New interviews with champion racers, including Olympian Mark Mendelblatt and Paige Railey on Radials
"A fine-tuned guide to everything anyone could ever need or want to know about the Laser."—Sailing
"This book will most certainly make you a better sailor and could help you become a champion."—Soundings
"This book is a must."—The Little Ship
Customer Reviews:
Great book!.......2007-04-29
Excellent book, it covers all the aspects of the laser sailing, with a clear and in deep terms. One of the best parts are the interviews, that brings to me a wider vision through a lot points of view from many laser sailors.
Laser Learner.......2007-03-09
Great book to give a lot of detail and enthusiasm regarding laser sailing. Saves a lot of trial and error. Interviews with champion laser sailers are great.
Disappointing.......2003-05-16
If you want a book to help you help you understand how to sail a laser, this isn't it!
As well as being very dated (it seems all the photos were taken in the 70's) subjects as vital as tacking is explained in four bullet points, with no photos.
Wonderful Book.......2003-02-07
I am new into Laser sailing but not sailing in general. This book is great! It skips all the begginer stuff and dives right into the good stuff. This book explains it all. This book even has a large section of interviews with top laser sailers. They talk about the in's and out's of high performance laser sailing. This book is a must buy if you want to sail fast and have more fun with your laser!
Helpful to beginner, even better for improving sailor.......2001-07-20
After sailing other dinghies for a couple of years, I started sailing Lasers this summer, and picked this book to improve my technique. The book's guidance definitely improved my abilities and helped me to tame this fantastic boat, which I sail almost exclusively now. While acknowledging the benefits of the book, the authors should address the uneven quality of the diagrams and their relation to the text. In fact, after four editions it is high time for a redesign of the graphics.
For example, a basic skill for tacking and jibing is a "behind-the-back" maneuver that would best be explained with a series of pictures. There are several examples of this throughout the book, and when there is a relevant diagram or picture, the quality varies.
While I hope the authors address this criticism, there is nevertheless a wealth of information and advice that can be gleaned, espcially if one has a reasonably vivid imagination. I rate this book a worthwhile buy, especially because of the dearth of books on the Laser.
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Complete Book Laser Sailing
Dick Tillman
Manufacturer: ADLARD COLES (BLAC)
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Publicizing a book, whether it's your own or someone else's, can be a daunting task. With books piled precariously high in editors' and producers' offices, how do you possibly make yours stand out? Relax. "There's no such thing as an author or book that isn't publicizable," says Jodee Blanco, who has been promoting books for nearly 20 years. "You have to be willing to tailor the campaign to fit the situation." Blanco's approach is to read the book, interview the author, then explore all possible angles. Some books are best publicized from the national level down; others fare better with grassroots campaigns. In The Complete Guide to Book Publicity Blanco explains the ins and outs of writing press kits, conducting media research, making pitches, tailoring and running publicity campaigns, and organizing book tours. She divulges the secrets to interview success, which include the author's knowing as much about the interview as possible ahead of time (it also helps, she says, not to wear plaid and not to hawk the book too blatantly). Most important, though, Blanco knows how to get a media contact to read her mail, and even to return her phone calls. Sometimes, she says, she'll "messenger [a] note with a flower or piece of chocolate. A touch of human kindness works wonders." --Jane Steinberg
Book Description
The nuts and bolts of book promotion are covered for fiction, nonfiction, hardcover trade, mass market, and trade paperbacks. Readers are told how to tailor campaigns to reach differing consumer, trade, and special-interest audiences; how to pitch the media and arrange author tours with print, television, and radio interviews; and how to produce headline-grabbing promotional events.
Jodee Blanco has spearheaded campaigns for more than a dozen New York Times best-sellers. President of Blanco & Peace, a Chicago-based public relations firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles, and a faculty member of New York University's Center for Publishing, she splits her time among all three cities.
Customer Reviews:
Great ideas, great practical information!.......2007-07-15
I bought this book in order to get more information about how to further publicize my own recently published book. I found this book very helpful, with great ideas and suggestions. The book is laid out very concisely and it is very easy to navigate the different topics and chapters. I was so thankful to find this book!
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One of the most important books on Literary PR - EVER!!.......2007-05-30
Wow.
Wait... let me rephrase that.
WOW!! Forget every other review I have ever given. With all due respect to such classics as "Jump Start You book Sales" and "1,001 Ways to Market Your Book" this book opened my eyes to the other side of the media - and how to get there. I have read and reread everything from "How to Sell You book on Amazon" to "Publicize You Book" (and hundreds of other texts), but this one book stands out head and shoulders as a MUST READ if you ever want to sell ANY books. Written TO the author or public relations specialist (seasoned or student), this book covers in depth print, broadcast, local, regional, and national media like no other book on the subject. Read all of the books I listed above - and read anything By Rick Frishman, but make sure you always have THIS BOOK within arms' reach.
