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Sightlines Blog Tour Week 9 & Reviews for “Sightlines” audio book
Week Nine July 27-31 Here we are at the 9th and last week of the Internet tour for “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music” audio book. It’s been a grand adventure that those of you following and dipping into it have en...
Sightlines Blog Tour Week 8 and Featured Video: Licensing & Copyrighting with Greg McNey
Week Eight July 20-24 This is the next-to-last week of the Sightlines blog tour. Watch the featured video with guest Greg McNey (see full story), an expert on licensing and copyrighting. Comment on the video and win a chance for a free copy of “...
Suzy Bogguss joins Sightlines Blog Tour Week 7 & Featured Video: Stage 7 (celebration)
Week Seven July 13-17 Suzy Bogguss, my cousin, joins us this week from Nashville on our featured video. Find out how Suzy responded to “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music.” Week seven marks the last three weeks of the Sig...
Sightlines Blog Tour Week 6 & Featured Video: Stages 6 (Production & Marketing) & 7 (Celebrate)
Leave a comment about the video and you’ll have a chance to win a FREE copy of our audio book “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music”. Week Six July 6-10 July 6 Molly Lundquist welcomes Janet for a guest post, review, ...
Sightlines Blog Tour Week 5 & Featured Video: Stages 4 (legal) & 5 (production)
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. Wo...
Sightlines Blog Tour Week 4 & Featured Video: Stages 2 (editing) & 3 (technical)
Week Four June 22-26 We’re into week four now, with 1/3 of the tour completed. Thanks for those of you following the tour. Go to Eden’s site for this week’s TREASURE HUNT CLUE. Then, contact Janet with the answer to win a FREE copy ...
Sightlines Blog Tour Week 3 & Featured Video. Stage 1: Recording your audiobook.
Week Three June 15-19 17 Sharman Apt Russell interviews Janet on the themes of love, place, and meaning at http://loveofplace.blogspot.com, a group blog celebrating place and a greater relationship and intimacy with the natural world. She lives in S...
Sightlines Blog Tour Week Two & Featured Video; Studio Tour & Working Process
Week Two June 8-12 9 Claire Applewhite interviews Janet on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Book Blog where Claire is a contributing writer. Claire’s most recent and fifth release is The Wrong Side of Memphis, a noir mystery novel. Claire and I are bot...
CHECK OUT: Explore Bookstore top tab to learn more about Sightlines audio book blog tour
I’ve expanded the information for “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music.” Look under the top tab for BOOKSTORE. You’ll see: FOLLOW THE BLOG TOUR Consult the calendar for all 18 stops in June and July. There are...
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). Yv...
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...
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 hous...
Sightlines Blog Tour Video #5: Stage 4 (legal) & Stage 5 (production)
Title: Interview with Scott Kidd Part 4. Description: Stages 4 & 5 Legal work (licensing and copyrights) and Production. Greg McNey enters the project. Scott and Janet choose Discmasters as the company to produce the physical prodct…1,000 cop...
Sightlines Blog Tour Video #4: Stage 2 (editing) & Stage 3 (technical)
Title: Interview with Scott Kidd, part 3 Description: Stages 2 & 3, editing and technical (disc numbering and mastering) How Janet went from clueless on how to produce an audio book and started doing it. Topics:1) Further into a description of ...
Sightlines Blog Tour Video #3: Stage 1–Recording
Title: Introduction & Studio Part 2 Description: Recording begins, stage 1. Janet and Scott continue chatting about 1) How Scott eased Janet’s initial terror; More detailed information on his studio set up; 3) working process of their 2-day (...
