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It would be hard for me to give any meaningful advice since you had me halfway through the title. I even made a note in my calendar for April 2009 that your bo
by pchristensen 18y ago
It would be hard for me to give any meaningful advice since you had me halfway through the title. I even made a note in my calendar for April 2009 that your book was coming out and I need to buy it. (this was when it was on your blog last week).
I would see if you can get on "geek" media: geek.tv, NPR's Science Friday, etc. Science Friday had a 20 minute talk with the people that wrote "My Nuclear Family Vacation" where they visited nuclear history sites.
Not sure if it's in the budget, but you should go to any of the places you can and do a little 2 min video about it, with info about the book in the fade-out. Put them on youtube and on the book site.
Definitely have a site for the book, preferably with a decent blog. This lets people find out more about the book and lets you give periodic reminders that it exists and should be bought. See "Permission Marketing" for more details.
Anyways, good luck and I can't wait until it comes out in April!
- jgrahamc 18y agoI really like the YouTube idea. The plan is to have a dedicated web site for the book (O'Reilly did buy geekatlas.com). Thank you for the suggestions.
- pchristensen 18y agoI was thinking about it some more and you should probably just look for everywhere where "Nuclear Family Vacation" has been featured and contact them. They did all the marketing research already, follow in their draft! http://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-Family-Vacation-Travels-Weaponry/dp/1596913789 http://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-Family-Vacation-Travels-Weapon...