Jodee knows her stuff and she tells all. In contrast to the wonderful texts above, what I gleaned from these pages was HOW TO plan out a campaign (not just a collection of nifty ideas - which are also useful in their own right). Jodee explains the inner workings of every aspect of the media, and how to approach a television producer versus a radio producer or news paper editor, and why. Moreover she gives example after example of how to write a grreat press release, cover letter, question and topic sheets, but her greatest accomplishment is her intensive work on fiction.
NO OTHER BOOK I have read comes close to covering "How To" promote fiction like this one does. I have spoken to and emailed scores of well known and respected professionals who shy away from fiction, but Jodee tackles it head on and tells you as an author or publicity specialist exactly how to research, locate, and exploit the right angles to make the media frenzy for your book. "Where is the hook?" is the greatest bane of anyone who attempts to publicize a novel. "Why should anyone care that you wrote a story?" This book is the first (and currently ONLY) I have found to address these two nefarious questions. This book changed my life. Most highly recommended.
This book is exhausting.......2007-03-17
Some books leave you hungry for more. Others leave you satisfied and content. And still others leave you literally exhausted, like consuming a Thanksgiving dinner. The Complete Guide to Book Publicity falls into the third category. When you are done consuming this wealth of information, go through and read it again, this time compiling a "to do" list. Every page will be tattered and worn with ear-marks, highlights, and scribbled notes.
Reading this book is like its own productivity test. Some may find absorbing it all very taxing, much less acting upon 10% of it. But for those who do both (read it AND act upon it), this book cannot help but improve your book publicity tactics. - Brent Sampson, author of Self-Publishing Simplified
it was okay.......2006-07-12
The book had a few good ideas, but it was mostly overwhelming and I felt like the author tended to fan their own ego a lot.
Jodee Blanco Knows How to Publicize Books........2006-06-17
Jodee's book is incredible. So incredible I ran out of highlighters because I was highlighting so much critical information in it.
Jodee has been there and done that and it is clear from all my research that if this isn't the best book on the market it is in the top two. Way to go Jodee and thank you.
Mick Hager, author of MONKEY BUSINESS
7 Laws of the Jungle for Becoming the Best of the Bunch!
A Short Tale of a Company That Gets It! Gibbs Smith Publisher, March 2007
Book Description
Strategies for grabbing-and holding-an audience's attention online
The definitive resource for PR and marketing professionals, this sequel to Steve O'Keefe's best-selling classic Publicity on the Internet (0-471-16175-6) provides detailed, how-to instructions on planning, designing, implementing, troubleshooting, and measuring the results of online campaigns. Throughout the book, the author enlivens his coverage with inspiring and instructive vignettes and case studies of successful campaigns. Steve O'Keefe covers everything the reader will need to get up to speed on search engine optimization, newsletters, news rooms, e-mail marketing, e-mail merge software, syndication and affiliate programs, and building in-house publicity operations.
Companion Web site features customizable Word and HTML templates, weekly live discussions groups, and valuable resource listings.
Customer Reviews:
O'Keefe is the pro from Dover in Internet publicity.......2004-07-12
This well-written, complte guide to Internet publicity is the culmination of years of experience. Steve O'Keefe has been helping people get online publicity for many years, and he summarizes what he has learned in this outstanding text.
Highly recommended.
Not "best practices" and not always accurate.......2002-04-29
I wanted to like this book. But I was taken aback by the author's attitude toward email campaigns - he says you'll never get anywhere if you don't use opt-out marketing to build a list. People will complain, but you can find an ISP that ignores their complaints. I was also surprised to find him radically misinformed about search engine traffic. Most people who have a web site in a specialized niche find search engines bring them lots and lots of beautifully targeted visitors, but he says that only sites with megabudgets get search engine traffic. His discussion of meta tags is out of date as well. He has some good ideas, but I hope people don't take him as an authority.
Publicity without Walls.......2002-03-06
Steve O'Keefe's first book, Publicity on the Internet, changed the way people in public relations and marketing, particularly those in the publishing industry, publicized and promoted books, companies, products, services and other endeavors on the World Wide Web. For the first time, someone had outlined -- in great detail and with remarkable candor -- what we had to do to take advantage of the Internet's innumerable opportunities for getting "talked about" in cyberspace and, by extension, in our offices, living rooms and places of play. In his new book, Complete Guide to Internet Publicity -- a complete overhaul of his earlier work -- Steve goes several steps further and makes the art of Internet publicity almost a no-brainer for professionals and non-professionals alike. With a host of specific case examples, he tells us how to harness the power of online news rooms, discussion groups, newsletters, chat tours, online seminars, contests and what he calls "syndication" (a great concept unto itself) to develop positive publicity far beyond what most of us could achieve or afford with traditional public relations or direct mail marketing, as important and impressive as these approaches can be in certain circumstances. But the book is far more than a collection of tactics. Most important, it is salted with expert advice and counsel on how to use the Internet wisely. Steve is a practitioner of what he describes, but he is also a teacher who cares about the values of his readers. He wants us to succeed credibly and accountably with our publicity initiatives, not at all costs. Philosophically, he reverses the old maxim, "the end justifies the means." Like Camus, he thinks "the means justify the end." Still and all, the book is a wonderfully practical primer that helps us to concentrate on creativity and substance in generating the kind of publicity that we only dreamed of a few years back. The book is also well-organized, well-written and well-edited, three qualities that make it not only easy to read, but easy to grasp and easy to translate into action. If there is a "best" book on Internet publicity, this has to be the choice hands down.
