
Why A Great Pitch Can Get No Response
An author I know recently pitched a media outlet that made complete sense. It fit their “This outlet is perfect for me” test, which includes the following: The topic was right for them. The audience

An author I know recently pitched a media outlet that made complete sense. It fit their “This outlet is perfect for me” test, which includes the following: The topic was right for them. The audience

A former client once called me after a podcast interview and was clearly unhappy. The interview had been scheduled for an hour, but it only lasted about twenty minutes. To him, that meant something had

Every year, authors make the same mistake with holiday gift guides. They wait until the holidays. On the surface that seems right, but when it comes to media, you often have to be thinking way

Apparently, the Founding Fathers used AI. Who knew? I came across something recently that sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole. The U.S. Constitution, written in 1787, has been put through AI detectors,

A book marketing expert I highly respect made an interesting comment recently. She said most publicists stay away from fiction because it is simply too hard to publicize. I understand what she means, and I

During my webinar earlier this week, an author asked a question that immediately got Stephanie and me talking. Stephanie Chandler is the founder of the Nonfiction Authors Association and was hosting the webinar. During the

Last week, I wrote about how AI can waste enormous amounts of your time. It can produce too many ideas, too many versions, too many directions, and too much material to sort through. Something that

AI is supposed to save us time according to all the talk online. And sometimes it does. It can help brainstorm ideas, organize information, suggest titles, tighten a paragraph, or point us toward an angle

AI is helping us move forward in remarkable ways. It can generate ideas, organize information, refine a message, brainstorm titles, and suggest new ways to promote a book or business. But every so often, I