Places for Author Interviews

A great way to get exposure is to appear on other people’s blogs – but where do you find blogs to appear on? There are a lot of bloggers looking for authors to interview (or guest post), but as an author they’re sometimes oddly hard to find unless you know someone who knows someone…so I wanted to share a few that I know about and I ask that you do the same in the comments.

• Simon Goodson’s The Seventh Question: Six Questions, with the seventh being a question you get to ask yourself. Open to all but he prefers sci-fi/fantasy/speculative fiction.
• Dan Alatorre: Choose ten questions from a list of forty. Open to everyone.
• BookGoodies: Fill out the online form including links and several questions. Open to everyone.
• I Smell Sheep: Contact them about a guest post or interview. For paranormal/comics/sci-fi/fantasy/speculative fiction. (If there’s a hot dude in the story, even better!)
• Awesome Gang: Fill out the online questions. Open to everyone.
• Morgen with an E: There are a LOT of options here! The content that you submit must be PG (this does not mean your books, just what you write for her blog). Any genre authors welcome.
• Wicca Witch: She’s on hiatus until January but when she’s back she does interviews and book reviews. Paranormal, romance, sci-fi, fantasy, speculative fiction, mysteries and thrillers preferred.
• Zig Zag Timeline: Interviews, cover reveals, etc. All genres except erotica.
• Sallie’s Book Reviews: She will send you the questions with your post date in an email. Cont. romance, paranormal, fantasy. mystery, poetry, historical romance and suspense.
• Amaranthine Night: my own blog. I do author interviews or character interviews. All genres welcome.
• The BIG List by Lisa Williams: Here is a list of 100 bloggers who do interviews. It opens as a google doc, but you can download it as a pdf etc.

Since the last link is a massive list, I’m going to stop here, but you shouldn’t! What interview opportunities do you know about? Please share them in the comments below!

 

Looking for Characters to Interview

A lot of blogs do author interviews, but I thought it would be fun to do character interviews! I’ve been working on this since March (sadly), but since then Ruth Ann Nordin has done something similar on her own blog (Great minds think alike, don’t they?) and I know I’ve really enjoyed reading them!

I’m kicking it off with an interview of one of my own characters today, but I used the same questions to make his interview as I am posting for other authors to answer.  I’ll break them up some and add some variety so each doesn’t seem like a carbon copy.

I am accepting interviews from all genres, as I have a pretty diverse reader base on my blog. Interested authors should send an email with the answers to the questions below to Joleene at JoleeneNaylor dot com – do NOT post them as a comment to this post. Be sure to answer the questions as though your character is answering them, and if some of the questions don’t apply, then just skip those.

If your character is from a book that’s for sale, be sure to include a link(s) to where readers can buy it!

There’s no deadline on this. I plan to do one a week so long as I have one to post and I will let you know before your interview goes live.

Have fun and look forward to your answers!

1- tell me a little about yourself (what do you look like, where do you live, what book are you in)

2- How do you evolve during the course of the story/series?

3 – Do you have an enemy or nemesis? If so, who are they and how did they become an enemy?

4- What is the biggest challenge you face in the story?

5 – What is the one event that you feel has helped to shape your personality?

6-Are you involved in a romance? If so with who and what is it about them that you find appealing?

7 – What is the one thing you want the most in the whole world?

8 – If you could say one thing to your readers, what would it be?

9- If you could say one thing to your author, what would it be?

10-What 2 or 3 questions do you wish I’d asked, and what are your answers to them?

Please send your answers (and any other relevant info) to Joleene at JoleeneNaylor dot com.