Talkin Promo

If you are a member of RWA (Romance Writers of America), check out the February 2010 RWR edition–really informative articles. This month I’m especially interested in the article “The Basics of Author Branding” by Theresa Meyers, publicist and now romance author. She gives three

Check out these Single Title Contemporary RITA Finalists talkin’ trash! LOL!

I really believe an author website is one of those great tools for authors. And where I know not all sites can be stunning and unique, they can be clean, detailed, and useful. I asked my website designer if she would please alter the iframes out of my website. Essentially my pages scr

Yesterday, I read some great advice on Buzz, Balls & Hype from David J. Montgomery, who writes for several large newspapers about authors and books. Montgomery wrote the “10 Things An Author Shouldn’t Do”. Here are the main points, but you definitely should read

I called each of the intended 4 local newspapers for press packet mailing information. Only two were willing to accept a press packet, and the other two newspapers in my hometown only wanted the info for the calendar events. haha. Local author book signings are not big news. But to be

Last year I took a press packet workshop and took notes. I figured if I wanted some local coverage of my book/signing, I was going to have send out some press packets. There is no guarantee I’m going to get into the local papers, but a good chance since I’m a native of my

Here’s the draft for my book signing flyer… I’m not sure I’ll be able to have the purple background, but we’ll see how it goes. BTW, these were both created in adobe illustrator. And here is a button I might have made just with the slogan. I didn’t

I’ve mentioned JA Konrath’s blog before, and, well, his latest post has me thoroughly impressed. It is a candid viewpoint from a published author on how self-promo efforts could be most effective for an author’s career. A few quotes: “I spend a lot of time and

Truthfully, my brain must be fried from staring and rewriting my proposal because my mind has nothing interesting to say today! (I know, who says I usually say anything interesting?) Anyway, I thought I’d chat about a couple of great posts from M.J. Rose’s blog. One on new