The Write Focus: 6:03 / John Connor on Writing & Publishing

Writing and Publishing

Two fountain pens and specific paper to encourage creativity. Computer systems like Linux as best tools. In a wide-ranging interview with everything from fonts to covers, John Connor with the UK press Murderous Ink shares it all.

A connectivity glitch smack in the middle of the interview didn’t derail Connor. We continued on, with manuscript format and the concerns of publishers about document file types. The interview could easily have lasted all afternoon, but alas, Zoom called for an end.

John ‘Jay’ Andrew Connor has been writing and publishing under a menagerie of names and genres since the late 1970s—sometimes even professionally. He’s worked at a variety of jobs, in various locations, and has also published small press, and semi-pro magazines in the past. Sadly, even though he is now on full time medication, he’s at it again.

Memindip and the Persian Poet is the second in the Memindip Quartet—The Death and Life of an Unwilling Investigator series, set in an ‘alternative’ North African city, in 1969. The first of the four, Memindip Solves a Problem, appears in Crimeucopia — We’ll Be Right Back — After This!

www.murderousinkpress.co.uk

TIMINGS

00:00 Welcome and Introduction

5:40 “Write what you want to write.”

11:50 Tech and Critical Failures

15:30 Word Processing / MS Format & into Fonts

25:00 International Connection Glitching !*#@(%&)

27:00 Finding Software that Works

36:00 Print “Reads” Differently in Audio Form

39:00 Closing

Total Run Time = 39:30

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