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Attn Marketing Gurus: Need help writing a press release

I'm calling out to anyone here who's a marketing guru, or at the very least knows how to do a press release, who can help me write one for my book.

I've been trying to do a press release for my book for the past several days with no luck. The examples I've seen just don't make enough sense to me to put 2 and 2 together. Maybe I'm just trying to brain this too much (yeah, that wouldn't be a first. That's where we get writers block from. lol), but even if I'm not, some help with this would be welcome.

Maybe just a simple outline so I have something to start from. I think that's the one thing I'm having the biggest fit with is figuring out the proper layout and exactly what content is needed where. And no, just because you can write a novel or a technical article doesn't mean you can do marketing script, which is what this is. heh. And yes, I suck at marketing. I already figured that out by running a tech site and trying to do my own marketing. Anywho...

Here's a list of PR sites I've found to submit the release to: 50 Free Press Release Submission Websites, a few of which have some help files that aren't all that helpful. At least to me. But they're a start if anyone wants them.

And one of the people who replied to the article at the above link gave prweb.com as another option, which had this article for writers in the help section: Promote Your Book To Google and Yahoo! Readers - PRWeb News & Press Release Distribution

prwebdirect.com in turn offered this: How to write a press release

And yet I'm still stuck. Again, I'm probably over thinking this, which as I said is not a first, but because I do that often enough, I tend to find myself bouncing ideas and questions off people in order to rattle the ideas and stuff loose. So any help you can give will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Also, I'm sure some of this info will in turn be useful to others here too. So even if you're not a Marketing Guru, I'm sure you can still benefit from my humble little post. :)