THE SOUL MUST SPEAK, AND LONGS TO BE HEARD

TV, Part Two: In the Cyclop's Cave

August 30, 2009

Tags: Fiction, writing, fiction writing, dreams, immortality

On the set of North Carolina Bookwatch, the sound man, discreet as a fine tailor, mikes you by placing a transciever the size of a cell phone just below your waistband at the back, and a tiny mike on your lapel.

The room is cavernous and dark beyond the hyper-brightly lit stage set of (more…)

YOU TUNE ME IN, I'M A TELLY

August 8, 2009

Tags: Writing, fiction, writing fiction, dreams, immortality

I'd never appeared on television before. When the e-mail came from Morgan Potts at UNC-TV inviting me to appear on North Carolina Bookwatch,with gracious host and NC book maven D.G. Martin, I decided some web research was in order a.s.a.p. The taping was set for a few days away. The show is a classic and popular literary interview series on public TV, broadcast throughout North Carolina on Sunday evenings.

When I googled "appear on TV", immediately "do's and don't" came (more…)