Why not use my upcoming Senior Cohousing book tour...

Dear Cohousers and Prospective Cohousers,

New Society Publishers is releasing the second edition of Senior Cohousing: A Community Approach to Independent Living in May. If you are a member of new or existing cohousing community that would like to plan a book signing, please let me know. Signings in May also allow us to promote the National Cohousing Conference in Seattle in June. Of course the most important job would be to make your efforts to create a new cohousing community successful. I’m fine planning a regular general cohousing presentation, but one way to offset the costs is to plan a book signing at your local bookstore. The publisher will pay $150 to the bookstore for hosting it, the bookstore will also have its own database to advertise your book signing, and they will help with the organizing it in general.

We know of no better way to interest bookstores or libraries about cohousing than by helping see the broader public’s interest in the topic. Therefore, we would send you a dozen press clippings. Do us a favor — please let us know which of the news articles resonated best with the bookstores, libraries, and the public. That is, when you handed the articles to them one at a time or when they shuffled through them, which one(s), if any, caught their eye, caused a pause or captured their interest. When organizing a new project in Tucson, AZ for example, and I walked into a bookstore to ask if they’d mind carrying the book, I noticed that there would be one or two articles that they would ask for a copy of for the store owner or the manager, or the wife at home because, “Hey, I think that Judy would be interested in this” came up more than once. “You can buy her a discounted book” I’d say, “Because, hey, you work in a book store.” Anyway, I’d come back with a copy of the couple of articles that they were interested in. And it was the same couple of articles over and over again.

So, good luck at getting the cohousing book in the bookstore, because cohousing is not a sound bite, and because it will help lead to a new, successful cohousing community in your area.

If you are interested in receiving a press package, please contact us by mail, email, or phone at:

McCamant & Durrett Architects
241-B Commercial Street
Nevada City, CA 95959
530-265-9980

Thanks, Chuck