Local and Regional Topics for Days

A continually growing master reference list of hooks and angles for writers, authors, businesses, marketers, and publicists

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First, bookmark this page so you can refer to it as often as needed. I will continue to update it with additional examples as they come into memory or view.

There’s a reason many university presses publish regional content and local history to help subsidize their scholarly publishing.

There’s a reason we decry the loss of local journalism and have been crowdfunding its revivals.

There’s a reason your local businesses use local food, traditions, slang, historical references, colorful characters, landmarks, legends — all the things — in their marketing.

And there are good reasons for you as writers, authors, publishers, promoters, publicists, and marketers to turn to local and regional content when doing your work.

People are interested in and connect with what’s closest to home and what they know best. And they’re hungry to cultivate and deepen that knowledge, those connections, that identity, the nostalgia. Whether your job is to promote a business, a cause, a product, an event, a service; whether it’s to share knowledge, entertain, inspire, connect…