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With the PR Notes Wednesday, I’d love to answer questions. If I don’t know the answer, I’ll go and find answers. Email your questions. Creating a Contest as Book Promotion Mary Nethery took the time to ask this book promotion question:
As I’m working on the plan for this new novel, creating characters and trying out voices, I’m trying to strengthen my weakest areas. My Weakness is Character My weakness is character. I can plot fine, but creating characters with plausible character growth is hard for me. I think I’ve got it and my friends tell [...]
Mini-Conflicts Help Characters Stand Out For my WIP, I’m spending the week fleshing out characters. I”ve written about characters many times. Here’s a Character Checklist, and 15 Days to a Stronger Character, and many other posts on character. At this stage in character development, I’m mostly concerned with creating an interesting mix. For this story, [...]
6/27/2010: On Wednesday, I”ll post about holding an Online Contest. Meanwhile, here’s the PR question of the week: If you had $1000 to spend on promotion of your book/novel/picture book, how would you spend it? Love to hear what YOU would do.
Starting a new novel, I always try to look at the structure of the plot, but this time, I’m especially looking at character issues, since that’s my weakness. A Story of XXX becomes a Story of ZZZ It’s always that tricky second act that’s hard. The actions for the beginning and ending are easy, especially [...]
PR Notes: Start with Optimized Websites The first thing you should do for book publicity promotion is a website (or a blog). I know. Most of you have one. But let’s do a check to see if it’s the most effective it could be. 1) Put your name into a search engine. Great. Your website/blog [...]
I’m a terrible writer! I planned to start on my new novel yesterday and got so busy catching up on correspondence, just sitting and doodling, that I wrote NOTHING! That does it. I’m back on the one page/day schedule. When I first started writing, I was home-schooling 4 kids. For months, I carried around an [...]
I’m finally — after two major life events, a grandchild and my daughter’s wedding — ready to start a new novel. I’ve found two mentor texts that I’m hoping will show me something about how to proceed. Novels to Imitate and Learn From Educators often use mentor texts when teaching writing to kids. The idea [...]
For some time, I’ve been very interested in the ins and outs of marketing, public relations, social media, etc. I’ve thought about doing a separate website; instead, I’ve decided to write a PR Notes column on Wednesdays. Your story. I’d love to include your PR story in a guest post or I’d be glad to [...]
My daughter is getting married next week, so I’ll be scarce for the next week or so. Hope your writing is going well – send me your good news! I love to hear it.
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