The Publicity Hound’s
\nTips of the Week
\nIssue #685 Jan. 26, 2013
\nPublisher: Joan Stewart<\/p>\n
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“Tips, Tricks and Tools for Free Publicity”<\/p>\n
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In This Issue
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1. Your Book Turned into a Movie<\/p>\n
2. Pinterest Contests<\/p>\n
3. New Posts at My Blog<\/p>\n
4. Hound Story of the Week<\/p>\n
This Weekend in the Hound House:<\/p>\n
At my garden club meeting on Thursday night, we sat in a circle
\nwith the lights out, around a pretend campfire made with
\nbattery-operated candles, and told gardening stories. There were
\ntrue tales, heartwarming tales, funny tales, amazing tales and
\none really TALL tale. Everybody got a garden-related prize.
\nAfterward, we had hot dogs, s’mores and hot apple cider. That’s
\nhow Wisconsin gardeners have fun in January.<\/p>\n
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\n1. Your Book Turned into a Movie
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo<\/p>\n
Brighton Beach Memoirs<\/p>\n
Marley & Me<\/p>\n
Tuesdays with Morrie<\/p>\n
That’s a small sampling of the several hundred book titles that
\nhave been turned into Hollywood movies.<\/p>\n
If those authors had THAT kind of luck getting their books on the
\nbig screen, can you?<\/p>\n
Of course.<\/p>\n
But only if you understand that agents in the movie business are
\nvery different that agents in the book business. Many authors
\ndon’t know this, and they waste time sending general inquiry
\nletters to movie studios and production houses. Veteran
\nscreenwriters have a formula for catching a buyer’s attention.
\nIf you use it, it will allow the buyer to instantly visualize how
\nyour story will look on the screen.<\/p>\n
More novels, true stories, nonfiction books and “How To” books
\nare being turned into movies and TV shows than ever before. In
\nfact, 5 of the 9 Academy Award nominated films for 2012 started
\nout as books!<\/p>\n
Don’t miss a free teleseminar at 2 and 7 p.m. Eastern Time on
\nThursday, Jan. 31, on “How to Sell Your Book or Story to
\nHollywood as a Movie or TV show…Even If It’s Self-published.”<\/p>\n
Steve Harrison will interview a Hollywood insider whose team has
\nhelped filmmakers and authors sell more than 2,000 entertainment
\nprojects.<\/p>\n
Important: When you reserve your spot on the call, Steve will
\nsend you a “Turn Your Book Into A Movie” worksheet that will help
\nyou write the perfect “Logline” for your book. What’s a logline?
\nYou’ll find out on the call. But it’s one of the most important
\nfirst steps you need to take if you want to get the attention of
\na Hollywood agent or producer.<\/p>\n
Even though the call is free, I’m a compensated affiliate for
\nSteve’s company, which offers a variety of training programs and
\nservices for authors and authors-to-be.<\/p>\n
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\n2. Pinterest Contests
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If you’ve been pinning on Pinterest, creating boards, and
\nattracting followers, but you aren’t seeing much in return, it’s
\ntime to jump to the next level and start making money from all
\nthose pretty pictures.<\/p>\n
How? By sponsoring a contest on Pinterest.<\/p>\n
Do it right, and the contest can be a traffic-pulling magnet. It
\ncan also help you build a big email list of people who have given
\nyou permission to market to them. And a fun contest will
\nencourage your friends, followers and fans to give you publicity
\ngalore!<\/p>\n
Beth Hayden, a prolific pinner and author of the book “How to Use<\/a> Join us for a content-rich webinar to find out, step by step, how Register at<\/p>\n ==================================== Last chance to hear Danny Iny’s tips on Jan. 29 webinar<\/a><\/p>\n How to handle rejection from journalists when doing PR<\/a><\/p>\n Dog Tweets–3 great tips on how to use LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n ==================================== Thanks to Publicity Hound BL Ochman for sharing on Twitter this The Publicity Hound’s Tips of the Week Issue #685 Jan. 26, 2013 Publisher: Joan Stewart ========================================== “Tips, Tricks and Tools for Free Publicity” =================================== In This Issue =================================== 1. Your Book Turned into a Movie 2. Pinterest Contests 3. New Posts at My Blog 4. Hound Story of the Week This Weekend in the Hound\u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":4,"wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3,48,182,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-1164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tips-of-the-week","7":"tag-book-promotion","8":"tag-linkedin","9":"tag-pinterest-contests","10":"tag-publicity-tips","11":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n Powerful Pinterest Contests to Grow Your Audience and Explode<\/a>
\n Your Profits,”<\/a> knows everything about how to turn Pinterest
\ncontests into profits.<\/p>\n
\nyou can use Pinterest contests for better marketing power in
\n2013. It will be at 4 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, Jan. 31.<\/p>\n
\n3. New Posts at My Blog
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\n4. Hound Story of the Week
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\nstory about Tommy, a German Shepherd that attends Mass daily<\/a> at
\nthe church where his owner’s funeral was held.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"