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  • I've found that what I like about promotion is the personal interaction with readers and potential readers.  These are typically smaller events, like readings or short...
  • Thank you, Chitra. I wonder if the blurbs you did receive after those 50 requests have anything in common: personal ties, friend of a friend, subject matter those blur...
  • I'm being a bad girl right now and ignoring my "must do today or else" list for a moment, and will address some of your points. Are you asking as a reader or an write...
  • Judith - This is a very candid, and quite helpful post! Thank you! I agree with you on the value of hiring a professional - they know how to do all of those little thi...
  • This is a great post Brooke and I'd like to thank YOU for your generosity in thoughtfully answering my emails as I seek a publisher for my book. As for me, when my son...
  • Your number ten would probably cause my husband to pass out! Let me clarify, he reads in the moringing and I write when I can. We typically share breakfast. He reads.....
  • Great question, and one that I learned to deal with when I was a weekly newspaper columnist. I wrote a personal column (typically on family/motherhood topics) and had...
  • Well said, Kamy! I'm for keeping She Writes as a women-only zone for the same reason that I feel there should be women-only colleges and women-only investment groups:...
  • Janay Lampkin commented on her article Don't Hate on #Hashtags
    Hi Kelly! No problem! Hashtags drive traffic to a specific feed based on the words you used in the hashtag.  there is no way to 'choose' your link.  The hashtag simply...
  • Hi Erin. For the record, I did not finish the letter. Like many of us, I have had my own traumas and don't need to relive another. I am a closet optimist who is all to...