Make The Media Want You
Veteran broadcaster Lisa Brandt has booked and interviewed thousands of guests. She knows firsthand that people in the media are deluged with pitches for airtime and print space. Sometimes, what’s offered is of value to them. Other times, it’s not. The media must keep its listeners, viewers and readers in mind while making these decisions.
PR reps, publicists, business owners and artists have to make a business case. But too often, they have no idea how to do it or who they’re pitching to. Or worse, they expect the media personnel to do the work for them.
Make the Media Want You takes the mystery out of the process from the pitch to the interview and everything in between. It includes examples of good and bad interviews, major mistakes to avoid and insider tips on how to approach an overworked, overtired broadcaster or journalist. Hint: Bribes don’t work. But Lisa will share what does.
The Naked Truth
It’s the end of the 1970’s and the only job available to an adventurous, small-town teen is a live-in position at a nearby nudist resort that’s been mostly a mystery to residents of the area. What do resort-goers do all day? How do they cope, being naked and around naked bodies all the time? And perhaps most important: where do they put their wallets?
The Naked Truth is the true story of my job at Four Seasons Nature Resort that filled my summer between high school and college. It’s where my resilience was tested, my illusions were shattered and any naivete soon vanished. It was also the last job I ever had that was unrelated to broadcasting as I began my now 30-year career in radio after leaving the resort.
Pieces of Us - Felicity and Mitzi Book 1
Two sisters. One fractured past. A chance at redemption.
Raised in an emotionally barren household, Felicity and Mitzi took different paths to escape their childhood pain. Felicity ran – first, to a marriage that crumbled, then into years of self-imposed exile. Mitzi stayed, pouring herself into a career that was supposed to make everything right. But when illness forces Mitzi to face an unthinkable loss, Felicity is the only one who can step in.
Returning home means confronting the ghosts she left behind, including the sister she barely knows anymore. As old wounds reopen and buried secrets come to light, Felicity and Mitzi must decide: Can they find a way forward together or is their bond beyond repair?
Pieces of Us. A novel about love, loss, and the ties that bind us – even when we try to break them.
My Sepsis Story
Most adults know to call 911 when a person exhibits symptoms of a heart attack. The Global Sepsis Alliance has found that only 19% of Canadians and 49% of Americans are familiar with sepsis, which is more common than heart attack and kills more people than cancer.
Four years ago, despite the refusal of her family doctor’s receptionist to grant her an appointment and a misdiagnosis by a clinic physician, Lisa Brandt survived this potentially fatal illness by the slimmest of margins. She recalls, “I didn’t know what was making me ill but I knew it wasn’t the flu, although that’s what I was being told by everyone around me. Had I listened to them I wouldn’t be here today.”
Brandt is sharing her story in an eBook in an effort to put the word sepsis into the minds of as many people as she can. “People tend to succumb to it because they don’t know it exists. I want to help change that. I’ll take you along on my journey from the start of my search for answers to the ER at University Hospital to home aftercare. It’s not maudlin or too medically graphic. And you already know it has a happy ending.
Celebrity Tantrums
Catfights, temper tantrums, felonies — they’re all here, in scandalous detail. Celebrity Tantrums: The Official Dirt is the only collection of highlights — or, rather, lowlights — of the world’s most famous people as they’ve temporarily lost their cool in public displays of outrageously bad behaviour.
Email Lisa directly for a signed copy mailed to you: $15 CDN. (International buyers pay shipping charges)
lisambrandt1@gmail.com