Author Olympics!

 

The Summer Olympics have arrived with their usual quadrennial fanfare, stirring feelings of optimism about our athletes and fueling national pride. This is America and we expect excellence and demand success. Too bad we don’t have the same competitive gathering for the world’s best writers, where we can display, discuss, and praise the most impactful, interesting, and inspiring writers.

Think about it. The political parties have their conventions. Hollywood has its Oscars. Football its Super Bowl. What do writers have, by way of a big news-worthy public gathering, where writers are competing, and the events is being covered by television or a major streaming service?

With our large population and ability to recruit the best coaches and athletic talent globally, we are poised to be very strong contenders to win the most medals at these Olympics. Everyone can relate to the notion of physical competition, but what about the less-visual intellectual battles that take place, amongst writers and within each writer?

Let’s face it, books and writers lack the sex appeal of women’s beach volleyball, the grit and muscle of men’s weight lifting, the courage and resilience of men’s boxing, or the drama of the women’s gymnastics team.

I admit, as much as I love books, there would be many challenges to raise excitement for an Olympic-level competition or show for authors and books, but we have a lot of good material to work with. Stories of overcoming adversity to write and publish amazing stories. Protests against censorship and book bans. Rallies for literacy. Discussions about the creative process. Behind-the-scenes looks at how book publishing green-lights a manuscript, edits, cover designs, background checks, legal clears, packages, prints, distributes, and promotes a book and brands an author.

So, when all eyes are on our bring-the-gold-home athletes, give a thought to all of the people who make books possible — and who make the world a better place. 

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About Brian Feinblum

Brian Feinblum should be followed on www.linkedin.com/in/brianfeinblum. This is copyrighted by BookMarketingBuzzBlog ©2024. Born and raised in Brooklyn, he now resides in Westchester with his wife, two kids, and Ferris, a black lab rescue dog, and El Chapo, a pug rescue dog. His writings are often featured in The Writer and IBPA’s The Independent.  This award-winning blog has generated over 3.9 million pageviews. With 4,900+ posts over the past dozen years, it was named one of the best book marketing blogs by BookBaby  http://blog.bookbaby.com/2013/09/the-best-book-marketing-blogs  and recognized by Feedspot in 2021 and 2018 as one of the top book marketing blogs. It was also named by www.WinningWriters.com as a "best resource.” For the past three decades, including 21 years as the head of marketing for the nation’s largest book publicity firm, and director of publicity positions at two independent presses, Brian has worked with many first-time, self-published, authors of all genres, right along with best-selling authors and celebrities such as: Dr. Ruth, Mark Victor Hansen, Joseph Finder, Katherine Spurway, Neil Rackham, Harvey Mackay, Ken Blanchard, Stephen Covey, Warren Adler, Cindy Adams, Todd Duncan, Susan RoAne, John C. Maxwell, Jeff Foxworthy, Seth Godin, and Henry Winkler. He hosted a panel on book publicity for Book Expo America several years ago, and has spoken at ASJA, BookCAMP, Independent Book Publishers Association Sarah Lawrence College, Nonfiction Writers Association, Cape Cod Writers Association, Willamette (Portland) Writers Association, APEX, Morgan James Publishing, and Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association. His letters-to-the-editor have been published in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Post, NY Daily News, Newsday, The Journal News (Westchester) and The Washington Post. His first published book was The Florida Homeowner, Condo, & Co-Op Association Handbook.  It was featured in The Sun Sentinel and Miami Herald.