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chanson, July 27, 2008

I was just interviewed by Minnesota Atheists Talk Radio about my novel Exmormon! You can download the interview and listen to it as a podcast here.

As I said on my personal blog, my interview was fairly Mormon-friendly — download it and see for yourself. My mom even said I did a good job!!! 😀

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Comments (6)

  1. Guy Noir, Private Eye says:
    July 29, 2008 at 8:41 am

    We’re GLAD 4 U, CLH!!

    ‘the only BAD publicity is NO publicity’

    way to go!

    Reply
  2. chanson says:
    July 29, 2008 at 9:06 am

    Thanks GNPE!!! 😀

    Reply
  3. wry catcher says:
    August 5, 2008 at 6:14 am

    Where’d everyone go?? I guess it all goes to hell when Chanson is gallavanting around the States. 😀

    Reply
  4. chanson says:
    August 5, 2008 at 1:13 pm

    lol, I was kind of wondering the same thing. I could probably be contributing more articles, myself, but it looks like we really need some more permabloggers… 😉

    Reply
  5. aerin says:
    August 6, 2008 at 9:41 am

    Maybe they’re like me, on vacation or busy at work and not able to find time to fully research or write a post.

    I haven’t even had a chance to listen to chanson’s radio interview, and I’ve been meaning to!

    Reply
  6. Guy Noir Private Eye says:
    August 9, 2008 at 7:51 am

    ‘fully research’?
    I’m not sure what that means…

    I thought this is a shoot-from-the-hip “OK Corral” type town…

    Reply

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