I’ll Give You My Paper Book When You Pry It From My Cold, Dead Hands! I did an email survey to 1767 book reviewers on August 9 and just tallied up the results. It does have some critical business intelligence that publishers can use to understand how far we can go with eBooks at the […]

I’m bringing this up because I think it’s important and it’s dead center on what we are all doing here. I believe that this is something we should pay close attention to. Here’s a link to an article that shows the incredible sales of Apple iPads which was posted to the Yahoo Publish-L list by […]

I agree that marketing poetry can be an expensive and endeavor with low return on investment. That said, I see a lot of my poet clients embarking on personal branding campaigns that eventually produce significant fruit. In fact, as a publicist I see the same problem occurring with all sorts of self published as well […]

One of the biggest challenges I face as a publicist is that I spend a lot of time educating my clients trying to get them to understand what you can’t do in a news release if you want to be successful with media. It doesn’t matter whether you are seeking book publicity, have just published […]

The type of book you have doesn’t matter to the media. I’ll say it again. The type of book you have doesn’t matter to the media. I do a lot of work with fiction authors. I do a lot of work with non-fiction authors. I do a lot of work with ebook producers. I used […]

Dustin Wax creator of The Writer’s Technology Companion web site wrote an article titled Writing ebooks for publicity and even for profit… As a publicist who sees hundreds of books of all types each year, I don’t believe that ebooks are a hot product in and of themselves. There are only certain types of people […]