Marketing Books This Summer, with Katie Bassel

 

We talk to Katie Bassel, Senior Publicity Manager at St. Martin’s Press, about how marketing books has changed in the last few months. We cover book tours, galleys, reader preferences, #BlackLivesMatter and what’s selling these days.

The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story Of The Origins Of the Ebola Virus by Richard Preston
[Amazon | Bookshop]

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
[Amazon | Bookshop]

All Girls by Emily Layden
[Amazon | Bookshop]

Tea By The Sea by Donna Hemans
[Amazon | Bookshop | Gayle’s Review]

Home Is Burning by Dan Marshall
[Amazon | Bookshop | Gayle’s Review]

All Adults Here by Emma Straub
[Amazon | Bookshop]

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
[Amazon | Bookshop]

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
[Amazon | Bookshop]

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
[Amazon | Bookshop]

Remain In Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina by Chris Frantz
[Amazon | Bookshop]

When They Call You A Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
[Amazon | Bookshop]

Tears We Cannot Stop by Michael Eric Dyson
[Amazon | Bookshop]

What You Wish For by Katherine Center
[Amazon | Bookshop]

The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth
[Amazon | Bookshop | Gayle’s Review]

The Wife Between Us by Sarah Pekkanen and Greer Hendricks
[Amazon | Bookshop | Gayle’s Review]

The Woman In The Window by A.J. Finn
[Amazon | Bookshop | Gayle’s Review]

Good Morning, Monster by Catherine Gildiner
[Amazon | Bookshop]


ICYMI: Last week we talk about launching a book in a pandemic! | Links: Katie Bassel on Twitter 


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