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Sightlines Blog Tour Week 5 & Featured Video: Stages 4 (legal) & 5 (production)(0)
June 28, 2009
FREE AUDIO BOOK! Leave a comment on this week’s featured video and become eligible for winning a free copy of “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music.” Janet will run a raffle using random numbers among the comments.
Wow! Two posts up this Monday June 29th…and a podcast this Friday, July 3rd.
Week Five June [...]
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.
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- Sightlines Blog Tour Video #5: Stage 4 (legal) & Stage 5 (production)
- Sightlines Blog Tour Video #4: Stage 2 (editing) & Stage 3 (technical)
- Sightlines Blog Tour Video #3: Stage 1–Recording
- Sightlines Blog Tour Video #2: Studio Tour & Working Process
- Sightlines blog tour video #1: Getting Ready to Go–Nashville Launch Dinner
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