This is the third blog in a series addressing an author’s public speaking engagements . It’s time to hit the road for speaking engagements! You’ve prepared marketing materials, media releases, bios, and handouts for varied audience. All you…
If you would rather listen to this blog, click below. So, you’ve finally written your Great American Novel and now it’s time to encourage people to buy it. Your best friend? SOCIAL MEDIA! Twitter is an author’s lifeline. You can find…
Revised 8/29 after receiving royalty statemet data. I organized a coordinated e-book promotion this past Mother’s Day—because motherhood is a big piece of my contemporary novel, Appetite—for the first time. I had read several e-marketing…
In my past life (the one that paid the bills) I was a department head. It was a position requiring more head than heart. Now retired, I have begun to pursue a lifelong interest in writing. This began quite simply. My mother was a poet and I was…
My grown children are still trying to teach me, rather laughing at me, what the difference between a tweet, Instagram, or snapchat is! They still remind me that I do not need to sign my texts; Love, “Mom”! But when I saw Hometown Reads asking…
