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Episode 31 - An Overabundance of Caution - Coping with Personal Setbacks We Make Books Podcast
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Hi everyone, and thank you for tuning in to another episode of the We Make Books Podcast - A podcast about writing, publishing, and everything in between!
This week’s episode is little bit different. Apart from the state of the world, Rekka has some personal news that she’d like to update everyone on. This, of course, leads to our topic for the week which is personal setbacks. When there is major event or change in your life, how do you cop and how do you keep writing? When is it time to take a step back and consider stopping? No one can answer those questions for you, but on this episode we talk about our own personal experience and offer some advice. We are all living in uncertain and while it is often frightening and overwhelming, we can all be there for each other with help and support as we adjust to our new normals.
We Make Books is hosted by Rekka Jay and Kaelyn Considine; Rekka is a published author and Kaelyn is an editor and together they are going to take you through what goes into getting a book out of your head, on to paper, in to the hands of a publisher, and finally on to book store shelves.
We Make Books is a podcast for writer and publishers, by writers and publishers and we want to hear from our listeners! Hit us up on our social media, linked below, and send us your questions, comments, concerns, and your favorite way you are passing the time while social distancing and sheltering in place – stay safe everyone!
We hope you enjoy We Make Books!
Twitter: @WMBCast | @KindofKaelyn | @BittyBittyZap
Instagram: @WMBCast
Patreon.com/WMBCast
Kaelyn (00:00):
Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of we make books a show about writing, publishing and everything in between. I'm Kaelyn Considine, I'm the acquisitions editor for Parvus Press.
New Speaker (00:08):
And I'm Rekka, I write science fiction and fantasy as RJ Theodore.
Kaelyn (00:12):
And uh, this is going to be a very short intro because of the beginning of the show is kind of the intro. Um, the theme for today is, I'm sure you can tell from the title of the episode is we're talking about personal setbacks and um, Rekka has been experiencing some of those. So rather than spend a lot of time talking about the episode right now, we're just going to jump right into it and uh, give Rekka a chance to kind of give everyone an update on some things that have been going on in her life.
New Speaker (00:37):
So slight pause for music.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
[inaudible]
Kaelyn (00:52):
Okay. And we're back. Not that we ever went too far to begin with -
New Speaker (00:58):
Except this time you didn't even bother coming over to my house to record.
Kaelyn (01:02):
It's true. You may notice that, uh, this episode sounds a little different in two ways. One is that we are recording over the interwebs.
New Speaker (01:11):
Due to an overabundance of caution.
Kaelyn (01:14):
An over abundance of caution. There's two reasons for this. One obviously is coronavirus Hey, yeah, everyone is self isolating. Um, I as I'm sure those who have listened before know I live in New York city. Um, things here are mostly fine, however they are kind of recommending that we all may have been exposed and not be aware of it. So to kind of keep your interaction with other people to a minimum.
New Speaker (01:41):
Yeah. Plus trains are kind of filthy to begin with and Kaelyn getting on a train concerned me for Kaelyn's sake, but also what might come along with her.
Kaelyn (01:50):
And that was a particular concern for Rekka.
Rekka (01:54):
I am now immuno-compromised.
Kaelyn (01:56):
Rekka is officially immuno-compromised. at this point. Um, so for those of you who, you know, follow Rekka on Twitter or maybe even follow her on Facebook if you're involved in her writing groups, um, Rekka has been posting us some information with some health updates, but I'm not, not too much.
New Speaker (02:14):
I haven't give the whole story in public yet.
Kaelyn (02:16):
Exactly. So, um,
Hi everyone, and thank you for tuning in to another episode of the We Make Books Podcast - A podcast about writing, publishing, and everything in between!
This week’s episode is little bit different. Apart from the state of the world, Rekka has some personal news that she’d like to update everyone on. This, of course, leads to our topic for the week which is personal setbacks. When there is major event or change in your life, how do you cop and how do you keep writing? When is it time to take a step back and consider stopping? No one can answer those questions for you, but on this episode we talk about our own personal experience and offer some advice. We are all living in uncertain and while it is often frightening and overwhelming, we can all be there for each other with help and support as we adjust to our new normals.
We Make Books is hosted by Rekka Jay and Kaelyn Considine; Rekka is a published author and Kaelyn is an editor and together they are going to take you through what goes into getting a book out of your head, on to paper, in to the hands of a publisher, and finally on to book store shelves.
We Make Books is a podcast for writer and publishers, by writers and publishers and we want to hear from our listeners! Hit us up on our social media, linked below, and send us your questions, comments, concerns, and your favorite way you are passing the time while social distancing and sheltering in place – stay safe everyone!
We hope you enjoy We Make Books!
Twitter: @WMBCast | @KindofKaelyn | @BittyBittyZap
Instagram: @WMBCast
Patreon.com/WMBCast
Kaelyn (00:00):
Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of we make books a show about writing, publishing and everything in between. I'm Kaelyn Considine, I'm the acquisitions editor for Parvus Press.
New Speaker (00:08):
And I'm Rekka, I write science fiction and fantasy as RJ Theodore.
Kaelyn (00:12):
And uh, this is going to be a very short intro because of the beginning of the show is kind of the intro. Um, the theme for today is, I'm sure you can tell from the title of the episode is we're talking about personal setbacks and um, Rekka has been experiencing some of those. So rather than spend a lot of time talking about the episode right now, we're just going to jump right into it and uh, give Rekka a chance to kind of give everyone an update on some things that have been going on in her life.
New Speaker (00:37):
So slight pause for music.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
[inaudible]
Kaelyn (00:52):
Okay. And we're back. Not that we ever went too far to begin with -
New Speaker (00:58):
Except this time you didn't even bother coming over to my house to record.
Kaelyn (01:02):
It's true. You may notice that, uh, this episode sounds a little different in two ways. One is that we are recording over the interwebs.
New Speaker (01:11):
Due to an overabundance of caution.
Kaelyn (01:14):
An over abundance of caution. There's two reasons for this. One obviously is coronavirus Hey, yeah, everyone is self isolating. Um, I as I'm sure those who have listened before know I live in New York city. Um, things here are mostly fine, however they are kind of recommending that we all may have been exposed and not be aware of it. So to kind of keep your interaction with other people to a minimum.
New Speaker (01:41):
Yeah. Plus trains are kind of filthy to begin with and Kaelyn getting on a train concerned me for Kaelyn's sake, but also what might come along with her.
Kaelyn (01:50):
And that was a particular concern for Rekka.
Rekka (01:54):
I am now immuno-compromised.
Kaelyn (01:56):
Rekka is officially immuno-compromised. at this point. Um, so for those of you who, you know, follow Rekka on Twitter or maybe even follow her on Facebook if you're involved in her writing groups, um, Rekka has been posting us some information with some health updates, but I'm not, not too much.
New Speaker (02:14):
I haven't give the whole story in public yet.
Kaelyn (02:16):
Exactly. So, um,
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