Author Archives: Bonnie Harris

Bonnie has been marketing, promoting and managing services and products for more than 20 years.

Getting Bloggers to Promote Your Book

Authors, don’t think about using bloggers to promote your book. Think about building long term relationships with bloggers to help sell a lifetime of books.

When Media Say No, Don’t Take it Personally

A book is probably the greatest thing in the world – to its author. But when an editor or producer says “pass” it’s the publicist who has to tell the client. Sometimes ZERO media are interested. And for anyone who has written a book that can be a pretty personally hurtful message no matter how carefully it’s couched. For me, it’s the equivalent of having to tell clients “your baby is ugly” 95% of the time, without hurting their feelings. Nearly impossible.

10 Steps to Pitching Radio

Commercial radio stations are facing a terrible downturn in advertising – that means they have a lot more space to fill. And THAT means more opportunity for authors to get in front of listeners.