The thing I love about this approach so much is how accessible it feels. (If also how totally exhausting.) A while ago, I started a doc with all the podcasts/newsletters I run into related to themes in the memoir I'm working on so I could potentially pitch them one day, and it got long fast. It's comforting to have!
Love this Cassie! So glad the energy is shifting - new birth is always hard (it comes with the death of the old) but this is a beautiful time to be a book lover and writer.
How do you keep all of this in your head all of the time? It must be a volcano in there. Amazing thoughts, amazing writing. You will always get where you want to go, because you just don't give up.
For those of us with tiny presses, it's all about local. My second novel launched in May, and I've had such lovely coverage in indie media, a local NPR book podcast, bookstore newsletters, and other writers' blogs and Substacks. I've had packed rooms for author talks in multiple cities where I have personal connections and history. It may not be the NY Times, but it's very satisfying.
Your list of placements at the end (each substack newsletter) proves your point repeatedly. You know how to tell a book's story and you know who wants to listen. My Life in Paper, your work on it, is a testament to that. Miss you.
THIS. >>So, my connections to media are less important than say—my ability to tell a good story about a book, to create an atmosphere around a book, to understand what conversation should be created and what could get us there.<<
Not the point of your post (my comments never are), but: I had my 10th birthday party at the Scrap Exchange and it remains a highlight of my childhood!
As always, love your energy, enthusiasm, and smarts! Also, love that necklace!!
Me too.
I owe you an email and I am on family vacation!! So, I’ll be back to you monday, we are going to DO IT!!!
No rush! Have fun on your (deserved) vacation--though, it may be you'll want a separate vacation to recover from the family vacation, lol.
The thing I love about this approach so much is how accessible it feels. (If also how totally exhausting.) A while ago, I started a doc with all the podcasts/newsletters I run into related to themes in the memoir I'm working on so I could potentially pitch them one day, and it got long fast. It's comforting to have!
yes, long fast! There is actually SO MUCH out there that there’s no reason for us to feel competitive AND/OR exhaustive!
Love this Cassie! So glad the energy is shifting - new birth is always hard (it comes with the death of the old) but this is a beautiful time to be a book lover and writer.
It really is! there’s so much richness to be found across so many types of publishing too!
How do you keep all of this in your head all of the time? It must be a volcano in there. Amazing thoughts, amazing writing. You will always get where you want to go, because you just don't give up.
For those of us with tiny presses, it's all about local. My second novel launched in May, and I've had such lovely coverage in indie media, a local NPR book podcast, bookstore newsletters, and other writers' blogs and Substacks. I've had packed rooms for author talks in multiple cities where I have personal connections and history. It may not be the NY Times, but it's very satisfying.
🎉🎉🎉 indie books are mostly all I work on (like 90%) and it’s such a satisfying space!
Books more than ever!
I find this encouragement to take up the small opportunities very hopeful. Thank you.
Love the reveling in the scraps take! I feel like that's my MO.
Your list of placements at the end (each substack newsletter) proves your point repeatedly. You know how to tell a book's story and you know who wants to listen. My Life in Paper, your work on it, is a testament to that. Miss you.
<3 this means so much to me and you bet I saw Philadelphia on those Foreword Awards big and beautiful!!!!
SO lucky. SO blessed. Thank you for noticing that!
Cheers to scraps and whosacahoots! And this whole post
I think that’s my children’s book title! LOL
Love this, and the nod to improv's "yes, and..." at the end. (My client Randy Fertel writes about the power of improv!)
Ah yes! So many improv techniques in publicity, I think. That ability to both land and to pivot, and timing!
THIS. >>So, my connections to media are less important than say—my ability to tell a good story about a book, to create an atmosphere around a book, to understand what conversation should be created and what could get us there.<<
I really think this is where we’re at!
old formulas? Established long ago by businessMEN. You have great insights and a great outlook. Thank you for writing this.
Judith, I’m so happy to see you here!!!
Not the point of your post (my comments never are), but: I had my 10th birthday party at the Scrap Exchange and it remains a highlight of my childhood!