You and Your Book on Radio, and TV: Moving From Fear to Fun
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.
Instructor
- 2.4 Instructor Rating
- 4 Reviews
- 329 Students
- 1 Course
Debra Parmley is a multi-genre author first published in 2008. She has been teaching on panels and in workshops since 2009 and was the radio show host for Book Lights, part of Readers Entertainment on Blog Talk Radio for a year and a half.
In her first class on Udemy, Debra teaches authors how to overcome the fear of radio, TV, and podcast interviews, and how to relax and enjoy your interview while promoting your book.
After a long hospitalization in the summer of 2023 and with an inoperable blood clot in her brain, Debra was left unable to board a plane or drive to events on the ground. For the first few months, she wasn't able to read, and could only listen to audiobooks and audio content online.
She decided start putting her class content online. This is the first of those classes and it will be free until she can get some better videos filmed and loaded. In the meantime, she hopes the info here will help authors.
Oct. 2024, the inoperable blood clot was finally gone and in Dec. 2024 the neurologist saw no signs of a stroke in her brain, only some scar tissue. She is a disabled author, still going to Neural PT two times a week to build new neurological pathways in her brain.
As time allows she will work on updating this class, adding new and current content.