Look who’s coming to my blog!
So goodbye, New Zealand summer. Sigh. It’s been a golden one; a procession of hot and sunny days meaning that weekends should not be spent at the computer. This is my excuse for an unseemly gap between blog posts. You did notice, didn’t you?
You may also have spotted, if you follow my blog, that every now and again I try to give some of the New Zealand authors I work with a bit of a plug, especially those who are publicity shy. I’ve discovered that it’s no use telling authors they need to be tweeting and instagramming and pinteresting and nagging people to feature them on their blogs if they’d rather run naked through the local mall. To some, there is little difference. Many physically shudder when I mention Twitter. I can gently suggest they might actually enjoy this or that social media, and they just need to give it a try, but more often than not a hunted look will appear in their eyes and they’ll change the subject.
So I’m trying a different tactic – author interviews. Yes yes, I know it’s not exactly ground-breakingly original. The author blogosphere has lately become a never-ending circle of authors interviewing other authors. I suspect that only the authors’ mums may be reading half of them.
How can I make mine different? Well, I’ll be coming at the profiles from a “What would I as a reader, not a writer, want to know about this person?” angle. And trying to wheedle out some interesting stuff that you mightn’t discover simply by going to their author website.
I’ll be featuring a mix of established authors and new authors; mostly authors I’ve worked with, but some I haven’t. The criteria for selection is that the person must be interesting! Just look at this tasty line-up – my first five:
You may also have spotted, if you follow my blog, that every now and again I try to give some of the New Zealand authors I work with a bit of a plug, especially those who are publicity shy. I’ve discovered that it’s no use telling authors they need to be tweeting and instagramming and pinteresting and nagging people to feature them on their blogs if they’d rather run naked through the local mall. To some, there is little difference. Many physically shudder when I mention Twitter. I can gently suggest they might actually enjoy this or that social media, and they just need to give it a try, but more often than not a hunted look will appear in their eyes and they’ll change the subject.
So I’m trying a different tactic – author interviews. Yes yes, I know it’s not exactly ground-breakingly original. The author blogosphere has lately become a never-ending circle of authors interviewing other authors. I suspect that only the authors’ mums may be reading half of them.
How can I make mine different? Well, I’ll be coming at the profiles from a “What would I as a reader, not a writer, want to know about this person?” angle. And trying to wheedle out some interesting stuff that you mightn’t discover simply by going to their author website.
I’ll be featuring a mix of established authors and new authors; mostly authors I’ve worked with, but some I haven’t. The criteria for selection is that the person must be interesting! Just look at this tasty line-up – my first five:
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