Like many (often introverted) Inde authors I know, I loathe even the thought of self-promotion. Asking for bookstore time? Arrgh! My worst nightmare. A book tour? Laughable. Approaching a book club? No, I cannot afford to give you all free copies to…

I’ve been on three book tours in the past decade (two for my short-story collection, Forgetting English, and one for my novel, My Last Continent), and I’ve enjoyed every exhausting moment. For me, book tour events have included readings…

Meeting prospective buyers is important, but you can reach a larger audience with broadcasts and podcasts.

Anytime you create something and share it with the world, you introduce yourself to the opinions of others.  Your creation can be a business, a piece of art, a book or even a new invention. Often is is much easier to fix than to create.  Which means that comments and criticism are much easier to make than the actual creation itself.