Brennaman Publishing

https://www.brennamanpublishing.com

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:02

Go back in. I just hit pause. Um, I did a podcast where I was walking the dog around and I guess it was windier than I realized that day because it was completely unusable. I well, not completely. Ironically, I'm well that's not really irony. I'm in the backyard currently, which was the only part of the old podcast that used usable. The actual walking around part was pretty much worthless because it sounded just like with a little bit of meat talking underneath it. You know what wind sounds like, you probably didn't need the microphone thing. Um so just another piece of loth media drink break. Can I lower the sensitivity? I'm gonna lower the input level, see what the hell that does. Um what am I gonna do? I'm like, you know? I'm not doing I got plenty of time to talk. I do think I'm going to move to the hammock. Because my doggy child is currently being babysat by her papa. While I am watching the other dogs that don't need constant attention because they're athletes. I've got two that are probably going to wrestle at some point. Who you will hear me threaten. I may have mentioned this on the podcast before. It may have been on the one that I can't use, but I talked about the fact that I you, you know, you might hear me threaten the dogs. Never once hurt them in any way, shape, or form. Um, but for some reason, particularly the Great Danes, these perverts only respond to threats. Ordinarily they're good. Like if I say, Come here, oh, they'll come though, they usually come right there. But like when they're wrestling and stuff, or if they won't go out the door or something, and I and I threaten to like I was like, I'm gonna beat you with a covenant. They'll be like, Oh shit, I didn't know that. I've never even threatened them with a shovel. I've never even picked up a shovel and like shook it at them. Yeah, no, I've never done that. I had to think for a second. I've never kicked them, never s you know, hauled off and punched them, but that works. It's just like Emma. Who um I know I told the story the other day, but she um she would only respond to being cussed at. It's not gonna take long for me to get hot in this hammock. Only respond to getting cussed at. And everybody thought, because I'm a junior, generally speaking, kind of foul-mouthed, do not do not try to climb in this hammock with me, you son of a bitch.

SPEAKER_01 3:14

Just love me from Oh my god, he's climbing in the hammock. Fuck. Fuck. Get off of me. Okay. Jesus Barnes. You're just gonna you're just gonna stay there on my plane. Oh fuck. No, that's fine. That's there.

SPEAKER_00 3:38

Oh, I'm so nervous right now.

SPEAKER_01 3:40

Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. Motherfucker.

unknown 3:48

Uh nope, nope, okay, okay. I hate when he does that.

SPEAKER_00 3:55

Umbody thought I was serious because I tend to I tend when I'm not at work or in a professional setting, I tend to curse a lot. You know this, if you've listened to more than the last four minutes of this show. Um but nobody so nobody thought that it was true that Emma responded better, like, to cursing more than niceness. Until I cannot remember, I think it was trying to get her to come downstairs. Might have been up, but I think it was come downstairs. And I was like, Emma, come here, baby. Come here, baby, come here, Emma. I love you, come here, come here, come here, come here, come here, come here. Nothing.

SPEAKER_01 4:33

No, no, stop trying to climb in the fucking hammock, dick. Oh fuck.

