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Playlist: Gerald Jones's Portfolio

GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones Credit: La Puerta Productions
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GP007 - Q&A Crazy with Cheyenne

From Gerald Jones | Part of the GetPublished! Radio series | 54:53

Millennial-with-attitude and recent journalism graduate Cheyenne Cockrell challenges Gerald with a dozen questions from wannabes who wake up wanting to be more.

Comic_bowtie_small GetPublished! Radio host Gerald Everett Jones has the answers - because he's already made all the mistakes himself. To which guest co-host Cheyenne replies, "We'll see about that!" She challenges him with questions we've received from listeners, such as:

  • Why shouldn't I monetize my book blog?
  • How can I go viral on social media?
  • What can I do with an Author Page on Amazon?
  • How might a four-star review actually be better than five?
  • What do I need to know about getting photo permissions?
  • What's the smartest thing you ever did to promote yourself as an authior?
  • - and lots more...
Answers include clips of Gerald's presentations to the Independent Writers of Southern California (IWOSC) and the Publishers Association of Los Angeles (PALA) .
Gerald and show producers Runkee Productions launched GetPublished! as a kind of self-help resource for wannabe authors. As producer Lori Marple describes it: “GetPublished! encompasses a demographic from older to younger. Gerald is telling Boomers to give up golf and give back, to give us their life stories and lessons learned from the real battlefield and the capitalist wars. He’s saying to Millennials, if they can’t find a job or hate the one they’re in, give us a plan for a new product, a new industry, or a few well-crafted Constitutional amendments.”
Gerald wants to goad the thought leaders of tomorrow. He asks them, “Tell us about the feelings that flow from your heart of hearts, thoughts that can motivate others, ideas that can make a difference.”
And, then, there’s entertainment value:
“We have answers. We can’t tell you how to get your cat to pee in the toilet, but we can tell you how to promote your next book on the World Wide Web.”
 

GPV10 Book Review - Right Ho, Jeeves

From Gerald Jones | Part of the GetPublished! Radio Book Review Featurettes series | 02:28

Here's Gerald's audio book review of Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse.

Gp_book_review_cover_small Wodehouse humor is actually rooted in the tragedy of World War I. At the end of the war, a perfectly rational strategy for young men was to refuse to grow up!

GPV16 Book Review - Vinegar Girl

From Gerald Jones | Part of the GetPublished! Radio Book Review Featurettes series | 04:05

Here's Gerald's audio book review of Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler.

Gp_book_review_cover_small A title in the publisher's Hogarth Shakespeare series, this romantic comedy by Anne Tyler is not so much a retelling of The Taming of the Shrew than a riff on its theme and a spin on today's sexual politics.

GPV17 Book Review - The Arsenal of Democracy

From Gerald Jones | Part of the GetPublished! Radio Book Review Featurettes series | 02:31

Here's Gerald's audio book review of The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War by A. J. Baime

Gp_book_review_cover_small America's incredibly rapid military industrialization in the early years of WWII was pioneered by Edsel Ford's bold plan to build the Willow Run bomber plant from bare farmland, despite the strong objections of his father Henry, whose sympathies were with the Germans.