Is that an orca in the tub?

[pbray]

In conjunction with this weekend's booksigning, jennifer_dunne, jpsorrow and I had sent out a joint press release. As our hook we stressed the friends angle, in that we originally met at Waldenbooks, formed a critique group (the infamous Hard Lemonade Science Fiction Society) and now are returning to the scene of our first meeting to sign copies of our books.

In Boston, LA or Miami it would have been circular-filed. Here we have a full column in today's paper in the weekend entertainment section, and are booked to appear on the local evening news tomorrow.

One of the advantages of being a big fish in a small pond, or in this case, three medium-sized fish in the pond. As well as credit to a well-written press release.

Comments

[janni.livejournal.com]

I was once talking to a group of writers about press releases and such, most of them from areas with high concentrations of writers (Boston, NYC, etc.), and they were talking about how you had to have an angle for your release. I blinked once or twice at that, because I was thinking, "Isn't being a local writer enough?"

Not in Boston or NYC it isn't. Even here an angle definitely helps ... but yeah, being in a place that isn't completely writer saturated has its benefits.

(Though these days, the challenge around here often seems to be explaining that you're not one of the thousands of self-published local writers, and that not being self-published actually has some significance ...)

[pbray.livejournal.com]

It's one of my quibbles with people who give "One Size Fits All" marketing advice. What works for me as a writer in upstate New York isn't necessarily going to work in Boston or vice versa. It's really trial and error, and learning that the best ideas may come from writers who are in similar geographic locations.