SPEAKER_00 4:39

Why do you it never works out and you just love to hurt me, is what I'm getting from the I'm gonna go back to the to the chair. Jesus. Wait, wait, nope, I'm going back to the chair. Fuck you. Um We have got a I just recently got damaged. So now it all kind of leans to one side. Um, be nice to your brother. Why does that mean stop wrestling? It just means don't bite him in the neck. But this metal chair that is still not technically dead, but only just recently got damaged, actually belonged to my great-grandmother. Um, metal yard furniture. That's where it's at. And then we have this really nice wood yard furniture that we just bought, like patio furniture. Anyway. I'm trying to get her to come downstairs. I don't love you. Come here, come here, come here to a baby. Nothing. Emma, come down the motherfucking steps right fucking now, I swear to god! Just tail wagon, smile on her face, just chip chip, chip, chip, chip. Even my dad, who despite cussing a lot, didn't at the time didn't like me cussing, probably still doesn't. Even he was like, Holy shit, you were right. Um So you might hear me, you know, threaten one of them. I I've never heard them. You might also hear them sound like it's a dog fight. They're just two of the loudest Great Danes ever. I mean, I can only imagine how bad my neighbors think we treat them. My neighbors have to be, you know. Adjust this sunshade. My neighbors have to think that, you know, I'm running a dog fighting ring or make them like Pokemon style fight. It's just that the natural way that these idiots do things is to scream and throw themselves against each other until eventually somebody gets actually angry and then they growl and c and carry on, and then they're friends again. Um problem about this. That was weird. Um kind of forgot what I was talking about. Oh, we've got one of those sun shades up, but the only problem is since the sun oh the earth technically moves, but since the sun's position changes relative to me, uh d d depends on the time of day on whether or not you have any real shade. Like it's 2.11 right now, and the sun is at a weird angle, so it it looks like like only a quarter of the sun shade is actually shaded, like the the actual shade moved, and it's really weird. Um What the hell did I go on here talk about? Oh, books. Right. Um Brenaman Publishing dot com B-R E N N M A N publishing dot com. That is our is the publishing company website. Um and our mission, on top of hopefully generating sales of books, is to make books more affordable because I like I write books, um, I write under a pen name, but I write books and through a very odd set of personal circumstances, I decided to self-publish, and then I was like, I'm gonna go out ahead and start an actual publishing company, and we're gonna do some sh book fair, well, at least one book fair and then one I think it's technically a craft f the uh Omro, Wisconsin Thursday Market. I don't know what that qualifies as a craft fair or something, but the books will be for sale. And currently we have a paperback coffee table book that is it's called Stonehaven, and it is photographs from the town of Stonehaven, Scotland, along with quotes about the ocean and how it makes you feel and everything. Or how it makes my dad feel. I didn't pick the quotes he did. Um we have f two story collections and two novels. It is, you know, but it's a slow go thing because I, you know, now I'm paying for things. So there will be more in the future. I'm hoping to publish the third Freak House book at some point, either later this year or very early next year. Um we've got uh another unrelated to Freak House novel. It's a story that Joni is currently helping me with. She's doing reading the first draft. And I've got another book from another author. I don't know, are you technically the author of a memoir? Just I don't know. I think it might be an autobiography. I'm not 100% sure how to quantify or or how to. I'm not really sure how to label that particular book that is being worked on. But I'm deciding on prices and things and everything. If you see our books in store in like a bookstore or something, because we've got them into one or two, they will be more expensive because the bookstore needs a cut. But uh selling them on the website and at uh events and things, I can make them cheaper because I am the only one doing all the work. And well, Joni might be there on some of them hauling books for me. And so deciding what to price them at to make them affordable activated my autism button. So I don't know who knows this, but autistic people tend to have a number, you know, when they do repetitive things, they do it in a specific number. Minor is four. So there will be eventually on the website, we will have books or stories that cost four, eight, and sixteen dollars. Currently, the paperback books that are two novels and two collections, they are eight dollars. When I am able, we're going to start publishing, because I think it's four novellas or novelettes, depending on the specific story, are in Thought Bubble Volume 1. And then I think there are three more in volume two. Don't hold me to that. Um I write things down so that they don't have to stay in my brain. So what would do is some of them will be published as short individual things you can buy for four bucks. Plus shipping, which it I'm aware I'm also working on, you know, it being as cheap as possible. Um excuse me. Alright, buddy. You cannot climb in this chair with me. So it will be like short shorter novelettes, novelettes and novellas will be four bucks, paperbacks will be eight bucks, and then eventually we will have hardbacks that are sixteen. There are two reasons um for them being sixteen dollars. One, autism, and two, that actually it might just really be the one, because we make profit at sixteen. Um like I guess technically I could make them like thirty-five dollars if I wanted, but I don't. Um, so hardback books will be sixteen. Going forward, I haven't decided if we'll do hardpack first and then