I am interested in shooting promotion videos for authors. My problem is how to get them to think about bites of their books in interesting ways. I find they are often well…a little boring even when their books may not be.
Do you have any suggestions for leading questions that diplomatically get them to start thinking about their material in an interesting way?
– Jenn
I've been interviewed by great hosts and been shocked to discover afterward that 10 (or 20 or 30) minutes had gone by—and I've sat through interviews where 3 minutes was a painful is-this-over-yet eternity. A couple of times I was tempted to beat the interviewer senseless with a copy of my book, but it would have been redundant.
Given that I was the same person for every interview, pitching the same book with the same basic information, why were some interviews fascinating and others dull? Hmmm...what was that other variable again?
