Verifying that there's a market for your book proposal, must you start a newsletter, querying one agent for two genres, why I'm remiss to talk about hiring independent publicists and more!
These are ALL fabulous, relevant questions to so many writers, and I love your answers. So much good information and advice here!
I totally agree about the newsletter--I ran my Constant Contact for 15 years until I convinced myself I could post something interesting every week, THEN I moved it to Substack. Substack is definitely (to me) a working writer's land and the newsletters are top notch as a result. I am still learning Notes (just moved over in April from CC) but I love the community so much.
A different take on independent publicists: I've worked with two over my career and both have done a bang-up job. Right now I'm working on my new novel with two publicists who specialize in different areas, rather than across the board media. One does blogger tours (instagram, mostly) and the other podcast tours. The blogger tour publicist has been fantastic--her bloggers posted over two days, with the cover reveal, and it got my novel into bestseller status on Amazon in three categories in pre-orders, which blew me away. I've also worked with do-everything publicists but I don't think I would anymore. This has worked a lot better.
The mis-date in Italy story was great, made my afternoon. Thanks, always, for your great posts.
These are ALL fabulous, relevant questions to so many writers, and I love your answers. So much good information and advice here!
I totally agree about the newsletter--I ran my Constant Contact for 15 years until I convinced myself I could post something interesting every week, THEN I moved it to Substack. Substack is definitely (to me) a working writer's land and the newsletters are top notch as a result. I am still learning Notes (just moved over in April from CC) but I love the community so much.
A different take on independent publicists: I've worked with two over my career and both have done a bang-up job. Right now I'm working on my new novel with two publicists who specialize in different areas, rather than across the board media. One does blogger tours (instagram, mostly) and the other podcast tours. The blogger tour publicist has been fantastic--her bloggers posted over two days, with the cover reveal, and it got my novel into bestseller status on Amazon in three categories in pre-orders, which blew me away. I've also worked with do-everything publicists but I don't think I would anymore. This has worked a lot better.
The mis-date in Italy story was great, made my afternoon. Thanks, always, for your great posts.
So what happened after Sienna? Did you continue on the grand tour?