[Scott Bakker]

Just in case you weren't convinced I truly was a geek...

Bakker Radio Interview (http://www.buddhaboy.ca/mar04/archive.php)

I'm pretty sure this is from my original media tour for The Darkness That Comes Before a couple of years back. I think I make a couple of preposterous claims. I'm always keen for feedback...

[saintjon]

well, for preposterous claims you've really got nothing on some of the people I've heard on CBC lol.

Actually I think you came off pretty well, it was a bit hard to follow some of the discussion points without actual text to read through (spoiled by these forums I guess, no oral tradition for me :()

Seriously radio has got to be the best job on the planet though.

[Scott Bakker]

Thanks SJ. It's spooky hearing your own voice suspended in aether like that - trapped like a fly in an overturned glass. I did notice that I actually repeated the title of the book a couple of times, which means I'd already been coached. My first few radio interviews, I'd go the entire time, the host would say 'Thank you, Mr. Bakker,' and I'd be, 'Wait! The title of the bo--'

I'm glad none of those are trapped out there.

They say radio is the number one way to market books, though.

[saintjon]

I didn't know that.

Have to get yourself on the Current or one of those big CBC radio shows sometime. Or Sounds Like Canada or something.

Actually speaking of marketing I've had a notion I'll PM....

[Radthorne]

Good interview, Scott! Germane to my response to the thread in Gary's forum, I noted that here you had a reasonable amount of time to have a dialogue with your interviewer. On the one I recently did, there was another author interviewed earlier in the program who had about 20 minutes (so I was very much the second string at 9 minutes!), and that extra time goes a long way toward expanding the breadth of material that can be covered.

I also liked your notation above about repeating the name of the book - good advice, and one I shall remember for the next time... ;)