I know I am not the only journalist who gets incredibly frustrated with publicity departments. It is why I tell authors to take control of their own publicity if they haven’t been made a priority by their publicist ( before anyone says, there are some superb publicists out there. Don’t,
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Hadley Freeman in the Groaniad has written in shock that Jordan is outselling the Booker shortlist. Well bend me over backwards and hit me with a kipper. I never would have guessed. As anyone who ever talks to publishers or even occasionally looks through the bestseller charts will be able
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Independent on Sunday 23 September 2007 Lynda La Plante is raging. She is furious, her temper as fiery as her flame red hair. “How many Romanians are in? How many Polish are in?” she splutters in the midst of a diatribe about the NHS, over-crowded prisons and illegal immigration. “They
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I spoke at the Publishers Publicity Circle the other week about blogging. As I don’t see myself as a blogger I spoke very much from the viewpoint of someone who writes about the industry. There are better and more interesting people out there doing the real blogging. The PPC asked
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The Independent If there were an award for the most misleading book title this year, my money would be on the poet Lavinia Greenlaw’s The Importance of Music to Girls. Because any woman – or girl – who expects the memoir to be an unholy coupling of Nick Hornby’s High
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I have some strange conversations in my job. Today involved one in which a radio station exec told me about a James Blunt gig he ran: “Yeah,” he said. “I know James Blunt…but every girl thought he was great and every boy thought he was a wanker, but then he
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Clare emailed me about how she should go appointing a PR agency for her new novel. It is a question I am asked a lot, so thought it worth writing about it. My main piece of advice is that before handing over any cash, you should really do your home
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Orion Books If ever geneticist Stephen Pinker gets his hands on Duncan Bannatyne’s DNA, I am certain he will find entrepreneurship oozing from the multimillionaire businessman’s genes. Because even as a five-year-old, the fiercest dragon in the BBC’s famous Dragon’s Den had a determination to make money. “I just wanted
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Media Week News of the World’s Sunday magazine is to have its name changed as part of a relaunch later this year. The magazine’s Big On TV supplement and lucrative mail order ads will also be axed, as the magazine repositions itself within the celebrity weekly market. “They want to
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Media Week 04-Sep-07 A much anticipated revamp is under way at the News of the World’s Sunday magazine. Danuta Kean explores how supplements contribute to their host newspapers’ brand identity, copy sales and advertising. The News of the World’s decision to revamp its ailing Sunday magazine – perhaps the worst
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