a paperback, or if I have the money at the time, probably both. But that way, you know, if you check out the website, or you're at at a book fair and you see us and you're like, uh, not real sure if I want to go full novel or and I, you know, don't know how hard there'll be a little rack and it'll be like four bucks. I'll give you a shot. Four bucks. Um yes, I know what you're thinking. There is another little like jump there. In my head, there is one book that the the coffee table book will remain five dollars because eight seemed like too much, and I and I can't afford to make it four, but five, you know, at five, it makes not not much money, but it makes money so that we can keep printing them. And then so yeah, there will be one thing that's five dollars. Um, and and yes, in case that's what you were picking up on, my brain really wants to make something cost twelve dollars. I don't know what that will be, or if I will have something that is twelve dollars, but my brain says make something, anything, cost twelve dollars. Even if it's a d like a discount code or something, like you know, free shipping on orders over twelve dollars, because then my brain will be satisfied that something in on the website costs four, eight, twelve, and sixteen. And then I guess I don't know, if I ever write like a Brandon Sanderson type book and you know it costs, you know, eighteen dollars to print or whatever, then I'll probably have something that costs twenty. But for the foreseeable future, um, it'll probably be slow going since I'm you know poor. But the more people who order books, the faster new books will new new things will come out. But ideally, eventually the store will have tiers of four, eight, and sixteen dollars. And then there might be something that costs twelve just because of autism. Couldn't that be funny? Like you go on the lawn line, you see the store and it goes $12 items, and then it's just a page that says, I'm autistic. But it's just it scratches an itch in my brain. Everything going in force. Probably I I couldn't I don't see me ever publishing something something that costs more than thirty-two. And I honestly don't know if I will ever get that high, but twenty-four, twenty-eight, thirty-two, yeah. Um, at thirty-two, we're talking about like a fucking leather bound book or some shit like that. Uh like really nice. Because the idea of the whole company is make nice books that are um affordable because God freaking knows something these days should be affordable. Anything at this point, man. Like, I I got gas the other day and my soul died a little. No joke, it wasn't this past week, I think it was the week before that. I got gas on Saturday coming home from work. By by Sunday afternoon on my way home, I needed gas again. Um sad. Um I mean, like I uh see, what am I doing? Pro Trip, Liz Blaney, Bandmates, superheroes. I think I have four right now that all I that I only need cover art for. So four up um four short ones up, and if people like 'em and you know, and they but you you guys, if people buy them and are like, cool, four bucks for a book, woo! Then we'll make more. Um if they don't sell, I honestly I'll still write them, but they'll probably just go in future editions of Thought Bubble. Because I like the Thought Bubble things, because they originally started as I had all these short stories, and I couldn't at the time, I was like, I don't, it doesn't make a lot of sense because I wasn't doing as much actual work to publish. I was mostly just making books, putting them online, and saying, fuck it, moving on. Um I wasn't putting any real work, so it didn't make sense to publish shorter things like cost-wise. But now that I'm actually putting effort into showing them, it might. So that's what Thought Bubble started out as. And then now it's Okay. I have ideas for cover art for five of them. So that's kind of why I want to make five of them. Plus, I it's good for my brain to write shorter things from now on in you know, from time to time, other than novels, and although it that's also good to force myself to work back into a novel because other times I sometimes I leave out things that don't need left out. You know what? I don't know that this podcast is really helpful to people, the fact that I am a uh tend to be an underwriter. Uh well, I d I it's not a self-help podcast. I don't sh it doesn't have to be helpful to people, but I doubt it's very interesting. I'm just not one of those people like I don't mind reading it from time to time, but I'm not one of those writers that feels the need to tell you what the texture of every item in the room seemed and felt like and fucking tasted and she was wearing a blue dress. But it wasn't a royal blue or a sky blue, it was more like a paisley blue, and and I just don't fuck off, I don't care. She was wearing a blue dress. That's enough for me as a reader. Um, I also think it would be really cool to publish public domain books at some point, but I'd have to actually actively be making butt money in order to do that. Um it would bring me no shortage of happiness um to to be able to publish like proper like that is something that my that if I was gonna do it would cost it cost like thirty dollars thirty-two dollars. That would be like old school binding with the like the ridges and the like what are they called? Art not art, like marbled covers, like if you ever see uh uh Jane Austen's like the first editions, that is is if I ever if there was ever a demand for that, or if I just had money and was like, I want that, so I'm gonna make that. Um but I d now listen, I doubt this happens because I'm pretty sure nobody but me would ever be interested in this. But how cool would it be if plain ass covers like okay, take a book that is public domain that like anybody's allowed to publish, right? Like Pride and Prejudice. Make it super cheap, published in th like, hold on, hold on. I have my phone. If I can get internet in the backyard. Let mother let her hold on, I'll put this down. Nope. Damn my fat fingers.

