My First Author Interview! Thoughts on blog interviews
http://4horsemenseriesbr.blogspot.com/2012/11/introducing-nancy-laronda-johnson.html
According to Julie Luek of the blog A Thought Grows, you should "let your light shine" by acknowledging and spreading the news of even small accomplishes. Author interviews, even on new blogs, are a good way to get your name, book and voice out there, and voicing those accomplishments is a way of celebrating them.
The above link takes you to my first published author interview from someone I met on Authonomy.com. I'm so thankful that Pam Funke of The Four Horseman Series Book blog is among the new breed out there trying to expand not only her own books but the works of other Indie writers.
Yes "Indie" is a term that comes up a lot. Indie has such a diverse meaning, and is now used to describe the growing population of self-published authors who are working exceedingly hard to promote their works, usually with the hope of reaching that dream of becoming a full-time writer.
Don't be discouraged if an interview never gets released. This past summer, I conducted an interview with a local valley radio station and was told it would be aired, placed on her website, Facebooked and Tweeted, and I told almost everyone I knew. The phone interview I thought was very good, but it never went out. Emails to the interviewer were never answered. It left me thinking maybe she didn't want to promote a Christian book, even a speculative one like mine.
That sputtered out interview, nonetheless, was a good starting point for me and I'm now happy to have my first real interview flowing through the web. I'm scheduled to conduct a podcast interview on December 7th, and I'm looking forward to that.
Let's get all of our lights shining in many magnificent ways!
According to Julie Luek of the blog A Thought Grows, you should "let your light shine" by acknowledging and spreading the news of even small accomplishes. Author interviews, even on new blogs, are a good way to get your name, book and voice out there, and voicing those accomplishments is a way of celebrating them.
The above link takes you to my first published author interview from someone I met on Authonomy.com. I'm so thankful that Pam Funke of The Four Horseman Series Book blog is among the new breed out there trying to expand not only her own books but the works of other Indie writers.
Yes "Indie" is a term that comes up a lot. Indie has such a diverse meaning, and is now used to describe the growing population of self-published authors who are working exceedingly hard to promote their works, usually with the hope of reaching that dream of becoming a full-time writer.
Don't be discouraged if an interview never gets released. This past summer, I conducted an interview with a local valley radio station and was told it would be aired, placed on her website, Facebooked and Tweeted, and I told almost everyone I knew. The phone interview I thought was very good, but it never went out. Emails to the interviewer were never answered. It left me thinking maybe she didn't want to promote a Christian book, even a speculative one like mine.
That sputtered out interview, nonetheless, was a good starting point for me and I'm now happy to have my first real interview flowing through the web. I'm scheduled to conduct a podcast interview on December 7th, and I'm looking forward to that.
Let's get all of our lights shining in many magnificent ways!
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