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04/30/2005 Archived Entry: "Chris Holmes on Book Publicity"

Chris Holmes tells some tales from his days as a book publicist, inspired by an ill-informed column in the Bainbridge Islander. Much Erica Jong and Edna O'Brien action! "When I let it be known that I was bringing over Woodward and Bernstein for the launch of Secker & Warbug's UK edition of All the President's Men, I was inundated with offers and invitations and had to decide the precise sequence of coverage, not just between TV chat shows but radio and press interviews. A highly sensitive pecking order exists between the various media and publishers ride roughshod over it at their peril."