How to Successfully Promote Your Book on Radio and Podcasts

Vanessa Blakeslee
6 min readApr 28, 2020
Ryan Rivas, publisher/editor of Burrow Press, and Vanessa Blakeslee discuss her novel on the radio

My hand trembled as I signed in at the front door inside the entrance. Muffled music played from down the hall; I followed, checked my watch, sat down on a tatty couch outside a door marked “LIVE RECORDING.” Ten to four in the afternoon, and I would soon be going on the air for the first time to discuss my debut story collection, Train Shots at the Rollins College radio station, WPRK…

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Vanessa Blakeslee

American fiction writer, essayist, literary critic. Award-winning author of Perfect Conditions: stories (2018), Foreword Reviews Editors’ Choice (Gold).