Casual reminder:<\/p>\n
Every Thursday, I run ten questions with an author regarding that author’s book.<\/p>\n
I tend to run one or two per day. I don’t think I’ll do more than two.<\/p>\n
How you get a slot: email me at terribleminds at gmail dot com.<\/p>\n
Use the subject header: [Author] [Book Title] [Release Date] [10 Questions]<\/strong><\/p>\n (Meaning, fill in those bracketed topics with relevant data, please.)<\/p>\n You can solicit me as early as you like, up to a month before your release date.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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).<\/p>\n If you email me, I will try very hard to email you back.<\/p>\n Once I say yes, I will want your answers two weeks before your interview posts.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n In that file I also want:<\/p>\n Any and all relevant links to your book.<\/p>\n That means: your website, your Twitter, and any Buy Links you want included.<\/p>\n Please also give me or (preferably) link me to a full-sized graphic image of your cover.<\/p>\n Final request:<\/p>\n 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\u00a0before<\/em> the interview posts.<\/p>\n (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.)<\/p>\n The questions are:<\/p>\n 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-5hr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20301"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20307,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20301\/revisions\/20307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}TELL US ABOUT YOURSELF: WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?<\/h2>\n
GIVE US THE 140-CHARACTER STORY PITCH:<\/h2>\n
WHERE DOES THIS STORY COME FROM?<\/h2>\n
HOW IS THIS A STORY ONLY YOU COULD\u2019VE WRITTEN?<\/h2>\n
WHAT WAS THE HARDEST THING ABOUT WRITING\u00a0[story name]<\/em>?<\/h2>\n
WHAT DID YOU LEARN WRITING\u00a0[story name]<\/em>?<\/h2>\n
WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT\u00a0[story name]<\/em>?<\/h2>\n
WHAT WOULD YOU DO DIFFERENTLY NEXT TIME?<\/h2>\n
GIVE US YOUR FAVORITE PARAGRAPH FROM THE STORY:<\/h2>\n
WHAT\u2019S NEXT FOR YOU AS A STORYTELLER?<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"