As we have discussed many times here, there are three buckets of media you want to cover when you are promoting a book. They are: You Media Borrowed or Rented Media Earned Media. Today we’re
If you’ve been reading about social media this year, then no doubt you’ve heard a lot about the rise of TikTok. The platform isn’t new. It was launched six years ago in China by a
I am in the middle of presenting an online program for the Nonfiction Authors Association which is a great deal of fun. We’re doing it virtually, and there is a whole roomful of people in
As a publicist and PR coach, the first big challenge with any book is figuring out how it is unique. After all, it comes as no surprise that there is a lot of activity in
There is an old saying that “timing is everything,” and in the world of publicity that couldn’t be more true. Timing is everything, yet what I find more and more is that many people assume
An important part of your own content generation, You Media, is having a media room on your website. This is a special, defined space that features the content media would use to develop a story
Books are the greatest gift of all time. Whether you love to curl up with a book on the back deck as the sun is setting in the west, or you prefer to load all
In my quest to help authors become Media Darlings, there are common questions that come up, and today seems like a good day to share some of those questions along with the answers. One of
Many authors come to me perplexed by what they need to do to market and publicize their books. Because they feel unsure, many suffer from overwhelm, procrastination, frustration, and sometimes just a low level of