In this episode your hosts were lucky enough to spend an enjoyable half an hour or so in the company of Australian born, Dunedin resident author Mark McCabe who talked about Kindle Direct Publishing, going wide, making sure you have the right cover, and creating fantasy maps.
If you want to do some further reading -
You can find Mark online here.
You find his artist Jeff Brown here.
Generate your own fantasy city maps here.
Other fantasy maps here.
As ever you can find your hosts online -
Nix Whittiker
Kura Carpenter
Mat Danaher
This episode was produced, edited, and mixed by the hopefully ever improving, Mat.
You can find SpecFicNZ here.
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