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Interesting piece in today's New York Times about writers taking promotional book "tours" via blogs:
The Author Will Take Q.’s Now
By KARA JESELLA
Published: September 2, 2007
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Bloggers have written about books since, well, the beginning of blogging. But a blog book tour usually requires an author or publicist to take the initiative, reaching out to bloggers as if they were booksellers and asking them to be the host for a writer’s online visit. Sometimes bloggers invite authors on their own. In an age of budget-conscious publishers and readers who are as likely to discover books from a Google search as from browsing at a bookstore, the blog book tour makes sense. Although a few high-profile authors have had their books sent to bloggers — James Patterson recently promoted a young-adult book this way — most of the authors are lesser-known and less likely to be reviewed in the mainstream press.
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Neuroscience
Promoting Academic Writing
Interesting piece in today's New York Times about writers taking promotional book "tours" via blogs:
The Author Will Take Q.’s Now
By KARA JESELLA
Published: September 2, 2007
[snip]
Bloggers have written about books since, well, the beginning of blogging. But a blog book tour usually requires an author or publicist to take the initiative, reaching out to bloggers as if they were booksellers and asking them to be the host for a writer’s online visit. Sometimes bloggers invite authors on their own. In an age of budget-conscious publishers and readers who are as likely to discover books from a Google search as from browsing at a bookstore, the blog book tour makes sense. Although a few high-profile authors have had their books sent to bloggers — James Patterson recently promoted a young-adult book this way — most of the authors are lesser-known and less likely to be reviewed in the mainstream press.
[snip]
[ Read the full article ... ]
- Bloggers Behind The Blogs: Wray Herbert
This is part of an ongoing series of interviews with some of the world's leading psychology and neuroscience bloggers. Last up, Wray Herbert of We're Only Human, Full Frontal Psychology and the Huffington Post. How did you become a psychology/neuroscience...
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This is part of an ongoing series of interviews with some of the world's leading psychology and neuroscience bloggers. Next up, Neuroskeptic of the Neuroskeptic blog. How did you become a psychology/neurosci blogger? I'd long had an interest in...
- The Three-pound Enigma By Shannon Moffett
Received my copy of this new book today. Looks great! It was reviewed in Sunday's Washington Post, along with two other new neuroscience books: Read the review here. And, up in March, a book by Eric Kandel. Good times for neuroscience books written...
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