{"id":15815,"date":"2012-10-25T07:37:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T11:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=15815"},"modified":"2012-10-25T09:38:51","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T13:38:51","slug":"seeking-new-victims-i-mean-subjects-for-the-interviewers-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2012\/10\/25\/seeking-new-victims-i-mean-subjects-for-the-interviewers-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeking New Victims, I Mean, Subjects For The Interview Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And I&#8217;m slowly running out of interview subjects once again.<\/p>\n<p>This is not, by the way, a blog post soliciting authors to email me for interviews. That happened last time and the resultant avalanche was mighty. (I literally still don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m un-buried; I&#8217;m sure I missed emails and failed to respond to people accordingly, and if that happened, you have my apologies. I literally got <em>many hundreds<\/em> of emails, which surprised the crap out of me. I was woefully unprepared.)<\/p>\n<p>What is this, then? This is me, asking <em>you<\/em>, the audience here, who you want me to interview.<\/p>\n<p>I figure, hey, last week I managed to get Margaret Atwood. Any storyteller below Atwood on the Authorial Chain of Being (which is, I think, most everyone) is fair game at least for me to <em>ask<\/em>. Right? Right. Plus, this blog gets ~250k hits a month these days (which is why I&#8217;m starting to pay with blood for the privilege of someone else hosting it), so I&#8217;ve got that going for me.<\/p>\n<p>So. Big picture, little picture, whatever:<\/p>\n<p>What storytellers do you want to see me interview here?<\/p>\n<p>They can be storytellers you love, or know, or who you think are appropriately controversial.<\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t feel limited to just authors.<\/p>\n<p>Game designers! Filmmakers! Comic folks! Transmedia practitioners!<\/p>\n<p>Now, you may still be saying, &#8220;But I&#8217;m a storyteller and I want to recommend <em>me, me, me<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Okay, fine.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how you do it if you still want to solicit an interview at this blog.<\/p>\n<p>You email me at terribleminds at gmail dot com <em>with<\/em> the following subject line:<\/p>\n<p>[terribleminds-interview] Your Name + Your Project<\/p>\n<p>(Meaning, duh, type out your actual name and your project name.)<\/p>\n<p>I also demand a copy of whatever project you&#8217;ve got going on. E-copy or physical copy fine.<\/p>\n<p>I am quite unlikely to publish interviews with self-published authors <em>unless<\/em> you have other published credentials or some manner of kick-ass sales numbers or some other success story worth talking about. I apologize for this but the majority of those emails I had to (unsuccessfully) wade through were from self-published authors. It was&#8230; not pleasant.<\/p>\n<p>So, there you go.<\/p>\n<p>Now, to finish up: we&#8217;ve got interviews ideally coming in from James Finn Garner, Jake Bible, Mike Underwood, and Alex Hughes. But, as noted: will still need more to carry us past the holidays and into the new year, so jump into the comments and\u00a0<em>get to recommendin&#8217;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh! Another question, actually.<\/p>\n<p>If you have new questions you&#8217;d like me to ask all interview subjects, toss them into the comments, too. With the new batch of interviews I&#8217;ll probably once more update my initial 10 questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And I&#8217;m slowly running out of interview subjects once again. This is not, by the way, a blog post soliciting authors to email me for interviews. That happened last time and the resultant avalanche was mighty. 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