{"id":749,"date":"2007-03-07T12:03:21","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T18:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2007\/03\/07\/how-to-promote-your-book-in-two-easy-sentences\/"},"modified":"2007-03-07T12:03:21","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T18:03:21","slug":"how-to-promote-your-book-in-two-easy-sentences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=749","title":{"rendered":"How to Promote Your Book in Two Easy Sentences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I count a number of writers among my friends and acquaintances. I&#8217;ve been interested to see how they promote themselves and their work. My gold standard for a writer marketing his or her works (albeit in a non-annoying way) has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scalzi.com\/\">John Scalzi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He will have to give up the crown, though. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,257020,00.html\">Kenneth Eng has eclipsed him<\/a>. Eng was a freelance writer for AsianWeek. He wrote a couple of columns, including &#8220;Why I Hate Blacks&#8221; and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.asianweek.com\/news\/view_article.html?article_id=33bdb64c5b346a69bab3a2d448603596\">&#8220;Proof That Whites Inherently Hate Us&#8221;<\/a>, with the predictable results. When Fox News talked to him about his &#8220;Why I Hate Blacks&#8221; column, he managed to go from discussing his racism to discussing his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dragons-Triumvirate-Kenneth-Che-Tew-Eng\/dp\/097487650X\/\">book about techno-dragons<\/a> in <i>two sentences<\/i>. I dare anyone else to top that.<\/p>\n<p>I also dare you to read the book&#8217;s preview on Amazon. And if you&#8217;d like to know more about Kenneth Eng, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfist.com\/archives\/2007\/03\/01\/kenneth_eng_around_the_web.php\">SFist has quite the collection of links<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I count a number of writers among my friends and acquaintances. I&#8217;ve been interested to see how they promote themselves and their work. My gold standard for a writer marketing his or her works (albeit in a non-annoying way) has been John Scalzi. He will have to give up the crown, though. Kenneth Eng has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=749\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to Promote Your Book in Two Easy Sentences<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}