Did you get your copy of Brian Jud’s Book Marketing Newsletter yesterday? If you have a book in the works or you are promoting one, this is one newsletter you should subscribe to. http://www.bookmarketingworks.com/mktgmattersnews
Get the September 5 edition and you’ll see my guest column on how to locate speaking gigs. I contribute probably four or five articles each year to Brian’s enewsletter. I also contribute fairly regularly to Fran Silverman’s Book Promotion Newsletter, Ron Pramschufer’s Publishing Basics, of course, SPAWNews ( http://www.spawn.org), Dana Cassell’s Freelance Writer’s Report, Writer’s Journal, Perspiring Writer and my articles are posted at the websites of several newsletter sites (Writing World, for example). I have a couple of articles coming out soon in The Writer and IBPA Independent. My articles are published in various regional writers/publishers’ magazines throughout the year—in Arizona, Texas, Northern and Southern California, Tennessee, New Mexico, Virginia and a couple of Christian writers’ publications.
Are you subscribing to the right kind of writing, publishing and/or marketing newsletters? Are you reading them? They won’t do you and your writing business any good if you don’t open them and study them. I wonder if people who don’t read the publications they subscribe to think they already know everything they need to know about the subject. I doubt it. These people are probably just making themselves too busy or they’re not managing their time well—their writing business isn’t a priority.
Do yourself a favor and vow that this month you will pay closer attention to the newsletters and enewsletters you subscribe to. If you don’t subscribe to any, locate those that relate to where you are within the writing/publishing process and subscribe to a few of them. Then read them when they arrive. Unless your mind is glued shut, you WILL discover ideas and resources that could benefit your book project.
Is the concept of writing within your genre or topic rather interesting to you? It’s a great way to become known in your genre/field. This is one method of developing a following–engaging people who like what you write and who will, most likely, be interested in your book on the subject or in the genre. I’m going to write more about this method of book promotion from your perspective tomorrow.
While you’re on a roll educating yourself, purchase my new book, Promote Your Book, Over 250 Proven, Low-Cost Tips and Techniques for the Enterprising Author (Allworth Press). Available now at Amazon. http://amzn.to/oe56Ia