A Pete Rose Standard For Authors?

 

The all-time base hits leader, Pete Rose, ended up playing until he was 45 years old, which is ancient for professional athletes. Authors need to similarly maximize the mileage they get out of themselves.  

Can you push yourself to do more, each day, when it comes to marketing? That means: 

·         Sending more emails

·         Posting more often on social media

·         Creating better content for your web site

·         Going to more networking functions

·         Seeking out a speaking engagement after rejections

·         Applying for more book award recognition 

·         Purchasing more book reviews even if you already have a few good ones

·         Soliciting the media for more interviews no matter how many media outlets have ignored you

 

You need to adopt Rose’s approach to playing:

* Always hustle and push yourself

* Seize on moments of opportunity

* Play hard and consistently

* Create your own opportunity

The only thing you don’t want to copy is his lying ways about a gambling addiction. 

Major League Baseball recently made up a new rule that is clearly geared towards allowing the gambling degenerate to get into the vaunted Baseball Hall of Fame. It used some baloney logic to say a “lifetime ban” means nothing once that person dies, as if all is forgiven because they can no longer do damage as an active participant. Rose died recently. 

The penalty of being kicked out of the game that one loved and not being able to get Hall recognition while alive is a stiff penalty, but by saying one will get in after he dies means one will know their legacy will live on. Screw that.  

We can’t have people who cheat, take steroids, or gamble on games within their control to be seen on par with the game’s elite who did things in a fair and legal way. I say that as one who saw and loved the way he played baseball.   

But he played the game long and hard. No one played in more victorious games than he did in the history of the sport. He was a winning ball player and you, dear author, would do yourself a service to replicate his style of play when it comes to your book marketing.

 

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Brian Feinblum, the founder of this award-winning blog, with over four million page views, can be reached at brianfeinblum@gmail.com  He is available to help authors like you to promote your story, sell your book, and grow your brand. He has over 30 years of experience in successfully helping thousands of authors in all genres. Let him be your advocate, teacher, and motivator!

 

About Brian Feinblum

This award-winning blog has generated over 4.4 million pageviews. With 5,300+ posts over the past 14 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.”  Copyright 2025.

 

For the past three decades, Brian Feinblum has helped thousands of authors. He formed his own book publicity firm in 2020. Prior to that, for 21 years as the head of marketing for the nation’s largest book publicity firm, and as the director of publicity 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.

 

His writings are often featured in The Writer and IBPA’s The Independent (https://pubspot.ibpa-online.org/article/whats-needed-to-promote-a-book-successfully).

 

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. He served as a judge for the 2024 IBPA Book Awards.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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