MEMBER BLOG TAG: promotion
| Thursday, September 17, 2009 11:43AM | | | | As we all know, persistence counts | Tags: animal rights, Holocaust, PEN, Eternal Treblinka, persistence, promotion, marketing, Queens
| | | There's nothing more important than perseverance. It's what every PEN member knows. Without it none of us would be here.
On Thursday (9/24) I'll be interviewed on Queens Public Television (QPTV), 8-9 pm about my book, ETERNAL TREBLINKA: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust.
While it's now in its third printing and has been translated into 13 languages, its beginning was decidedly ignominious: 83 publishers rejected it before it finally saw the light of day.
One night at a PEN gathering when I told some people about the lengths I had to go to find an agent, including putting together a 20-page marketing plan one of them demanded, the cartoonist Stan Mack was so amused he asked me if he... | | | | | | | Sunday, April 29, 2007 2:13AM | | | | Pissing and Moaning | Tags: Iran, Africa, Believer, Humor, falafel, censorship, self-promotion
| | | | Barnaby Sandwich has been kept up several nights running by what sounds like an orgy of rats in his sheet rock; and he recently learned the hard way that sauerkraut and sour cream do not mix; but despite sleeplessness and a stomach amok, he has pressed his way through half a dozen more PEN events, among them “Every Day in Africa,” “Voices from Today’s Iran,” “Humor Out of Context,” and “A Believer Nighttime Event.” The good people of PEN have worked hard to assemble a massive and impressive festival of dozens of events and hundreds of people, that must necessarily bridge a variety of tastes and sensibilities; and the same good people have been known, not incidentally, to stand Barnaby to a bowl of... | | | | | |
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