In this week’s Publishers Weekly we wrote an article for the Soapbox section that provides publicity and marketing tips and advice for authors who don’t deserve to get lost in the shuffle. This advice is especially important now, after the recent announcement of the merger of Random House and Penguin. Please read the article:
Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer
Caroline Stoessinger, author of A CENTURY OF WISDOM: Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the World’s Oldest Living Holocaust Survivor, just announced that all profits from book sales between now and 12/31/12 will go towards the Alice Herz-Sommer Scholarship Fund at the Music Academy of Jerusalem. In this inspiring book, Alice shares with Caroline her extraordinary story and message of humanity, hope, the
importance of music, long life and peace. A perfect message as we start the holiday season!
Is the Book Business Dead?
A very interesting artilce in the New York Times about the merger of Random House and Penguin and the future of the publishing industry. An important read: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/magazine/penguin-random-house-merger.html
Best Books of the Year
What are your favorite books of 2012? Amazon just released their top 100 picks for 2012. See if your favorites made the list: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/5916596011/ref=surl_boty2012.
Jen’s looking forward to speaking at the 2nd Annual Compleat Biographers Conference in Washington, DC at the National Press Club on Saturday (5/21). She’ll be talking about How to Hire an Independent Publicist with Erin Cox from Rob Weisbach Creative Management.
She’s looking forward to meeting an impressive roster of biographers, too, including:
- Algeo, Matthew The President is a Sick Man
- Brown , Ellen Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind
- Buford, Kate Native American Son
- Eig, Jonathan Get Capone
- Farrell, John A. Clarence Darrow
- Haygood, Wil Sweet Thunger: Life & Time of Sugar Ray Robinson
- Heller, Anne Ayn Rand and the World She Made
- Kelley, Kitty Oprah
- Leavy, Jane The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End
- Leepson, Marc Lafayette: Lessons in Leadership From the Idealist General
- Morris, James McGrath Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power
- Powers, Thomas The Killing of Crazy Horse
- Schiff, Stacy Cleopatra
