You are right. A lot of these tips are the same as for a public speaker.

Especially storytelling. People love stories and I think they learn more from them than a straight pitch.

See what I told Benjamin. We are all three years old.

Prepare. Prepare. Prepare.

Always have more information than you need.

These interviews sometimes lead into a completely different direction than you ever imagined.

It can be very handy to know.

I know a little about NLP. Took a weekend course some time ago.
I should definitely brush up.

Stories are always the way to go.

Three year old sleepyheads are always asking.
Daddy – Mommy. ” Tell me a story.”

I believe we never grow out of being three.

What everyone is ignoring here is that each of you already have a book .

Look at all the posts you have written and pick out things that fit together.

Walla! There’s your book.

What a great article, and such good points. Although I am not writing a book, I have to do public speaking, and many of your points are very helpful for that as well. Practice, practice, practice is my best advice for preparing for interviews or speeches.

Thanks again for the great tips!

Lisa

Great thoughts as always!

That’s also my technique whenever I receive invites for interviews, webinars, etc. I always have to ask them to give me few lineup (even drafts could do) of questions so I could prepare to also give them thorough answers out. I believe preparation has always been the biggest thing when it comes to interviews and you’re the only person responsible with that – know your subject and review it even if you’re already an expert on your thing because you’ll never know how you could sound when it’s live on video, audio or anything else. Simply stuttering isn’t a good way to make such excuses.

Thanks bunch Corinne,

Tyrone
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I’ve watched a couple of your interviews with authors that were taped, and they are great!

Your posts and book have definitely prepared me for anything, especially media coaching before I get on air and open my mouth. You are a treasure that I’m so grateful to have found.

And it’s one reason why you are a fellow Maddow fan. Pundits who know what they are talking about are rare, and they seem to work for MSNBC now that Air America is bankrupt.

If an interviewer can’t bother to read your press kit and use your questions if they don’t want to prepare for themselves, that’s sick and sad.

I imagine being asked for the umpteenth time “So, what’s your book about?”, one’s reaction might be an extremely frustrated scream.

It’s got to be disheartening to have put so much of yourself into something, and a person who will be asking you about it doesn’t care enough to do any homework at all. Not even any cursory homework, like knowing your name and the title of your book; maybe have read the book jacket. That’s got to make steam come out of your ears at some point.

It speaks poorly of modern journalism that this is what the norm has become. I hope there will be an ethics and integrity revolution in interviewing.

I brought up Rachel because she is the exception in the main-stream media, and is accessible to most Americans on TV, and through iTunes and YouTube for the rest of the world. She’s a positive example. Just pick a channel for bad examples.

You are lucky to be a natural speed reader. My sister is a natural speed reader. So was my dad. I’m not. In fact, I barely learned how to read and couldn’t read well until I finally got glasses. Now I’m about average in speed. But, I never use that as an excuse for not doing my reading or research. I do it anyway, even though it takes me a lot longer.

The majority of people I know who read are those who read your blog! My students’ parents generally read regularly, too. Most people I know offline don’t read. I never run into them at the library, or B&N or Border’s or Books-A-Million.

In my family, we always read books and discussed them over supper, along with discussing the news (we were expected to debate; it’s what you get when your mom is a teacher and your dad is an intellectual).

Now that I’m delivering pizzas part-time (it’s part money and part sociological research), I listen to audio books from the library. It helps me read more than I normally would have time to read. Once I run out of books on CD from the library, I’ll have to get an iPod adapter put on my car audio system and get a subscription to Audible.

After this post and discussion, I’ll be sure to have my press kit with questions, and a monologue bringing up each of my questions, and then answering them so the interviewer won’t have to say another word, after asking what my book is about of course.

I’m 99% sure I will not write something good enough for Rachel Maddow to notice, let alone interview me about. I know she has read one comment I left on Newsvine that one of her staff sent to her, and I think that’s the extent of my 15 seconds of Maddow fame.

I hope I can talk you into interviewing me about my book some day (when I write it and you put me through all the paces about doing it right, and keep my feet out of my mouth)??? That reminds me, I still owe you a book report…

Love,
Sherri
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It’s nice to see that people outside the field of hypnosis/NLP are now very aware of the power of stories.

And as usual, your post acts as a kick in the pants I need to make my book as brilliant as possible, and follow that up with a brilliant campaign to get the word out.

I really appreciate what you do here…

keep smiling,

Benjamin
.-= Benjamin´s last blog ..Daily Meditation – Hypnosis (5-12-10) =-.