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  • Thank you for your insight. As a currently unpublished author about to move into publishing mode on my first completed manuscr...
  • Personally, I recommend that SW create their own publishing house and offer titles in both print and e. There are people who refuse to buy ebooks and people who may ne...
  • I'll be presenting at AWP on how to use Twitter to promote yourself as a writer.  I'm on at 9 AM, Thurs. March 1.  Here are the details of the panel. Please come up an...
  • Gosh, so many great responses here.  Grateful for the links, first of all -- thank you!  I also feel like I should clarify something: I will be thrilled and honored to...
  • @Suzanne - You're approaching the biz with a better mindset than many who eventually crash and burn. There are plenty of writers wanting to publish and they approach p...
  • Lovely post. I practice all of these, and yet sometimes I forget. Right now, it is so easy to feel overwhelmed as I work to promote my new book Among Wolves. So, yes,...
  • Great post. Congrats on getting it all done... and getting a publisher to boot!  Bravo for making it all work! I really admire you. I have a hard enough time getting e...
  • Kevin Camp commented on her article Dry Drunk, Part 2
    Like you, I am an introvert and have no stomach for promoting my own self-published work or any work, for that matter. My day job is working with PR firms who want me...
  • Ah, you're not alone! I've done this multiples times ... I'm in a situation with a stranger or a new acquaintance, and we're literally talking about my books, or at le...
  • Thank you for this perspective on what it truly means to promote ourselves and our talents and work----it is in giving that we receive. I am currently reading The Magi...