Re: RElease Dates

**"* P* <s*@hvi.net>**

Tom,
Where did you get an email list of "several thousand" newspaper and magazine 
editors?  Mailing ddresses are easy - but email, that's another story.
Suzanne Pierot
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Ogren" <tloallergyfree@earthlink.net>
To: "Dan Clost" <dan.clost@sympatico.ca>; "Garden Writers -- GWL -- The 
Garden Writers Forum" <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 9:18 PM
Subject: Re: [GWL] RElease Dates


> Dan,
>
>   First of all, sounds like congratulations are in order!!
> Best time to release a new book...springtime or just before Christmas? 
> When
> my first garden book came out, or before it did, I emailed several 
> thousand
> newspaper and magazine editors and lined up a ton of people wanting to see
> review copies....ended up getting hundreds of reviews, articles, etc. from
> that mammoth effort.
>   Seems like worth doing...the only problem I had, which was considerable,
> was that the publisher didn't actually get the book in print on the date
> they'd promised...editors kept moving on to greener pastures, etc...and by
> the time it actually was in print, I'd had five editors on the book.
>  But yeah, if you can time it right...you can prime the pump and make a
> pretty good splash.
> So, what's the title???
> Tom
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Clost" <dan.clost@sympatico.ca>
> To: "Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum"
> <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 6:02 PM
> Subject: [GWL] RElease Dates
>
>
>> Hello all you terribly rich and successful garden writers. (The not so
> rich
>> but still making good dollars at it are also invited to respond.)
>>
>> Is there a "best" time to release a gardening book?
>>
>> I suspect how-to's would be just before the start of the gardening season
> in
>> the local marketing area.
>> For reading/thinking stuff perhaps  late fall/ start of "festive holiday"
>> shopping season but I can't find any information to say yes or no.
>>
>> Twenty years from now, when I'm an overnight success, I want to be able 
>> to
>> look back at this e-mail as the starting point of my famous-idityness. I
>> promise to mention each and everyone of you as the reason for it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dan
>>
>> Dan Clost
>> The Good Earth Columnist
>> dan.clost@sympatico.ca
>>
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