“Unveiling Secrets: Hollay Ghadery’s Journey from Book Publicist to Memoirist in ‘Fuse'”
MDH: How easy is it to do publicity for a nonfiction author?
HG: In my experience, nonfiction is the easiest genre to present to traditional media. You’re more likely pitching a news station or a write up in a newspaper if you’re talking about life, especially if what you’re writing about happens to be really salient and topical. Not everybody wants to talk to a novelist, unless they’re a big-name novelist. Same with poetry. But nonfiction is comparatively easier than other genres. When I say easy, nothing’s easy right now, everything’s a bit of a slog — but you’re more likely to have someone willing to talk to you about a nonfiction book, because it’s easy to take a news angle with it. That’s true for memoir, biography, personal essay, and science.
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