I'm presenting today in the 30 - day Book Marketing Challenge on «Book Marketing Dos and Don'ts,» sharing some of what I've learned over
the years as a publicist and book marketing instructor and coach.
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Not exact matches
As a
publicist, Hiltzik started repping Glenn Beck in the mid-2000s, and has for the last few
years flacked for Ivanka's lifestyle brand.
And he's the only author to have won both the ABBY (American Booksellers Book of the
Year) Award and the Southern California Book Publicist Award in the same year — honoring him as both an outstanding writer and a consummate book marke
Year) Award and the Southern California Book
Publicist Award in the same
year — honoring him as both an outstanding writer and a consummate book marke
year — honoring him
as both an outstanding writer and a consummate book marketer.
Although we've known one anoehtr for many
years and have worked together on numerous stories you
as writer, I
as publicist I didn't realize the scope of your writing career until now!
No doubt, young Jordan — a
publicist's dream for the way he casually drops sponsors» names during conversations,
as he did in the middle of his pre-Players Championship presser last
year — had an elder Jordan in mind after he dropped his guard for that nanosecond.
She has a highly successful, 16 -
year career
as a
publicist to over 450 brands; she works with A-list celebrities to create brand buzz; she founded «Family Fun Day Sunday»; and is a mother of six, wife and humanitarian.
Her 14
years of experience
as a marketer and
publicist, strategizing and executing the film campaigns for directors including Steven Spielberg and Clint Eastwood, has given DuVernay an uncommonly candid perspective of the industry.
«Over the past fifteen
years I've worked with many
publicists but no one has been
as consistently first - rate
as FSB Associates in alerting me to titles of interest to my readers, providing me access to authors and going the extra mile in helping me in any way possible.»
As a book
publicist, I've booked hundreds, if not thousands, of interviews for authors over the
years.
I've created the forms in this workbook from my way too many
years of experience
as an award - winning
publicist.
Most
publicists prefer to work with authors
as early in the process
as possible — even up to one
year in advance of the publication date, and they need to be involved at least three to four months before the publication date to be effective.
No one wants to see a magazine fold, and news that Kirkus «s demise was especially troubling to authors, publishers, book
publicists, and other publishing industry professionals because book review outlets (if you discount online book review outlets such
as blogs and online bookstores) have seriously contracted during the past few
years.
After 11
years as a book
publicist and marketing consultant I'll be a published author myself in 2008.
She was a Finalist in More Magazine's Reinvention Story Competition, nominated by her peers
as Book
Publicist of the
Year, and voted Preditors & Editors Best Book Promotion Service.
In fact,
as an independent book
publicist myself, I've often had indie authors share with me the fact that they've hired other book
publicists as long
as a
year before a book's publication at the urging of — you guessed it — the independent book
publicist they hired.
Preceding her role in business development, she worked
as a book
publicist for nearly seven
years which introduced her to the reality of the relentless and creative nature of the book publicity industry.
She was a National Finalist in More Magazine's Reinvention Story Competition, nominated by her peers
as Book
Publicist of the
Year and voted Preditors & Editors Best Promotion Service.
Stephanie was a National Finalist in More Magazine's Reinvention Story Competition, nominated by her peers
as Book
Publicist of the
Year, and voted Preditors & Editors Best Promotion Service.
For almost sixty
years, the course has been training young men and women for careers
as editors, literary agents, publishers, designers,
publicists, and more.
During her college
years, Laura worked
as a
publicist for a small publishing firm.
I have worked with a number of
publicists over the
years to promote my work
as an author and inspirational speaker.
I have used many
publicists over the 30
years of running my business and writing books, and, I must say, Smith Publicity stood out
as the best firm I have ever worked with.
We'll probably look to add a senior
publicist early next
year and if all goes well a director of marketing next
year as well.
I knew that I'd built up a very good social media platform over the
years, that I had a lot of other contacts in the more traditional media, and that, in theory, I could act
as my own
publicist.
Exposure to other
publicists, media, and publishing companies:
As an official BPF sponsor we will include your name / website / company logo on our website, on each of our monthly newsletters (which boasts 2,000 + industry subscribers), and on each of that
year's event program handouts to attendees.
As an author and a
publicist with over 20
years» experience, Amy's goal for IndieReader is no less than to make indie a respected and desirable category within the publishing world.
The bulk of his book promotion experience comes from 14
years spent at Wiley, one of the oldest publishing companies in the world, where he began
as a book
publicist and worked his way up to Associate Director of Publicity.
As a publicist for Houghton - Mifflin for 12 years and as an independent publicist for 18 years, she has worked with such bestselling authors as Tom Peters and Clive Cussle
As a
publicist for Houghton - Mifflin for 12
years and
as an independent publicist for 18 years, she has worked with such bestselling authors as Tom Peters and Clive Cussle
as an independent
publicist for 18
years, she has worked with such bestselling authors
as Tom Peters and Clive Cussle
as Tom Peters and Clive Cussler.
The funny thing is that,
as a book
publicist, I have learned that self - published books have become more and more legitimate for the past, oh, five to ten
years.
Several of my authors have asked this question over the
years (
as do many others, I'm sure) so I've put together a few considerations that authors might find helpful (and which
publicists can forward to inquiring authors).
Tim Moore is a Reedsy
publicist with over 20
years experience managing successful sales, marketing and publicity campaigns for major publishing companies
as well
as several independents.
Cathy Lewis, president of C.S. Lewis & Company
Publicists, worked
as an in - house
publicist in publishing houses for seven
years before launching her own company in 1994, convinced that she could do a much better job serving authors.
Working
as book
publicists in Hollywood these many
years has given us the ability to personally know and work with numerous movie and TV star celebrities
as well
as famous best seller celebrity authors, studio heads, producers, directors and many successful screenwriters
as well.
Publishing veteran Debra Englander gives an overview of the self - publishing process, followed by a conversation with literary agent Ted Weinstein — who represents Keith Devlin, NPR's Math Guy and author of numerous traditionally published books
as well
as the self - published title Leonardo and Steve: The Young Genius Who Beat Apple to Market by 800
Years — and
publicist Amy Packard about the opportunities available to independent authors
as well
as the challenges they face.
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.
As a
publicist, Hiltzik started repping Glenn Beck in the mid-2000s, and has for the last few
years flacked for Ivanka's lifestyle brand.
Salvador Dalí, born 100
years ago in May, has been dismissed
as a rapacious self -
publicist and purveyor of kitsch.
It is an increasingly familiar challenge to Lori MacKellar, a funeral director for one of Britain's oldest undertaking names, Leverton & Sons, who, less than three
years ago, was pursuing a very different career
as a contemporary art
publicist with a client list that included the likes of Jake and Dinos Chapman, Gavin Turk and Tracey Emin.