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 [...]

One of the dangers of doing phone interviews (or IM interviews) is that you’re free to do all sorts of other things at the same time, as blogger Rene Gutteridge discovered:
…I realized not too long ago that I was getting to an almost frenzied state of multi-tasking. This occurred to me one day during [...]

What are people feeling and doing while being interviewed by phone? You can find postings like this one from director Arin Crumley that give you some perspective:
CFUN Radio Interview - Arin CrumleyUploaded by Arincrumley
Arin and co-director Susan Buice have a good little collection of videos of their phone interviews - it’s a great way [...]

Angela Tunner, one of my clients, is the author of Simply Summer, a cookbook that doesn’t require the oven to create easy gourmet dishes, and she’s on tour right now. On a radio talk show in the mid-west, during one commercial break, nothing could have prepared Angela for the ad that ran just before [...]

Media coach Roberta Gale reminds us all of an easily-forgotten point for phone interviews: turn off your call waiting!
Yeah, it’s a godsend when you’re talking to your mother and the network is trying to call to let you know you’ve made the finals of “American Idol,” but it’s a less-than-stellar feature when you’re being [...]