Media interviews are a popular way for writers to introduce new books they hope will catch the viewer's eye and generate interest in their work. Here's a selection of forthcoming Kindle books by authors scheduled for interviews on TV and radio programs. Books are arranged in chronological order by the date of the scheduled interview.ON NBC'S TODAY SHOW (24 SEP 2010):
Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle, by Ingrid Bentancourt. Penguin. Print Length:544 p. Kindle edition $14.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Born in Bogotá, raised in France, Ingrid Betancourt at the age of thirty-two gave up a life of comfort and safety to return to Colombia to become a political leader in a country that was being slowly destroyed by terrorism, violence, fear, and a pervasive sense of hopelessness. In 2002, while campaigning as a candidate in the Colombian presidential elections, she was abducted by the FARC. Nothing could have prepared her for what came next. She would spend the next six and a half years in the depths of the jungle as a prisoner of the FARC. Even Silence Has an End is her deeply personal and moving account of that time... The facts of her story are astounding, but it is Betancourt's indomitable spirit that drives this very special account, bringing life, nuance, and profundity to the narrative." - Amazon.
ON NBC'S TODAY SHOW (24 SEP 2010):
Tattoos & Tequila: To Hell and Back with One of Rock's Most Notorious Frontmen, by Vince Neil with Mike Sager. Grand Central Publishing. Print Length: 336 p. Kindle edition $14.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Raised in Compton, Calif., just as gangs were starting to take over, Neil turned multiracial good looks and a bad attitude into a career singing for the leading hair band of the 1980s. Mötley Crüe embraced the values of rock star excess and garnered fame as much for their drunken exploits as for their music. In one grim episode, an inebriated Neil crashed his Ford Pantera into a Volkswagen, killing his passenger and critically injuring two others. Later, Neil was ejected from the band but eventually returned. Today, he lives in Vegas, making music and running several businesses, including a chain of tattoo parlors. Neil makes no pretense of being thoughtful or reflective, but with Sager's help he's done a more than adequate job of representing himself... Interviews with friends, business associates, and ex-wives bring much-needed depth to the narrative. To his credit, Neil deals honestly with the suffering he's caused." - Publishers Weekly.
ON CSPAN'S BOOK TV (25 SEP 2010):
The Truth About Obamacare, by Sally C. Pipes. Regnery Press. Print Length: 256 p. Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law a bill that will lead to the largest expansion of government in the history of the United States. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was more than 2,400 pages long and will reportedly cost a cool $1 trillion over ten years, give or take a few hundred billion. But sticker shock is just the beginning. In The Truth about Obamacare, Sally Pipes shows how Obama’s health care 'reform' will crash into our economy and culture with a tidal wave of regulations that, taken together, will fundamentally alter the way we live, work, and see our doctors. How will all those changes affect you, your family, and your fellow Americans? Pipes goes over the bill with a fine-tooth comb, laying out the specifics..." - publisher.
ON CSPAN'S BOOK TV (25 SEP 2010):
Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women, by Rebecca Traister. Free Press. Print Length: 304 p. Kindle edition $12.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"...in her electrifying, incisive and highly entertaining first book, Traister tells a terrific story and makes sense of a moment in American history that changed the country’s narrative in ways that no one anticipated.It was all as unpredictable as it was riveting: Hillary Clinton’s improbable rise, her fall and her insistence (to the consternation of her party and the media) on pushing forward straight through to her remarkable phoenix flight from the race; Sarah Palin’s attempt not only to fill the void left by Clinton, but to alter the very definition of feminism and claim some version of it for conservatives; liberal rapture over Barack Obama and the historic election of our first African-American president; the media microscope trained on Michelle Obama, harsher even than the one Hillary had endured fifteen years earlier. Meanwhile, media women like Katie Couric and Rachel Maddow altered the course of the election, and comedians like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler helped make feminism funny. What did all this mean to the millions of people who were glued to their TV sets, and for the country, its history and its future?..." - Amazon.
ON THE FOX HUCKABEE SHOW (25 SEP 2010):
Mao's Last Dancer, by Li Cunxin. Berkley. Print Length: 528 p. Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"From a desperately poor village in northeast China, at age eleven, Li Cunxin was chosen by Madame Mao's cultural delegates to be taken from his rural home and brought to Beijing, where he would study ballet. In 1979, the young dancer arrived in Texas as part of a cultural exchange, only to fall in love with America - and with an American woman. Two years later, through a series of events worthy of the most exciting cloak-and-dagger fiction, he defected to the United States, where he quickly became known as one of the greatest ballet dancers in the world. This is his story, told in his own inimitable voice." - Amazon.
ON ABC'S NIGHTLINE (27 SEP 2010) and ON ABC'S GOOD MORNING AMERICA (28 SEP 2010):
Obama's Wars, by Bob Woodward. Simon & Schuster. Print Length: 416 p. Kindle edition $14.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"...the most intimate and sweeping portrait yet of the young president as commander in chief. Drawing on internal memos, classified documents, meeting notes and hundreds of hours of interviews with most of the key players, including the president, Woodward tells the inside story of Obama making the critical decisions on the Afghanistan War, the secret campaign in Pakistan and the worldwide fight against terrorism. At the core of Obama's Wars is the unsettled division between the civilian leadership in the White House and the United States military as the president is thwarted in his efforts to craft an exit plan for the Afghanistan War." - Publisher.
Bob Woodward, a reporter and editor at The Washington Post since 1971, has authored or coauthored ten New York Times #1 bestsellers.
ON COMEDY CENTRAL'S THE DAILY SHOW (28 SEP 2010):
Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream, by Arianna Huffington. Crown. Print Length: 208 p. Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"It’s not an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species and that the American Dream of a secure, comfortable standard of living has become as outdated as an Edsel with an eight-track player. That the United States of America is in danger of becoming a third world nation. The evidence is all around us... Arianna Huffington, who, with the must-read Huffington Post, has her finger on the pulse of America, unflinchingly tracks the gradual demise of America as an industrial, political, and economic leader. In the vein of her fiery bestseller Pigs at the Trough, Third World America points fingers, names names, and details who’s killing the American Dream. Finally, calling on the can-do attitude that is part of America’s DNA, Huffington shows precisely what we need to do to stop our freefall and keep America from turning into a third world nation. - www.randomhouse.com/
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