Polishing up Your Media Releases with "The Frugal Book Promoter"

The Frugal Book Promoter
By Carolyn Howard-Johnson
ISBN 193299310X
Star Publish
Pages 282 Includes Index
Winner USA Book News Best Book Award, and Book Publicists of Southern California's Irwin Award


Reviewed by Author and Radio Host Constance M. Gotsch

As the program director for a public radio station, thrice-published author, and publicist for a couple of arts organizations in my home town, I deal with releases all the time. Some of the people who send me stuff should read The Frugal Book Promoter. Carolyn Howard-Johnson is full of ideas on how to focus promotions, and how to make them attractive to any medium--radio, TV, the net, print, and more. To grasp all the information she's managed to pack into 243 pages, counting the index, would take multiple readings.

Though aimed mostly at authors The Frugal Book Promoter can be useful to anyone doing publicity. Ms. Howard-Johnson's ideas adapt as well to the Red Cross as they do to a hot romance to read in the airport.

The Frugal Book Promoter will be a dog-eared reference on my writer's shelf both at work and at home until it falls apart from over work, and I have to spring for a new copy.
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