Archive for May, 2009
Sightlines Blog Tour, Week 1 & Featured Video; Nashville Launch Dinner Send-off
Amazingly, I’m all over the internet this week. The joint’s jumping this week with five internet visits to blogging buddies. In addition to the three stops of my audio book blog tour, check out these other visits.
Several readers have asked me to say more about my two African homecoming journeys last year. Here it is! [...]
CHECK OUT: Explore Bookstore top tab to learn more about Sightlines audio book blog tour
I’ve expanded the information for “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music.” Look under the top tab for BOOKSTORE.
You’ll see:
FOLLOW THE BLOG TOUR Consult the calendar for all 18 stops in June and July. There are blog posts, podcasts, a live telecall, an internet radio broadcast. Each stop contains unique information.
WIN THE [...]
Womens Memoirs Hosts Janet on “Memoir Moment” in a Live Interview: We need your comments on June 2nd blog post!
To make this call a success we need a good sampling of comments.
FIRST: June 2nd, read my post on www.womensmemoirs.com
SECOND: Comment on the blog after my post. Your comments will be gathered to submit questions for the live call on JUNE 11th.
Your questions should cover: 1) memoir writing and 2) the audio book at womensmemoir.com.
On [...]
TCM’s Ernest Dempsey review of “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary”
Sightlines
Janet Grace Riehl
iUniverse Inc.
ISBN: 0-595-37499-9
Genre(s): Poetry
Reviewed by Ernest Dempsey
Death sometimes brings about a radical swing in the way the survivors look at life. Janet Grace Riehl, an award-winning author, has written a poetry book Sightlines (iUniverse Inc., Lincoln, 2006) that expresses her feelings about the beauties and frailties of daily life after the death of [...]
Sightlines Blog Tour Video #8: Interviews with Greg McNey (stage 4, legal) & Yvonne Perry
Title: CD Launch Dinner part 7
Description: Interview with Greg McNey who makes the licensing and copyright phase crystal clear. Watch for Yvonne Perry coming in around 7:25 marker. Yvonne owns the writing service “Writers in the Sky” (WITS). Yvonne and I became blogging buddies after “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary” came out in 2006. Hal [...]
Sightlines Blog Tour Video #7: Interview with Suzy Bogguss at Launch Dinner
Title: CD launch dinner Part 6 (featuring Suzy Bogguss)
Description: Stage 7, celebration: launch dinner at Sportsman Grille and Lodge. Janet reads Pop’s “I.M.A. Fox” that goes with his fox carving he sent as a gift. Interview with Cousin Suzy Bogguss. Janet and Suzy discuss her hard-won Nashville success, their family connection that began at [...]
Sightlines Blog Tour Video #6: Stage 6 (Production & Marketing) & Stage 7 (Celebrate)
Title: Interview with Scott Kidd Part 5
Description: Stage 6: Production and Marketing. The product arrives: 50 boxes contained 20 audio books. What to do? Janet stacks them in the corner of her upstairs office (the “Cowboy Room”) at Pop’s house. Moving into promotion and marketing stage. Intro to launch dinner in Nashville, Stage 7: Celebration.
Length: [...]
Sightlines Blog Tour Video #5: Stage 4 (legal) & Stage 5 (production)
Title: Interview with Scott Kidd Part 4.
Description: Stages 4 & 5 Legal work (licensing and copyrights) and Production. Greg McNey enters the project. Scott and Janet choose Discmasters as the company to produce the physical prodct…1,000 copies.
Length: 9:56 minutes
Videographer: Scott Kidd
Sightlines Blog Tour Video #4: Stage 2 (editing) & Stage 3 (technical)
Title: Interview with Scott Kidd, part 3
Description: Stages 2 & 3, editing and technical (disc numbering and mastering) How Janet went from clueless on how to produce an audio book and started doing it. Topics:1) Further into a description of the 7-stage process. 2) Moving from recording (stage 1) into editing and technical side. [...]
Sightlines Blog Tour Video #3: Stage 1–Recording
Title: Introduction & Studio Part 2
Description: Recording begins, stage 1. Janet and Scott continue chatting about 1) How Scott eased Janet’s initial terror; More detailed information on his studio set up; 3) working process of their 2-day (8 hours) recording session in Nashville.
Length: 8:20 minutes
Videographer: Scott Kidd
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