{"id":4764,"date":"2009-09-03T11:04:37","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T11:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=4764"},"modified":"2025-06-05T15:10:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T15:10:02","slug":"publicist-needs-ideas-for-promoting-book-of-zombie-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/publicist-needs-ideas-for-promoting-book-of-zombie-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Publicist needs ideas for promoting book of zombie stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"zombie2\"Karma Bennett, a publicist for Ulysses Press, asks:<\/p>\n

“My company is publishing a compilation of zombie stories.\u00a0 It will be direct-to-trade-paperback, so I can’t get reviews in the leading periodicals that review fiction since it isn’t coming out in hardback.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Some, but not all, of the stories have never been printed before.\u00a0 The editor is not local and, although the compilation does include some of fiction’s biggest names—Steven King, Clive Barker, Harlan Ellison, H.P. Lovecraft, Richard Matheson, Christopher Fowler, Robert E. Howard and\u00a0Joe Hill—I\u00a0don’t think they will be responsive to interview queries.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We are only just starting to venture into releasing fiction and I’m not sure how to go about this.\u00a0I can’t get reviews.\u00a0I can’t\u00a0get interviews. But the topic is\u00a0zombies which are so\u00a0popular now because of movies like\u00a0World War Z, 28 Days Later, and the film version of Pride and Prejudice, and Zombies.<\/p>\n

“Can your Hounds suggest ideas for publicity?”<\/p>\n


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Karma Bennett, a publicist for Ulysses Press, asks: “My company is publishing a compilation of zombie stories.\u00a0 It will be direct-to-trade-paperback, so I can’t get reviews in the leading periodicals that review fiction since it isn’t coming out in hardback.\u00a0 “Some, but not all, of the stories have never been printed before.\u00a0 The editor is\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":1,"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,610],"class_list":{"0":"post-4764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-marketing","7":"tag-book-marketing","8":"tag-publicist","9":"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\/4764","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=4764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42039,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764\/revisions\/42039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}