Innovative Book Promotion
Over at Omnivoracious, there is a video of Miranda July interviewing a copy of her own book. Yes, that's right. She is interviewing her book.
This, right on the heels of Sloane Crosley's diorama gimmick to promote her new book, is making me wonder if a new trend is developing. Are we going to see more and more authors doing performance-type pieces as a way of promoting their books? Or is this kind of thing going to be limited to humour essayists and quirky artists? Because I'd really like to see Richard Dawkins do a mime skit as promotion for The God Delusion, say, or Barbara Walters tap dancing for Audition. We've had more than enough talk from both of them over the years.
If you have any innovative promotion ideas for other books, please do share in the comments.
Not particularly helpful, but have you seen the YouTube video for Book Launch 2.0?
Hmmmm TypePad doesn't like my HTML so here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxschLOAr-s
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Posted by: Jacinda | May 16, 2008 at 03:09 PM