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Wednesday, March 15, 2006

It’s Hard Out Here for a Publicist

Posted by on March 15 at 14:12 PM

And I don’t want to make fun of anyone who’s just trying to do their job and makes a small error, but just now I got a note from a publicist for this book about Darwin (which actually looks interesting, is written by a local author, and has maps and pleasant drawings of birds in it) that says: “Seattle author Lyanda Lynn Haupt has a reading on March 24th at Elliot Bay. Any chance Seattle Weekly may run coverage on Lyanda or the book in advance of the event? Thanks for your help!”

Funny. Although it’s not quite as funny as a letter I once got from a Sarabande Books publicist that said, “[Author] Brian Leung requested that I contact you regarding a reading he is doing on Sunday, June 5th and 3:00 p.m. I would really appreciate it if you would consider listing the event in NW Asian Weekly.” That letter is still hanging on my wall. It has faded with age.


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the end of this post was originally "It has yellowed slightly," but Mudede pointed out that that sounded like a racial epithet. And this post is already a bit ungracious. So I edited.

The publicist also misspelled Elliott Bay.

That is funny, but I can sympathize. I once accidentally wrote an e-mail to the Sunset asking if I could put on a show there, but--hasty copier/paster that I am--instead of the Sunset I said the Crocodile. Kwab was very good-humored about it.

Ah, glad to see that there are other folks who respect the color of piece of paper. Let paper be paper?!? White, Yellow, Red, Black?? Hogwash. The racism of a blank sheet of white paper is so very very blatant, it is so astounding that people even use white paper anymore.

I hope more people follow your example. I know I have been printing everything on black paper for years, as a silent protest against the silent racism of paper.

Peanut Gallery: funny. Thanks.

I still have an eroneus letter from Occidental College offering me a football scholarship because my "my excellence on the field was matched by my excellence in the classroom". All recruiting letters came thru our high school athletic director and he was laughing his ass off when he gave it to me because i am a total pussy who NEVER played football. I should have accepted the offer.

I once got a rejection letter from a doctors office. It stated thank you for taking the time to interview for the posted medical postion, at this time we have decided to go with another individual. I never applied for a job at this hospital nor did I go through an interview. And to top it off I do not have any kind of medical degree.

Considering how much of the SLOG is devoted to what goes on at the Seattle Weekly, perhaps it wasn't a mistake. They wanted to know whether or not the Weekly would cover the event, so naturally they asked The Stranger.

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