For Guests

Want to be interviewed?

The Book of Life Podcast covers Jewish kidlit, mostly, with occasional coverage of Jewish books for teens and adults, albums, films, websites, or other cultural artifacts that could be found in a Judaic library like our sponsor, the Feldman Children's Library at Congregation B'nai Israel of Boca Raton, Florida. If you have created such a work, then you are welcome to submit it to The Book of Life to be considered for an interview.

Guidelines:

• Material for early childhood and middle grade readers is most welcome. 
• Young adult literature and works for adults may be considered, but children's books are given highest priority.
• Jewish content is required; Jewish authorship is not.  
• We rarely cover Torah-related ("Old Testament") stories written from a non-Jewish perspective.
• We rarely cover war-related or Holocaust-related materials, due to "Holocaust fatigue" on the part of host Heidi Rabinowitz. 
• We rarely cover memoirs.
• We rarely cover poetry.
  
• We rarely cover scholarly works. 

To be considered for an interview, email bookoflifepodcast@gmail.com with a description of your work. If we are interested, we will ask you to mail a hard copy (print book, CD, DVD, etc.) or email a digital copy. Please be patient while waiting for your submission to be reviewed: it may take several months. Heidi's "to be read" pile is very large!

If selected, you will be contacted to schedule an interview. Interviews are performed by Zoom or in person when convenient. We audio record the interviews and edit them before publishing. Because there are usually many recordings already in the queue, it may take several months before your interview is published.

Interviewees who live in Canada or will be visiting the Toronto area may be interviewed by Anne Dublin, The Book of Life's Canadian Correspondent.

Guests should plan to help promote their appearances on The Book of Life. Please see below for suggestions.

We look forward to your submissions!

Resources for Guests

How to Promote Your Interview

How can you, as a guest on The Book of Life, help to promote your appearance on the show?

CREATE BUZZ
As soon as your interview has taken place, even before it has been published, you can let your fans know about it through word of mouth, email, blogging, social media, and so on. Tell them that you were excited to be interviewed, or about any details of the experience that you found interesting. Ask your publisher to mention it as well. Share any photos we may have taken together.

LINKS
Link back to The Book of Life's website:
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LOGO
Use The Book of Life's logo on your website, blog, social media, etc. when telling fans about your interview. Right-click on the image to save it to your own computer.

EMAIL SIGNATURE
Create an email signature that promotes your upcoming appearance on The Book of Life. For example:

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Listen to my interview about [TITLE] on The Book of Life Podcast
Coming in [MONTH, YEAR]  
www.bookoflifepodcast.com
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SHARE THE EPISODE
At the time your interview is published, I will send you a permanent link to the blog post where it is featured. Please share this link with friends and colleagues through email, social media, etc. 

You are also welcome to download the mp3 audio file of the episode to post on your own website or blog, or to embed the player. Find the player for your episode at Bookoflifepodcast.com. Click the download button (highlighted, left below) or the embed button (highlighted, right below).

Let me know if you need technical assistance.

STAY IN TOUCH
As a creator of Jewish media, you'll probably enjoy hearing other like-minded guests on The Book of Life. You can sign up to receive an email whenever The Book of Life has a new post.

SUBSCRIBE
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MEDIA PITCH KIT
The Book of Life and the Jewish Kidlit Mavens have created a Media Pitch Kit for Jewish Children's Literature as a courtesy. You can find this resource at Tinyurl.com/JewishKidlitPitchKit.

QUESTIONS? 
Email Heidi at bookoflifepodcast@gmail.com