{"id":612,"date":"2006-05-17T16:05:02","date_gmt":"2006-05-17T16:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=612"},"modified":"2025-06-12T16:10:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T16:10:23","slug":"diane-rehm-show-doesnt-want-self-published-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/tv-radio\/diane-rehm-show-doesnt-want-self-published-authors\/","title":{"rendered":"Diane Rehm Show doesn&#8217;t want self-published authors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re trying to get onto <a href=\"http:\/\/wamu.org\/programs\/dr\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;The Diane Rehm Show&#8221;<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Public Radio,<\/a> forget about pitching her for an author interview if you&#8217;re self-published.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If a publishing house is not interested in publishing your book, there has got to be a reason,&#8221; she said, speaking on a panel at the Publishers Marketing Association\u00a0University today.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But if you&#8217;re one of three or four other self-published authors, she might be willing to interview you on why you chose to self-publish, what the process was like, and\u00a0what you learned from it.<\/p>\n<p>Other tips\u00a0Diane shared:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Of the 150 books she receives each week, she chooses only 3 or 4 authors to interview.<\/li>\n<li>She loves receiving question-and-answer sheets from authors as part of their media kits because\u00a0they include questions she wouldn&#8217;t think to ask.<\/li>\n<li>She frowns on interviewing\u00a0authors who have written fiction because &#8220;it&#8217;s harder and harder for me to justify\u00a0light pieces of fiction simply because our world is in such turmoil.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Regarding topics she covers on her show:\u00a0&#8220;What it comes down to, I am embarrassed to tell you, is what topics I&#8217;m most interested in. It might be dogs, or food, or spies.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re trying to get onto &#8220;The Diane Rehm Show&#8221; on National Public Radio, forget about pitching her for an author interview if you&#8217;re self-published. &#8220;If a publishing house is not interested in publishing your book, there has got to be a reason,&#8221; she said, speaking on a panel at the Publishers Marketing Association\u00a0University today.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/tv-radio\/diane-rehm-show-doesnt-want-self-published-authors\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":1,"wds_primary_category":609,"footnotes":""},"categories":[609],"tags":[608],"class_list":{"0":"post-612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tv-radio","7":"tag-authors-publishers","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41259,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions\/41259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}