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.

It's hard to write your own press. Takes more objectivity than that.

I'll try to look at this later and see if I can help. No promises though.

What's the book about? I'm a big fan of Texrat's writing, but if its a joke book, he may not be the right choice. (He may steal your thunder. LOL!) Is it a mobile themed book? Do you have an agent to shop the book?

Hey I can be serious.

http://www.raiden.net/writing/the_oort_perimeter

It's called "The Oort Perimeter" and is a sci-fi novel. I posted about it in another thread recently. I think Texrat may have already grabbed a copy since that'd be a genre he'd like.

Well buy Texrat a beer and some nachos, let him be him, and you got it covered, ask me...

And I don't generally read sci fi, but I might give it a try and see what I've been missing. Will it be an ebook I can read on the N900? (heh heh 8) )

Yeah, there's a free eBook at my site. If you read and like it, consider buying the paperback as thanks.

You can get the ebook for free here: http://www.raiden.net/writing/the_oort_perimeter

Thanks, Lord Raiden! Your site looks like a resource I'd be interested in. I have zero Linux experience. But your RSS feed isn't working right with IE's built in reader. Any clues, or do you have the link to the rss/atom feed?

http://www.raiden.net/rss/raidens-realm.xml

Well, that's the feed address. It's a standard 0.91 version RSS feed, so your reader should be able to process it. Otherwise, I don't know what to tell you. As for the site, I'm glad you like it. It should prove quite useful to you.