SPEAKER_01 22:06

Paperback.

SPEAKER_00 22:12

Okay, Walmart. Pride and Prejudice paperback is six bucks. Pride and Prejudice Book. Okay, so Pride and Prejudice was a horrible example from my really dumb idea. My really dumb idea was to like make them super affordable, but also publish them in three parts, you know, as like a throwback to history. But it's actually surprisingly affordable. Um but either way, publish them mass market style, you know, like mass market paperback style, because I know that they're dying because people went to ebooks and everything, and also just people don't read as much anymore. But I want books to be affordable, okay? I it's not like I expect this company to ever pay my bills. It's like I I would be like over the freaking moon. Well, Pride and Princess is just really inexpensive. Um, I would be over the mother frickin' moon with my publishing company if it just paid for itself. Like if I sold enough books to continue publishing books. And ideally it don't pay taxes. I had to register uh as an employer. I will probably never have enough money or the need to pay someone, but I I had to register like for tax purposes and everything and be like, hey, asshole, uh the government needs your money. And I said, Okay, here is my informazione there you'll go. I think that's gonna be about it for me today. I really gotta find some normal headphones. I haven't had normal headphones. I have a a thing for my Bluetooth headphones. I have a cord, but I don't remember, so that way next time I can listen to the podcast and find out while I'm walking and find out if it sounds all shitty. Took both Great Danes for walks individually today. One, because they'd be much too hard to deal with together. And two, because I just they are over two years, almost two and a half, and just now found a harness big enough to fit them. It cost almost $65. That hurt, but it's worth it if it makes them chill the fuck out a little bit. Alright, well, feel free to let us let me know your thoughts on books and publishing, and uh hell uh feel free to, you know, send us a text and be like, this publishing company is dumb, no one wants to buy shitty books, fuck you, kill yourself. I might spend too much time on the internet. That's actually something else I'm gonna talk about on a future podcast episode, but I've been out here almost a half hour, and I have do I have other shit to do today? It's not. I can't uh I got YouTube. I move I removed YouTube and Facebook and I think all social media from my phone. It's not that I don't use YouTube, I just I needed it off my damn phone and just you know, my phone is oh well, I technically have TikTok. Um I use it. I have only ever really used it to follow semi stupid because it dude's fucking hilarious. Um, sorry, got distracted. Um so eventually the publishing company will probably be on social media, but that will social media will be entirely ran through my laptop, which I am not on all the time. I do need to do some actual writing today. Um But it's gonna be like a I've thought about doing a podcast challenge where I like, you know, when I get home from work f for this the for the uh the week or the weekend. I most I really just work the weekends. I work open to close on the weekends. And um like putting the phone in the glove compartment and turned off in the car and only having the house phone. It really wouldn't be all that required though, because my house phone or my cell phone doesn't really work in my house anymore. I don't know if it's the 5G fiber optic cables fucking with cell towers or what the hell happened. But cell reception sucks. Everywhere but in like Oshkosh in town and shit. Uh yeah, so yeah, the the so yeah, feel free to call the there's a and I've said this before, there's a little thing at the bottom of uh in like the episode notes, and it says send us a text. And then there's on the podcast host, there's a little thing that says fan mail, where you know you can get comments from listeners and stuff. I'd love one. Um I if you want, I will read it on air, even if you tell me to go fuck myself. I will read it on the podcast, because I will have the little recorder and I will have my phone and I will go, oh, this person generated from Ohio says it doesn't actually give me your name. Um it do you know what it doesn't actually give me oh Ohio? It uh wherever your cell phone number is from, or the closest large place, because like I tested it, right? My cell phone and my number is from West Virginia, right? I didn't live in Summersville, but I guess that's where the US cellular store was or something. So it says it goes Summersville, West Virginia. I haven't been there in ages. I haven't been there in Since 2018. So what's that? Seven, eight years. Almost eight years. Um yeah, so like if you're worried about me having your information or your data, the only information I would get is so whatnot you include it in the message. Cause somebody sold my damn phone number more than once, but somebody sold my damn phone number, so that now I get calls that are like, hey, uh, I got a call one time, this was a few years back, where somebody was like, uh, hey, I'm I'm from VA mortgages and we're talking about refinancing your home. Like, I don't own a home. But why are you on the phone? I'm standing there in a fucking harbor freight looking at my phone after the guy hung up on me and went, Motherfucker, you called me. You called me, and then bitch, that I'm on the phone. Go to hell. But I don't have your phone. Unless you put in the in the thing and gave me your phone number, I wouldn't have your phone number. Um And even if you do give me your number, I'm gonna immediately delete it because I don't want to talk to anyone. Uh well, I mean, I'm on a podcast and actually I want to talk to someone, but I don't want it to be a conversation. That came out wrong. Um I'm not gonna edit it though. Like I would love to hear, oh, I love the idea for your company, or oh, fuck you, you suck. But I don't I don't want to know your number. I don't want to know where you live. That's okay. That's okay. So I'm I have rambled on for five entire minutes because my god, it's like verbal diarrhea. Bye, I guess. Um if if you could parse out anything from that last little fucking monologue that I did. Good for you. Because I don't even know what I just said. Goodbye.