How a major publisher shouldn’t treat a book blogger
A popular kids lit blogger named Tasha Saecker approached a publicist for Little Brown to query about receiving advance review copies of their books. The resulting conversation has to be read to be believed:
Me: Hi, I have a blog and you are one of the only publishers here I don’t work with.
Her: We hear from hundreds of people that they blog.
Me: Yes, I’m sure. And I know… (I was going to say that I knew it was hard to tell who has readers and who doesn’t, but she cut me off.”)
Her: So we will need you to contact us with your numbers.
Me: OK, I can do that. I’ve been blogging for 5 years now. (That line is usually a winner.)
Her: Everyone has been blogging for five years. (Um, no. Really. No.) We need solid numbers.
Me: Well, I get x number of visits a day. (Don’t want to turn this into a discussion of the number of visits I get. It’s about more than that.)
Her: Everyone gets x number of visits a day. (Um, no.) We need real numbers, like unique visitors each day. (Which is the number I just gave her.)
