Over the years, many publishing houses have been scaling back on traditional book tours — not the least because bookstores themselves are disappearing — because travel can be expensive (a...
As a publicist at a large publishing house, my inclination has always been (and possibly will always be) that authors should more or less leave book promotion to the experts: book publicists (either ...
Anyone who emails me the imprints of all the books listed (or houses if no imprint is available) will win the NPR Books Grid for the prior week that includes, in addition to the information below, in...
I think the brain fuzz is lifting, so here I am with the first non-NPR Books post in ages. As you are all too aware, we — authors, publishers and booksellers alike — have been racking ou...
Anyone else as tired of Foursquare as I am? *** Anyone who emails me the imprints of all the books listed (or houses if no imprint is available) will win the NPR Books Grid for the prior week that in...
As you may have seen, NPR has started a new paperback books column that will appear on Wednesdays. *** Anyone who emails me the imprints of all the books listed (or houses if no imprint is available)...
So I finished Mockingjay last weekend. Boy, was I disappointed by the ending. It reminded me of my college days when I’d stay up all night to write a paper and by 5 a.m. I was so fried (not t...
I finally started the Hunger Games trilogy Tuesday night because I was just dying with curiosity to see why my publishing friends and colleagues were so obsessed. I have to admit — I’m i...
Last week I attended a Publishing Point talk with Foursquare co-founder @naveen. Foursquare is currently the most hyped of the location-based social networks that have been taking the social media w...
Last week, Facebook announced membership had hit 500 million users. In other words, most everyone using the Internet is on Facebook (or at least it sure seems that way). The tricky issue is that whe...
One of a book publicist’s jobs is to get reviews for books. Which is tricky these days, what with the shrinking book sections (accompanied by shrinking staffs). According to an April post on ...
Under duress, I watched the World Cup final between the Netherlands and Spain yesterday. Okay — so it wasn’t really “duress,” but everyone kept posting about the match on Fac...
Tour de France! Who’s watching? *** Anyone who emails me the imprints of all the books listed (or houses if no imprint is available) will win the NPR Books Grid for the prior week that include...
These past couple months have been incredibly busy, so I haven’t posted except on Fridays, when I do the NPR Books Watch wrap ups in which I list the books / authors that have been covered on t...
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