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Media interviews are a popular way for writers to introduce new books they hope will catch the viewer's eye and generate interest in their work. Here's a selection of forthcoming Kindle books by authors scheduled for interviews on TV and radio programs. Books are arranged in chronological order by the date of the scheduled interview.

ON CBS'S SUNDAY MORNING (12 SEP 2010):
Hope Unseen: The Triumphant Faith of Scotty Smiley, by Scotty Smiley, with Doug Crandall. Howard Books. Print Length: 256 p. Kindle edition $11.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.

ON ABC'S GOOD MORNING AMERICA (13 SEP 2010): 
The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean, by Susan Casey. Doubleday. Print Length: 336 p. Kindle edition $13.58. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"Casey, O magazine editor-in-chief, travels across the world and into the past to confront the largest waves the oceans have to offer. This dangerous water includes rogue waves south of Africa, storm-born giants near Hawaii, and the biggest wave ever recorded, a 1,740 foot-high wall of wave (taller than one and a third Empire State Buildings) that blasted the Alaska coastline in 1958. Casey follows big-wave surfers in their often suicidal attempts to tackle monsters made of H2O, and also interviews scientists exploring the danger that global warning will bring us more and larger waves. Casey writes compellingly of the threat and beauty of the ocean at its most dangerous... [and] ...smoothly translates the science of her subject into engaging prose." - Publishers Weekly.

ON ABC'S GOOD MORNING AMERICA (13 SEP 2010): 
Promise Me: How a Sister's Love Launched the Global Movement to End Breast Cancer, by Nancy G. Brinker, with Joni Rodgers. Crown. Print Length: 304 p.  Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"Suzy and Nancy Goodman were more than sisters. They were best friends, confidantes, and partners in the grand adventure of life. For three decades, nothing could separate them. Not college, not marriage, not miles. Then Suzy got sick. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1977; three agonizing years later, at thirty-six, she died...In 1977, breast cancer was still shrouded in stigma and shame. Nobody talked about early detection and mammograms. Nobody could even say the words 'breast' and 'cancer' together in polite company, let alone on television news broadcasts. With Nancy at her side, Suzy endured the many indignities of cancer treatment, from the grim, soul-killing waiting rooms to the mistakes of well-meaning but misinformed doctors. That’s when Suzy began to ask Nancy to promise. To promise to end the silence. To promise to raise money for scientific research. To promise to one day cure breast cancer for good...Suzy’s death - both shocking and senseless - created a deep pain in Nancy that never fully went away. But she soon found a useful outlet for her grief and outrage. Armed only with a shoebox filled with the names of potential donors, Nancy put her formidable fund-raising talents to work and quickly discovered a groundswell of grassroots support...Nancy’s mission to change the way the world talked about and treated breast cancer took on added urgency when she was herself diagnosed with the disease in 1984, a terrifying chapter in her life that she had long feared. Unlike her sister, Nancy survived and went on to make Susan G. Komen for the Cure into the most influential health charity in the country and arguably the world." - from the hardcover edition.

ON NPR'S FRESH AIR (13 SEP 2010): 
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, by Isabel Wilkerson. Random House. Print Length: 720 p. Kindle edition $14.58. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves.With stunning historical detail, Wilkerson tells this story through the lives of three unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, who in 1937 left sharecropping and prejudice in Mississippi for Chicago, sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, and Robert Foster, who left Louisiana in 1953 to pursue a medical career." - Amazon.

ON NPR'S DIANE REHM SHOW (13 SEP 2010): 
I Curse The River Of Time, by Per Petterson. Publisher. Print Length: 224 p. Kindle edition $10.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Europe 1989. As communism crumbles, 37-year-old Norwegian Arvid Jansen’s life is falling apart. He’s getting a divorce, and his mother is dying of cancer. She’s traveled to her native Denmark, where she plans to live out her days. Though mother and son shared a passion for books, they were never close, and Arvid follows her there in one last attempt to connect. This is also the land of his childhood, and every place he goes triggers memories. He indulges recollections of past loves, beach vacations with his brothers, and time spent as a young Communist working in a factory... Norwegian novelist Petterson (Out Stealing Horses, 2007) deftly alternates between present and past, as Arvid searches for purpose in his life." - Allison Block for Booklist.

ON NPR'S FRESH AIR (13 SEP 2010): 
Ah-Choo!: The Uncommon Life of Your Common Cold, by Jennifer Ackerman. Hachette Book Group. Print Length: 256 p. Kindle edition $10.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"Some colds are like mice, timid and annoying; others like dragons, accompanied by body aches and deep misery.  Scientists call this the Golden Age of the Common Cold because Americans suffer up to a billion colds each year, resulting in 40 million days of missed work and school and 100 million doctor visits. They've also learned over the past decade much more about what cold viruses are, what they do to the human body, and how symptoms can be addressed. In this ode to the odious cold, Ackerman sifts through the chatter about treatments - what works, what doesn't, and what can't hurt. She dispels myths, such as susceptibility to colds reflects a weakened immune system. And she tracks current research, including work at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, a world-renowned center of cold research studies, where the search for a cure continues." - Amazon.

ON ABC'S GOOD MORNING AMERICA (14 SEP 2010): 
Pinheads and Patriots: Where You Stand in the Age of Obama, by Bill O'Reilly. Harper Collins. Print Length: 240 p. Kindle edition $14.99. Text-to-Speech: Enabled.
"When Bill O'Reilly interviewed then-Senator Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential elections, the two had a lively debate about the nation's future. Since that time, America has changed rapidly - some would even say seismically. And many believe these shifts are doing more than just rocking the political and social climate; they're rocking the American core. What are these changes? Who, in addition to President Obama, have been the biggest forces behind them? What exactly do they mean for you, the everyday American citizen? How are they affecting your money, health, safety, freedom, and standing in this nation? Which are Pinheaded moves and which are truly Patriotic? In his latest spirited book, O'Reilly prompts further debate with the President and the American people on the current state of the union. - Amazon.

ON CSPAN'S BOOK TV (18 SEP 2010): 
Declaration: The Nine Tumultuous Weeks When America Became Independent, May 1-July 4, 1776, by William Hogeland. Simon & Schuster. Print Length: 288 p.  Kindle edition $12.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"Hogeland presents the array of plots, counterplots, resolutions, and declarations out of which came the new American nation. The Declaration of Independence we know today is different from Jefferson's original version, which did not mention God, an idea inserted in the final days before passage by self-described rhetoricians who also eliminated his denunciation of the slave trade. Heroic men met in Philadelphia, and Hogeland concentrates on John and Samuel Adams, the cousins whose labors were decisive. British troops landed on Staten Island on July 3, and a British fleet was in New York Bay, but independence had in fact been declared by July 2 (though it would become unanimous only on July 19 with New York State's vote). Thomas Paine's celebratory words end the book. John Adams despised Paine, for Adams believed in property as the bulwark of democracy, Paine in untrammeled democracy. Their difference informs the dynamic tension attendant upon our country's birth. This brief, fair study provides a sound analysis of events and a revelatory portrayal of the men who made America free." - Publishers Weekly.