Category Archives: Marketing

Old new media

OK, so it’s an ad, but it’s only 1 min long. I like the “amazing pen-tip interface.”

Literacy signing a hit

Here’s some of us waiting to get in.

Here’s about half of the floor. Sales totaled more than $60,000, all for charity.

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters

OMG – How can my little stories compete?

At RWA: ‘Readers for life’

On Wednesday, the Romance Writers of America national conference opens its doors to the public from 5:30 to 7:30 pm for its annual “Readers for Life” mega-autographing session. Buy books! Get them signed by one of 500 romance-loving authors! The money goes to ProLiteracy Worldwide. It is free (except for the books you buy, of [...]

Be an Early Reviewer: Treating the Brain

Here’s another chance to read and review a Dana Press book before it’s released to the general public. July’s title is TREATING THE BRAIN: WHAT THE BEST DOCTORS KNOW, by top neuroscientist Walter Bradley.

Even in this information age, people dealing with often-serious neurological problems face the daunting task of finding accurate, credible and understandable information—the [...]

RWA: Nationals is local

This year, the Romance Writers of America holds its national convention in my own back yard. In less than two weeks, July 15 through 18, the happy horde will land in Washington at the Wardman Marriott Park Hotel for workshops, parties, industry panels and the big awards ceremony. First, there’s a huge public booksigning event, [...]

Potential for Error

These are about one-third of the books for sale at the Learning & the Brain conference this weekend in DC. It’s a great conference (which the Dana Foundation helps sponsor), but I was appalled at the number of how-to teaching and learning books that have “Brain” in the title (and what isn’t a “brain-compatible activity”?). [...]

Title-storming, part two

[see part one below]
More choices:
…Sheets, Scandal Sheets, Press, News …
Press Relations
Miss Delancey and the Publisher, The Persistent Publisher, The Lady and the Publisher
Passion’s Secret, Passion’s Truth
Melody of Desire, Desire’s Melody
Scales of Scandal
Truth, Justice, and the Lady
Truth, Justice—or the Lady
The Lady and the Scribbler, Scribbling and Giggling
Miss Delancey and the Tall Tale, Miss Delancey’s White Lies
A [...]

Dose of publishing reality

Over on the GenReality blog this week, multipublished author Lynn Viehl breaks down her first royalty statement for her book TWILIGHT FALL, which hit NYT’s mass-market best-seller list last July. It’s quite the eye-opener, starting with the fact that one doesn’t see the first royalty check until more than 9 months after the book is [...]

Fresh face in Northern Calif politics

Like me, many of my journalist friends find themselves following a “non-traditional” path as the newspaper industry crumbles. Adriel Hampton, whom I worked with at the San Francisco Examiner (when it was owned by the Fangs), moved into government as an investigator for the city attorney’s office and now is on the vanguard of the [...]