Publicity Hound

www.publicityhound.com

The Publicity Hound is a bimonthly, eight-page subscription newsletter featuring tips, tricks, and tools for free publicity. The newsletter costs $49.95 a year, which in this day and age is a bargain. Joan Stewart, a former newspaper editor and reporter, shares the secrets of how to do your own inexpensive self-promotion. Features include:

How you can promote on a shoestring budget

• Advice from editors, reporters, authors, news directors, and radio show hosts on how to get into their publications or onto their shows

• Cool websites that will help you self-promote now

• Seasonal story ideas

• Secrets from some of the nation’s foremost experts on how to create publicity

• Personal tips from Joan on how to work with the media (including the media’s pet peeves)

• Success stories about how others attracted great publicity

• Freebies you can find through the mail or on the Internet

And of course, Joan’s own personal spin. All in all, it’s a useful site with great pointers on dealing with the media, one on one.