The Media Interview

Author Carl Weisman blogs about his experiences as a published writer, including doing media interviews:

Wow! That was intense. Imagine doing twelve interviews in one morning, including four 10 minute interviews back to back without a break. If you ever find yourself doing radio publicity for one of your books you just may have to do it too. It’s exhilarating and nerve racking at the same time. I wouldn’t have missed that experience for anything.

He learns some valuable lessons, including mentioning his website more and doing more to sell books, such as not saying too much:

You have to train yourself to give partial answers to the interviewer’s questions. When you’re done, the audience should be dying to know how the story ends. When an interviewer asks me a question about my book, I get so excited I want to tell all, but that doesn’t benefit book sales.