This is an entry 
in my continuing journal about marketing my novel. Hopefully, others will draw some insight if not inspiration from my adventures… or misadventures. Earlier today I recorded my first radio interview of 2010 with WNTN-AM radio. It will air on Saturday, the 9th at 12:00 noon.
Its always interesting to explain The Kennedy Effect to non Sci-Fi types. The concept of parallel realities is admittedly abstract. I actually enjoy explaining the concept but in an earlier TV interview I also had to explain what the internet was. Suffice it to say that that interviewer was from an older generation. Given my experiences with two books now I think its fair to say to any would be authors on tour to expect anything. Interviewers will invariably view your books through the prism of their own knowledge or experiences. This can sometimes portray a more limited account of your story than you’d prefer. I’ve learned to try to steer questioners to the vision I intended for my plots.
In this case, however, I had a better experience and had a pleasant conversation with Sybil Tonkonogy. She was fascinated by my treatment of the Kennedy assassination and what occurs thereafter. And she made me provide a clue as to how the book ends whereupon I think she was genuinely eager to read the story.
Curiously, Sybil, being unfamiliar with some typical Sci-Fi plot lines or conventions, alluded to an interesting question. What are people from parallel realities? She asked if I believe in parallel realities whereupon I responded, no. But then I started to sense that she was really asking if I believed in extra terrestrial intelligent beings. Or, as I think of it, aliens in our own universe. That answer would be yes but how would you classify humans from our neighboring realities? I wonder if that distinction will come up again in other interviews?
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