He did it again.......2002-02-17
When O'Keefe's first book on Internet publicity came out I wrote a long review. Now I'm older and lazier, but thank goodness he isn't. O'Keefe didn't just revise his original book (one of THE best Internet 'how to' books of all time), he's completely
re-written it from scratch. If you need to know the 'nuts and bolts' of how to DO Internet publicity today, you won't find a more useful, up-to-date guide anywhere. In fact, this book is a standard for all 'how to' books. Clear, throrough, detailed,
'battle-tested' and truly useful. Five stars isn't enough.
An Internet Guide For Everyone.......2002-01-23
This book has an approachable, plain English writing style geared to anyone interested in Internet publicity (not just the big corporations). The author includes lots of helpful examples to illustrate his points. Seeing how the pointers, tips, and procedures operate in the real world enables anyone to apply them to his or her business. I already have!
Book Description
Drawing on her experience as an adult literacy tutor, Judith Frank's first novel traces the difficult and sometimes hilarious connection between two butches of different generations - a middle-class, thirty-something adult literacy teacher and her older, working-class student. With a disparate group of adult learners as the backdrop, Frank examines, with warmth and wit, the relationship between education and gender, class, and racial identity.
With Crybaby Butch, Judith Frank creates a deeply human, bravely unsentimental story while at the same time investigating the meaning of butch identity as it reinvents itself from one generation to the next. ~ Carol Anshaw
Fearless and unflinching, Crybaby Butch rigorously explores butch/femme dynamics over two generations. Judy Frank's debut novel is searing and memorable. ~ Claire Messud
Customer Reviews:
Great book.......2007-08-26
I have recently learned that authors as well as potential buyers read these reviews. I enjoyed this book very much as would like to both recommend it to anyone who is looking for a good read and share with the author (should she ever come across this review) what I `like best' about her work.
I loved this book. A good book has to make you think and feel and Crybaby Butch does both. I especially appreciated this book because I came across it the day after I finished my comps in grad school and was looking for a non-academic book to read (my first in over two years because of schoolwork!!). So, in my defense - this review reflects my experience of the book as both an academic and as a `real' person.
The topic of butch identity is explored according to socio-economic status in a very capable and insightful manner. The author illustrates how upper/middle class and working class butches evaluate themselves and one another - and is able to articulate in a respectful manner what they think they "have over" the other and the ways they feel the other can make them feel small. The lifestyle, challenges, and opportunities associated with their socio-economic status drive the plot in many ways. Although the author does not call for the reader to analyze how SES bounds our lives, we do anyway as we come to care about each of the main characters.
The characters are complex and realistic - I didn't always like Anna or Chris but I respected their attempts to grow and do well in their lives. I was not able to anticipate many of the choices and feelings of these characters - making them seem all the more real.
My only complaint is that the author is not able to really capture the femme spirit as well as she is able to bring to life butch identity. I find that if I did not know that Gladys and Kathleen had a butch woman as their life partner, I would read them as straight women. Even if I did not know the gender or identity of their lovers or partners, I would still know Anna and Chris as butch women.
In all honesty - this small complaint did not really detract from the storyline or diminish my enjoyment of the book. If the author was able to portray her femme characters as richly and realistically as the butch protagonists I think I would have been truly beside myself with satisfaction. As it stands - I cannot wait to read her next work!!
Very Engaging........2005-10-10
This is a very well written and unique book. I hope this author writes many more. I will be looking forward to them.
Completely absorbing.......2005-01-22
Once I moved beyond Chapter One, written in the second person, I found this book completely absorbing. I fretted over the characters when I had to leave the book to go to work (how annoying - work, I mean). I found the exploration of butch culture fascinating, and the difficulty of the older butch's life almost unbearable to read about. It's hard to imagine what life would be like looking like a stone butch in a society that scorned (scorns) that identity, coupled with the unbelievable alienation of being illiterate in our society. My partner and I talked about the book for hours. She read it after I did and I kept interrupting her to ask "what's happening now?" Beautifully written. As much as I worried about Chris and Anna, I also found the book wonderfully entertaining, filled with rich characters, lots of humor, wonderful insights. I feel fortunate to have read it.
a gorgeous, moving, steamy novel.......2005-01-11
I couldn't put this book down. For one thing, I fell completely in love with the two main characters. For another, the writing is breathtaking. There are so many sentences I had to read twice because they were just so beautiful. Or oddly perfect. Or completely hilarious. Also, don't let the description fool you. Yes, it's about "adult literacy"-and poignantly, brilliantly so-but it's no chaste school-marm treatise. It's about lush, real life-and real sex, the blush-worthy kind. I loved it. I loved it so much, in fact, that I'm reading it a second time!
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