Casual reminder:
Every Thursday, I run ten questions with an author regarding that author’s book.
I tend to run one or two per day. I don’t think I’ll do more than two.
How you get a slot: email me at terribleminds at gmail dot com.
Use the subject header: [Author] [Book Title] [Release Date] [10 Questions]
(Meaning, fill in those bracketed topics with relevant data, please.)
You can solicit me as early as you like, up to a month before your release date.
I will favor traditionally-published books. I know, this isn’t very nice or very fair but if I don’t say that, then I assure you, speaking from past experience, I will get a whole lot of Very Bad Self-Published Fiction Interview Requests.
I will not do 10-Qs for books that are already out. I prefer to keep them in and around the weeks surrounding the actual release. So: new upcoming releases only, please.
I do accept pitches for graphic novels or other forms of storytelling. Books, games, video games, comics, graphic novels, films, television, novellas — as long as it’s professionally produced, I’m happy to hear the pitch and consider the idea (though, again, no guarantees).
If you email me, I will try very hard to email you back.
Once I say yes, I will want your answers two weeks before your interview posts.
I like those answers in a separate file — .doc, .rtf, HTML, something that makes it easy for me to copy into WordPress without wonky formatting. Pulling it from the body of an email can be a Sisphyean task, and I’m totally lazy, so don’t make me do that.
In that file I also want:
Any and all relevant links to your book.
That means: your website, your Twitter, and any Buy Links you want included.
Please also give me or (preferably) link me to a full-sized graphic image of your cover.
Final request:
I get a copy of the book. Preferably physical (and I’ll give you my mailing address if that works). If that fails, a digital copy will do just fine. I prefer to have it before the interview posts.
(I don’t really do guest posts from people by request. Those are only from me soliciting authors who I consider friends or compadres of the website in some way.)
The questions are:
Kathleen S. Allen (@kathleea) says:
What about a previously pubbed book (March, 2013) by a small press?
September 6, 2013 — 2:30 PM
terribleminds says:
Preferably new releases only. Though: small press is fine!
September 6, 2013 — 4:03 PM
Kay Camden says:
Darn. My release is more than a month away. Are you going to do this again in the near future?
September 6, 2013 — 4:13 PM
Kay Camden says:
And by “favor traditionally-published books” do you mean “exclude self-published books” ?
September 6, 2013 — 4:18 PM
M T McGuire says:
I have a new book on the horizon but definitely more than a month away. I also understand the madness of toddlers – I do not currently own one since he is now five although he still seems to be pretty mad. I’m guessing, somewhat hopefully, that you’re happy for people to send stuff in a few months time, right?
You can tell me to piss off if I’m wrong.
Cheers
MTM
September 6, 2013 — 5:59 PM
terribleminds says:
Oh, I don’t need you to send me something now, no — any time in the future works. The only note there is that Thursdays occasionally fill up, so.
Thanks!
September 7, 2013 — 7:44 AM
Kay Camden says:
Oh, so this is an ongoing thing? Cool. 🙂
Not sure how I missed that…
September 7, 2013 — 10:47 PM
Beverley-Rose (@Beverley_rose_s) says:
Even though my book is not in the position to be published just yet, I am very excited because with information from you that I find so fascinated, it does help me a lot. Even asking myself these questions at this point, gives me something more to think about my writing.
September 7, 2013 — 9:40 AM
Wendy Christopher says:
Hooray! Another golden carrot to dangle in front of myself as part of my get-this-bloody-thing-finished pledge for my current w-i-p. Al i have to do now is hope that happens BEFORE the world as we know it is swallowed up by some Hollywood-B-movie-stylee disaster from which (it always seems) only Will Smith can save us…
September 8, 2013 — 10:12 AM
jamescurcio says:
Guess that means I’ve gotta write another one. ;p
September 9, 2013 — 2:14 PM
Scott Eder says:
This is such a great opportunity. Thanks for offering. How many emails did you get after it posted?
September 10, 2013 — 10:15 PM
Steven Saus says:
[Note: This is me with my publisher hat, not me with my author hat.]
I’m publishing a poet’s book, and this didn’t cross my radar until well within the time frame. Le sigh. There’s no way I can get her to answer the questions and back to you before the book’s out.
That said – what about poetry? This will be the second book of genre-ish poetry that I’ll have published, and I’m hoping to do more, as I’ve recently been cured of the illness of not liking it. And I also primarily publish anthologies; would you be interested in hearing from the editors/anthologists about those?
September 25, 2013 — 5:52 PM