Jane Watkins on publicity, second books and (sadly, a lack of) outrageous demands

In keeping with the second book-related mini series — this episode we talk publicity with Text publicist and all round excellent human Jane Watkins. She answers many burning questions including: What impact has COVID had on books? What is ‘author care’? And of course, how is everything different when you’re pitching authors the second time?   

This is part of the ‘behind the scenes’ we’re doing to coincide with the release of Katherine’s book The Competition. It’s a bit like what we did in the early days of the podcast… 

Check out the other parts here:

• Everything you need to know about social media (an interview with Shay Gardner)
• Deep dive 1 – public speaking competitions
• Deep dive 2 – writing process
• Deep dive 3 – First time vs second time