Since my debut novel came out this spring I've been taking a crash course in marketing, and I've learned more than I ever did in that one marketing class I took in college.  So today I'm sharing what I've gleaned in these past months. I hope you'll step up and add whatever I've left out. I certainly don't know everything and I couldn't begin to include everything that authors could use to help promote their books. Here are the basics in no particular order. First, if you've been a webby for a while you might want to check and see what… Continue reading

When you’re holed up in the writing cave, pounding out the first draft of your “hopefully this will be published one day” novel, there are things about which you are ignorant. It’s okay. Get to “The End,” because in this case, it’s a good idea to stay ignorant for as long as possible. In fact, if you’re still in the cave, you should stop reading now. No, seriously, I mean it, because what I’m going to say is so, so very ugly. . . . (takes deep breath and whispers) Writing a book and getting it published is only half the… Continue reading

Welcome to Five Faves on Friday!   Olugbemisola Rhuday Perkovich, author of EIGHTH GRADE SUPERZERO (Arthur A. Levine Books), points out her favorites things about books, authorship, and all things reading, the first Friday of each month.  (Don't check your calendars for this month though, folks. The website wasn't ready last week, but you'll see her column again the first Friday in January.) Anyway, Olugbemisola begins her column at AuthorsNow! with ...

Five Ways to Find a Find

Glossy promotional campaigns, bestseller lists everywhere, that indefinable buzz that skyrockets a book to the forefront of our collective imagination -- we're inundated with… Continue reading