publicity
November 24, 2009
- So, writing this thriller is more of a chore than I suspected (though, at the moment, being ill does not help). Striving for 1,000 words per day in addition to all the other things I do is more the chore than the book itself. In fact, the first chapter unfolds beautifully - there's even a dog, Louie.But, it's obvious I can't write what doesn't interest me, and part of that interest is not always ...
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November 21, 2009
- Many would-be nonfiction authors make the mistake of not beginning to think about publicity for their book until after they have written it. In fact, they don’t even need to write the book until after it has been purchased by a publishing house, but they do need to begin working on publicity prior to ever submitting a proposal to an acquisitions editor. The proposal itself includes a section ...
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November 20, 2009
- I don’t know about most of you, but today’s announcement by Oprah Winfrey to end her syndicated television show left me empty, morose and wanting to crawl back into bed, never to surface again. This reaction, however, is not due to the impending absence of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in my life, although I have been a viewer on and off for most of her years on TV. No, it goes far deeper than ...
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November 18, 2009
- Now that we are more than halfway through the month, it’s time to get really serious about platform building and promoting ourselves as writers. We must also take a hard look at how to promote our writing work. (That’s next…)Part of building platform involves becoming a socially relevant author/speaker and achieving expert status. This means removing yourself from the simply box that says ...
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November 5, 2009
- Dear Reader,These days, I find juggling is a useful skill for furthering my career. Filling the blanks left by my publisher's decision to focus on national publicity for "The Sword of Medina" and let me handle the rest could fill all my time. I'm setting up readings and booksignings, blogging, making videos, searching the Web daily for new articles, reviews, and blogs to post on my ...
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September 2, 2009
- Okay, here's an awesome idea... set aside a week to support your author friends' books. Recommend a title to your neighbor, post a review on Amazon, place a link on your blog, tweet the word around – all in the name of sharing the publicity love.I know I've been meaning to post reviews of great books I've read lately, just haven't gotten around to it. Darcy Pattison's Random Acts of ...
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August 23, 2009
- RADIO INTERVIEWS Over the past few months I’ve had phone interviews with radio show hosts based in different parts of the country such as Louisiana, Tennessee, Washington, DC, Colorado, and Los Angeles. All this has been in the course of publicizing DYING UNFINISHED, a tangled, edgy novel. It has been in effect talking into space to an invisible mass of listeners. ...
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July 31, 2009
- www.thecalligraphersdaughter.com • The web site for THE CALLIGRAPHER'S DAUGHTER is up, working, fabulous and full of content. Thank you to the brilliant, hard-working and fun Jason Liebman at Holt for technology know-how and execution. He not only assisted me with the site design, he made it happen. I love that it’s full of information and additional material that I believe will add a ...
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July 29, 2009
- Victor Volkman of Loving Healing Press published my first book, REPAIR Your Life: A Program for Recovery from Incest and Childhood Sexual Abuse in paperback. He has now decided he wants to release it in hardcover in September. I wish that we had done it in hardcover to begin with. Victor states that "Libraries prefer hardcovers. They last several times as long as paperback and it ...
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July 16, 2009
- I´ve been making a compillation of TV commercials for a project with non-verbal languages and culture. Thought I might share are some of my favorites, from different times of Brazilian Television:The First Bra The Turtle and Brahma Beer Flirting on the BeachPart 1 Part 2 Part 3 and Part 4
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