Podcasts

My research over the past week has been on podcasts. Specifically, those that interview authors. Not much luck so far, but that’s my fault for not front-loading the research and getting on the schedule. Lesson learned. To be fair, this is my first time publishing a book professionally and I had no idea when it would hit the streets, but still I could have done better.

The fringe benefit from this research is that I’m learning some things along the way and found some podcasts worthy of subscription. For example, I’ve listened to several episodes of “WIsh I’d known then…for writers.” The hosts interviewed A.G. Riddle recently, whose books I’ve read and enjoyed, and I found his discussion on ads and focus very interesting. Right now I’m listening to one where they’re interviewing Erin Wright, who’s giving the lowdown on getting books into libraries. I had no idea how that worked.

Another I enjoyed was “Inside the Minds of Authors” with D.C. Gomez. She’s full of energy and I appreciate that she has the author read a selection from their book to start off the episode. I’m hoping to be on her podcast after the first of the year.

Meanwhile, the search goes on while I continue to accrue fringe benefits.