Author Success Story: Getting Local Publicity for Memoirs
― Guest post by Dennis Foley ∙ May 1st was the official release of my new book, The Drunkard's Son, a Chicago Story. About six weeks before the release date, I contacted a number of newspaper columnists and radio hosts in the Chicago area to gauge their interest in the book. Two media people who I had interviews with about seven years ago when my first book came out asked for copies of the new book and for interviews. ∙ As a result, columnist Mark Brown of the Chicago Sun-Times ran [...].
