I get featured in a WordPress video!

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WordPress asked me if I’d like to be featured in one of their videos. I was like, sure! What do I have to do? They said they’d send an interviewer and a videographer to my workplace and handle everything, so we set it up.

It was a lot of fun!

They were complete professionals, taking care of every aspect of filming, lighting, camera angles… all sorts of stuff. You know, authors aren’t used to that sort of thing. Most of our interviews take place in writing.

They put a big light in an umbrella outside my office window to control the shade of the trees and swaying Spanish moss to not put me periodically in shadows) and they put a second light – a red one (???) – pointing at my books behind me.

Then they asked a BUNCH of questions. Where do I get my ideas? How long have I been writing? Which books are my favorites?

We did some scenes that didn’t make it to the final cut, like me flipping TV channels or cutting a tomato, or pacing outside my house. But all in all, I think the finished product makes me look pretty good!

AND!

I did in the video what I try to do in my books: grab the audience with an interesting opening. “I’m Dan Alatorre and I kill people for a living.”

Not bad, huh?

Enjoy the video and share it with your friends!