{"id":4148,"date":"2022-11-17T14:55:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T14:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/?p=4148"},"modified":"2022-11-17T14:55:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T14:55:46","slug":"born-to-be-weird-an-interview-with-set-sytes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/born-to-be-weird-an-interview-with-set-sytes\/","title":{"rendered":"Born to Be Weird: An interview with Set Sytes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On this week&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/microcosm.pub\/podcast\">People&#8217;s Guide to Publishing podcast<\/a>, we&#8217;re joined by author Set Sytes, whose collection of wry horror short stories <em><a href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/books\/9055\">Born to Be Weird<\/a><\/em> is out now, joining his underground hit <em><a href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/books\/7099\">How Not to Kill Yourself<\/a><\/em> and a host of <a href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/artist\/set-sytes\">other books<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Set joined us from his home in York, England to talk about creativity, depression, the differences between self-publishing and traditional publishing, the editorial process, and the life saving power of imagination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"An interview with Set Sytes (Born to be Weird) (A People&#039;s Guide to Publishing)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Iu9EKlYAggo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this week&#8217;s People&#8217;s Guide to Publishing podcast, we&#8217;re joined by author Set Sytes, whose collection of wry horror short stories Born to Be Weird is out now, joining his underground hit How Not to Kill Yourself and a host of other books. 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