Yesterday on her blog, Tayari Jones, author of the much-lauded novel Leaving Atlanta, interviewed her New York City-based Internet publicist, the brilliant and hardworking Lauren Cerand--- I know Lauren is brilliant and hardworking because she was my publicist for my audio CD "The Essential Francisco Sosa or, Picadou's Mexico City." (A portion of all sales of my CD go to benefit Presencia Animal, a Mexico City dog and cat rescue organization. They're doing desperately needed work.) And on the subject of PR, two blogs I highly recommend to my fellow book floggers: Joan Stewart's Publicity Hound and M.J. Rose's Buzz, Balls & Hype. Peter Handel is one of my very favorite book publicists--- he's worked on Miraculous Air, Tameme, and Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion--- and yep, he's got a blog, Rejection Is My Middle Name. Such is the life in the book biz... I guess... but Peter seems to be having a good time in Oaxaca... More anon.
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Some PR for the Publicists: Lauren Cerand, Peter Handel, et al
Yesterday on her blog, Tayari Jones, author of the much-lauded novel Leaving Atlanta, interviewed her New York City-based Internet publicist, the brilliant and hardworking Lauren Cerand--- I know Lauren is brilliant and hardworking because she was my publicist for my audio CD "The Essential Francisco Sosa or, Picadou's Mexico City." (A portion of all sales of my CD go to benefit Presencia Animal, a Mexico City dog and cat rescue organization. They're doing desperately needed work.) And on the subject of PR, two blogs I highly recommend to my fellow book floggers: Joan Stewart's Publicity Hound and M.J. Rose's Buzz, Balls & Hype. Peter Handel is one of my very favorite book publicists--- he's worked on Miraculous Air, Tameme, and Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion--- and yep, he's got a blog, Rejection Is My Middle Name. Such is the life in the book biz... I guess... but Peter seems to be having a good time in Oaxaca... More anon.
