Interviews With Jane

Posted on December 20, 2009January 14, 2015 by Jane Friedman

• I maintain an updated YouTube playlist with all my video-based interviews—a good place to look first.

• Platform Building for Authors (30-minute interview) with Book Marketing Tools (January 2014)

• Building Your Business As an Author (50-minute interview) with The Author Biz podcast (December 2014)

• Marketing Advice From a Publishing Pro at Social Media Just for Writers (August 2014)

• Have Words, Will Travel: Freelancing — an episode of The Periodicalist podcast (June 2014)

• What Every Literary Writer Needs to Know About Digital Disruption (May 2014), a panel at The Muse & The Marketplace

• Joanna Penn and I discussed Money, Writing, and Life. (May 2014)

• I was featured on The New Disruptors podcast, along with my business partner Manjula Martin, about our digital magazine for writers that focuses on the money and business side of the publishing industry (March 2014).

• At Publishing Trendsetter, I’m interviewed about brand & platform building as part of a publishing career (February 2014).

• Posted at Medium & Thought Catalog, Jason Allen Ashlock interviewed me about Scratch and how the magazine publishing business has changed in the last five years (February 2014).

• The Consumer Electronics Associated hosted me in December 2013 in a chat: The Intersection of Art & Innovation: Marketing and Money in the Book Business.

• Orna Ross chatted with me as part of ALLi’s continuing interview series (December 2013)

• I was interviewed on public-radio station WMRA, by Martha Woodroof at The Spark, about my digital media work at Writer’s Digest and VQR (March 2013)

• Interview with The Write Stuff conference on the changing publishing industry, marketing/promotion, and the online life. (February 2013)

• Reddit AMA, a wide-ranging Q&A on writing and publishing (November 2012)

• Authors Go Public video chat with Bay Area Bloggers, where we discuss author platform (November 2012)

• Empowering the author, an interview with LITradio (September 2012)

• Authornomics Interview, at Andrea Hurst’s agent blog (July 2012), on marketing/promotion, rejection, and indie publishing

• An interview at Neal Abbott’s blog on my new job at VQR (July 2012)

• Whether you should self-host your site or not, at Roz Morris’s blog (July 2012)

• Q&A on marketing, platform building, and publishing at IndieBookSpot.com (June 2012)

• How to Influence Editors: a guest post at agent Rachelle Gardner’s blog (June 2012)

• ALLi Advisor Interview Series: a video interview with Orna Ross and the Alliance of Independent Authors (June 2012)

• Success in Writing, Publishing, and Marketing Times Time: video interview with The Creative Penn (March 2012)

• Interview with Kristen Moeller on BlogTalkRadio (November 2011)

• A Q&A with the Missouri Writers Guild (November 2011), on social media, e-publishing, and other topics.

• A video interview with Michael Hyatt, where I address author platform, the transformation in book publishing, and how to be an effective blogger (August 2011).

• I offer an extended Q&A over at Curiosity Quills on indie publishing, print vs. digital media, and the future of authorship (August 2011).

• A Q&A with Courage 2 Create, where I discuss how to find good advice and avoid scams (July 2011): “Who Has Authority Online?”

• A 45-minute interview with the Best People We Know Show (June 2011), focusing on publishing trends, how to successfully self-publish, and online marketing.

• A Q&A with Shari Lopatin (Rogue Writer), where I offer general advice for writers (May 2011).

• An interview with Christina Katz on the future of publishing (April 2011).

• The Art & Authenticity of Social Media, a full 75-minute panel at AWP (that I organized and moderated); thanks to Caleb J. Ross for recording.

• Writer Unboxed interview, where I discuss social media, author platform building, transmedia, and the future of publishing (December 2010), Part 1 and Part 2

• “How Digital Media Empowers Writers” — a video chat with Dan Blank (September 2010)

• One of the best and most in-depth interviews I’ve given, on book publishing trends (August 2010)

• My reporting on 2010 BookExpo America was published in the Huffington Post: “3 Best Takeaways for Writers from BEA.“

• Articles on agents—and the future of publishing, at Digital Book World (January 2010)

• Writers and the Recession. April 2009 interview with Tad Richards of the NY Careers Examiner

• Interview with Publishing Careers. Great for anyone interested in a job in publishing/media.

• Interview at Writers on the Rise (Christina Katz ezine)

• Wordsmitten (BlogTalkRadio) (April 2009) — If you have trouble finding or downloading the audio file, this show is also available for download via iTunes.

• Harlots’ Sauce Radio (March 2009) — Also available via iTunes.

My more creative, self-expressive side

• Finding & Longing for Community, about a life-changing moment

• Q&A with me over at Drinking Diaries, on my relationship with alcohol

• 7 Ways to Remain in Cincinnati for 10+ Years (Cincinnati Imports blog)

• “Curious George et La Paris Review” at 3am Magazine (on meeting George Plimpton shortly before his death his 2003)