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 […]

Targeting the right media takes special skill. They say that there’s no such thing as bad publicity. It’s exposure in front of people in any case. Right? But it can also be true that even good publicity in the right media may not be worth very much in the way of immediate direct sales. When […]

Yesterday’s post about Susan Casey and her 1997 book Women Invent! being featured in a Fast Company magazine story triggered an email from the author, who sent me the following email describing more of the media experiences she had as a result of the news release sent out on February 24, 2009. Paul- Here’s a […]

A new author self-publisher on the Self-Publishing Yahoo list wrote: > Can anybody direct me to a boiler plate for a press release that I > can use to create my own? I have heard a variety of different things > should be included. Most say that it should be only one page and > […]

Every year for the past several years I’ve done a survey questionnaire of media and asked them to provide me with responses to several crucial questions. This year one of the questions I asked was “How do you feel about self published books?” The questionnaire was transmitted in early November and nearly all the responses […]

What’s the best type of publicity? It’s publicity that makes people want more of what you do best. It’s publicity that makes people taste and want what only you can do. It’s publicity that is broadcast to groups of people by someone with a publishing vehicle or system that allows your message to be heard […]