Filed under: Publicity & Promotion, funny commercials, old spice commercial
06/30/2010 • 4:33 PM 0
What’s Your Writing Schedule?
The best type of exercise is the one you will do. And so it is with your writing schedule. Here are a few options.
Write when you get up, when the kids are asleep, when you’re at work, on lunch breaks, during commercials, at parties, in log cabins, in hotels, alone, with others, during NanoWriMo, any time you get a few minutes, when you make big blocks of time, when you get a babysitter, when you could be watching TV, on the bus and subway, in a hammock…
1. Just write when you can.
2. Write consistently.
3. Write now.
4. Revise.
5. Circulate your work.
6. Repeat.
Filed under: writing tips, writing schedule, writing tips
06/30/2010 • 4:22 PM 0
Slush Pile Hell
Here’s the key to the door to a long winding staircase down to the hot iron gates of Slush Pile Hell. All ye who enter here, send better queries.
Filed under: agents, manuscript evaluation, agents, queries, slush pile hell
06/30/2010 • 12:41 AM 0
Book Marketing Strategies
Last time I talked about using your business cards in the right way. The interpersonal approach must be more subtle than shoving your cards in somebody’s face. However, in other aspects, people in business (i.e. you) are often too shy. At the publishing conference, the marketing guy asked a roomful of authors when they had sent out their last press release. (One ebook publisher said, “Last Tuesday.” Everyone else? Silent.)
Then said marketing guy asked, “How many of you have magnetic signs on your cars advertising your business or book?”
We did not raise our hands.
“Yes, of course,” he said. “We wouldn’t want anyone to find out about you and actually buy your book, now would we?”
It was charming with the British accent.
PS I don’t get any kickbacks from them, but FYI, Vistaprint has good deals on magnetic signs and many other promotional tools.
Filed under: Publicity & Promotion, publishing, advertising, book marketing, magnetic signs, press releases
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