I'm going to experiment with on my podcast is a new monthly feature called the Previews Spotlight. But for this feature to work, I need your help.
The goal is to increase awareness of titles that we are like that other people might not even know about. I'll be taking submissions of short audio segments from whoever wants to submit them and compiling the podcast episode from them.
Ideally the submissions would be only a minute or two long and in addition to the basic information of the publisher, title, issue number and price, give a short and compelling reason why someone should pick up that comic book. In other words, market and sell that comic. Think of it as a short radio commercial for the item. Keep it clean and family friendly. If the comic book itself is for a more mature audience, mention that and who would like it and who might not. The idea is to help readers find the right comics for them. This is essentially a matchmaking service between comics and readers.
If you need a little more time, take it but try to keep things focused and concise. Also, please name the files with the title and issue number of the item and your name so I can keep things organized.
Maybe if we give some of these smaller publishers a little help marketing their comics then more people will know about them and give them a shot.
If you are going to submit something, please post what which item you are going to do so we can avoid duplicates and cover as wide a range of items as possible.
And, in case anybody was wondering, this is in addition to the monthly Previews conference call that Bob and I have been doing each month for the last year and a half. Hopefully this will compliment that call nicely and extend the reach to beyond the people that are able to attend that each month.
If you have any questions about the Previews Spotlight, please post here and I'll try to answer them as quickly as possible.
The deadline for emailing me the submissions for the November Previews is the end of Saturday, November 10th. I'll try to edit together the episode and release it as quickly thereafter as I can.