Friends!
SURFER recently interviewed me about my upcoming book, One Last Question Before You Go, which is available for preorder on Amazon now. Preorders are a massive part of getting early attention for a book, and the best way you can support me as an author, so please, please order one now.
Over the next two months, I am in full-on book promo mode and am trying to wheedle my way onto big podcasts and get writers interested in covering the topic of interviewing our parents amid an increasingly fractured generational divide.
Pitching myself is an incredibly awkward experience, sort of like asking a new girl out to prom every day for a month straight… and mostly getting denied. If you’d like to see me on a specific podcast or can think of a writer who might want to cover my book, I’d be grateful if you took 60 seconds and recommended me to this person. Just leave a short comment in their feed. They (or you) can email me at Thiermann@Substack.com
It’s stunning how much influence a single comment can have these days.
One Last Question Before You Go is applicable to anyone who wants to hone their question-asking skills generally, but it also has a nod to surf culture in particular, which is why I was so happy to talk to SURFER. As August Howell wrote, “Surfing has long had a tradition of learning from its elders. Whether it’s specific surfers, radical shapers or iconic moments, respect for those who came before is baked into surfing’s ethos (It’s why the old guy out the back has priority). Plus, swapping stories is just as much a cornerstone of our culture as wave-riding itself. In collaboration with Kyle, SURFER is launching a fall campaign called One Last Question with surfers interviewing their parents, who share memorable surfing moments and advice for the younger generation.”
Thanks for supporting this. Means the world.
Kyle
P.S. My book comes out on November 18th, and I’ll be doing live events in San Diego, LA, Ventura, Santa Cruz, Austin, Portland, and New York. If you read that last sentence and thought, “Hey, I live there!” keep an eye out for dates. It would be fun to meet you in person… just to confirm that you’re not all internet bots.