Jan 1, 2017
The GetPublished!® Radio Show with host
Gerald Everett Jones premiered as a weekly
half-hour FM broadcast on Sunday, January 1, 2017, at 12 p.m.
Pacific Time. The debut station host is KNNN-FM
87.7, which serves the communities of Redding and Chico in
Northern California, about 90 miles north of Sacramento. Available
for streaming and download as a podcast since last April,
GetPublished! has an audience of a few thousand listeners who are
curious about how to gain a wide audience in digital media. Now,
with this new distribution channel, GetPublished! will be reaching
a potential audience of about 500,000 in KNNN's broadcast area,
including students on six college campuses, with more than 17,000
at the University of California at Chico (Chico State).
For the world outside of the station's broadcast area, the show
will stream live on station owner Hella Radio's
website www.hellaradio.com, where the weekly episodes will
also be available for download. The show will continue to be
available on popular podcast distribution services, including
ITunes, Google Feedburner, Stitcher, TuneIn, Libsyn, and
iHeartRadio. Selected episodes without commercials are also
available to public radio stations via the Public Broadcasting
Exchange (PBX.org).
The format of the show is spirited talk, with emphasis on answering
questions submitted by listeners. Questions can involve developing
manuscripts, dealing with print and electronic production issues,
and the challenges of promoting books in social media. Announcer
Bill Navarro quips, "Gerald is an authority on
self-publishing because he's already made all the mistakes
himself." Before starting his own small press LaPuerta
Books and Media, Jones authored more than 30 nonfiction
titles for mainstream publishers on business and technical topics.
His book on infographics, How to Lie with Charts,
was published originally by Sybex and is now in its third edition
under the LaPuerta imprint. Since concentrating primarily on
fiction a few years ago, Jones has published exclusively through
LaPuerta. His six novels include Bonfire of the
Vanderbilts, about a 100-year old scandal over a
famous Gilded Age painting.
On many of the radio episodes, Jones will be joined by two witty
and opinionated co-hosts. Cheyenne Cockrell is a
recent journalism graduate from Humboldt State and brings her
show-me Millennial attitude. Sci-fi author Thomas
Page, who wrote the cult classic The Hephaestus Plague,
balances the age scale at the senior end. As the show's "Resident
Curmudgeon," Page weighs in with his snapshots of yesteryear,
including commentaries from his early career as a Madmen-era
advertising copywriter in New York City.
"It's all about exercising the First Amendment in this new age of
digital media," Jones says. "There are no gatekeepers anymore to
block your way. You don't need an agent or an editor or a publisher
to give you permission to break into print. But that's the good
news and the bad news. There's also no one – except gurus like our
GetPublished! team – to help you avoid embarrassing or costly
mistakes."
The GetPublished! Radio show with Gerald Everett Jones is produced
by Runkee Productions (www.runkeeproductions.com) at its studios in Los
Angeles. The producer is Runkee CEO Lori Marple,
and the sound engineer and announcer is Bill
Navarro. The show maintains a support website for authors
and self-publishers at getpublishedradio.com. The website has a Forum
where users can pose questions and engage in discussion threads.
There are also links to helpers such as copyeditors, book
designers, and publicists. (GetPublished! is a registered trademark
of La Puerta Productions.)
For further information, contact Lori Marple, Producer, Runkee
Productions runkeeproductions@gmail.com,
phone +1 310 216-9094.