Tips for Authors to Spice Up Media Tab on Website

Tips for Authors to Spice Up Media Tab on Website

Do you have a media tab on your website? What does yours contain? Are You Ready to Expose Your Fun Fact Side? Consider “juicing” yours up and have a little fun.

It’s a plus for visitors to discover more about you … and if your intent is to be interviewed, it’s a gem for hosts and producers to use on their shows.

“Why?” you ask.

You can weave fun facts into your bio so add to your uniqueness.
Add them on a separate page in your online media kit so they stand out.
Some can be short enough to be pepper your tweet stream.
Pair them with whimsical stock photos (or your own) and shared on social media.
Create a Pinterest board dedicated to fun facts about you.
Radio and TV talk show hosts can steal fun facts and turn them into questions for interviews.
Use relevant fun facts when pitching journalists.
Use your facts as icebreakers at events. when someone who doesn’t know you

reads your media kit and wants to contact you.
Start noodling … and pump out items. Think back to 4th grade—heck, I can still hear Mrs. Russell wise words—Avoid using the words always and never—they will come back to bite you. I was 8 years old!

Yes, you will reveal something about yourself … after all, your enquiring Fans want to know about you!

What say you? … what are 10 things that others probably don’t know about you?

10 Fun and Not-So-Fun Facts You Might Not Know about Me!

(and there’s a story behind every one of them …)

1. I won the “Big Deal” on Let’s Make a Deal hosted by Monty Hall dressed as Raggedy Ann. My ex got it when I divorced him, claiming it was all his. Jeeze.

2. Not paying attention one afternoon in a Las Vegas hotel, I ran into the butt of an elephant … not once, but twice. After all, it had to be an illusion, right? Nope, the elephant was real.

3. I was the mother of 3 kids under the age of four before I could legally vote. No regrets.

4. I was so broke that I became a proficient poacher when I lived in Montana. My family ate.

5. Over dinner one night, Gloria Steinem tried to talk me out of publishing one of my best-selling books, Woman to Woman: From Sabotage to Support, that landed me on every major daytime TV talk show, a cover story on People magazine, features in the Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek and the National Enquirer. In excess of 1,000 combined TV, radio and print positions. Obviously, I didn’t take her advice.

6. I wrote to Merv Griffin and asked him to give me permission to use his TV show Jeopardy’s music for my presentation, Creating the Confidence Factor. Got it.

7. I was pulled out of a conference audience by Johnny Carson’s favorite animal handler, Jim Fowler to be his assistant. He pulled out a 12-foot boa constrictor and handed it to me. Gulp.

8. I have made a living with my mouth and words for over 45 years. During that time, I’ve had to re-invent myself when my sons died; I died; a partner embezzled $1,000,000 and we lost everything including home, cars, health; survived cancer; recovered from a brain injury via a speaking gig fall that took away my ability to read for 18 months. Yet, I have a good life.

9. When I was 30, I clinically died. When I was brought back, I was paralyzed for three months below my waist. My second reinvention was to follow.

10. My favorite foreign rights sale was to Saudi Arabia for The Confidence Factor … a book written by yours truly, a woman; and a book written for women. Not only was it sold once … the publishing company came back and paid to republish after the contract was over. Love it!
What say you? It’s your turn … and share your fun facts with me.

Dr. Judith Briles started writing notes to her classmates in first grade … and got into “disruptive trouble” from her teachers. She’s now the author of 48 books and counting, still being a disrupter. Her books have won over 55 book awards and been Amazon bestsellers. You can follow her professional side at www.TheBookShepherd.com where she works with writers to become published authors. Listen in to her weekly podcast: AuthorU: Your Guide to Book Publishing at https://bit.ly/AuthorUPodcast