Paperback Pub Day Interview SZN: The Book Hook Podcast

If you’ve been following along, you know we’re six weeks out from publication day for the paperback edition of my award-winning memoir, My Fighting Family: Borders and Bloodlines and The Battles That Made Us. (US readers click HERE) And if you’re new here, now you’re caught up. You can still order the hardcover from your local bookstore, plus all the Usual Online Bookselling Suspects. And if you’re waiting for the paperback, you can pre-order it from all those same retailers.

Personally, I don’t have a preference. Pre-order, post-order, doesn’t matter. They all add a few coins to the loose change rattling around in the bottom of my royalties piggy bank.

Point is, re-launch day is approaching fast, which means I’m out there promoting, which means I’m making the interview and podcast rounds again. First up, The Book Hook, from my good friend, the amazing KJ Aeillo, who earned a nomination for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for memoir The Monster And The Mirror.

You have options if you want to listen. Download it wherever they give away podcasts, pull it up on YouTube at this link, or watch it in the video player embedded below:

As expected, we had an amazing time talking the book biz, cultural appropriation, media literacy, and the disconnect between the real world and the way the press often covers it. Had to draw on my experience as an emerging author and as a veteran journalist with strong ideas on how mainstream media outlets can serve their audiences better.

Now, if the conversation feels a little dated, it’s because we recorded this over the winter, because KJ is organized and able to plan ahead, while my super power is procrastination.

But I am trying to stay in front of paperback pub day duties. I have a couple more interviews lined up, but I’m always soliciting more. So if you have a podcast or publication whose audience is in to books, sports, sports books, African-American culture and sleazy slow jams, please invite me to you podcast. I’ll probably say yes, because, as the tag on this blog entry points out, there’s no shame in self-promotion.

Until then, enjoy this conversation between me and KJ, and give her a like, a follow, and the most stars the review system allows.

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