Idea: Monthly Blog Carnival of Local Author Interviews

I’m floating this idea in the twitterverse/facebookverse/blogoverse (are those really words?) to see if anybody would be interested in participating in a monthly blog carnival pulling together writers who do interviews with local authors and feature them on their blog as part of the carnival.  I’m not sure how many parameters there would be around how this would work … my own thought is to try to feature authors from Hoboken or Jersey City and then maybe extend into all of New Jersey if necessary.  I personally wouldn’t be able to conduct interviews in person (in most cases), so I’m thinking to have a list of questions and correspond with the interviewee via email or phone.

Some of you will recall I was doing some brainstorming on this topic awhile back and got some terrific ideas at that time.  I’ll include some of those ideas and suggestions in a more formal proposal if this idea gets that far.

This all falls under the idea of “think globally, act locally” and it seems to me that networking with local authors is a terrific way to begin.  So, let me have a show of hands if you think you might, possible, if the stars align on a particular day, be interested in either reading or participating in something like this.

Thanks for reading!