Indie author interviews are changing…Please read

Hi everyone

Right, I fear this might be an epic post due to the amount of stuff that I need to say, so I will try to keep it as rational as possible:

As you know I have been running the indie author interviews for some time now and whilst they are proving incredibly popular with authors I am not too sure how they are resonating with the wider audience (I seem to lose some followers after certain interviews go live)  I have also noticed that whilst some authors clearly put heart and soul into their submission some seem to rush it off – this is abundantly clear by the answers to some of the questions which I am asking, which if I am honest narks me just a little bit seeing as each interview takes me anywhere between 1.5 and 2 hours to complete.

My time is precious to me.  In addition to the FREE promotion that I am offering to indie authors I also have my own books to write, edit and market and due to my ever changing domestic situation I also need to be looking more and more at how I can generate regular income from my writing.  I also have a house, husband, kids and a seriously ill mother to look after and I am considering taking on a part time job.

I want to keep my blog fresh and innovative and I want the time that I spend on it to be happy and pleasurable.  I do not want to be muttering and cursing away to myself  (or worse still to my husband) about the amount of time that I am spending promoting people who haven’t put as much time and effort into the content that they have sent me as maybe I think they should.

So here is the deal:

I am booked out on interviews until Mid-October.  Over the next couple of weeks I am going to go through all of the interviews that I have pending from now until then and I am going to check them and make sure that the content is something that I want to publish.   If for whatever reason I have concerns I will email the authors concerned, the rest I will honor in full.

After that point I am going to switch to “character interviews” as I think this will serve several purposes:

1. It will filter out those authors who cannot be bothered to make an effort.

2. It will make for really interesting reading and it should hopefully generate more interest in your book and therefore more sales.

I will need to some preparation for this and I will shortly draft a new set of questions etc.  I will also run a description of the book with each interview and I will TRY but cannot guarantee to run a mini review alongside each one. Because of the new format I will only be running 1 interview per week so places will be limited, therefore if you are interested please email ingrid@grannyirene.com ASAP and I will put you on the shortlist.  You are welcome to contact me for a character interview even if you have already had an author interview.

Lenora, Amanda and I will continue as we are with our standard book reviews so please continue to submit your requests for them as normal.

Hope this all makes sense.

LOVE

INGRID xxx