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Kyla Laufreyson

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For the book I intend to write, I plan to have Voice Actor Spotlights/Industry Insider Spotlights. Most of the people I intend (or want) to include are pretty easy to get in touch with by means of email, and I could easily send off inquiries in the next few days, anytime at all, to ask if they would be willing to do interviews for inclusion in the book.

They're the variety of people that to my audience are very famous, very well-known, but to most people wouldn't mean a thing (Brad Swaile, Vic Mignogna, Mike McFarland, etc.). So it is very important to the topic of my book.

What I'm wondering is, is it a good idea to do these emails now? If I can state in my proposal that I already have industry professionals willing to take part, will that help me out? I'm thinking yes, but I'm really not positive.

Thanks in advance :)

ETA: This just occurred to me. Along this same vein--would it be good for me to mention that I have some of the best-known ani-bloggers willing to feature a piece on the book on their own blogs?
 
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I think you'll get a lot more out of doing face to face interviews. Written interviews don't give you the ability to do follow up questions or ask for clarity. I'm not sure how trying to get email interviews is going to play in your proposal. Even if you had the email interviews done, I don't know if that is going to have much standing when agents read your proposal. Obviously if you can only get email interviews, you'll have to go with that, but face to face interviews that you've video/audio taped will give you a much richer final piece.
Your platform could include that bloggers are willing to feature you, but it would be better if you show that you have had X number of interviews on blogs with X number of hits per month.
 
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Oh, I'm not saying I'm going to do the interviews beforehand! I'd be asking the people if they're willing and then arrange to probably do the interview at a convention. Sorry if I wasn't clear enough on that--my bad!
 
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Gotcha- a convention would be a perfect place to get a lot of the people face to face. GL.
 

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I have a strong bias in favor of live interviews. But before I talk to anyone, I would do an extensive amount of research concerning the topic matter, and more specifically, I would look for any information documenting your interviewee's role in your subject matter. If she has been interviewed before, all the better, you can read the interview and formulate relevant questions that have not been asked before. Or you might follow up on questions that the answer of which left you with more questions. If you identify any controversy around something your interviewee has been involved in, be sure to get the details.

The point is that you want to get the most out of your interviews, and you want to ask fresh questions, or you want to get to the bottom of unresolved issues.
 
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