I despise Internet petitions and am sick to death of being asked to “sign” my name for whatever and pass it along “to everyone in your address book.”<\/p>\n
Then along comes this post\u00a0at book marketing guu John Kremer’s blog about a petition being circulated by an author who wants to get onto “Oprah.”\u00a0In at least one case,\u00a0apparently, nagging Oprah has worked.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
That goes against everything I’ve ever heard about getting onto any TV show. You pitch. You maybe follow up a few times. But you don’t nag.<\/p>\n
You particularly don’t nag Oprah’s producers, who have been so pestered to death that their names have since been removed from the trailer at the end of each\u00a0show.<\/p>\n
Susan Harrow,<\/a> who recently recorded an interview with me on “How to Get Booked on Oprah,”<\/a>\u00a0suggests following up no more than three times.\u00a0And that’s if you’re lucky enough to have the direct phone number or email of one of the producers.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Nagging,\u00a0petitions\u00a0and other odd\u00a0strategies for tipping the scales in your favor seldom\u00a0work.<\/p>\n What does?\u00a0A story pitch and a pre-interview that\u00a0promises producers a great show.\u00a0Getting onto “Oprah” is all about one thing and one thing only.<\/p>\n Ratings.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I despise Internet petitions and am sick to death of being asked to “sign” my name for whatever and pass it along “to everyone in your address book.” Then along comes this post\u00a0at book marketing guu John Kremer’s blog about a petition being circulated by an author who wants to get onto “Oprah.”\u00a0In at least\u2026 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":2,"wds_primary_category":609,"footnotes":""},"categories":[609],"tags":[29,205],"class_list":{"0":"post-680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tv-radio","7":"tag-media-relations","8":"tag-pitching","9":"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\/680","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=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43348,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/43348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}