{"id":424,"date":"2008-01-09T00:01:41","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T05:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/2008\/01\/09\/what-it-looks-like-7-weeks-before-a-book-comes-out\/"},"modified":"2008-01-09T00:02:31","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T05:02:31","slug":"what-it-looks-like-7-weeks-before-a-book-comes-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/09\/what-it-looks-like-7-weeks-before-a-book-comes-out\/","title":{"rendered":"What it looks like 7 weeks before a book comes out&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So seven weeks out from the book&#8217;s pub date (March 3), it&#8217;s all about waiting for the media stuff to gel, which is very unstable and unpredictable. Like just today, I was booked by a television show, dropped by a radio show, and picked up by another radio show.  Also, there is all these politics about how some shows won&#8217;t do you if another show that is too similar is already booking you.<\/p>\n<p>And just last week, I found out that the book was going to be excerpted by a major magazine after being pretty much convinced that it wasn&#8217;t going to be excerpted at all (because it&#8217;s not very newsy) and we were quiet on the excerpt front (there is a person at Hachette that handles all of that stuff).<\/p>\n<p>Next week: we are going to have a media gathering with lots of takeout Chinese with local New York media.<\/p>\n<p>I also have handed two magazine pieces and a newspaper piece these last two weeks. The range of magazines interested in this book is a bit amusing: women&#8217;s magazines, a lad mag, a business publication, a gourmet publication and a general interest publication. Everyone loves Chinese food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So seven weeks out from the book&#8217;s pub date (March 3), it&#8217;s all about waiting for the media stuff to gel, which is very unstable and unpredictable. Like just today, I was booked by a television show, dropped by a radio show, and picked up by another radio show. Also, there is all these politics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-musings"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-6Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}