I also love podcasts, and I found that
most of the author interview podcast catered more towards the marketing / business end of being an author.
Her site offers a wealth of resources on self - publishing and platform - building — from her articles and ebooks to her popular podcast
library of author interviews.
While the
incorporation of author interviews gives some hosts great fodder for a program spot, the benefits to the author are invaluable in terms of how much potential online exposure can result.
Interviews, interviews, As both a traditionally and self - published author, I have experienced a
range of author interviews throughout my hybrid writing career.
Her site has a wealth of resources on self - publishing and platform - building — from her articles and ebooks to her popular podcast
library of author interviews.
For this segment
of our Author Interview Series, we asked Diana what inspired her writing, how she found an agent, as well as a host of other questions.
Wired for Books provides a collection of audio recordings featuring authors reading their own works, videos of selected plays, and an archive
of author interviews from radio host Don Swaim that were recorded during the l970s and 1980s.
Publishers seem interested in bringing «enhancements» to fiction books, by adding
videos of author interviews, links to online content, photos, or other «bonus material.»
I am honestly quite
proud of the author interviews we've done on this site, because they're much more like conversations, the Q and the A are just formalities when things get really good.
However, that may not be enough for many for whom a professionally made video
comprising of the authors interview interspersed with visuals, images and a captivating music can do wonders.
Mark Coker, c.e.o. of Smashwords, said: «Authors simply answer a series of questions, or create their own questions, and then click publish... The idea for this feature came to me last year when we were running a series
of author interviews here on the Smashwords blog.
Sandra Beckwith explores what to do if you are uncomfortable with book promotion, Greer Macallister delves into the
art of the author interview, and Donna Galanti shares 4 ways to create your author persona.
It finds itself on a list of books for writers (rather than magazines for writers) because what I've actually been reading is
collections of their author interviews, available in four thumping tomes, going back to the 1950s.
In part two
of this author interview series, Deborah Fosbrook, co-author with Adrian C. Laing, of Contract and Copyright Drafting Skills, explains why commercial research is essential when setting out to draft a contract and offers a key piece of advice to any would - be drafter.
Matthias Matting, an author who has followed the European self - publishing market, shared that 60 %
of the authors he interviewed were interested in pursuing print.
Some of the authors I interviewed last year or the year before who had hot new break out books have fallen off the radar in the 12 - 24 months since.
If you've read
any of our author interviews, you know that here at Knockin» Books, we're a little obsessed with zombie apocalypse books, movies and shows.
We have been doing a series
of author interviews, giving you an introspective on their writing process and give their book away for free, for one week.
One of our favorite Kickstarter traditions is the «gamer profile tier,» in which one
of our authors interviews a Kickstarter backer.