{"id":13810,"date":"2012-05-03T06:37:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T10:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=13810"},"modified":"2012-05-03T06:37:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T10:37:11","slug":"seeking-interviewees-for-the-thursday-interviewpalooza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2012\/05\/03\/seeking-interviewees-for-the-thursday-interviewpalooza\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeking Interviewees For The Thursday Interviewpalooza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a few more interviews coming up &#8212; the guys behind <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"So You Created A Wormhole!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/So-You-Created-Wormhole-Travelers\/dp\/0425245586\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1336041059&amp;sr=8-1\">So You Created A Wormhole<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, Ann LeMay, comedian Dylan Brody, plus all the questions you crazy kids sent in to me &#8212; but just the same, it&#8217;s time again that I start fishing for new torture <del>interview<\/del> subjects.<\/p>\n<p>As you may know, I use this spot to interview storytellers. That can be anybody, really &#8212; authors, filmmakers, songwriters, comedians, comic book creators, editors, game and experience designers, etc.<\/p>\n<p>This has two components &#8212; as a reader, feel free in the comments below to recommend some folks you want me to interview. I can&#8217;t promise it&#8217;ll work out, but hey, drop some names.<\/p>\n<p>The second component is if you are a storyteller who&#8217;d like to be interviewed in this very space.<\/p>\n<p>Now, let me put my Warning, Cranky Shithead hat on for one teeny-weenie moment:<\/p>\n<p>First, this isn&#8217;t a marketing tool. Ideally, yes, the interview will spread word about your books and games and whatever else you&#8217;re doing, and I&#8217;m happy if that coincides nicely with some release of yours. Just the same, this has to be an entertaining interview for the readers of this blog. They&#8217;re the reason this thing exists. So, ask yourself: &#8220;Do I make good interview material?&#8221; Do you have interesting ideas? A compelling journey? Thoughts on the subject of writing and storytelling (as this blog is focused on those things)?<\/p>\n<p>Second, I want accomplished storytellers &#8212; I&#8217;m open to interviewing self-published authors (as I am one myself), but here&#8217;s the thing: given self-publishing&#8217;s incredibly low (read: non-existent) bar to entry, I tend to get a <em>lot<\/em> of self-published authors who want in but don&#8217;t really seem to have much worth talking about. Again that question: &#8220;Do I make good interview material?&#8221; If you find me prejudiced against self-published writers, that&#8217;s because self-published writers have made me prejudiced against self-published writers.<\/p>\n<p>So! All that being said &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Want in on an interview slot? Hit me up at:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>terribleminds at gmail dot com<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure &#8220;INTERVIEW&#8221; is in the subject of your email, yeah?<\/p>\n<p>Now, I tend to get a flood of these emails, so I will try to work my way through and answer you. Forgive any delay on my part there, but as <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"Blackbirds: Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Blackbirds-Chuck-Wendig\/dp\/0857662309\/ref=tmm_mmp_title_0\">Miriam Black<\/a><\/strong><\/span> says, &#8220;It is what it is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to tell me in the email <em>why<\/em> you&#8217;d make a good interview subject. Also, if I don&#8217;t know you at all, I may ask to see something of yours &#8212; say, your book &#8212; so I know who you are and what you do. You can either email me said &#8220;thing&#8221; or I can provide you with a mailing address if need be.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s all she wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a few more interviews coming up &#8212; the guys behind So You Created A Wormhole, Ann LeMay, comedian Dylan Brody, plus all the questions you crazy kids sent in to me &#8212; but just the same, it&#8217;s time again that I start fishing for new interview subjects. 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