Disruptive Conversations

Listening to FIR #207 this morning, I was pleased to hear Terry Fallis on the show talking about his new novel, The Best Laid Plans, that he is releasing first as a series of podcasts. While Terry is best known within social media circles as one half of the Inside PR podcast and also as the president/co-founder of Thornley Fallis Communications in Toronto and Ottawa, when I met him out at the Podcast and Portable Media Expo in California last year he turned out to be a major politicial junkie.  Given that I, too, share that interest/passion (although obviously more with US politics), we clicked rather well and had some interesting conversations.  He mentioned he was working on a novel about Canadian politics and I'm delighted to see it come to light.

It's also an interesting approach.  Here he is putting out podcasts of the book chapters before it's in print.  In fact, one of the goals he mentioned on his FIR promo is to actually attract a suitable publisher!  Now, he's not the first author to do this... Scott Sigler has certainly garnered a good bit of fame (and, now, a publisher) with his sci-fi-focused books, but it's still very cool to see and I will be curious to watch how it works out for him.

And Terry, I did download your prologue and first chapter... I'm getting on a plane to Atlanta in a few hours so the timing was perfect.  :-)

P.S. Wonderful music you used in your FIR promo!