Promoting the Professor

There seem to be at least three major stages in the life of a book:

1. Conception and early growth (also known as writing).
2. Birth and launching into the world (also known as publishing).
3. The parent (author) of the book talking about his/her child ever after (also known as book promotion)!

Right now I am in stage three with The Professor of Narnia. I had another wonderful signing yesterday at a Barnes & Noble in Fairfax, VA. I always get to meet such interesting people at book signings. Yesterday I met a leader of the Campus Crusade movement at George Mason University. (I hope we can link together for some joint ventures in the future.) I also met a lovely lady named Sandy, a friend of my publisher, and we found that we had a number of mutual friends in common. Along with these two enjoyable people there were a number of others who stopped by to listen to my dialogue with my publisher, Dianne Haskett, about the book, ask questions and get their copies of the book signed.
In addition to booksignings, another part of promotion is receiving reviews, newspaper articles, etc. Our local paper here in Highland County, VA recently did a nice write up on the book. You can read it here: http://www.therecorderonline.com/news/2008/1106/news/044.html.
A third aspect of promotion involves doing radio interviews. I have two interviews scheduled for tomorrow. One interview will be on The Laurie Roth Show out of Spokane, WA starting at 7 pm EST. For more information on that you can visit her web site at www.therothshow.com. The other interview will be with John Fleming, host of The Corner on WDRC out of Hartford, CT. That interview will be live at 2 pm EST. For more information about that show you can visit http://www.wdrc.com/includes/news_items/6/news_items_more.php?section_id=6&id=206.
If you have the chance, do listen into one of these talk shows live or listen to the podcast. Thanks for keeping the ongoing life of The Professor of Narnia in your thoughts!