On the Radio

Yesterday, Kelly and I had our first author appearance together on the local radio channel. Neither one of us is very vocal in person, so we were nervous about how this was going to go. Author Melissa Volker, a friend of ours for over a year now, and a fellow WhipCity Wordsmith, joined us via phone for the hour.

The program is early morning, so we had to be at the university where it is broadcast from a small studio there between 6:30Am and 7AM. Our host greeted us warmly and made us welcome, then quickly explained about the microphone and the headset, and pointed out where the camera was located across the studio. We hardly had any time to be nervous as the program began at 7 sharp.

I've known the host for over ten years, though not well. We're acquaintances. But he's easy to talk to and has been in radio for years so he was prepared with an agenda. Melissa was sick as a dog with an upper respiratory virus but phoned in and participated-and she was awesome.

The hour literally flew by. There was so much more ground to cover, but I got some info on the new vampire novel, Out, out there to the public. The official launch was this past Saturday.

We were finished at 8AM and headed home in windy wet weather.

There is a video of our appearance about an hour into the entire show. You can watch and listen at vimeo.com/channels/wskb if interested.