“Media” Releases

Another step in the process, as you near the release of your book, is the press media release. Marvin made a great point in his comment to this post. He mentioned that it should now be referred to as a media release because the media includes far more than the “press.” I like that term, so will refer to it as a Media Release from now on.

It was funny, the other day I was emailing back and forth with someone about a feature she wanted to do about my books in her magazine. She asked me if my press release had been written. Since I wasn’t sure if it had been completed yet, I said I’d find out. The very second that I hit “send” on that email, I received an email in my inbox from my publicist at Barbour Publishing in which she asked me to answer some questions for the press release that she was working on. Uncanny timing!

So, basically, I just filled out an author Q & A and from that, Angie put together an awesome (in my opinion) media release. Since I promised to bring you along on this journey, I linked to it so you could see just what it looks like.

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