Magazine Book Reviewers

These book reviewers have been updated in February 2009 by Ascot Media Group and John Kremer. Updated info will be noted at the end of any listing after February 2009. If the contact is vital to you, verify the book reviewer's name and address before making submissions. Please send us any corrections or additions. Email JohnKremer@bookmarket. com. Thanks. Let's keep this list up-to-date for everyone.

Newspaper Book Reviewers

RadioPRGuy.com — “When you decide that you're ready to start dealing with radio stations directly, get Alex Carroll's program. His top radio show database, tapes of dealing with producers, and examples of actual talk shows will help you to become a radio talk show star.” — John Kremer

TVPRGuys.com — Want to get on top national TV talk shows like Oprah, Good Morning America, Today and Larry King? Bradley Communications offers a database/directory of the top 241 national TV & cable shows that interview authors and other guests. You not only get contact names, addresses and emails but also detailed profiles on each show including what types of guests they want and the best ways to approach them.

The Business Journal, Dennis LaRue, 851 SW 6th Avenue #500, Portland OR 97204; 330-744-5023 or 503-274-8733. Email: dlarue@business-journal.com.

Cosmopolitan, Tracy Shaffer, 1 S. Wacker Drive #1100, Chicago IL 60606; or 224 West 57th Street, New York NY 10019; 310-664-2818 or 212-649-3291. Email: tshaffer@hearst.com.

Ebony, Joy Kinnon, 6500 Wilshire Boulevard #670, Los Angeles CA 90048; 323-782-7801 or 312-322-9258. Email: joybkinnon@ebony.com.

Entertainment Weekly, 1675 Broadway #30, New York NY 10019 or 1271 Avenue of the Americas, New York NY 10020; 212-522-5752 or 212-512-1212.

Family Circle, Rachel Martin; 212-499-1972. Email: rachel.bmartin@meredith.com.

Glamour Magazine, 4 Times Square, New York NY 10036.

Good Housekeeping, Kate Coyne, 959 8th Avenue, New York NY 10019; 212-649-2377 or 212-649-2000. Email: kcoyne@hearst.com.

GQ: Gentlemen's Quarterly, Meredith Bryan, 212-286-7134. Email: meredith.bryan@condenast.com.

Men's Vogue, Emily Creed, 2600 W. Big Beaver Road, Troy MI 48084; 212-286-5431. Email: emily_creed@condenast.com.

Please note that most magazines like to review new books. So they need to see books (galley copies or advanced review copies) 6 to 12 weeks before the publication date of the book. For more about publication dates, see http://www.bookmarket.com/pubdate.htm.

Newsweek, 1750 Pennsylvania Avenue NW #1220, Washington DC 20006.

People Magazine, 212-522-4807. LA office: 11766 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles CA 90025; 310-268-7200. Ellen Shapiro, freelance book reviewer; email: eshapiro11215@gmail.com (9/09).

Reader's Digest, Meg Grant, 5200 Old Orchard Road, Stokie IL 60077; 323-938-0779. Email: meg_grant@rd.com.

Rolling Stone, Peter Travers, 333 N. Michigan Avenue #707, Chicago IL 60601; 212-484-1637 or 312-782-2366. Email: peter.travers@rollingstone.com.

Time Magazine, New York NY.

Town & Country, Stephen Dudley, 53rd Street #925, San Francisco CA 94103; 212-903-5278 or 415-278-3670. Email: sdudley@hearst.com.

US Weekly, Philip Recchia, 5700 Wilshire Boulevard #345, Los Angeles CA 90036; 212-651-7856 or 323-930-3300. Email: philip.recchia@usmagazine.com.

Vanity Fair, Jane Sarkin, 4 Times Square #7, New York NY 10036; 212-286-7566. Email: jsarkin@vf.com.

Vogue, Jillian Demling, 4 Times Square # 12, New York NY 10036; 212-286-8398 or 212-286-2860. Email: jillian_demling@vogue.com.

Washington Business Journal, Mark Bisnow, 1555 Wilson Boulevard #400, Arlington VA 22209; 703-875-2200. Email: mark@bisnow.com.

Everything You Should Know about Publicity, Publishing, and Building a Platform — If you want to learn from a master book publicist all the techniques that have worked for her for more than twenty years, Arielle Ford offers an intensive PR course for new authors. She was the book publicist for many bestselling authors, including Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Deepak Chopra, Debbie Ford, Neale Donald Walsch, etc. Only $497 plus shipping.

How to Be a Media Darling and Generate Free Publicity — This multimedia series by Joan Stewart (and interviewees) teaches you how to build a PR plan, month to month, find story angles media will love, pitch ideas and follow up, extend your reach with online social media, use blogging and podcasting effectively, and how to target radio, TV, and print media. Bonuses include ten magic phrases the media love and 200 story ideas. Cost: $397.00.

Gift List Media — This company offers two top media lists: one for the winter holidays and another for the summer (Gift List for Moms, Dads, and Grads). They also offer an online media list (websites and blogs) for the winter holidays. If you want to promote into the gift market, these media lists will help you reach the media that feature gifts of all kinds, not just books. Cost: $349 to $549.

Media-Savvy-to-Go Publicity Toolkit — This program of ebooks and audio by Nancy Juetten teaches you all the basics of getting publicity, including how to pitch an article the media can't resist, 50 powerful publicity boosters, 97 ways to profit from free publicity, and more. Includes a great workbook to get you going. Cost: $87 via download or $97 for the printed version.

Million Dollar Author Club — This is the latest reincarnation of the Book Marketing Update newsletter from Steve Harrison. Always a great resource for stories on how to get publicity in key media as well as listings of key media: who to contact, how to contact, what they want to see, etc. Really fresh hot leads. For $1.00 you can get a trial issue plus a free audio copy of an interview with bestselling author Tim Ferriss. Cost: $47 per month.

National Publicity Summit — Sign up for a free teleseminar with a former guest booker for the Oprah! TV show: The Three Big Secrets for Getting Booked as a Guest on Top National TV Shows. The call will be held twice on Thursday, January 31st.

PressKit 24/7 — This website allows you to put up a professional online press kit plus provides access to a database of major media. A really useful tool if you want to do lots of publicity via general media. Their service runs from $99 to $199 per month. The higher price gives you the ability to blast out emails to media as well as track and respond to media requests and interviews. Their PressKit 24/7 Quick Kit offers you an online press kit, inclusion in an expert database, multi-media capability, and quick editing to get you up and running fast.

NewsReleaseWire.com — Send 52 news releases a year, without per-release charges with News Release Wire and get a profile about you and your book in the printed Yearbook of Experts. All you do is load news releases into the system which then sends them out to Lexis, Google News, and other Internet news services. Save $100, when you click from my discount link: https://www.ExpertClick.com/discount/John_Kremer.

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