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 Hosted by Jonathan Moeller (author of the FROSTBORN and SEVENFOLD SWORD fantasy series and the SILENT ORDER scifi series), the Pulp Writer Show discusses how to write, format, publish, and sell your novel. Sometimes there are jokes.Copyright Jonathan Moeller Art Gestion et leadership Économie
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  • Episode 283: Audiobook Sampler Platter For 2026!

    Episode 283: Audiobook Sampler Platter For 2026!
    Dec 29 2025

    In this week's episode, I provide an update on my writing projects, and then share samples from four of my audiobooks to start 2026!

    This coupon code will get you 50% off the audiobook of Shield of Power, Book #6 in the Shield War series, (as excellently narrated by Brad Wills) at my Payhip store:

    POWER2025

    The coupon code is valid through January 5, 2026. So if you need a new audiobook this winter, we've got you covered!
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    19 min
  • Episode 282: Did I Meet My Writing Goals For 2025?

    Episode 282: Did I Meet My Writing Goals For 2025?
    Dec 22 2025
    In this week's episode, I take a look back at my writing goals for 2025, and see how many of them I met. I also take a loog ahead at my writing goals for 2026. This coupon code will get you 25% off the ebooks in my Anthologies series at my Payhip store: STORIES2025 The coupon code is valid through December 29, 2025. So if you need a new ebook this winter, we've got you covered! 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 282 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is December 19th, 2025 and today I'm taking a look back at my writing goals from the start of 2025 and seeing how many of them I reached. We'll also take a look ahead at my writing goals for 2026. Before we get to that, we will have Coupon of the Week and a progress update on my current writing projects. This week's coupon code will get you 25% off the ebooks in my anthology series at my Payhip store. And that is STORIES2025. And as always, I will put the coupon code and a link to the store in the show notes. This coupon code is valid through December 29th, 2025, so if you need new ebook to read as you travel for this upcoming Christmas week, we have got you covered. A reminder that the anthology series is collections of my short stories, which I tend to release every year. And in fact, next month, if all goes well, we'll have 2025: The Complete Short Stories. Now for an update on my current writing projects. Wizard-Assassin, the fifth book in the Rivah Half-Elven series is now done. By the time this episode goes live, you should be able to get it off Amazon and Kindle Unlimited since it is my series that is in Kindle Unlimited. So I hope if you are looking for something to read, you will give that a shot. Now that Wizard-Assassin is done, my main project is going to be Blade of Storms, which will be the third book in my Blades of Ruin epic fantasy series. And I believe I'm 12,000 words into that. I'm hoping to have that out in January, but depending on how January goes, it might slip to February, but January would be ideal. And after that, my next main project will be Cloak of Summoning, the 14th book in the Cloak Mage series. And I literally just started it this morning before I went to the gym, which puts me at 250 words into it, so there's definitely a ways to go in that. In audiobook news, we are still waiting on Cloak of Embers (as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy) to get through processing at the various platforms, which always, as you imagine, tend to slow down this time of year. And Brad Wills has just started working on recording for Blade of Shadows. So hopefully we should have Cloak of Embers available for you at all platforms before too much longer. And Blade of Shadows will probably be our first audiobook for 2026. So that is where I'm at with my current writing, publishing, and audiobook projects. 00:02:28 Main Topic: 2025's Writing Goals and My Writing Goals for 2026 And speaking of 2026, in this week's episode, we're going to take a look back at my writing goals for 2025, see how many of them I met, and then look ahead for my writing goals to 2026, which is in fact just around the corner. So first off, a big thank you to everyone who read one of my books over the year of 2025. 2025 for me was an interesting year, both in a personal and a professional way, and sometimes in both the good and bad senses of the word interesting. Sales were down from 2024, but given all the economic turbulence of the year, I am grateful they were only down a relatively small amount compared to 2024. Facebook ads went from my main advertising platform at the start of 2025 to near uselessness by the end of the year due to all the AI nonsense Meta has injected into them. Spotify converted Findaway Voices to Inaudio and made a total mess of it this summer, which after that got settled is why I now upload my audiobooks directly to Google Play and Kobo rather than through Findaway Voices. It seems like a lot of companies are pursuing AI in the desperate hope that it will somehow magically become profitable even as the expense of running AI services devours them from the inside out and renders them incompetent at their primary missions. I was so annoyed at all the half-baked AI stuff Microsoft shoved into Windows 11, I did all my writing on a Mac Mini this year and have been pretty happy with it as a writing platform. Apple, of course, has AI stuff as well, but what Apple has that Microsoft doesn't is a switch that flips it all off at the system level and doesn't do any "install later" passive aggressive crap that Microsoft does. On the plus side, my Super Summer Of Finishing Things let me finish The Shield War, Stealth & Spells Online, and Ghost Armor one after another. Five unfinished series at once was too many. Three has been more manageable. And after five years, I finally got my weight down to what it was before COVID in 2025. Watching some relatives go on Ozempic and the side effects ...
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    11 min
  • Episode 281: So The Pope Is Mad At You – A Practical Guide For Secular Lords

