Richard Gilbert worked as a book publicist at Indiana University Press, and
then as a publicist and marketing manager at Ohio University Press / Swallow Press, so he has an appreciation for the advantages of small presses.
Not exact matches
[Dennett's] limited and superficial book reads like a caricature of a caricature - for if Richard Dawkins has trivialized Darwin's richness by adhering to the strictest form of adaptationist argument in a maximally reductionist mode,
then Dennett,
as Dawkins»
publicist, manages to convert an already vitiated and improbable account into an even more simplistic and uncompromising doctrine.
But between
then and its national release now, World creator Terrence Malick has trimmed some 15 minutes for what
publicists have positioned
as the movie's» theatrical» version (135 minutes),
as opposed to the» Academy» version (150 minutes).
And
then,
as soon
as she arrived at the Dolby that night, she ran into another
publicist who basically told her, point blank, that it would be Moonlight.
Starting in the film industry
as a
publicist, Demme was soon hired by Roger Corman
as a scriptwriter and
then as a director.
If your book
publicist truly can't see the value of a news hook, or she insists on sticking to the book publicity plan (
as she conceptualized it before you knew the news hook would present itself),
then you may want to reevaluate the effectiveness of your working relationship with your book
publicist.
So, in the future, will book
publicists be promoting travelogues that authors created, and
then published, in real time
as they travel around the globe?
Your
publicist will craft a custom creative pitch for various media outlets and
then pitch your books to professionals such
as: reporters, reviewers, editors, bloggers, producers, and more.
If another
publicist places so little value on those tools that he or she would blithely request the information, to do with just
as he or she pleased,
then I call that an attempt at theft.
Fortunately, there are other ways to promote your book in various major metro areas including pitching phone and Skype interviews, and conducting a virtual blog tour (most book
publicists routinely set up virtual blog tours for authors — and, if you're considering a book
publicist who doesn't know what a virtual blog tour is,
then run in the opposite direction
as quickly
as possible!).
As a book publisher and
publicist, I gave her a number of suggestions that she could do on her own but
then she told me that she really doesn't have the time to do those things between writing and teaching.
Then, to see that book rise to the surface, the author has to become their own
publicist, manager, and marketer
as well.
Corinne, promoted to Vice President, Business Development, began her career almost 11 years ago
as my administrative assistant to CEO Dan Smith,
then publicist, and all the way to becoming a dynamic Director of Business Development.
But the Stanford neuter / return project was not immediately influential, and for the first several years of the project Winograd,
as the project
publicist, described the cats
as «stray» rather than «feral,» a term
then still rarely applied to cats.