Casual reminder:

Every Thursday, I run ten questions with an author regarding that author’s book.

I tend to run one or two per day. I don’t think I’ll do more than two.

How you get a slot: email me at terribleminds at gmail dot com.

Use the subject header: [Author] [Book Title] [Release Date] [10 Questions]

(Meaning, fill in those bracketed topics with relevant data, please.)

You can solicit me as early as you like, up to a month before your release date.

I will favor traditionally-published books. I know, this isn’t very nice or very fair but if I don’t say that, then I assure you, speaking from past experience, I will get a whole lot of Very Bad Self-Published Fiction Interview Requests.

I will not do 10-Qs for books that are already out. I prefer to keep them in and around the weeks surrounding the actual release. So: new upcoming releases only, please.

I do accept pitches for graphic novels or other forms of storytelling. Books, games, video games, comics, graphic novels, films, television, novellas — as long as it’s professionally produced, I’m happy to hear the pitch and consider the idea (though, again, no guarantees).

If you email me, I will try very hard to email you back.

Once I say yes, I will want your answers two weeks before your interview posts.

I like those answers in a separate file — .doc, .rtf, HTML, something that makes it easy for me to copy into WordPress without wonky formatting. Pulling it from the body of an email can be a Sisphyean task, and I’m totally lazy, so don’t make me do that.

In that file I also want:

Any and all relevant links to your book.

That means: your website, your Twitter, and any Buy Links you want included.

Please also give me or (preferably) link me to a full-sized graphic image of your cover.

Final request:

I get a copy of the book. Preferably physical (and I’ll give you my mailing address if that works). If that fails, a digital copy will do just fine. I prefer to have it before the interview posts.

(I don’t really do guest posts from people by request. Those are only from me soliciting authors who I consider friends or compadres of the website in some way.)

The questions are:

TELL US ABOUT YOURSELF: WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?

GIVE US THE 140-CHARACTER STORY PITCH:

WHERE DOES THIS STORY COME FROM?

HOW IS THIS A STORY ONLY YOU COULD’VE WRITTEN?

WHAT WAS THE HARDEST THING ABOUT WRITING [story name]?

WHAT DID YOU LEARN WRITING [story name]?

WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT [story name]?

WHAT WOULD YOU DO DIFFERENTLY NEXT TIME?

GIVE US YOUR FAVORITE PARAGRAPH FROM THE STORY:

WHAT’S NEXT FOR YOU AS A STORYTELLER?