{"id":5009,"date":"2011-11-19T20:00:12","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T01:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifisaturdaynight.com\/?p=5009"},"modified":"2011-11-19T13:26:03","modified_gmt":"2011-11-19T18:26:03","slug":"talkcast-108-michael-j-sullivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/?p=5009","title":{"rendered":"TalkCast 108 &#8211; Michael J. Sullivan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifisaturdaynight.com\/?attachment_id=5010\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5010\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5010\" title=\"Screen Shot 2011-11-18 at 7.44.56 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifisaturdaynight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Screen-Shot-2011-11-18-at-7.44.56-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This week\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Sci-Fi-Saturday-Night\/142340463143\">SFSN Facebook<\/a> Poll.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvercirclemovie.com\/\">Silver Circle<\/a> submitted to thet SXSW Film Festival.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blastr.com\/2011\/11\/harry-potter-director-is.php\">Doctor Who Movie<\/a> will have NOTHING to do with the TV series.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/insidemovies.ew.com\/2011\/11\/14\/the-hunger-games-trailer\/\">Hunger Games<\/a> releases their first trailer.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/hugos-asa-butterfield-star-enders-game\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+slashfilm+%28%2FFilm%29\">Asa Butterfield<\/a> will be Ender in Ender&#8217;s Game.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/traffic-syriana-writer-stephen-gaghan-rewrote-night-shyamalans-one-thousand-ae\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+slashfilm+%28%2FFilm%29\">M.Night Shymalan teams up with \u00a0Will and Jayden Smith<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Bryan Fuller is re-booting\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/io9\/vip\/~3\/Ghp6oJ7vbRM\/nbc-orders-a-pilot-for-the-munsters-from-pushing-daisies-creator-bryan-fuller\">The Munsters<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scifimafia.com\/2011\/11\/akira-kristen-stewart-in-negotiations-to-play-kei-in-the-live-action-adaptation\/\">Kristen Stewart <\/a>in Akira.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bleedingcool.com\/2011\/11\/16\/some-whens-and-wheres-of-the-star-trek-sequel\/\">Star Trek II<\/a> will not be called Star Trek II.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our guest, author <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_J._Sullivan_(author)\">Michael J. Sullivan<\/a>, talks candidly about the trials of bringing his\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.riyria.blogspot.com\/\">writing to the public<\/a>. He shared with us the process of his 6 self published books being picked up by a publisher and combined into 3. He also answered our questions about his style and the choices he made with his characters and narrative.\u00a0Check Michael out at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/10790290-theft-of-swords\">Goodreads<\/a>, and\u00a0purchase\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0316187747\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=scifisatnig-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=0316187747\">Theft of Swords<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=scifisatnig-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0316187747&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<span id=\"pod_audio_1\">&nbsp;<\/span><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5009-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifisaturdaynight.com\/podcast\/talkcast108.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifisaturdaynight.com\/podcast\/talkcast108.mp3\">http:\/\/www.scifisaturdaynight.com\/podcast\/talkcast108.mp3<\/a><\/audio><p><a href='http:\/\/www.scifisaturdaynight.com\/podcast\/talkcast108.mp3'>Download<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/castplayer?castfile=http:\/\/www.scifisaturdaynight.com\/podcast\/talkcast108.mp3&id=5009\" rel=\"0\" class=\"newPlayerWindow\" >Open Player in New Window<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/?p=5009\" data-text=\"TalkCast 108 - Michael J. 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