Is your book promotion campaign on the rocks? If your book is with a major publishing house, and your book publicity campaign has stalled before it started, then it might be because your in-house book publicist has James Patterson Syndrome.
Check out the New York Times‘s article about the attention a James Patterson books gets from its publisher. Because Patterson’s vast number of books reliably bring in a tremendous sum of money for his publisher, Little, Brown & Co. gives Patterson’s books all of the attention and nurturing they need — possibly to the detriment of other books that haven’t yet proven themselves as moneymakers.