ROBUST discussion

I have done nearly fifty author interviews since 2011 and I add a few each month!

Anyone in this group who has published at least one book and seeks an interview is welcome to email me at schooloftheages@gmail.com.

Here is where I index my interviews. Click on the author's face to find the interview link on my website.


http://pinterest.com/mattposner/indie...

What an impressive list.

An interesting use of Pinterest... I love it!

Thanks, guys.

That is a great use of Pintrest.

If only I had updated it within the last six months...

That's a good point. You can have all the 'footprints' you want on the internet...maintaining all that is a royal headache.

I'm knicking good ideas this week. Not sure if I want a pinterest account though.

K.A. wrote: "That's a good point. You can have all the 'footprints' you want on the internet...maintaining all that is a royal headache.

A pain in the backside. Mind you, Matt has is Twitter presence nicely automated, a lesson to us all. If only I could find the time to do the initial setup...

Twitter is still beyond me. There are just too many tweets flying around.

I received email from Twitter yesterday: "How to have a conversation on Twitter" and thought, "If they need to tell me this after five years, what else haven't they told me?" Not that you can have a conversation in 140 characters anyway. Twitter is good only to prove you're alive. But it conveniently crossposts to Facebook, so it may be semi-useful for gaining name recognition.

I use feed140 which is free and easy but has limited functionality. Those willing to pay for a more elaborate setup, with crossposting and such, use hootsuite or socialoomph, which aren't expensive, but honestly anything feels expensive to me when it comes to Internet services.

Matt wrote: "... anything feels expensive to me when it comes to Internet services."

Far from wanting to pay them, I take the view that I provide high-class information and entertainment, on the back of which they sell advertising, so the boot is on the other foot: they should pay me!

Back to the original topic of this thread -- I have just sent off interview questions to Mitch Horowitz, who is an alternative-spirituality author and an editor at Penguin. Very nervous -- he has done interview for the mass media and I am not in the same league with them. If we did not have mutual friends, such as Sally Feather (daughter of J.B. Rhine) I doubt he would have considered it.

Look forward to the interview, Matt. You shouldn't sell yourself short: you do a very good interview indeed.

Obligatory off-topic remark: I don't want to flatter you lot any more, because your heads are big enough already, but can't help noticing the axiomatic assumption by Matt that everyone here will know who J B Rhine was; I called on him during my grand tour of the United States to present the compliments of a favorite tutor.