Discussion of the new program to charge $149 for book reviews at Publishers Weekly. One person asked “Is it worth it?” I write lots of news releases and send them out to lots of media and one of the primary goals for each and every one of my book author clients is to get their […]

I love this. Here’s a story that illustrates one of my primary rules for getting publicity. Take a look at The NY Times July 9, 2010 feature story about self published author Randy Kearse selling over 14,000 books by himself on the subways of New York City This story illustrates The DPAA+H Rule. The story […]

I’ve just uploaded a new updated ebook version of my book Trash Proof News Releases to my web site. It’s a free pdf file download that captures many years worth of lessons learned doing publicity for creative people. It’s also got numerous examples of successful news releases and interviews with over a hundred media people […]

I’ll talk the point of view from someone who gets books reviewed day in day out as a book publicist. I do this for a living, so I’ll share with you how I do it and what it takes to do it well. I’m not a fan of book reviews, I believe that they have […]

Hats off to The Book Bench and the Book Department at the New Yorker for a great snapshot of a truly innovative approach to book promotion. Timely topic, Great energy and enthusiasm, and almost free! (cost of a subway token!) http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2009/12/1000-words-diy.html Do note that they are asking for more picture tells a thousand word book […]

On November 19th, 2009 I had a wonderful time being interviewed for Authors Access with Victor R. Volkman and Irene Watson about whether Press Releases are still revelant to marketing and promoting books. We covered a wide-range of talking points, including: * So What Exactly Is A News Release? * Why Is This So Hard […]

Bloggers are quite important to all of us who do work in the world of publicity. Mommy bloggers are really crucial! Who are the best ones with regard to marketing and publicizing a book or a product? Well, it depends. There are now several thousand of them and their ranks are growing every day. Perhaps […]

The Washington Post is dropping their stand alone book section and will be moving book reviews into other sections of the paper… See the whole story http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/28/AR2009012802208.html End of an era.

Last week someone on the Self-Publishing discussion list at Yahoo Groups asked “what goes into a news release”. It took me a while to wrap my mind around an approach that I was satisfied with since we have so many diverse creative people on the list. The response had to be useful to all. In […]

An author discovers an important fact about life. “When a book is born, modesty dies. And it better die, or you will sell few books.” Kenneth Shelby Armstrong, Th.D., Ed.D., Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ROBIN . . […]