The Media Interview

Author Carl Weisman blogs about his experiences as a published writer, including doing media interviews: Wow! That was intense. Imagine doing twelve interviews in one morning, including four 10 minute interviews back to back without a break. If you ever find yourself doing radio publicity for one of your books you just may have to [...]

Karrine Steffans achieved notoriety with her 2005 book, Confessions of a Video Vixen, a tell-all about her sexual encounters with the rich and famous. One of her lovers had a pet name for her – superhead – and the name stuck. Now she’s out peddling her new book, another tell-all called The Vixen Diaries. What’s [...]

I was reading Where Do You Stand’s piece on Dick Cheney’s wife promoting her new book on The Daily Show. Justin calls Lynne Cheney’s chat with Jon Stewart “one of the most awkward interviews I’ve ever witnessed”. Even Comedy Central promotes the clip as “an extremely uncomfortable interview.” Now it’s Daily Show guests who often [...]

Author Will Weaver on being prepared for unprepared interviewers: My 2 1/2 minute TV interview was with a woman anchor with big hair and pancake make-up, who scanned my novel’s inside cover during a cut-away to a commercial, then returned, on-air, to brightly to ask me questions about the novel –but I know the game, [...]

Barnes and Noble’s revamped website includes an area called Barnes and Noble Media and it’s a treasure-trove of author interviews as well as interviews with musicians and filmakers. Thanks to Social Media Optimization for alerting me to this. Here are the relevant sections from the B&N press release: The new site features “One on One” [...]

Self-published parenting author Brenda Nixon was interviewed on the CAN Marketing Blog about her experiences with getting and doing radio interviews. Here are a couple of excerpts: Interviewer: What are a few problems you’ve encountered on radio and how did you overcome them? Brenda: Only a couple times have I had a host who wasn’t [...]

Reading through a post by author Tricia Goyer entitled You Never Know… I was reminded that doing your very best in every media interview is important because you don’t know what might come of it. So often we get focussed on selling a book, promoting a product, convincing the audience, that we forget about other [...]

Author Carolyn Hughley is doing her first TV interview in the morning and she’s having a bit of trouble sleeping… I crawled back out of bed and headed to the bathroom to take two sleep aids, thinking they might help. I no sooner swallowed that last pill when I suddenly began worrying that I’d sleep [...]

I love what Lorri Allen is doing over at her Soundbites blog. She’s got an interview with author Mellanie True Hills (A Woman’s Guide to Saving Her Own Life) about what it’s like to be interviewed and what Mellanie’s best advice would be for any interviewee, not just authors.

In her blog posting, The High Cost of a Six-Figure Book Advance, Sallie Goetsch makes the following points, which apply to anyone trying to get the word out about their product, not just authors: Getting into the public eye To get visible enough fast enough, you probably need a publicist, which means shelling out several [...]