Okay, to be honest, I am writing this up after completing many interviews. The questions just keep flooding in. Such wackiness, I swear!
If you were on a train in Alabama, and the lights went out and the sky turned green, what would you do?
Seriously? You really want me to answer that question?
Okay, I made that up, but some of the questions are like this. A lot of the questions are very much the same though, and it’s hard to keep them sounding “Fresh”
While I was filling out a set of questions last night, my son (The Monomanical Middle Grade Reviewer) Leaned over my shoulder and told me I was boring.
I read it over, and decided he was right. I thought about some of the interviews that I’ve done here, and laughed at myself. Boring interviews are the reason that the Little Blue Lady from Mars was created… to add a little spice and fun into it.
He pointed out the last question, and told me I didn’t even really answer it. I looked it over. Yep, he was right. I danced around it.
“Okay,” I said. “I’ll answer it.”
With a big smile on my face, I answered the question… I answered it with him in mind… Using all the magical powers of a science fiction author.
Within a few keystrokes, my son was chuckling. I was too… and I found that this time, I really DID answer the question. And it was funny. More “me”.
“You are just too cool, Mom,” the MMGR said.
You know what? I AM COOL Dernit!
Why hadn’t I done all of my interviews like that? It made me want to go back and re-do all of the interviews I’d already done. Unfortunately, I’d sent them all out already.
Lessons Learned.
For you guys… when you do your interviews, don’t get all “tight” and “boring”. Remember your “voice”… remember who you are. You only have about 250-500 words to get someone who has never heard of you to like you.
Use those words wisely. Have fun and be yourself.
What do you like/hate about guest posts and author interviews?
Jennifer M Eaton 