Things are hopping here in the offices of Patricia Fry and Matilija Press. My most recent interview—related to book promotion and my new book, Promote Your Book, is live. Listen here: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/acmedia/2011/09/20/250-ways-to-promote-your-book–patricia-fry
Also, the book is reviewed in the October 2011 issue of Freelance Writer’s Report.
I’m receiving inquiries as to my editing work from all over the world—several are from authors I met in Alaska a few weeks ago. I had a booth at the Central Coast Book Festival Sunday. I will speak in Camarillo, California next week. I will take my books to a book festival in Ojai next month and I will sit on a panel of authors later in October. I teach a freelance writing session at the Ventura College in November. And I still must find time to spread the word far and wide that Promote Your Book is now on Kindle. This means doing an email blast to my list of hundreds of clients, customers, colleagues, acquaintances and so forth.
Is your book promotion dance card also full? If not—and if you want to sell books—you really do need to start reaching out and promoting your book. If you need help with that, sign up for my online Book Promotion Course. Check it out here: http://www.bookpromotion.htm
I want to share with you a really clever and useful article I read yesterday in my recent copy of Freelance Writer’s Report. This article was written by a savvy freelance writer/author whom I happened to meet a few years ago in Arizona. We’ve stayed in touch. She is quite prolific and professional—I see her writing-related articles everywhere. Often, they appear in the same issues as mine do. The writer’s name is Kathleen Ewing. If you are doing your homework and studying the world of freelance writing (if that’s your field) and publishing (if you are an author), you are probably familiar with this name.
Her recent article is called “The Writer’s Toolbox.” She wrote that she found herself recently in a situation where events and activities were happening all around her that were article-worthy or, at least, that rated a photo account in a local publication and she was caught without her writing tools.
She has since created a writer’s toolbox which she keeps in her automobile. I’d like to urge you to read the article yourself, but I can tell you that her suggestions are excellent. She recommends, for example, that you put together some items to keep with you in your purse, backpack, glove box… They include a disposable camera, a lens cloth, a photo-release form, a small tape recorder, mechanical pencils (she says that pens stored for long periods can be unreliable), etc. And she even explains how to safely store some items and which brands of some items are best.
Now there’s a writer with ideas, imagination, grit and she is a self-starter. I’m impressed. We should all be so clever and disciplined. Way to go, Kathleen.