Cold Calls
“SHARP.
Shelly was right.
“Send them a message on Facebook,” she had said as they took down the posters in the study room. “Tell them you’re the teen reporter for some local arts magazine and you’re working on a story about young actors. Say, ‘I contacted the Cubit Theater Program and they gave me your name.’ Tell them you’ve got a tight deadline, give them your phone number, ask them to call you tonight at seven. They’ll be watching the clock, waiting to call.”
Eric flipped open the brick-size ...phone. “Hello?”
“Hi, Eric, this is Heather Herman? You sent me a Facebook message asking me to call you? About an interview for the paper or something?”
He said hello, thanked her for calling, then rattled off the story that he, Shelly, and Fatima had come up with at the library. He knew it was going to be easy when Heather went on about how much she loved the articles in Scene It, Fatima’s imaginary magazine. He started down the checklist of the warm-up questions—what drew you to the stage, how long have you been acting, what was your first part ever, how do you prepare for a role—half listening to her answers as he sliced floating fruit on his iPad.MoreLess
Shelly was right.
“Send them a message on Facebook,” she had said as they took down the posters in the study room. “Tell them you’re the teen reporter for some local arts magazine and you’re working on a story about young actors. Say, ‘I contacted the Cubit Theater Program and they gave me your name.’ Tell them you’ve got a tight deadline, give them your phone number, ask them to call you tonight at seven. They’ll be watching the clock, waiting to call.”
Eric flipped open the brick-size ...phone. “Hello?”
“Hi, Eric, this is Heather Herman? You sent me a Facebook message asking me to call you? About an interview for the paper or something?”
He said hello, thanked her for calling, then rattled off the story that he, Shelly, and Fatima had come up with at the library. He knew it was going to be easy when Heather went on about how much she loved the articles in Scene It, Fatima’s imaginary magazine. He started down the checklist of the warm-up questions—what drew you to the stage, how long have you been acting, what was your first part ever, how do you prepare for a role—half listening to her answers as he sliced floating fruit on his iPad.MoreLess
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