Event Title
Earning Readers: Partnering with, Not Pleading with or Bragging To, Your Audience
Location
Benerd School of Education, Room 117
Start Date
18-5-2019 10:30 AM
End Date
18-5-2019 11:45 AM
Description
No one wants to become ‘that writer’ who pesters everyone in sight with demands to read and buy their books. On the other hand, everyone knows that authors have to handle much of our own publicity now and we want to seem unafraid to take on that role. In this workshop I’ll go over how thinking in terms of partnering with bloggers, book reviewers, journalists, social media influencers, bookstore managers and others and working together to help them achieve their goals while promoting your books can be the most effective path to getting your writing out there long-term. I’ll also cover creative avenues besides traditional book tours and professional reviews that can especially help emerging authors connect with their communities and their readers.
Earning Readers: Partnering with, Not Pleading with or Bragging To, Your Audience
Benerd School of Education, Room 117
No one wants to become ‘that writer’ who pesters everyone in sight with demands to read and buy their books. On the other hand, everyone knows that authors have to handle much of our own publicity now and we want to seem unafraid to take on that role. In this workshop I’ll go over how thinking in terms of partnering with bloggers, book reviewers, journalists, social media influencers, bookstore managers and others and working together to help them achieve their goals while promoting your books can be the most effective path to getting your writing out there long-term. I’ll also cover creative avenues besides traditional book tours and professional reviews that can especially help emerging authors connect with their communities and their readers.
Comments
Cristina Deptula, formerly a science and technology reporter, founded and currently edits the international literary publication Synchronized Chaos. She also founded literary publicity firm Authors, Large and Small in 2013, providing affordable traditional and social media services.