On Sat, 11 May 1996, Editor, IBIC wrote:
> Well, at a minimum you should send me an e-mail with info about the book,
> your site, etc., and I will post it to the What's New for Book-Lovers
> hypermail archive.
Thanks very much. By the way, I included information about UNC in my
first email because I assumed (wrongly) that you were here in Chapel Hill.
Sorry about the name-dropping fest; you wouldn't know either me or Keith
if you can't tune in to WUNC-FM.
My book is *The Slam and Scream: And Other Powerful Strategies and Great
Career Moves for Secretaries, Assistants, and Anyone Else Who Has Had
Enough.* The publisher is the Noonday Press of Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Pub date is April 1996.
We had some marvelous early press, on NPR's *Morning Edition*, in a number
of newspapers including Newsday and the Miami Herald, and in
*Entertainment Weekly* of all places. If you visit the page, you can
hear the NPR piece on RealAudio.
I'd be happiest if the book found its way into many, many libraries, since
most of my readers do not have much in the way of disposable income to
spend on books. The cover price is only $12, which should make it a
reasonable purchase for most libraries.
This is *not* a how-to-be-a-better-secretary book. It is more a study of
verbal abuse, a camp cultural history, and a guidebook to going back to
college. I try to be amusing and relevant, but I also give great
"been-there" advice.
I'll forward you a blurb about the book. The web site is
http://www.io.com/~slam/. Office workers can visit the page and tell
their own work story, whether it be inspiring, terrifying, amusing, or
just personally relevant. I teach a course in Duke's continuing
education program about writing work stories, and my page is an extension
of that class, but for free.
I'm working now to create a page of links to college programs for adult
returning students, and another page of links to information about voter
registration.
You should register the page in all the major Web
> search engines (InfoSeek, Lycos, Excite, etc.)
I did this. It hasn't appeared on many of them, but I assume it will as
they process my request.
And you should post
> restrained announcements to relevant mailing lists and newsgroups. The
> mailing lists are probably the best way to reach the library community.
Do you know which mailing lists would accept such a note? I've posted a
few announcements, generally with great success, but one group complained.
Sigh. It looks like I'm selling something, but I'm not. (Honestly, if I
wanted to make money, I wouldn't do it by writing useful books. I'd write
some sort of potboiler and be done with it. This book has cost me far
more than it will ever earn, but it is also one of the most rewarding
things I've done. The page is just an extension of that work.) Still, the
complaints made me reconsider such posts.
> Thanks for stopping by, and good luck!
Thank you for a kind and helpful note.
Faithfully,
Carole Fungaroli