{"id":42985,"date":"2020-03-10T15:23:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T19:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=42985"},"modified":"2020-03-11T14:19:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T18:19:19","slug":"not-speaking-of-podcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=42985","title":{"rendered":"(Not) speaking of podcasts…"},"content":{"rendered":"

The thing is, I have been informed by at least one person I worship as a guru that — as another way of promoting my almost-ready book, How I Learned The Facts of Life<\/em> — I absolutely have<\/em> to do a podcast.<\/p>\n

Perhaps you can imagine the sort of funk this tosses me into. Into which I have been tossed.<\/p>\n

But perhaps, if you’re not a writer, I should explain a simple fact: publishers do not want to take on a book without seeing evidence that the writer is either famous or has a…I was about to write “platform”, which was the term a couple of years ago but I don’t think it is anymore. I’m not sure what is the current term for: I have to prove to a publisher I have so successfully promoted myself, hundreds of thousands of eager readers are waiting to plunk down or transfer a reasonable amount of money to that publisher in order to buy my book.<\/p>\n

I suspect you have read the above paragraph and are thinking, “Geez, she is really cranky about this self-promotion business.”<\/p>\n

Not so. I have traveled well beyond “cranky.”<\/p>\n

Still. I am a grownup and I accept responsibilities with a modicum of grace not evidenced in this post. On my blog I feel free to crank away whenever I must, because most of the time I do have a sense of humor — although it does tend to be dark and satirical.<\/p>\n

But look, I’ve also given you funny and adorable animal things<\/a> so a dyspeptic post or two shouldn’t send anyone to the Pepto Bismol, right?<\/p>\n

I Googled “how to do a podcast.” Got thousands of people advertising their wares as podcast masters. That is, they want me to pay them for doing what I’m fairly sure I should be able to do myself.<\/p>\n

Bye, Google.<\/p>\n

I bought a book. SO YOU WANT TO START A PODCAST<\/span>: Finding Your Voice, Telling Your Story, and Building a Community That Will Listen. <\/em>I wanted to replicate the three colors in that title (the book cover is a lovely aquamarine)– SO YOU WANT TO is in yellow but when I yellowed it, it wasn’t readable. Nor would START A PODCAST be if I bleached it white, which is how it is printed, so…<\/p>\n

This is the first sentence of the introduction: “Hello, you magnificent creature.”<\/p>\n

Now, I have at least 86,000 people who subscribe to this blog and over 150,000 who hit it each month. A few of you probably know me personally but even if you don’t, ALL of you know I do not respond to being called a “magnificent creature”!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n

Still, I’m reading the book.<\/p>\n

And I’ve bookmarked a specific series of instructions on how to set up a podcast linked to this blog. Haven’t read much of it yet but I’ve started to gather information.<\/p>\n

The only podcast I’ve listened to was connected to the New York Giants website and I listened because the Giants’ ex-GM, Ernie Accorsi — whom I know slightly — was on and talking about wonderful Giants things and he was terrific and funny. As he is.<\/p>\n

So I have a general idea of what to do with a podcast, and a general plan for the subject matter of a podcast, and a specific idea for how long each podcast will be. (Short.)<\/p>\n

OK, I’ve reported in on this podcast business. Later I’ll entertain you with a passage from a collection of Dorothy Sayers short mystery fiction, about a semi-failed author of mysteries who comes up with an innovative way of promoting himself to a publisher.<\/p>\n

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