tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post262641667734943869..comments2024-03-07T17:13:54.927-05:00Comments on A Fuse #8 Production: Podcast Edition: Busy Busy Tuesdayfusenumber8http://www.blogger.com/profile/16216979020263363698noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-28415894016829752022007-05-11T20:52:00.000-04:002007-05-11T20:52:00.000-04:00Sorry I missed Kidlit Night! Glad to hear you had...Sorry I missed Kidlit Night! Glad to hear you had fun.Sarah Beth Dursthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02737767256346262893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-73103472817943563342007-05-10T13:11:00.000-04:002007-05-10T13:11:00.000-04:00Dunno if I want to go the make-publicity-people-sh...Dunno if I want to go the make-publicity-people-shudder route. Seems a bit counterproductive. <BR/><BR/>As it stands, this may sound funny but I don't think I'm in the best person to say which publishers do or do not promote their materials well. I'm looking at all of this from the standpoint of your average librarian. I get noticed a little more than other people, but my position within the library system is relatively low. So really, I don't get all the press packets and invites there are. I don't know how a book like "Un Dun Lun" ends up on the New York Times Bestseller list. And (most importantly) the bookseller component is completely foreign to me. Library promotion, after all, only accounts for a smidgen of the publicity whole. What I would LOVE to read would be a kidlit marketing blog, but that's probably an impossible wish. <BR/><BR/>I mean, I know what I know. I know which New York publishers are smart and reach out to librarians. And I know which publishers around the country hardly get any press (Top Shelf, Simply Read Books, etc.) yet churn out remarkable material year after year. But unless I had a job that allowed me to get a good look at the whole picture, I couldn't really speak to this point.<BR/><BR/>Fun idea though.<BR/><BR/>And for the record, Laura, Aerosoles kick ass. Seriously.fusenumber8https://www.blogger.com/profile/16216979020263363698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-12166579048422251662007-05-10T13:05:00.000-04:002007-05-10T13:05:00.000-04:00I so wish I had been able to make the Gregory Roge...I so wish I had been able to make the Gregory Rogers lunch!!! I love his new one..."Midsummer Knight"?<BR/><BR/>And thanks for the shout-out. We were a tad rowdy, weren't we? And Lori had those groovy boots on, I believe. I work with women who have superior taste in footwear...making my addiction to Aerosoles SO sad and 30-something-ish! Anyhoo, you know when the manager of the pizza place is "shh"-ing the librarians, you're pretty crazy.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for a fantastic time! I'm supremely jealous that you were in bed at a reasonable hour!Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15894879798051029183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-24904365619940077842007-05-10T11:54:00.000-04:002007-05-10T11:54:00.000-04:00Say, Fuse, since we hear often from you about publ...Say, Fuse, since we hear often from you about publisher-sponsored fêtes and balls and lunches and publicity, and since you seem wise beyond your years in these matters, I wonder, as an author/illustrator who, naturally, doesn’t think that his books are marketed with sufficient vigor, if we could sometime hear from you which houses you think do a good job promoting books, which houses don’t, and what an author/illustrator can reasonably expect or request of a house? Ads, postcards, free meals to key peoples, etc.? Your author/illustrator readers would love to read this sort of thing, and your publicity department readers would shudder to have these matters divulged, so it would be a win-win piece for you. Thanks!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-37114492836390160662007-05-10T09:50:00.000-04:002007-05-10T09:50:00.000-04:00If those riced potato fries are what I think they ...If those riced potato fries are what I think they are, you cut them into bite-sized pieces and either eat them alone or with a piece of steak. Last time I saw them there was a sauce that went with both, like chi-chi wet fries.david elzeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16653215150526146224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-65264364500250196572007-05-10T08:04:00.000-04:002007-05-10T08:04:00.000-04:00Aw, pshaw, Betsy. It was all you!Aw, pshaw, Betsy. It was all you!Cherylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05972029478350879112noreply@blogger.com