Kevin Smokler

Kevin Smokler is an author, journalist, speaker and entrepreneur. He's the editor of the anthology Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times (Basic Books, June 2005), which was a San Francisco Chronicle notable book of 2005. His writing has appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle, The LA Times, Fast Company, and on National Public Radio.

In 2007, Kevin Smokler founded with Chris Anderson (editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine) BookTour.com, a complete set of online tools to help authors promote their books at a reasonable price, and the world's largest online directory of author and literary events. Kevin now serves as the company's CEO, regularly speaking at publishing industry conferences and book festivals throughout North America. In April of 2008, Amazon purchased a minority stake in BookTour.com.

Book Publicity and Marketing: How Soon was Yesterday?

I spoke to a touring author last week who repeated this phrase about 9 times over a one hour coffee date.  “Everything’s changed.” She wasn’t talking about digital pricing, vanishing review coverage, closing independent bookstores or KindlePadNookKobos (KPNK’s) although I’m sure they had crossed her mind plenty. No, this afternoon she was a single-minded author/chief salesperson with a book to…