by Christina George | Apr 22, 2013 | Musings of a New York Publicist
I know I kvetch a lot about author expectations, best seller lists, and the downhill spiral traditional publishing is on, and well, so much more, but this weekend I was reminded that it’s sometimes so much simpler than that. I was at another author event this past...
by Christina George | Apr 13, 2013 | Industry stuff
Like any industry, publishing gets its share of buzz words. The problem with buzz words is that they quickly become overused and you go from what started as a great key word, search, and PR term for a publicity campaign to something that makes you sound like a...
by Christina George | Apr 8, 2013 | Things that make me go hmmmm
A client came to me this weekend with an issue. And it’s a weird one, well, at least not one the average, sane reader would expect, but of course it’s nothing I haven’t dealt with before. So the client that called me this weekend, just as I sat down to coffee with a...
by Christina George | Mar 30, 2013 | Musings of a New York Publicist
So it seems France, thanks to their Culture Minister, is taking some very deliberate steps to ensure the “digital age in publishing” doesn’t completely wipe out their physical bookstores. New budget allowances are making funds available for loans, which will be...
by Christina George | Mar 17, 2013 | Musings of a New York Publicist
When I first heard that E.L. James, the Fifty Shade of Grey author, is publishing a writing guide I literally spit out my coffee. Which also made a mess of my desk and kind of made me hate her even more – irrational as that may be. Fifty Shades of Grey: Inner Goddess...