Posts Tagged ‘Promotion’
Indie Book Event Random Musings, Part One
A weekend in New York As you are (perhaps) aware, I spent this past Saturday in New York City attending the Indie Book Event. It was tremendous fun, I’d met some people I had only chanced upon previously when online, there was press coverage, and I got very little sleep. It’s this last thing that…
Read MoreImmortal at the Indie Book Event
Convention Are you in New York City? Would you like to be in New York City? Have you heard of New York City? Well I will be there. Next month, on July 30th, at the Indie Book Event at the New Yorker Hotel, I will be there at a table with copies of Immortal, a smile,…
Read MoreImmortal Blog Tour 2011: Fourth Leg
Fourth leg announced! We are one week away from the launch of the 2011 Immortal blog tour! Which is exciting! Note the exclamation points! Stop by the tour page and take a gander at the participants, and get ready for thirty days of fun! With even more exclamation points!
Read MorePromoting in a social media world
Leading horses to water Promoting a novel can be extremely challenging, and in ways that are different from promoting a website or a toy or a machine that goes *ping* at regular intervals. Novels are subjectively enjoyable, frequently disappointing, and an unavoidable commitment. Nobody wants to get stuck reading a bad one, or worse, having…
Read MoreI need my own flash mob
I need command of my own flash mob Speaking today to a local bookseller, the question was posed: if an event were planned in the store to promote Immortal, could I get thirty or forty people to show up? And the answer is: I don’t know. Because so far all of my promoting has been…
Read MoreGoodReads and Real Bookstores
Shop local! I am a terrible local Cambridge resident. This becomes more apparent every day, as I am continuously discovering things I knew were there, yet I didn’t really know were there. Like the independently owned bookstore under a mile from my house. The store in question is called Porter Square Books, they have been…
Read MoreShoestring promotion
Book promoting on zero dollars a day You may have heard I have a novel coming out. I have certainly been trying my best to make sure you had, and you’re reading this now so I’m guessing that part’s working out. I am firmly in Promotion Mode right now, which would be much more fantastic…
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