February 7th, 2006
Are they any good for promotional purposes? They take up a lot of time, and I’m not sure if they’re worth it. :scratch:
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I find author interviews a heck of a lot more interesting than most chats, to be honest. I get to read when I want, go when I want, and understand that the answers have been duly considered for a while. In addition, there are a lot of people who can’t attend chats because of scheduling and software problems but CAN read interviews in whatever scrap of spare time they have.
As to the charge of inside baseball, I don’t think I’ve *ever* been at a chat where there are readers rather than writers in attendance, and all they ever talk about in those things is how the writers got published. I would LOVE to discuss characters at a chat. I’ve seen a lot more writer interview that discuss the story ideas and the character interactions and what comes next.
On a COMPLETELY UNRELATED NOTE, I will not be able to attend your TKA chat this week, Sylvia, because my RWA chapter is meeting that night, but knock ‘em dead!
on February 8th, 2006 at 5:50 am
Interesting. I interview 2-3 authors a month on Access Romance, and I have to say that I struggle a lot with coming up with a wide range of questions that will be interesting to readers. It makes sense that more in-depth questions about books and characters would do better than craft related stuff, but what I know about the authors and books in question is usually limited to what I can find on their websites. I’m definitely not the most qualified person to do these interviews.
I’ll have to give some thought to how this can be improved!
on February 7th, 2006 at 5:28 pm
I’m definitely NOT funny in interviews.
Thanks, Trish. I believe I did a dozen interviews for BBA, and I’ve been thinking it wasn’t such a great investment of time.
on February 7th, 2006 at 1:40 pm
No offense, but I rarely read them because they seem most of the time to be about process and not so much about content. I’m interested in stuff like background on stories or characters, what’s coming next, inspiration for certain things. But it seems like a lot of interviewers ask questions that seem more “inside baseball” so to speak. More about publishing than about the books. But maybe it’s just me. Unless an author is very entertaining, like an SEP or Jenny Crusie who can make even a dull interview funny!
on February 7th, 2006 at 1:35 pm