panda within within the space of two years, two years, 163 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:40,800 54 a year, no no no, a little longer than two years, 120 yeah, so if I did 54 times two, that's 108, 164 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:46,640 which that's not enough time, so over the course of two years plus, I'll cover all of Red Panda, 165 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:52,400 including the four, I think it was four, pulp novels that Greg Taylor wrote, and 166 00:16:54,160 --> 00:17:02,320 I want to write pulp-era superheroes as well, so the plan is going to be basically to have a long-term 167 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:08,720 relationship with people who are into pulp heroes, who are into things like Red Panda, and to kind of, 168 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:14,800 you know, create a market, create a community, create a group of people who I'm in contact with, 169 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:20,400 who enjoy that stuff, and then be able to say, hey, you've enjoyed this so far, and now I have 170 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:28,720 this thing going, and I don't know how soon to start that, I don't know exactly, well anyway, 171 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:33,120 I don't know how soon to start that, or how exactly to spin it, because I don't yet have 172 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:40,800 a base, I don't have enough written in those superhero stories, I'm just working on, I'm 173 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:45,680 still working on developing those, and fleshing out the pulp-era, because, well anyway, I'll just 174 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:52,320 stop that. The pulp-era of my superhero series, multiple series, I have partially planned out, 175 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:56,800 about a third of it planned out, and I want to plan out the rest of it, and that would tie in 176 00:17:56,800 --> 00:18:03,680 very nicely to talking about Red Panda, and I don't think, well maybe, maybe I'll start with 177 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:07,360 Red Panda, and I'll go from there and start talking about Shadow or other things, and 178 00:18:07,360 --> 00:18:12,640 yeah, certain advancements might help me with that, or maybe I need to find another radio pulp-hero, 179 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:17,280 something in the vein of Red Panda, that I can, you know, focus on, and talk about, and have common 180 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:21,440 ground with people, if hey, if you like this thing that I like, then check out this, which I've 181 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:27,040 talked about the concept before, but only now that I officially have the podcast thing going, that 182 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:30,720 I'm paying for, you know, the paid podcast service, do I really have the opportunity, and did it 183 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:39,040 really give me the, I don't know, the space in my mind, or the notion, the spark, to think, oh I can 184 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:46,160 actually, you know, upcycle all of these old podcasts into marketing material for this, you 185 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:53,280 know, for these projects I have for writing. One caveat, one bit of trouble is that I'm nearing, 186 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:58,640 I don't know, I'd say I'm about 30% done with the Grow Bug Tales novel, which will 187 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:03,680 grow bug tales novel, which will, you know, encapsulate, it'll be a whole pros thing for 188 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:11,760 the Grow Bug stuff, and like about 30% through with that, but I have a fantasy series idea that 189 00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:16,880 I wrote a little bit of, it's, it has to do with dragons, and I wrote one of those, I have a 190 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:22,960 manuscript for the first children's book of that, and I think it's lovely, and I had planned years 191 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:28,880 ago, because I wrote it about, I don't know, two, maybe three years ago at the most, I think, I had 192 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:34,480 a notion of how to expand it into a series, because I wanted to explore more of this dragon lore and 193 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:41,920 mythology and everything, and as I'm working on this Grow Bug Tales, I think, oh, I should do the 194 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:48,080 same thing with the dragon book, I should write the other manuscripts for the children's books, 195 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:57,200 and then spin up a pros novel, a short pros novel around that too, and then I can have both of these 196 00:19:57,200 --> 00:20:00,960 things, and I can have, one book is, one series is five books long, the other book is about four 197 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:05,840 series, the other series is about four books long, and then I'll have nine children's books to my 198 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:15,840 name, plus the other two collected books that kind of upcycle those children's books, and 199 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:21,200 are pros only, so there's no pictures, and I can really use that too, and then I'll have, boom, 200 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:28,880 a big body of work, nine children's books, two chapter books, or I think chapter book is the 201 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:34,880 right term for it, chapter book or young middle grade, I think is what it would be, books, and 202 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:39,600 then, hey, I'm an established author, I have this track record, you can see the quality of my work, 203 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:44,800 these are the kinds of things I write, it's children's, but it's more than children's, 204 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:50,080 and now that I have those, and I have those out in the world, and those are all out in the world 205 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:56,400 within 2023 and 2024, God willing, then I'm going to kind of move on from those, bring them up every 206 00:20:56,400 --> 00:21:04,320 now and then as things I've done, put them up on sale, or do whatever, actively, well, kind of 207 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:09,760 softly market those as I'm continuing to write my other stuff, and I can also say, hey, I'm the 208 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:15,760 author of nine children's picture books, about half, five of them are about this, four of them 209 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:23,600 are about this, and they each have a really cool short novel that goes with them, and your kiddos 210 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:28,320 will like it, you'll enjoy it, and boom, that'll be kind of a thing that I have, or I can have those 211 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:33,520 as a landing page on my website and have a podcast, and the podcast, I always say go to mgmunus.com, 212 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:42,080 you know, that's a strategy for sure, and then I can move on from those, kind of maintain some 213 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:45,680 marketing presence on those, and keep them, you know, as something advertised on the website that 214 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:49,840 the podcast sends you to, so as I'm reaching like-minded people, people who like the things 215 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:53,520 I like, and like the way I think about things and analyze things, they'll check out the website and 216 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:57,360 say, hey, I want to see what else this guy has, and they'll see those things there, and then I can move 217 00:21:57,360 --> 00:22:03,760 on to the bigger series, that's, you know, two years from now in 2024, hopefully I'll have a handful of 218 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:08,400 the pulp novels done with these superheroes, and I can start marketing those on the feed that contains 219 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:13,200 Red Panda, I think that would be fabulous, or you know, Red Panda report my reviews on it, so 220 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:18,880 yeah, I think this is the strategy I want to use, and it feels a little convoluted and a little crazy, 221 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:23,840 but like, I want to be entertained by these stories anyway, they're things I'm consuming anyway, 222 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:28,400 so I may as well take that consumption of the stories and turn it into content for people and 223 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:35,120 marketing for myself, and that's it, I offer you all this entertainment and insight into these 224 00:22:35,120 --> 00:22:43,520 things for free, and then I also make you know, or I make it known to you that if you like these 225 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:49,280 things that I like, that we can have some sort of exchange, some sort of partnership, and work 226 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:53,760 together, and you can buy the books, and I can sell them to you, and we can, you know, both be a little 227 00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:59,920 happier when it's all said and done, so I think I'm going to go ahead and wrap up for now, 228 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:07,280 I've got a lot of thoughts spinning, but I need to stop and redirect myself, so with that, this is MJ 229 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:14,880 signing off, and I hope that you come back for more. 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