{"id":405,"date":"2007-11-08T06:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=405"},"modified":"2007-11-08T06:11:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T11:11:00","slug":"journalists-v-book-publicists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2007\/11\/08\/journalists-v-book-publicists\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalists v. Book Publicists"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>It is a truth universally acknowledged that writers often express mixed feelings about publicists–their own, and others’. (If you’re reading this, Cheryl, I love you. I honestly truly do!) <\/p>\n

Yesterday, Marci Alboher of NYTimes blog Shifting Careers<\/a> fame posted an excellent list<\/a> of “Do’s” and “Don’ts” for publicists–aka other authors’ publicists–who seek her attention. Marci is my hero. It’s really a very good list.<\/p>\n

(Note: Marci’s post is inspired by Wired magazine editor and book author Chris Anderson’s, which has inspired much ado<\/a>. You see, Anderson very publicly published a list of e-mail addresses of publicists he never wants to hear from again.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is a truth universally acknowledged that writers often express mixed feelings about publicists–their own, and others’. (If you’re reading this, Cheryl, I love you. I honestly truly do!) Yesterday, Marci Alboher of NYTimes blog Shifting Careers fame posted an excellent list of “Do’s” and “Don’ts” for publicists–aka other authors’ publicists–who seek her attention. Marci […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21941],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-writing-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}