Sightlines Blog Tour Video #8: Interviews with Greg McNey (stage 4, legal) & Yvonne Perry

Title: CD Launch Dinner part 7 Description: Interview with Greg McNey who makes the licensing and copyright phase crystal clear. Watch for Yvonne Perry coming in around 7:25 marker. Yvonne owns the writing service “Writers in the Sky” (WITS). Yvonne and I became blogging buddies after “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary” came out in 2006. Hal…

Sightlines Blog Tour Video #7: Interview with Suzy Bogguss at Launch Dinner

Title: CD launch dinner Part 6 (featuring Suzy Bogguss) Description: Stage 7, celebration: launch dinner at Sportsman Grille and Lodge. Janet reads Pop’s “I.M.A. Fox” that goes with his fox carving he sent as a gift. Interview with Cousin Suzy Bogguss. Janet and Suzy discuss her hard-won Nashville success, their family connection that began at…

Sightlines Blog Tour Video #6: Stage 6 (Production & Marketing) & Stage 7 (Celebrate)

Title: Interview with Scott Kidd Part 5 Description: Stage 6: Production and Marketing. The product arrives: 50 boxes contained 20 audio books. What to do? Janet stacks them in the corner of her upstairs office (the “Cowboy Room”) at Pop’s house. Moving into promotion and marketing stage. Intro to launch dinner in Nashville, Stage 7:…

Sightlines Blog Tour Video #5: Stage 4 (legal) & Stage 5 (production)

Title: Interview with Scott Kidd Part 4. Description: Stages 4 & 5 Legal work (licensing and copyrights) and Production. Greg McNey enters the project. Scott and Janet choose Discmasters as the company to produce the physical prodct…1,000 copies. Length: 9:56 minutes Videographer: Scott Kidd

Sightlines Blog Tour Video #4: Stage 2 (editing) & Stage 3 (technical)

Title: Interview with Scott Kidd, part 3 Description: Stages 2 & 3, editing and technical (disc numbering and mastering) How Janet went from clueless on how to produce an audio book and started doing it. Topics:1) Further into a description of the 7-stage process. 2) Moving from recording (stage 1) into editing and technical side….

Sightlines Blog Tour Video #3: Stage 1–Recording

Title: Introduction & Studio Part 2 Description: Recording begins, stage 1. Janet and Scott continue chatting about 1) How Scott eased Janet’s initial terror; More detailed information on his studio set up; 3) working process of their 2-day (8 hours) recording session in Nashville. Length: 8:20 minutes Videographer: Scott Kidd

Sightlines Blog Tour Video #2: Studio Tour & Working Process

Title: Driving and First Talk Part 1 Description: Getting started. Janet drives toward Scott Kidd’s home and studio in Nolensville, Tennessee. As usual, she gets lost. We meet Scott’s dog Tucker and tour Scott’s audio studio. Introduction to Janet and Scott’s working process, personal bond, and how the project began. Length: 9:52 minutes Videographer: Scott…

Sunflower Journal Led Me to Sunflower Festival

Sunflowers grace the front of my journal and now that I’ve come and gone from the Mountainaire sunflower festival I notice this correspondence. The Heritage House sitting room/parlor. Silver tea set on oval tea table. Golden light filtered through curtains. parquet floor.A sense of peace, contentment and fulfillment, satisfaction from completing my New Mexico visit….