Comments on: Meet In-house Publicity Assistant Kathryn Tumen

By: April@Fantasy&SciFiAudioBooks

April@Fantasy&SciFiAudioBooks — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:22:24 +0000

Great post! Thank you for sharing!=))

By: Kathryn Tumen

Kathryn Tumen — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:59:33 +0000

Hi Michelle – Mainstream papers and publications, especially those in large metropolitan areas rarely show any interest in genre romance, unless the author is very popular and local to the area. We do, however, have great luck with several popular trade publications like Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Romantic Times Book World. Online media outlets have also shown a huge interest in genre romance lately.

Hi Sasha – I’m glad you dropped in to comment. You are always welcome to contact your in-house publicist! We love to work with authors and appreciate their feedback. As an author, you have the right to know what’s happening on the publicity front. Regarding your question about advertising, it usually does not have an affect on our publicity efforts. We’re going to work to promote your book whether you advertise or not. I hope this helps!

By: Sasha White

Sasha White — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:09:30 +0000

Hi Kathryn, I ‘m so glad to see this interview. I’ve been with Berkley for over three years now, and have only ever had contact with in house publicity once. (And that was you actually, just recently.)

In the question above about how does an author get to work with you, you replied that scheduling is done in house. Does this mean that if I’ve never been contacted before, and it’s never been suggested by my editor to contact anyone in publicity, that I just leave it alone?

Also, if an author is spending a fair amount on publicity, like magazine ads and such, does that effect what /how you do things on your end?

By: Estella

Estella — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:37:42 +0000

Wow! A lot of work goes into promoting a book.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:03:25 +0000

This was very interesting. Do you have much luck getting romance reviews in local/mainstream press? I live in the DC area and can only think of one time that Bookworld ever included romance reviews – though they do occassionally review other genre fiction.