"With a great sense of humour and a sharp ear for the telling quote, Jason Arnopp is an interviewer who always gets the goods. Read and learn" - Andrew Harrison (The Word's Editor-At-Large and former Editorial Director of Q, Mixmag and Smash Hits)
"Boy, I wish this book had been around when I started out. You can buy it direct from the author for less than the cost of most magazines, and I'd advise new journalists to do so" - Catherine Bray, Film4.com editor
Want to learn how to interview people as a journalist? Or maybe you’re curious about exactly how journalists interview people? The new ebook How To Interview Doctor Who, Ozzy Osbourne And Everyone Else will be your guide! Jump straight to Amazon UK or Amazon US if you'd like to read the details there. The ebook is also available in a Triple Pack of ePub, Kindle and PDF files, direct from the author, via this PayPal link.
Drawing on 23 years of experience and with over 1000 interviews behind him, Jason Arnopp aims to tell you everything he knows about interrogating the great and good. While Arnopp has spent these decades interviewing celebrities and rock stars like Ozzy Osbourne and Doctor Who star Matt Smith for the likes of Heat, Doctor Who Magazine, Q, SFX and Kerrang!, the vast majority of the principles described here will also apply to quizzing a Marrow Of The Year winner for your local newspaper.
Written in a nuts ‘n’ bolts, conversational style, How To Interview... packs in over 28,000 words of practical wisdom. You’ll learn about the craft of interviewing, all the way from deciding how you’ll record your interviews, to devising questions, to dealing with various types of interviewee, to writing and editing your article.
Beyond that, however, you’ll get a real feel for what it’s like out there on the front-line. The surprises which PR folk may spring on you when you arrive to conduct your interview. The challenge of getting a reluctant, or even downright angry, interviewee to warm to you and open up. Even what to do when you realise that your recording device has failed to record the interview!
Sections in the book include the following:
Author Arnopp even throws in a personal guarantee. If you buy this book and are left with questions, he’ll answer them via a Formspring.com account exclusive to purchasers!
So how much will 23 years of experience cost you?
If you sat Jason Arnopp down in a London pub and bought him drinks, while relentlessly quizzing him on everything he knew about interviewing people, leading scientists calculate that it would cost you upwards of...
Pub Price: £34.10
(Including nuts.)
However, the ebook is way cheaper than this - and easier on your liver. Yes, the actual price of How To Interview Doctor Who, Ozzy Osbourne And Everyone Else is just a tenth of that pub total. It will cost you a mere...
Actual Book Price: £3.41!
You can buy the book direct from the author, in a Triple Pack of files to suit everyone (PDF, Kindle and ePub). Please bear in mind that the author may take a little time to send the book, depending on his whereabouts. If you'd like the Triple Pack for £3.41, please click this PayPal link here - you can pay with various credit cards, easily and quickly.
This book is also available through various Amazon sites around the world. Amazon is selling the Kindle Edition, which will play on Kindles (surprisingly enough), iPads, iPhones, Android, PC and Blackberry. There are various free apps which will allow you to read Kindle books on those devices, including Amazon's own free web app version which can be perused here.
Get the Kindle Edition at Amazon UK, here.
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Or at Amazon Germany, here.
Or at Amazon France, here.
Read the glowing Amazon reviews! And here are some more reactions to the book:
"At £3.41 it's a snip, and if you ever interview people for print or web, it should be an essential part of your reading list" - Scott Matthewman (Online Editor and Digital Project Manager, The Stage - his five-star review of the book can be read here).
"Jason Arnopp is one of those ludicrous, funny people who manages to get the most reticent of stars to tell him things that they really shouldn't. As a journalist, he is blessed with a remarkable bedside manner. He might be able to teach you a thing or two” - Phil Alexander (Mojo Editor-In-Chief and former Kerrang! Editor).
“It was my very happy experience to work with and read Jason Arnopp for a number of years on Kerrang! Jason's interviews were always funny, smart, passionate… blah, blah, blah. But one singular thing marked him apart in his field – he had the invaluable ability to ask the unexpected question that caught both subject and reader off guard, and unfailingly meant you found out something new about whomever he was interviewing. That allowed me to forgive him for such mishaps as being foolishly pictured looking like a Satanic teddy bear in a kimono and being, quite accurately, christened 'Lady’s Hair' by metal icon Max Cavalera” - Paul Rees (Q Editor and former Kerrang! Editor).
Jason Arnopp maintains the How To Be A Journalist site, featuring articles and interviews of interest to the aspiring journalist. You can see it here.
Arnopp also runs a scriptwriting site called 'INT. JASON ARNOPP'S BRAIN - DAY/NIGHT'. You can navigate to that one by clicking here.
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"This guide to interviewing is tremendous fun, with some genuine insight into the whole process. Fascinating stuff and properly amusing, too. Brilliant!" - Tom Spilsbury (Editor of Doctor Who Magazine)
Arnopp includes a few brief anecdotes from history, to provide instructive examples and flavour. You’ll find out what happened when one magazine sent a work experience person to interview a rock legend. What happened when one journalist believed he’d become best mates with a pop-punk band. And what happened when the author faced off against hostile metal band Pantera in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
All of these Amazon sites allow you to download a free sample of the book, including the Acknowledgements, Table Of Contents and Introduction. It's sent to your wireless device as if by magic!