Author Author Resources and Back Stories: August 2014

Saturday, August 23, 2014

Author Author, Shine Out Loud: Attention Authors, How to Get that First Interview!

The book is published, web site is up, author page done, free copies are given away, congrats from friends but the media is not knocking down your door to interview you.

So you write press releases, media alerts, make phone calls and WAIT. "I wrote a book, maybe it's not CNN, ABC, NBC or

CBS but someone should be paying attention!"
So you send more, call more and still no bites for even five minute interviews.
Did you ever hear when you were a kid that no one wants to hire you if you have no work experience? It's like that with media coverage. You have got to get that first interview so that you can parlay it into more.

There is hope for authors. Small Business Journalist of the Year, Joanne Quinn-Smith broadcasts an internet radio show which is plugged in to her audience of over one million accumulated internet radio listeners and this year new cars will have a dashboard control for podcasts like hers.

Author Author Shine Out Loud

Get your AUTHOR INTERVIEW NOW!

· Increase your internet search results
· Add a link to your media package on your media page or web site.
· Create an interview cd to add to your author "shock and awe package" for speaking engagements.

CALL TODAY

You are Guaranteed to Get an Interview!

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The Show "Author, Author, Shine Out Loud." The host is internationally known, Joanne Quinn-Smith, a.k.a. TechnoGranny, National Small Business Administration Journalist of the Year. "Author Author Shine Out Loud" can be heard archived on the TalkShoe network and also at Pittsburgh's First Internet Radio and TV Network, http://pplmag.com. It will soon be available on Itunes and Player FM.

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P.S. You also get a great blog post about you written by the National Small Business Administration Journalist of the Year.

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BE SURE TO LISTEN TO AND READ ABOUT PULITZER PRIZE ENTRANT, RIC HUNTER.

Joanne with ABC TV Secret
Millionaire, James Malinchak

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Listen at: http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=17565&cmd=tc

Host and interviewer is Joanne Quinn-Smith, 2009 National Small Business Administration Journalist of the Year and Author of FOLLY OF MARKETING PLAN IN YOUR HEAD, 101 COMPELLING REASONS TO WRITE ONE.

Additional blog posts at: http://authorauthorshineout,blogspot.com
host and interviewer, Joanne Quinn-Smith is the Creative Energy Officer of Dreamweaver Marketing Associates in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and an expert on Web 2.0 Branding.2009 National SBA Small Business Journalist of the Year, Author FOLLY OF MARKETING PLAN IN YOUR HEAD, 101 COMPELLING REASONS TO WRITE ONE. Reasons to Write One." Available at:http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DHKVJOG

Thursday, August 14, 2014

Author Author Shine Out Loud, Pulitzer Prize Entrant Rich Hunter, Air Force Veteran Author of FIREHAMMER

LISTEN TO INTERVIEW HERE

27 years as US Air Force, fighter pilot, all active duty gave Ric Hunter a rich arsenal of experience and stories to tell. Why 27 years in active military? Well Ric

says he was just having too much fun with amazing assignments. But one assignment that would not be considered "fun" was his time as a fighter pilot at the end of the Viet Nam Conflict. As a freelance writer his myriad experience became articles on aviation and the Viet Nam War and some of these became part of his historical fiction novel, FIREHAMMER.

FIREHAMMER is based on a true story of two high school best friends who parted ways on graduation. Tim joined the Marines in the height of the Vietnam War. Randy went to college and later became a fighter pilot. When Tim is killed at nineteen by a Vietnamese sniper, Randy vows to even the score. Firehammer is the nick-name of Tim’s Zippo lighter that Randy carries during several combat engagements, including the last battle of the war when his flight of four Phantoms helps rescue Marines trapped on bloody Koh Tang Island. Spoiler Alert: At the end of the novel, Randy places the Zippo at panel 9E of the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial. What happens between Randy's first combat flight and his visit to the Memorial is mesmerizing enough to have earned, the author, Ric, a Pulitzer nomination.

Native—sort of.

· 27-year active duty, 8 years Civil Service

· 3 generations of career Air Force

· 4000 hrs in fast movers in 20 years, most in the F-15 “Eagle”

Why I wrote FIREHAMMER and what it is about:

· Magazine feature articles

· Critique Group in Panama City, Florida—books, can I go the distance?

· 9-11 interruption

· Not a self-published “Memoir,” although there are many good ones out there.

· What is FIREHAMMER about?

· Publisher to submit for a Pulitzer and a couple of movie companies are giving it a look

40^th anniversary of the events in this book are coming up next year

Write your story! People write their stories for many reasons: therapy, for the decendants, as a hobby or to sell.

· First person military stories are good sellers!

· Just start writing a little every day and join a group

My Presentations: Power Point and video called, “Come Fly With Me: the F-4 Phantom II and the Last Battle of Vietnam.”

FIREHAMMER is available on Amazon in both print and digital versions

Ric
"A fighter without a gun...is like an airplane without a wing. " B/G Robin Olds

TWITTER:@ric_cvhjr

Website

Purchase Ric's FIREHAMMER

Listen at: http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=17565&cmd=tc

Host and interviewer is Joanne Quinn-Smith, 2009 National Small Business Administration Journalist of the Year and Author of FOLLY OF MARKETING PLAN IN YOUR HEAD, 101 COMPELLING REASONS TO WRITE ONE.