The filming - by Annie Try
Do you like promoting your books, or yourself as an author? I find it hard, preferring to squirrel myself away somewhere and start yet another W-i-P, or even do some ironing. Anything rather than shouting ‘I am an author - read my book!’ On Friday last week I had a spot of filming to do. No, that’s not clear. I was filmed along with my editor Amy Scott Robinson as she interviewed me about my latest book, The Dangerous Dance of Emma JJ. I have filmed myself doing little talks for church services during Covid, so I thought it was manageble to just talk about the book, almost as if it had been written by someone else. (I did wonder about talking about myself in the third person, but as the whole idea was to sell books I thought that might be counterproductive.) So after a fair bit of positive self-talk, re-reading my own book and rehearsing what I might say, I was prepared. But what about the journey beforehand? This concerned me. Rightly, as it happened. My SatNa...