Whether publishing with a commercial house or a small press, emerging authors often play a lead role in publicizing their own books—debut novelists Terry McMillan, Carol Ascher, and Janice Eidus offer their advice.
January/February 1988
Features
Publicizing Your Commercially-Published Novel
How this first novelist helped the publicist promote her book.
Publicizing Your Small-Press Novel
Publications from small presses are now getting more mainstream attention; these authors tell how they made sure their books were widely- publicized.
Emerson & Twain & Poets' Corner
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Mark Twain are the most recent writers inducted into Poets' Corner.
News
Poet Margaret Randall vs. the McCarren-Walter Act; Emerson and Twain are inducted into the Poets' Corner; future arts funding uncertain.
The Trick Is Targeting
An interview with marketing-expert Judith Appelbaum.
The Night the Ghost Didn't Get In
The first writer-in-residence at the Thurber House tells his version of a James Thurber classic.