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If Publicity Doesn’t Guarantee Book Sales, Why Should Authors Care About It?
Before I started working at Penguin Random House, I worked at a boutique book publicity agency, where authors (often indie or self-published) would hire us to promote their book.
Every week, we’d share a report of the conversations we wer...
Is the Aestheticization of Reading Really Such a Bad Thing?
We’re living through a really strange moment in time. On one hand, literacy is actively declining, and on the other, reading has never looked cooler.
Magazines like Town & Country, ELLE, and Vogue have declared 2026 the year of literary ch...
On Career Longevity with Bestselling Author J.T. Ellison
The publishing industry is very familiar with the idea of pivoting.
When e-readers exploded, publishers pivoted to publishing more digital-friendly formats. When TV interviews no longer reliably moved the sales needle, publicists pivoted t...
Anatomy of a Book Launch Week
As a publicist, my work on a campaign spans months, but there’s an undeniable concentration of activity around one single week: the book launch week.
By “launch,” I mean a book’s publication date, or the day readers can officially pick it...
How to Promote a Book That’s a Few Years Old
One slightly uncomfortable reality of book publishing is that your publisher probably isn’t going to publicize your book forever.
Most in-house publicists heavily promote a book until 3-6 months after publication, then continue to pitch it...
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