    Episode 281: So The Pope Is Mad At You – A Practical Guide For Secular Lords
    Dec 15 2025
    In this week's episode, I indulge my hobby of medieval history, and take a look at six times Catholic monarchs came in conflict with the pope during the medieval peroid. This week's coupon code will get you 25% off the ebooks in the Ghost Night series at my Payhip store: NIGHT2025 The coupon code is valid through December 22, 2025. So if you need a new ebook this winter, we've got you covered! TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 281 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is December 12th, 2025 and today, even though this is a podcast about indie writing and publishing, I'm going to indulge one of my hobbies and talk about Medieval history, specifically six specific instances of conflicts between Popes and Catholic Monarchs during the Middle Ages. We'll also have Coupon of the Week and an update on my current writing and publishing projects. So let's start off with Coupon of the Week. This week's coupon code will get you 25% off all the ebooks in the Ghost Night series at my Payhip store, and that code is NIGHT2025. And as always, the coupon code and the links to my Payhip store will be available in the show notes for this episode, and this coupon code will be valid through December the 22nd, 2025. So if you need a new ebook this winter or something to read as you do Christmas holiday travels, we have got you covered. Now for an update on my current writing and publishing projects. I am pleased to report the rough draft of Wizard-Assassin is done at exactly 70,000 words. I have also written a tie in short story called Dwarven Treasure that newsletter subscribers will get for free in ebook format when Wizard-Assassin comes out. So this is an excellent time to subscribe to my new release newsletter, in my opinion. If all goes well, I am hoping to have that book out very shortly before Christmas, like maybe the Monday or Tuesday before Christmas because that way if I do, I can reward myself by taking off the entire week between Christmas and New Year's, which is what I really want to do. So I am going to definitely hustle and try to get Wizard-Assassin out before Christmas. I'm also 9,000 words into Blade of Storms, which will be the third book in my Blades of Ruin epic fantasy series, and that will come out in January or February, depending on how things go, hopefully January, maybe February, we will see how things go. After Wizard-Assassin is published, Blade of Storms will be my main project and my secondary project will be Cloak of Summoning, the 14th book in my Cloak Mage series. Cloak of Worlds, the last book in the series, just came out in October, so considering the year gap between the last two books, that is quite a bit shorter, but as I mentioned before, the summer of 2025 was my Summer of Finishing Things. I am now down to just three active series, which means thankfully there is less of a wait between books in the series. There is a year gap between the last book in the Half-Elven Thief series and a year gap between the last book in the Cloak Mage series. Hopefully we will avoid those kind of big gaps moving forward. In audiobook news, Cloak of Embers is done (as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy) and is gradually filtering out to the retailers. I believe as of this recording, you can get it at Payhip, Google Play, and Kobo. The other retailers, including Audible, should be showing up before too much longer. So that is where I'm at with my current writing and publishing projects. 00:03:11 Main Topic: So The Pope is Mad at You: A Practical Guide for Secular Lords And with that, let us move on to our main topic this week and our main topic is So The Pope is Mad at You: A Practical Guide for Secular Lords. This episode was inspired by news reports, which we'll get to in a little bit. John F. Kennedy was elected the first Catholic President of the United States in 1960. Before that, there is a widespread suspicion against having a Catholic president in the US, partly because the origin of the United States was heavily Protestant and partly for fear that a Catholic president would take his orders from the Pope in Rome. However, practical experience has proven robustly otherwise. In the past 20 years of United States history, there has been one officially Catholic president and two Catholic vice presidents and their disagreements with the various popes have made frequent news articles. For that matter, American Catholic officials of lesser authority such as Speaker of the House, mayors, governors, and senators have also found themselves frequently in disagreement with the Pope. Whenever a US Catholic political official or office holder disagrees with the Pope about something, the news media always seems to react in baffled astonishment, but Catholic political leaders disagreeing with the Pope is not shocking. It is in fact a tradition going back centuries if not millennia. Compared to the way the things used to be, the ...
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    31 min
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