I’ve recently start learning about podcasting, originally as a way to place audio versions of my reading on my website to promote my books. Over the past day or so I have become focused on another idea I had… creating a podcast to showcase authors and books that not only present POC character as MCs (in a positive way), but that focus on other ( Read more... )

Now with my debut novel finally on the market, I find my thoughts turning to what to do for promotion. We’ve lost several of our local bookstores in the past few months where I was geared to do appearances, which causes a bit of a crimp on my former plans. The budget is tight all around, so I was wondering, what promo tricks have you authors used ( Read more... )

( minor rant ahead )

I've had a conversation going on my egroups and I thought I'd toss it out to ya'll here and see what you think...

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With my first anthology out (Chilling Tales) and a novel due this fall (Ancestral Magic) I’ve been giving a great deal of thought to the idea of marketing. Being with a small publisher, a lot of the promotion lands on my shoulders, and not having a ton of extra cash to spare, I have to be frugal with the marketing tools I use. Some of these I have ( Read more... )

It’s been suggested that my having multiple blogs and posting there it will atract more readers. I am not certain of the truth in this but I’m going to give it a try. I already have these three blogs, the lj I’ve been using reguraly…

Blogs

My Space blog: http://blog.myspace.com/moondancerdrake

Blogger: http://moondancerdrake.blogspot.com/

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