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Category Archives: Social Media
10 Things To Say in a Guest Blog Post
photo credit By Brian Feinblum, Senior Vice President and Marketing Officer To get media coverage in today’s world of book publishing one of the things the more successful authors do is write guest posts for many blogs who are open … Continue reading
Posted in Public Relations, Social Media
Tagged author, blog, blogger, book publicity, contribute, guest contributor, guest post, writer
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Social Media Traffic Times, the Best and the Worst Times to Post
photo credit By Brian Feinblum, Senior Vice President and Marketing Officer The key questions on social media are: Which sites should you post on , and how often? What type of content should you share? And what time of day … Continue reading
Posted in Social Media
Tagged brian feinblum, facebook, Social Media, social media traffic, twitter
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The Lit Has Hit The Fan (Fiction)
photo credit By Dee Donavanik, Publicity Director Has fan fiction officially become mainstream? The buzz over Fifty Shades of Grey has finally died down a bit, but with an upcoming movie in production it’s still making the occasional headline. By … Continue reading
Personality Quiz: What Social Media Network Are You?
photo credit By Anna Patrick, Associate Digital Publicist Sure, you’ve Tweeted, put up a Facebook status, updated your Instagram and LinkedIn. In a 2012 poll 58 percent of people surveyed said that they used social media, and that was two years … Continue reading
Book Trailers Blaze Across Screens of Potential Readers: Do They Flame or Fizzle?
By Anna Patrick, Associate Digital Publicist When a new movie first starts generating buzz, what is the first thing that pops up when you Google the title? The movie trailer. So many authors and publishing practitioners in the book world … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Public Relations, publishing, Social Media
Tagged alex karpovsky, Amazon, anna patrick, authors, book, book publicity, book trailer, book trailer promotion, book trailers, book trailers for readers, books, brief, buzzfeed, fiction, gary shteyngart, goodreads, google, great book trailers, how to promote book trailers, james franco, joe mccormack, jonathan franzen, journalists, little failure, media connect, memoir, new york city book publicity firm, non-fiction, penuin random house, rashida jones, rumpus, scott dominic carpenter, sloane crosley, theory of remainders, wiley, winter goose publishing
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MEDIA CONNECT Reflects on the 2014 Soundview Author Summit
David Hahn, Managing Director, Brian Feinblum, Chief Marketing Officer, and Anna Patrick, Assistant Digital Publicist, attended the 2014 Soundview Author Summit in Atlanta last month. The summit, which began on Sunday, January 12, and ran through Tuesday, January 14, brought … Continue reading
Meet our MEDIA CONNECT Team: Anna Patrick
In this week’s Meet MEDIA CONNECT profile we spotlight assistant digital publicist Anna Patrick. MEDIA CONNECT: Is there a person or event that shaped you to be who you are today? How so? Anna Patrick: I would say that aside … Continue reading
Meet our MEDIA CONNECT Team: Johanna Dickson
In this week’s Meet MEDIA CONNECT profile we spotlight digital publicist Johanna Dickson. MEDIA CONNECT: If you weren’t promoting books, what would you be doing? Johanna Dickson: I’d be a human rights lawyer. My dad is a lawyer … Continue reading
A Branded Author For Life
photo credit By MEDIA CONNECT Chief Marketing Officer Brian Feinblum The terms “platform,” “brand” and “marketability” are tossed around in the book publishing industry, often by people who do not really know much about these things. Literary agents rarely … Continue reading
Posted in Media, publishing, Social Media
Tagged author, brand, brand creation, branding, marketing, publishing
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Mailbox Monday: September 17
September is the month of change – a change in season, a change in routines (back-to-school!), and as book publicists we see a rapid change of activity in the publishing industry (fall releases!). Needless to say, there’s a plethora of exciting … Continue reading
Posted in General, Media, Public Relations, publishing, Social Media, Uncategorized
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