{"id":25021,"date":"2005-11-03T09:09:30","date_gmt":"2005-11-03T09:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/prblog\/?p=402"},"modified":"2025-06-12T20:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T20:10:12","slug":"author-wisely-passed-up-a-chance-at-publicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/author-wisely-passed-up-a-chance-at-publicity\/","title":{"rendered":"Author wisely passes up a chance at publicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lana Jordan from <a>Jorlan Publishing, <\/a>who I met at the conference of the Small Publishers of North America on Oct. 23,  emailed me today asking for advice on how she should have handled a situation that could have led to some great publicity. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I may be in the background somewhere on NBC&#8217;s <em><a>Three Wishes <\/a><\/em>this Friday,&#8221; she wrote. &#8221; The Cedar City Fire Department was featured, and as my husband is a volunteer firefighter, our family was invited to attend the filming of that segment. It was an interesting behind-the-scenes experience. But I kept thinking, if the big book marketing gurus could see me now, they&#8217;d say I was an idiot! <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wasn&#8217;t running around introducing myself and my book to everyone. I didn&#8217;t even make one feeble attempt to shove myself in front of the camera. I&#8217;m not an obnoxious person, and I don&#8217;t want to be. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how I responded:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t have done anything differently, Lana. Sure, you could have pushed it and invented a reason to be on the segment. For example, you could have become the self-appointed cook for the fire department and then tried to hog some of the spotlight. But doing that could have created animosity toward you from all the other families.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I told her she can still capitalize on the experience by writing about it in her ezine, or at other people&#8217;s blogs, or for an article or column for a print or online publication.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody likes pushy, obnoxious Publicity Hounds. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lana Jordan from Jorlan Publishing, who I met at the conference of the Small Publishers of North America on Oct. 23, emailed me today asking for advice on how she should have handled a situation that could have led to some great publicity. &#8220;I may be in the background somewhere on NBC&#8217;s Three Wishes this\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/author-wisely-passed-up-a-chance-at-publicity\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":1,"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[608],"class_list":{"0":"post-25021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-marketing","7":"tag-authors-publishers","8":"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\/25021","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=25021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41774,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25021\/revisions\/41774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}