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Thursday, August 30, 2007
Hello Pittsburgh!
Following his recent trip to Pittsburgh, a news report on K's dog cancer company was screened on the city's KDKA television channel yesterday evening. You can watch the clip here. (To replay it, click on the dog photo under the caption "related".) He scrubs up well, doesn't he? I'm that proud. Labels: linkage, mediawhoredom, television
Sunday, April 01, 2007
Shaggy Blog Stories on BBC Radio 4?
Update: The following story is 100% untrue. Were YOU April Fooled? Oh, I do hope so...Well, this is all very exciting. On Friday afternoon, I received the following e-mail from the BBC: Dear Troubled Diva,
My name is Ria Pollof, and I work for the "Woman's Hour" programme on Radio Four. I have recently heard about your "Shaggy Blog Stories" book, and would very much like to feature it on our show. As I expect you will already know, several leading media analysts have already dubbed 2007 as "The Year of the Blog", and we here at "Woman's Hour" are most keen to reflect this growing phenomenon.
I have been told that you already have radio experience, and so I would like you to consider the following proposal. Would you be prepared to record a series of spoken extracts from the book, that we could serialise as part of our "Book of the Week" feature? Obviously, we would prefer it if you could restrict your choices to work from other women bloggers such as yourself.
Sadly, we would be unable to pay you for your contribution. However, this could be great publicity for the book!
Please call me on [contact details removed] to discuss this idea further.
Kind regards,
Ria Pollof
Woman's Hour As I say, all very exciting - but perhaps you might have spotted a slight flaw in Ria's proposal. She thinks I'm a woman. Deal breaker? Originally, I thought so. Now, I'm not so sure. After all, this would indeed be "great publicity for the book". All I have to do is convince Ria and her team that I Am A Lady. This is where you come in. Seeing as it's a Sunday, and that no-one from "Woman's Hour" will be at work today, we've got just enough time to run a little experiment. As I'll almost certainly be removing this post before Monday morning, you'd better be quick. Take a listen to this reading from The Book, which I recorded in the cottage yesterday afternoon. Does it sound sufficiently female? Could I "pass"? Please let me know in the comments. And if I merely sound foolish, then please don't hesitate to let me know. Labels: comicrelief, mediawhoredom
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Our little baby looks all grown-up.
Thanks to Jonathan, a Shaggy Blog Stories contributor and an actual real life bookshop person, The Book can now be bought over the counter, in an actual, real life bookshop. Lookee here! Clicky the piccy to make it biggy!Update: Here's a very special Product Endorsement. And speaking of actual, real life books: I shall be speaking at an actual, real life book festival at the end of June. (No prizes for guessing the subject matter.) More details as and when, but here's what happened at last year's festival. Labels: books, comicrelief, mediawhoredom
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Media requests.
Now, I've been round the block a few times. I've been blogging since you lot were in nappies, after all. So I've put myself about a bit over the years. Bit of radio here; bit of print media there; maybe an occasional speaking engagement. Whenever I've said yes, it's always been fun. A nice little stroke for the ego; a healthy and manageable dollop of Face The Fear And Do It Anyway; and a Useful Learning Experience into the bargain. All of which makes up for the fact that there's almost never any Actual Money in it. This year, for whatever reason, people seem to be contacting me more and more with what might loosely be termed Media Requests. It's hardly a deluge, but it has become a faint but steady trickle. As a result, my default reaction has changed from "How deeply thrilling to be asked!", to "Why should I even consider doing this, and what might possibly go wrong?" I've had another such request today, buried in an obscure comment box. Here it is, with name and contact details omitted. Hi Mike
I'm a writer for Woman's Own and we are looking for a female British blogger, in her 30's or 40's who has had relative success from her blog. Ideally, we're looking for someone who has landed a book deal. But if she had an entry in your book Shaggy Blog Stories, that may be enough. Might be a good plug for your book...?
[name and contact details supplied] I've Googled the nice lady in question, and she would appear to be a regularly published journalist, who has written for The Times, The London Paper, The Sun, The News Of The World, and... oh, look, classy or what!Perhaps this usefully illustrates why it's best to adopt a wary approach to such offers. But hey, it's not my place to tell you what to do, or to stand in the way of Making Dreams Come True. So if you do fit the bill, and if you're still into the idea, then the nice lady's e-mail address hasn't changed. Don't all rush at once. Labels: dangerous liaisons, dreams come true, fabulous opportunities, faustian pacts, maximising your global reach, media, mediawhoredom, naked desperation
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Shaggy Blog Stories on BBC Radio Five Live.
If you'd like to hear me talking about the Shaggy Blog Stories project on the wireless, then go to the Five Live Pods and Blogs page and click on the "Listen" link on the right hand side of the page. Or you could just click here instead, I guess. My spot begins at 00:53:13, and lasts for five and a half minutes. Apart from not knowing the difference between days and weeks, I think it went rather well. (K was secretly listening from outside the study, and commented that I had my "radio voice" on. Where does that come from?) In the comments last night, Milady de Winter suggested the following: Right - those of us who DON'T get shortlisted should start a renegade charity book and see who raises more £££. It could be like Hear'say versus Liberty X all over again, couldn't it? Labels: comicrelief, mediawhoredom
Sunday, December 03, 2006
Interview with K on American radio.
My partner K gave an interview yesterday on KDKA Newsradio ("The Voice of Pittsburgh"), which was broadcast on the station's weekly Animal General show. To listen to it, click the Play button in the "Hope for Dogs with Cancer" section on the show's home page. (Registration might be required, but it's a brief and painless process.) This was K's debut on US radio, and we all think he has done rather well. More info on lymphoma screening for dogs can be found here. Labels: mediawhoredom
Friday, November 10, 2006
An opportunity missed.
Yesterday, K declined an invitation to be photographed - in his guise as "prominent local businessman" - for a promotional campaign that would have seen his beaming visage plastered all over town: billboards, bus stops, public transport, the full works. His reasons for turning the offer down were reasonable enough: he wasn't dolled up in the requisite business drag, and in any case, he has people to do that sort of thing on his behalf these days. Besides, there's only room for the one media whore in our household. Whilst applauding his modesty, I couldn't help but experience a slight twinge of regret. God, the mileage I could have extracted from that one... " My boyfriend's got a face like the back of a bus! Quite literally! Look, over there!" I feel quite robbed. Labels: journal, mediawhoredom
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