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What Happens If I Just…Leave My Book Places?
A “Let’s See What Happens” Marketing Experiment in New York City I’m trying something new this weekend that I’ve never tried before: marketing in the wild. And by wild I mean New York City. My church orchestra and choir are performing at Geffen Hall on Monday and the group is traveling up there starting today. Yes, we’re flying out of Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport—the place every national news outlet seems to be covering right now because of the TSA situation. I haven’t flown on a plane in seventeen years so I’ve spent that time ignoring airport news. Well, not this week. But it is what it is, so I am…
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Recharging the Excitement by Talking Shop About Writing
It is rare that we constantly sustain the excitement of what we do. We writers can love the writing process, but after, say, you hit 50,000 words, sometimes the work is more like work than magic. The same thing applies to the publishing side of things. When we’ve finished a manuscript, now comes the more mundane aspects of our jobs: editing, copy editing, proofing, cover design, and uploading files for publication and distribution. After you’ve done it enough times, it becomes routine. A little rote. You know you need to do it, but you might look forward to it the least. That is until you get to talk to someone…