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Marketing Your Book in . . . many easy steps
Get out your calendars! Though each book is different and each new app brings another option for selling the words I’ve struggled to produce, after selling more than thirty books, I know that if you don’t have a plan for marketing your book, it’s going to be difficult – if not impossible – to reach your potential readers. Here’s what I know for sure, as Oprah says. I know for sure that you have to start selling your book as early as possible, and you can’t let up for at least three-six months after it’s published. Here are some ideas to get you started – but use your own imagination…
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Writing and Teaching
Good morning, and welcome! Sometimes we draw back the curtains on the artistic world, and it still seems glamorous, yet vague, to those who aren’t in the business of creating. It definitely can be mystifying, even to those of us who create, to describe that process to people who don’t live in our heads (I live in my head all the time — and I bet any amount of money you’re saying the same thing right now). I talked about my cross-country tour to promote my new novel, The Mourning Parade, last year, but that novel is doing its thing without me now (though I still love to talk about…