Publicize Your Book (Updated) Paperback by Jacqueline Deval

Product Details

• Publisher: Tarcher (2008-07-01)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 320 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780399534317
• Item Weight: 347.71 grams
• Dimensions: 22.71 x 15.24 x 2.11 cm

For first-time authors or the seasoned pro, this is the absolutely essential how-to for getting publicity--totally updated and expanded.

This indispensable guide from a book publicity insider offers everything authors must know to assist their publishers in publicizing, marketing, and promoting their books, including:

• Effective networking
• Defining a target readership
• Creating pitches for talk shows
• Getting media coverage
• Utilizing the Internet and other outlets
• Preparing for interviews and tours
• Hiring an independent publicist

 
With totally revised and updated information, advice, and resources, the insiders all agree: “Read this book!—Ellen Levine, editorial director, Hearst Magazines.


 

About the Author

Jacqueline Deval is publisher of Hearst Books and has been a director of publicity for several publishing houses. She has created publicity and marketing campaigns for hundreds of authors of fiction and nonfiction, including Isaac Asimov, Margaret Atwood, Lawrence Block, Tony Brown, Stephen J. Cannell, Wilt Chamberlain, John Feinstein, Bill Geist, Nikki Giovanni, David Halberstam, Faye Kellerman, Dennis Lehane, Sidney Sheldon, and Alexandra Stoddard. She is the author of a novel, Reckless Appetites, for which she appeared on The Today Show and Good Morning America.