Inspirational Indie Author Interview #71: Interview with Michael Sean Comerford: 'American Oz' Author Lived Among the Carnies
Self-Publishing Advice & Inspirations
English - October 25, 2020 12:00 - 11 minutes - 15.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsEntrepreneurship Business Management Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
My guest this week is Michael Sean Comerford, who spent the first part of his career as a journalist, moving from town to town. Turned out, life on the road was perfect preparation for what came after his newspaper career, which was writing a book about carnival workers. He traveled with them, worked with them, talked to them, lived among them.
In the end, he emerged with his book, American OZ; An Astonishing Year Inside Traveling Carnivals at State Fairs & Festivals: Hitchhiking From California to New York, Alaska to Mexico. And to talk to him, you get a sense that Michael Sean Comerford is not yet finished with his travels.
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About the Host
Howard Lovy has been a journalist for more than 30 years, and has spent the last eight years amplifying the voices of independent publishers and authors. He works with authors as a book editor to prepare their work to be published. Howard is also a freelance writer specializing in Jewish issues whose work appears regularly in Publishers Weekly, the Jewish Daily Forward, and Longreads. Find Howard at howardlovy.com, LinkedIn and Twitter.