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You and Your Book on Radio, and TV: Moving From Fear to Fun
350 students
You and Your Book on Radio, and TV: Moving From Fear to Fun
Moving Moving Past Fearing Interviews to Enjoying Interview and Promoting Your Book on Radio, Podcast, and TV
Created byDebra Parmley
Last updated 1/2025
English
What you'll learn
- Why to promote your book on radio, TV and podcasts
- How to be invited to appear to do an interview
- How to overcoming a fear of interviews.
- How to prepare for your author interview.
- How to succeed during your interview.
- What to do after your interview airs ways to promote the interview
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Course content
7 sections • 7 lectures • 56m total length
Requirements
- No experience is necessary. Just bring yourself and your desire to learn.
Description
If you have a fear of public speaking, you have Glossophobia, and you are not alone. 75% of people have Glossophia. Many authors fear doing an author interview.
Author Debra Parmley used to be one of them until she learned how to move from fearing author interviews to having fun with them. In this class, she will teach you how she moved from never wanting to do an interview again to hosting a live blog talk radio show where she did the interviewing. Debra knows both sides of an interview.
In this class, Debra Parmley, a former radio host of "Book Lights" for Readers Entertainment on BlogTalk Radio, teaches:
Why is a radio, podcast, or TV interview beneficial?
How do you get booked to do an interview?
How to prepare a good press release.
Preparing to be interviewed on camera, or off, scripted or live improv.
How to handle an unfriendly question.
Taking back control of the interview, and empowering yourself to put the focus back on your book.
Ways to optimize your interview before the show, during a live interview, and after the show with promotion.
How you can move from fearing the interview to having fun with your interview.
A course worksheet will help authors address their concerns about interviews.
An additional handout includes links to examples of shows Debra discussed and shows authors can approach for interviews.
Who this course is for:
- From beginning authors to experienced authors, this course will teach you how to overcome your fear of doing interviews and how to do them successfully.