Colin Dodds has several books to his name, including Ms. Never and Windfall. He’s made his living as a journalist, editor, copywriter and video producer. His work has appeared in Gothamist, The Washington Post and more than three hundred other publications. Colin’s poetry collection Spokes of an Uneven Wheel was published by Main Street Rag Publishing Company in 2018. He has also produced what I call writing-as-an-app -- his Forget This Good Thing I Just Said is a collection of aphorisms served up randomly by an app of the same name, and just might be the unwritten future of writing.
In this podcast, Dodds talks about balancing family and financial responsibilities with the need to write, how his life matches up to his youthful fantasies of what it would be like to become a writer, and the place of self-publishing. He's well-placed to talk about that, having been published by independent publishers as well as having run a publishing company and having self-published as well.
He offers interesting insights into book marketing and publicity -- "a book is exciting because it's new," he says at one point, explaining the lengthy publicity ramp-up for his forthcoming book, Pharoni. You can find all his books here.
